By Chris Lang Interview with Tom Younger, Peru Programme Coordinator and Policy Advisor at Forest Peoples Programme. The interview was conducted online in May 2021. It’s a long interview, divided into four sections – here are the previous three parts:
Fortress conservation in Wildlife Alliance’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project: evictions, violence, and burning people’s homes. “We’re proud of our work. The forest, the wildlife, you come to feel they’re yours.”
Wildlife Alliance targets villagers, but works with the direct cause of deforestation in Cambodia: the corrupt Hun Sen government.
AIDESEP warns of “carbon pirates” in Peru
In a letter to the Ministry of Environment, AIDESEP warns of “carbon pirates” in Peru.
“In the wake of the pandemic the Peruvian Government has been rolling back its social and environmental protections”: Interview with Tom Younger, Forest Peoples Programme (part 3)
“In the wake of the pandemic the Peruvian Government has been really rolling back its social and environmental protections” – part 3 of REDD-Monitor’s interview with Tom Younger of Forest Peoples Programme.
“Payment for non-performance”: Norway pays Gabon US$17 million for increasing deforestation
Recently Gabon became the first African government to be paid for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. But deforestation increased.