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Tag: Conservation International

Madagascar: What happens to REDD when there’s a sapphire rush?

Posted on 18 May 201718 May 2017

The Ankeniheny-Zahamena Corridor “has long been regarded as one of Madagascar’s top conservation priorities,” Conservation International tells us on its website. Conservation International is running a REDD project there covering more than 371,000 hectares.

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Guest Post: TAMS – Failed experiments with carbon in Madagascar

Posted on 22 December 20169 February 2018

In 2016, Sara Peña Valderrama completed her PhD in social anthropology, where she studied a forest carbon project run by Conservation International in Madagascar. Her thesis is available on Durham University’s website: Entangling Molecules: an ethnography of a carbon offset project in Madagascar’s eastern rainforest. She submitted this Guest Post about what happened when the project changed…

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The virtual economy of REDD: Conflicts of interest, hot air, and dodgy baselines

Posted on 2 June 20165 December 2021

In order for REDD projects to generate carbon credits, a “baseline scenario” has to be created. This is supposed to reflect what would have happened under business-as-usual, or what would have happened in the absence of the REDD project.

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How safeguards fail poor farmers in the Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena REDD project in Madagascar

Posted on 5 February 201618 May 2017

The Corridor Ankeniheny-Zahamena is a 382,000-hectare REDD project in Madagascar being carried out by Conservation International, with support from the World Bank. A new study shows that the project is not compensating many of the people whose livelihoods are impacted by the restrictions on forest use.

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Conservation International’s star-studded advertising campaign remembers to save the rainforests, but forgets Indigenous Peoples

Posted on 21 November 201420 September 2019

Julia Roberts, Harrison Ford, Kevin Spacey, Edward Norton, Penélope Cruz, Robert Redford, Ian Somerhalder. These are the big names that Conservation International has recruited for its new advertising campaign.

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