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Protecting 30%

Open letter to the lead authors of ‘Protecting 30% of the Planet for Nature’: “This paper reads to us like a proposal for a new model of colonialism”

Posted on 6 January 20216 January 2021

An open letter, signed by authors from multiple institutions, highlights the problems with the working paper, “Protecting 30% of the planet for nature”.

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REDD in Cambodia

Sarah Milne on REDD in Cambodia: “Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders”

Posted on 29 December 202030 December 2020

REDD in Cambodia. Three things make Sarah Milne, Senior Lecturer at the Australian National University, uncomfortable about REDD credits: Unchecked government power, the erosion of Indigenous rights, and violence against environmental defenders.

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“Killings, torture, sexual and physical violence and intimidation have no place in conservation”: NGOs react to WWF’s “independent review” on human rights abuses

Posted on 26 November 202026 November 2020

By Chris Lang In March 2019, BuzzFeed News published a year-long investigation that found that WWF had funded and equipped eco-guards who have tortured, sexually assaulted, and killed people. In response, WWF launched an “independent review”. WWF finally released the review this week. It is, of course, pure coincidence that the review came out just…

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Democratic Republic of Congo: Kahuzi-Biéga National Park management’s false accusations against Batwa chief are “incredibly dangerous”

Posted on 21 October 202021 October 2020

By Chris Lang One night in late January 2020, dozens of soldiers and eco-guards stormed into Jean-Marie Kasula’s hut and dragged him and his wife away at gun point. Four other people from the same village were taken away barefoot.

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US government stops funding to WWF, WCS and other conservation organisations because of human rights abuses

Posted on 13 October 20203 November 2020

By Chris Lang In autumn 2019, the US government suspended US$12.3 million of funding to the Central Africa Regional Program for the Environment (CARPE). This followed a bipartisan congressional oversight investigation to examine whether US conservation funds were supporting eco-guards who committed human rights abuses.

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