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The Tropical Forest Forever Facility: “A fund for wealthy people and Wall Street”
New report from The Corner House on TFFF.
 • Chris Lang
“We are stuck like chickens in a cage.” How an Indigenous Bunong woman describes living in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia
The project has serious impacts on the livelihoods of Indigenous Peoples, while failing to stop deforestation.
 • Chris Lang
Biodiversity offsets and credits: “ecological impacts, land dispossession, loss of livelihoods and systematic violations of individual and…
A neoliberal market that commodifies nature and delays action on the loss of biodiversity globally. What’s not to like?
 • 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
BBC Panorama documentary on the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia: “More than half of the credits from that project are not real offsets”
Deforestation is increasing both in the REDD project and in the forests immediately next to it.
 • Chris Lang
Ongoing land rights disputes in the Keo Seima REDD project in Cambodia
Wildlife Conservation Society and Verra’s auditors failed to report the land rights disputes.
 • Chris Lang
Greenpeace accuses UN Deputy Secretary-General of greenwashing an “ecocidal oil permit” in Conkouati-Douli National Park in the Republic of…
Last month Congolese human rights and environmental NGOs called on donors to suspend funding of Conkouati-Douli until the oil permit is cancelled.
 • Chris Lang
Republic of Congo approves oil exploration in Conkouati-Douli
But there’s only silence from the donors that have poured millions into forest protection in the country.
 • Chris Lang
Gabon’s media calls Lee White, “Satan of the Waters and the Forests”
Lee White, ex-forestry minister of Gabon, recently gave an interview to The Times.
 • Chris Lang
New report reveals that a majority of the board members of big conservation NGOs are linked to the finance industry
"The finance industry’s mission is profit – including from the financialisation of conservation"
 • Chris Lang
Gang rape, torture, and murder by park guards and soldiers at Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo
A new report by Minority Rights Group documents a three-year campaign of violent forced evictions of the Indigenous Batwa of Kahuzi-Biega.
 • Chris Lang
Anatomy of a ‘Nature-Based Solution’: Total oil, 40,000 hectares of disappearing African savannah
Also featuring Emmanuel Macron, Norwegian and French ‘aid’ to an election-rigging dictator, trees to burn, secret contacts, and dumbstruck…
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