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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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"
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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.
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Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental…
Sarah Milne is a Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University.
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US government stops funding to WWF, WCS and other conservation organisations because of human rights abuses
In autumn 2019, the US government suspended US$12.3 million of funding to the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE).
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Is the new Natural Climate Solutions campaign a distraction from the need to leave fossil fuels in the ground?
Earlier this week, an international group of more than 20 campaigners wrote a letter to The Guardian in support of natural climate solutions.
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Deforestation in Wildlife Conservation Society’s Seima REDD project in Cambodia
In July 2016, the Walt Disney Company agreed to hand over US$2.6 million for carbon credits from the Seima REDD project in Cambodia.
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