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Survival International accuses WWF and WCS of supporting violence against indigenous people in the Congo Basin

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks

National parks, logging concessions and trophy hunting zones have been imposed on vast areas of land in the Congo Basin. A new report by Survival International documents how the World Wildlife Fund and the Wildlife Conservation Society have played a key role in this carve up of indigenous peoples’ lands.

Concern over plan to rehabilitate tribal families displaced from Nagarahole.

Activists fear project may remain only on paper as there is no clarity on availability of land.

Themes: Conservation, Parks, Indigenous people, Human rights

Inuit will write marine management plan for eastern end of Northwest Passage.

Themes: Human rights, Indigenous people, Conservation

The Inuit of Labrador and the federal government have signed a deal that will see the Inuit use their traditional knowledge to develop a marine-management plan covering more than 380,000 square kilometres of coastal waters on the far eastern end of the Northwest Passage.

A young Batwa boy has been killed in a national park while trying to access traditional medicine.

On Saturday 26 August, the boy and his father were shot at by eco-guards. The father was badly wounded but escaped but his son was killed.

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks, Poverty

The shady past of Parks Canada:

Forced out, Indigenous people are forging a comeback.

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks

Among Indigenous leaders, there is more talk of a day when their people will return to the parks — not to amuse tourists, but to live and work.

WWF Violating Indigenous Rights – Complaint Abandoned

Stephen Corry of SI explains how the process unwound.

Themes: Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks, FPIC, Policy, Poverty, Conservation

Survival International has today abandoned trying to get a resolution to our formal complaint that the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is violating international standards about corporate responsibility, and is reverting to using public pressure to try and stop the abuses.

Protests in Bolivia Against Renewed Road Plans for TIPNIS Rainforest.

Community leaders and environmentalists rally to protect Isiboro Sécure National Park and Indigenous Territory, cause of massive 2011 protests.

Themes: Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks, Conservation, FPIC

Illegal Arson Attack in Loliondo.

Rangers Say that They Have Started an Operation to Evict the Maasai from the 1,500 km2 Osero

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, Parks, Poverty