The World Bank continues with its push to trade the carbon stored in forests. But new research shows that safeguards and legal protections for indigenous peoples and local communities in these new forest carbon markets are “non-existent”.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
No REDD in Africa Network: “Forced Relocation of Sengwer People proves urgency of canceling REDD”
No REDD in Africa Network: Letter to the Kenyan Government and the UN protesting the evictions from the Embobut Forest.
Peru approves the expansion of the Camisea gas project into indigenous peoples’ reserve
Peru has given the go-ahead to the expansion of the Camisea gas project onto the land of indigenous peoples living in voluntary isolation. The impacts on the people and their forest will be devastating.
Indigenous peoples evicted and their homes set on fire: Embobut forest, Kenya
Kenya Forest Service guards are evicting Sengwer indigenous people from their homes in the Embobut forest in Kenya. The guards have burned people’s homes and set fire to their possessions.
Stop the illegal evictions from the Embobut Forest in Kenya
Evictions have started of Sengwer indigenous people and other communities from the Embobut Forest in Western Kenya. Armed guards from the Kenya Forest Service have moved into the area to evict people, despite an injunction preventing evictions from the forest.