Indigenous Sengwer have written to conservation donors urging them to stop funding projects that steal their land and destroy their life.
Tag: Indigenous Peoples
The return of the Kamula Doso REDD project in Papua New Guinea: This time run by Mayur Resources, a mining company, and Santos, an oil and gas company
Kamula Doso REDD project is being redeveloped by Mayur Resources, a mining company, and Santos, an oil and gas company
Statement from Kichwa Indigenous communities about the Cordillera Azul National Park REDD (PNCAZ) project: “No to the false climate solutions offered as ‘Nature Based Solutions’ and ‘carbon neutrality’ by oil and mining companies that pollute in other regions of the world, such as Shell, Total, BHP, and others, who buy carbon from the PNCAZ.”
Cordillera Azul National Park: Kichwa Indigenous communities have put out a statement opposing false climate solutions like offsetting, that benefit oil and mining companies.
30×30 target “not supported by the science”
By Chris Lang At its next Conference of Parties (COP15), to be held in Montreal in December 2022, the Convention on Biological Diversity is planning to agree a framework for the next decade. Among the targets to be discussed is a plan to put 30% of the earth into protected areas by 2030 – the…
Aby L. Sène on “Land Grabs and Conservation Propaganda” in Africa
Aby L. Sène’s recent article about the conservation industry and propaganda in Africa is a must read.