Maasai in Loliondo continue to face threats of eviction and human rights abuses – in the name of conservation.
Tag: 30×30

Amnesty International on 30×30: “Indigenous peoples and local communities experience violence and forced eviction in the context of protected areas on a massive scale”
Amnesty International on 30×30: A new position paper from Amnesty International highlights dangers of the CDB proposal to put 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030.

This is what 30×30 will look like: “The government is happy for injustices done to our people”. The East African Court of Justice turns a blind eye to the Tanzanian government’s human rights abuses against the Maasai in the name of conservation and elite trophy hunting
30×30: The East African Court of Justice has dismissed a case brought by four Maasai villages against the evictions and violence carried out by the Tanzanian government in the name of conservation.

Japan Petroleum Exploration claims that fossil gas is “carbon neutral”, by buying carbon offsets from a project in Belize that no longer exists – the Boden Creek Ecological Preserve Forest Carbon Project
Japan Petroleum Exploration bought carbon offsets from the Boden Creek Ecological Preserve Forest Carbon Project in Belize long after the project fizzled out.

Indigenous Sengwer urge donors “to stop funding conservation projects that are stealing our land and destroying our life”
Indigenous Sengwer have written to conservation donors urging them to stop funding projects that steal their land and destroy their life.