Three leading conservation scientists in Botswana have released a statement saying they “find no scientific basis for the dramatic assertions made in the recent BBC report” of the deaths of 87 elephants in Botswana, allegedly by poaching.
A woman who fled Nazi persecution as a child and later spearheaded a campaign to save an Amazon tribe is being awarded Germany’s top cultural honour, the Goethe Medal.
Hundreds of Baiga people from the central Indian area that inspired Kipling’s The Jungle Book are rallying to oppose the authorities’ attempts to evict them from the forests that they have lived in and managed since time immemorial.
Four Baka tribespeople – two women and two men – were beaten up by eco-guards in the Democratic Republic of Congo last week. The Baka had just returned to their village, after spending the day in the forest, when a squad of eco-guards arrived and accused them of hunting elephants.
Two sisters from the Marma indigenous tribe of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh are being held against their will after being raped and sexually assaulted at gun point, allegedly by members of the Bangladesh security forces.
A man from the Sengwer tribe has been killed by guards working for the Kenya Forestry Service. Another man was wounded. The attack follows several recent violent operations to evict Sengwer tribespeople from their land.
India’s National Tiger Conservation Authority is coming under increasing pressure over its illegal order banning the recognition of tribal forest rights in tiger reserves