Carbon credits fever “now as big a threat to Indigenous lands as logging and mining”
Campaigners have warned that carbon credits now represent “as big a threat to Indigenous lands as logging and mining.”
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Kenya: Are carbon credits behind Ogiek evictions? NGOs release statement in run-up to COP28
Three leading human rights organizations have released a statement denouncing Kenya’s illegal evictions of the Ogiek people.
Kenya government illegally evicts Ogiek from their ancestral forests during King Charles’s state visit
Kenyan authorities are illegally evicting up to 700 Ogiek people from their homes in the name of conservation.
Indonesia: New "catastrophic" footage shows uncontacted tribe near nickel mine
Video proves logging and nickel mining operations are now penetrating the rainforest of uncontacted Hongana Manyawa people.
India: As new film is released on the Sentinelese, their uncontacted neighbors face destruction
Campaigners have warned that the imminent destruction of the Sentinelese's little-known neighbors, the Shompen, is going unnoticed.
Ten years on: uncontacted tribe in danger as land protection stalls
It's been ten years since Brazilian authorities released extraordinary footage showing the existence of an uncontacted Amazonian tribe.
Brazil: “A momentous, historic victory” for Indigenous people as Supreme Court rejects Time Limit Trick
Opponents of Indigenous rights in Brazil have suffered a major setback after the Time Limit Trick was rejected.
Tanzania prevents MEPs from investigating Maasai abuses
Tanzania has prevented MEPs from visiting the country to investigate serious abuses against the Maasai in the name of conservation