The Ngoyla-Mintom REDD project covers an area of more than 700,000 hectares in the south of Cameroon. The project takes a “landscape” approach, aiming to create a new protected area linking the Nki National Park and Dja Biosphere Reserve.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
WWF scandal (part 7): WWF teams up with loggers rather than indigenous peoples in Cameroon
In April 2015, WWF and Rougier, a French logging company, announced that they would work together on a three year programme to “jointly advance responsible forest management and trade”. The deal is part of WWF’s Global Forest and Trade Network (GFTN) that aims to promote trade in legal and sustainable timber.
Enough is enough! Stop the evictions of the Sengwer indigenous peoples in Kenya
In July 2009, Navin Rai travelled to the Cherangani Hills in Kenya as part of a delegation of World Bank and Kenyan officials who travelled to the Cherangani Hills in Kenya. At the time Rai was the World Bank’s top adviser on Indigenous Peoples.
Indigenous Environmental Network: REDD “must be immediately canceled”
Over the past two weeks, the 15th session of the Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues took place at the UN headquarters in New York. On 18 May 2016, the Indigenous Environmental Network put out a press release demanding an end to carbon offsets and REDD. It slams the Paris Agreements as “a crime against humanity…
Can REDD save the forests of the Democratic Republic of Congo?
A new report by the Forest Peoples Programme finds that “Deforestation and forest degradation have increased in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) despite the government’s commitment to safeguard its forests”.