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Tanzania must respect the rights of Maasai Indigenous People living in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The Oakland Institute calls on the Tanzanian government to recognise Maasai human rights and land rights.
 • Chris Lang
Court upholds ban on Northern Rangelands Trust’s Blood Carbon operations in Isiolo, Kenya
Two of the organisation’s largest wildlife conservancies are unconstitutional.
 • Chris Lang
Indonesia is running the world’s largest deforestation programme in occupied West Papua
“There are too many soldiers.”
 • Chris Lang
After 12 years of Lao Government misinformation, denial, and cover-ups: “Where is Sombath?”
“The Lao authorities have consistently failed to provide any concrete information.”
 • Chris Lang
Legal victory for Indigenous pastoralists in Kenya
A major blow to the Northern Rangelands Trust’s Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon project.
 • Chris Lang
UN experts expressed “serious concerns” about the gavelling through of carbon trading rules at COP29 in Baku
“After 30 years, evidence that carbon markets are contributing to mitigation or helping mobilize finance is just not there.”
 • Chris Lang
Carbon Market Watch files a complaint about Verra’s “review” of the Southern Cardamom REDD project in Cambodia
The complaint has been submitted to the Integrity Council for Voluntary Carbon Market.
 • Chris Lang
Illegal logging associated with hydropower dam construction in Southern Cardamom REDD project, Cambodia
New documentary by France24 looks at illegal logging in three REDD projects in Cambodia.
 • Chris Lang
Ending fortress conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A new report from the Oakland Institute documents the abuses of the conservation industry in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
 • Chris Lang
Civil society statement on biodiversity offsets and credits
“A wrong answer to the wrong question.”
 • Chris Lang
Calls for the immediate release of Mother Nature Cambodia activists after court sentences them to prison
“A further blow to Cambodia’s environmental movement.”
 • Chris Lang
Amnesty International: “UN Special Rapporteur is right to raise human rights concerns about carbon markets”
“These schemes do little or nothing to benefit Indigenous Peoples, and in some cases actively harm their rights.”
 • Chris Lang
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