tribal lands

A major investigation by news site Buzzfeed has exposed a shocking level of violent abuse by ecoguards and rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund.

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.

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.