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In western Kenya, the Ogiek battle for land rights and a chance to demonstrate their role in biodiversity protection. At an ongoing IUCN meet, they have a chance to do so before a global audience
The community is only allowed to collect dead wood from the forests for building and for use as firewood.
The community is only allowed to collect dead wood from the forests for building and for use as firewood.
Indigenous communities wary of UN biodiversity rescue plan Some of the world’s leading conservation groups have backed conservation projects that dispossessed indigenous peoples of their ancestral ties and homelands By Eleonore Hughes / AFP, PARIS As crunch UN talks to reverse the accelerating destruction of nature loom, indigenous communities are sounding an alarm over proposed conservation plans that they say could clash with their rights. The COP-15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China — provisionally slated for early October — will see nearly 200 nations attempt to thrash out ...
Indigenous peoples wary of UN biodiversity rescue plan