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More Carbon Credit crimes against humanity?
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More Carbon Credit crimes against humanity?
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".
Leaders of the Ogiek community say armed forest rangers are "pulling down houses with axes and hammers".
Amid mixed views of the final form of the 30x30 target agreed at the CBD COP15, Orla Corbisiero and Phil Franks review the reactions of many organisations that support Indigenous Peoples and local communities (IP and LCs) to consider whether the target presents more of an opportunity and less of a threat to IP and LCs than they had anticipated prior to COP15
Forest peoples accuse governments of using pandemic to damage jungles – dpa international Indigenous activists putting on a traditional dance performance during a 2017 AMAN conference in Tanjung Gusto, North Sumatra, Indonesia. (Simon Roughneen) DUBLIN — The novel coronavirus pandemic has facilitated government-backed “economic opportunism” in the world’s rainforests, according to a report published on Thursday. Authorities in Brazil, Colombia, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Indonesia and Peru “have set aside social and environmental safeguards in favour of destructive dev...