Survival International says one of the biggest human rights violations in the world is being planned, with almost no voices outside India raised in opposition.
The World Wildlife Fund, one of the world’s biggest conservation organisations, is breaking the law in its backing of a conservation zone in the Congo Basin, according to recently released letters.
Charles Nsonkali, Programme Supervisor at a community-based indigenous organisation in the East Region of Cameroon. has written to Princes William and Harry calling for urgent action to stop atrocities committed by the conservation industry against the Baka people of Cameroon.
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.
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.
A Ugandan Batwa tribesman has been released from prison, after spending over seven months behind bars for killing a small antelope inside a protected area from which his people were illegally evicted.
A new report details widespread and systematic human rights abuses in the Congo Basin, by wildlife guards funded by the World Wildlife Fund and other big conservation organisations.
Mediation talks between Survival International and the World Wildlife Fund over breaches of OECD guidelines for multinational corporations have broken down over the issue of tribal peoples’ consent.
A BBC investigation has revealed that tribal peoples living around a national park in India are facing arrest and beatings, torture and death under the Park’s notorious 'shoot-on-sight' policy.