Stop the 30×30 plan: Survival International has launched a campaign to stop the target of putting 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030.
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30×30: “A bigger land grab than has ever been planned”
30×30 – protecting 30% of the earth’s surface by 2030 – threatens the biggest land grab the world has ever seen – in the name of conservation.
‘Other Effective Area-Based Conservation Measures’ (OECMs): an acceptable face of protected areas that can save biodiversity?
By Simon Counsell Summary So-called ‘other effective area-based conservation measures’ (OECMs) are included in the proposed global target to increase protected areas to thirty per cent of the planet by 2030 (‘30×30’). They can notionally involve designations such as indigenous territories and community conserved lands in order to overcome the well-documented human rights problems caused…
TRIDOM – one of the largest trans-boundary wildlife areas in Africa faces critical new threats. Far from protesting, conservationists are looking to cash-in on the destruction
TRIDOM faces major threats from mining and hydropower. WWF hopes to cash in by getting the mining companies to fund conservation.
Conservation International admits failures in its Alto Mayo Protected Forest REDD project in Peru. But uses the failures as part of its success narrative
Conservation International admits failures in the Alto Mayo Protected Forest. But instead of looking at the politics behind these failures, it uses them to boost its success narrative.