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Category: Nepal

Big Green Politics Podcast: “The Dark Side of Conservation”

Posted on 19 March 201922 February 2021

For the past two-and-a-half years I’ve been running a website called Conservation-Watch. I recently did an interview with the Big Green Politics Podcast, about the impact of conservation on indigenous peoples – the podcast went live yesterday.

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WWF scandal (part 10): BuzzFeed News investigation reveals WWF’s secret war

Posted on 4 March 20194 March 2019

A year long investigation in six countries by BuzzFeed News finds that the World Wide Fund for Nature funds eco-guards who have tortured and killed people. Buzzfeed News’ report, written by Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker, is available here.

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Power, consultation and REDD in Nepal

Posted on 2 July 2015

Rishi Bastakoti is a PhD candidate in geography at the University of Calgary in Canada. He has worked as a policy practitioner in Nepal’s community forestry network for more then 10 years. From December 2013 to September 2014, Bastakoti was in Nepal, observing the REDD readiness process.

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Putting a price on forest carbon: How much will the World Bank’s Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?

Posted on 1 July 201423 March 2015

There’s an interesting discussion taking place in the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility about the price of carbon: How much will the Carbon Fund pay for REDD carbon credits?

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REDD+ safeguards: more than good intentions? Case studies from the Accra Caucus

Posted on 20 June 201326 January 2015

The Accra Caucus recently release a report that looks at the development of safeguards in Guyana, Indonesia, Nepal, Cameroon and the Democratic Republic of Congo. The report finds that “there are continuing concerns about the current direction of REDD+, especially in some countries”.

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“At our meeting, the former British prime minister, Tony Blair, asked a lot of questions on the REDD Plus program in Central Kalimantan, and on the challenges being faced by Central Kalimantan in implementing the program. I told him that so far we have not met any obstacle in implementing the REDD Plus program, including in communication.”

— Agustin Teras Narang Governor of Central Kalimantan, October 2011

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