Over the past few weeks, staff at the Indigenous Missionary Council (CIMI) in the state of Acre have faced a series of threats and intimidation. The office has been broken into twice, the room ransacked, a computer taken, files burned, and internet wiring destroyed.
Category: Germany
AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway warn that Peru must improve policy on forests and indigenous peoples
AIDESEP and Rainforest Foundation Norway welcome the deforestation deal signed between Norway, Germany, and Peru, but warn that Peru must improve its “policy and practices on forests and indigenous peoples’ rights”.
FE Wealth Management is running a carbon credit recovery room scam
A company called FE Wealth Management is currently cold calling people offering to sell their carbon credits – for an advance fee, of course. And if it is not a recovery room scam, then I’m the Queen of Sheba.
Harapan Rainforest Project: A response from Germany’s International Climate Initiative
On 18 March 2013, representatives of the Suku Anak Dalam Batin Sembilan wrote a letter to Germany’s International Climate Initiative and KfW German Development Bank, respecitively a funder and implementing agency of the Harapan Rainforest Project in Indonesia. REDD-Monitor posted the letter on 18 April 2013.