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.
Tag: Conservation-Watch
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.
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…