August 2023 Archives

Evictions Disguised as Conservation: Voices from the Land That Was to Run Forever.

In recent years, the resilient and courageous Maasai communities of Tanzania have been faced with a challenge previously unmatched—“fortress” conservation.

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

“[The elders] say we are the Maasai warriors. But we have never been in a war like this.” – A Maasai Leader, Loliondo, Tanzania

Revealed: Big conservation NGOs are majority governed by finance figures.

Conservationists express alarm that finance execs dominate the boards of four powerful NGOs, especially as controversial carbon markets skyrocket.

Themes: Conservation, NGOs, Financialisation, REDD

New analysis has revealed that the majority of trustees at arguably the four biggest conservation NGOs in the world are closely linked to the finance industry. The revelation into who governs these influential and wealthy Western-based organisations has alarmed conservation specialists.

Elephant corridors.

The busy trunk routes where locals take care to cross.

Themes: Tourism, Poverty, Indigenous people, Livlihoods, NGOs, Parks, Poaching, Conservation

Broken promises drive exiled hunter-gatherers back to Congolese gorilla refuge

KAHUZI-BIEGA NATIONAL PARK, Democratic Republic of Congo

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

In the forested borderlands of eastern Congo, some members of an exiled hunter-gatherer community plan to move back into their ancestral land in a national park in protest over broken promises from the authorities they say put rare gorillas over their rights.

Continued Violence and Mostly Silence in Loliondo and NCA.

Some Voices Raised on the Anniversary of the Brutal and Lawless Land Grabbing Attack on Loliondo

Themes: Conservation, Indigenous people, NGOs, Pastoralists, Poverty

In this blog post: Stolen grazing land and criminal rangers. Violence in Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NOT to be mixed up with Loliondo). The rejected, German facilitated, fake, and forced land use planning. For a brief reminder of what the Germans do; The maliciously misleading and rejected NDLUFP document, including another Lake Natron threat. Anniversary of the biggest crime and various people speaking up on the record. A most disgusting budget speech by Mchengerwa. Amnesty report. Court cases.