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…
Stop the evictions of 70,000 Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania
Stop the evictions: The Government of Tanzania is yet again threatening to forcibly evict Maasai Indigenous people from their ancestral land in Ngorongoro District.
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.