Yesterday, I launched a new website: Conservation Watch. While conservation is crucially important, it has a dark side. No one knows how many people have been evicted to make way for National Parks. But some estimates put the figure in millions.
Author: Chris Lang
Why is VCS so reluctant to help stamp out carbon credit scams?
Earlier this week, Dennis Myles left a comment on REDD-Monitor. Myles had been “approached” by someone calling themselves Timothy Davies, who claimed to work for Verified Carbon Standard (VCS).
Governor Ayade’s contradictions on REDD in Cross River State, Nigeria
This week, Benedict Bengioushuye Ayade, the governor of Nigeria’s Cross River State, will be in Guadalajara, Mexico taking part in the Governors’ Climate and Forests Task Force Annual Meeting. The aim of the GCF is to link states and provinces running REDD programmes with carbon markets in the rich countries.
The Borneo Case: A new film about the destruction of Sarawak’s forests
The Borneo Case is a new film that documents the destruction of more than 90% of Sarawak’s forests and investigates where the profits from the destruction went. As the Bruno Manser Fund notes, “Vast illicit assets have been acquired by the former Chief Minister and current Governor of Sarawak, Abdul Taib Mahmud, and his closest…
The Ogiek indigenous people in Kenya were evicted and their homes burnt. In the name of conservation
By Chris Lang In June 2016, 50 armed guards from the Kenya Forest Service burned homes belonging to Ogiek indigenous people living in the forests of Chepkitale, Mount Elgon. The Ogiek have lived in Kenya’s Mau forest for hundreds of years. Some of them live in the deep forest and live from hunting and gathering….