The future of conservation: the Marseille Manifesto calls for a “complete halt in the creation of new Protected Areas which exclude Indigenous and local communities”.
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“Our Land, Our Nature”: A congress to decolonise conservation
An Alternative Congress under the slogan “Our Land, Our Nature” will highlight the dark side of conservation, rooted in racism and colonialism.
Philanthropic organisations write to the Convention on Biological Diversity with concerns about the 30×30 protected areas target in Post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework
By Chris Lang In July 2021, the Convention on Biological Diversity published the first draft of the Post 2020 Global Biodiversity Framework. The UN explains that the aim is to create a “Paris-style UN agreement on biodiversity loss, to guide actions worldwide that ‘preserve and protect nature and its essential services to people’”. The draft…
Fortress conservation in Wildlife Alliance’s Southern Cardamom REDD+ Project: evictions, violence, and burning people’s homes. “We’re proud of our work. The forest, the wildlife, you come to feel they’re yours.”
Wildlife Alliance targets villagers, but works with the direct cause of deforestation in Cambodia: the corrupt Hun Sen government.
Fortress conservation threatens Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: “The Government is systematically starving us”
Fortress conservation threatens the livelihoods of Maasai pastoralists who have lived in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area for generations.