Community wildlife conservation isn’t always a win-win solution:
The case of Kenya’s Samburu
Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people, Pastoralists, Parks, NGOs
Community-based wildlife conservation is often promoted as a win-win solution. The idea behind this approach is that the people who live close to wildlife can be involved in protecting it and have an interest in doing so.
This results in wildlife being protected (a win for global biodiversity) and local people benefiting from conservation through tourism revenues, jobs, or new infrastructure like schools, clinics and water supplies.
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Jan 18, 2023
Indigenous lands hold the world’s healthiest forests
but only when their rights are protected
Themes: Conservation, FPIC, Indigenous people, Human rights, Parks
The world’s healthiest tropical forests are located in protected Indigenous areas (PIAs), according to a new study. However, research shows that forests with minimal human modification exist only on protected Indigenous lands. Indigenous lands that are unprotected lower forest integrity.
Researchers believe the lower integrity of forests on Indigenous lands is due to mineral, oil, and gas deposits that are located on lands and communities that lack land tenure to prevent extractive projects. According to the researchers, strengthening Indigenous peoples’ land rights is critical to reaching global conservation and climate goals.
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Dec 22, 2022
This Human Rights Day, Stand With the Maasai to End Fortress Conservation
The colonization of Indigenous lands in the name of conservation has devastated far too many lives and must immediately end.
Themes: CBD, Conservation, FPIC, Human rights, Hunting, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, NGOs, Parks, Pastoralists, Poverty
An Opinion piece by Andy Currier, Research Associate at the Oakland Institute and co-author of Driving Dispossession: The Global Push to “Unlock the Economic Potential of Land”.
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Dec 12, 2022
Loliondo Bogus Murder Case Dropped after Over Five Months.
While the Horror Worsens with Fake and Forced Land Use Plans
Themes: Conservation, FPIC, Human rights, Hunting, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Parks, Pastoralists, Tourism
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Nov 30, 2022
The steady decline of Ladakh’s nomadic herders
Themes: Pastoralists, Parks, Livlihoods, Indigenous people, Tourism
Military tensions, ecological concerns and a tourism boom, all threaten to wipe out the Changpa tribe’s traditional occupation.
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Oct 21, 2022
Amidst Government Terror and Lawlessness, the East African Court Fails to Deliver Justice to the Maasai of Loliondo
Themes: Conservation, FPIC, Human rights, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Parks, Pastoralists, Poverty
On 30th September 2022 in Arusha, the East African Court of Justice delivered its ruling in Reference No. 10 of 2017 Ololosokwan Village Council & 3 Others versus the Attorney General of the United Republic of Tanzania.
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Oct 03, 2022
Regional court dismisses Maasai eviction case against Tanzania
Rights groups said Friday’s ruling sends a dangerous message that Indigenous peoples can be evicted from their land in the name of conservation.
Themes: Conservation, FPIC, Human rights, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Parks, Pastoralists
Photo - Maasai rights activists from the Maa Unity Agenda group march to protest outside the Tanzanian high commission in Nairobi, Kenya [File: Ben Curtis/AP]
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Oct 02, 2022
Bedouin community fear Galilee conservation plan is part of a bid to ‘uproot’ them.
Nature and Parks Authority faces opposition to planned wildlife corridor near Haifa, which environmentalists say is an important part of efforts to protect endangered animals
Themes: Indigenous people, Livlihoods, Pastoralists, Parks, Poverty
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Sep 09, 2022