Cornered by Protected Areas.

Vicky Tauli-Corpuz (UN Special rapporteur) and RRI launch an RRI brief derived from the upcoming Indigenous Peoples and Protected Areas report.

Themes: Conservation, Human rights, Indigenous people, REDD, Policy, Poverty, CBD, Financialisation

Indigenous Peoples and local communities have been conserving their lands and forests for centuries. But the rise of “fortress conservation” is forcing them from their homes, hurting people and forests alike.

Transborder Protected Areas, Green Infrastructure, and Local Communities:

Perspectives on the Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Conservation Area.

Themes: Conservation, Parks, Tourism, Indigenous people, Fisheries

An overview of the issues, opportunities constraints and problems affecting the world's largest multi-country park.

A Decade since Trent Keegan was Murdered and Thomson Safaris Continue Occupying Maasai Land.

View from the Termite Mound A blog about threats against Maasai land in Loliondo - Thomson Safaris, OBC and ruthless hypocrisy.

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

In this blog post: - Tanzania Breweries Limited; Thomson Safaris take Maasai land as their nature refuge; Lesinko shot at Enashiva Nature Refuge; Trent murdered; 2009 drought; The sign; First international article; The PM’s “report”; Unanswered UN letters; The court cases; Becoming a blogger; The negotiations; Children beaten; Five herders prosecuted for trespass; Killing a website; More journalists in trouble; Olunjai shot; The big intimidation campaign in Loliondo; Charity as a weapon – and recently buying who could not be bought; Current silence.

Tanzania’s Maasai face ongoing threats, intimidation, and arrests.

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

Mongolia's reindeer herders fear lost identity under hunting ban.

Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people, Parks

Hunting ban impoverishes communities.

Banning hunting can have negative impacts on the conservation of animals.

Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people

Loliondo Report by the Oakland Institute and Kigwangalla Makes his U-turn Even More Extreme

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

In this blog post: Report by the Oakland Institute; Kigwangalla becomes like his shamelessly lying predecessors; Livestock detained at Wasso market; Secret meeting for a “friendlier special authority”; OBC’s gift to the Ministry of Natural Resources and Tourism; Summary for newcomers.

Losing the Serengeti:

The Maasai Land that was to Run Forever

Themes: Conservation, Parks, Tourism, Indigenous people

Based on field research, never publicly-seen-before documents, and an in-depth investigation into Tanzania’s land laws. This report is the first to reveal the complicity between Tanzanian government officials and foreign companies as they use conservation laws to dispossess the Maasai, driving them into smaller and smaller areas and creating a stifling map of confinement.