Human rights violations against the Maasai: Maasai Indigenous People have written to Tanzania’s donors to stop the plans for evictions and the human rights abuses in Ngorongoro and Loliondo in Tanzania.
Tag: Conservation-Watch
Colonial conservation: Why an Indigenous Maya community in Belize protested against a visit from Prince William
Colonial conservation: Prince William’s trip to the Caribbean exposes the colonial roots of conservation.
Al Jazeera: Why are Tanzania’s Maasai being forced off their ancestral land?
By Chris Lang Maasai Indigenous people living in Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District in Tanzania continue to be threatened with evictions. Since 1992, the government has issued permits on an area of 4,000 square kilometres of land to a hunting tourism company called Otterlo Business Corporation. The company is owned by Dubai Royals.
Conservationists claim that their aim to place thirty per cent of the planet in protected areas by 2030 is supported by science. It isn’t. What the science does and doesn’t say about 30×30
Simon Counsell on the science (or lack of it) behind the target of putting 30% of the planet in protected areas by 2030 (30×30).
Survival International: Stop the 30×30 plan
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.