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===Kenya must cease evicting Ogiek from Mau Forest===

#EndFortressConservation

https://assets.survivalinternational.org/documents/2503/231129_Joint_statement_on_forced_evictions_of_Indigenous_Peoples_in_Kenya.pdf

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Tanzania: Authorities brutally violated #Maasai amid forced evictions from ancestral lands
#Loliondo #Ngorongoro
#EndFortressConservation 🐄🌳☘️ https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2023/06/tanzanian-authorities-brutally-violated-maasai-amid-forced-evictions/
Authorities brutally violated Maasai amid forced evictions

Tanzanian authorities have repeatedly resorted to ill-treatment, excessive use of force, arbitrary arrests and detentions, and forced evictions against members of the Maasai Indigenous community.

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Only 5% of net forest loss in the Brazilian #Amazon occurs in #Indigenous territories and protected areas – even though these areas contain more than half of the region’s forest
#EndFortressConservation
https://www.carbonbrief.org/amazons-least-deforested-areas-are-due-to-vital-role-of-indigenous-peoples/
Amazon’s least-deforested areas are due to ‘vital role’ of Indigenous peoples - Carbon Brief

Only 5% of net forest loss occurs in Indigenous territories and protected areas in the Brazilian Amazon – even though these areas contain muchf of the region’s forest. 

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Biodiversity: COP15 biodiversity deal a ‘missed opportunity’ to protect Indigenous peoples’ rights

The Global Biodiversity Framework agreed at the UN Biodiversity Conference (COP15) in Montreal, which aims to preserve biodiversity globally by calling on states to commit to declaring 30% of the earth protected for conservation by 2030, is a missed opportunity to protect the rights of Indigenous peoples, Amnesty International said today. The accord, known as […]

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Biodiversity: A COP15 deal must recognize Indigenous peoples as custodians of conservation

Reacting to Indigenous peoples calling on states to ensure that a deal to declare 30% of the world protected by 2030 at the COP15 talks in Montreal respects their rights, Chris Chapman, Amnesty International’s Adviser on Indigenous Rights, said: “Any 30 x 30 deal being negotiated in the final days of COP15 must recognize that […]

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[Amnesty International] Tanzania: Prosecutors drop murder charges against 24 members of the #Maasai #Loliondo #EndFortressConservation #Indigenous
https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2022/11/tanzania-masaai-evictions/
Tanzania: Prosecutors drop murder charges against 24 members of the Maasai

Responding to the decision by Tanzania’s Director of Public Prosecution to drop charges of murder and conspiracy to murder against 24 members of the Maasai, including 10 leaders, Muleya Mwananyanda, Amnesty International’s Regional Director for East and Southern Africa, said: “Dropping these charges against members of the Maasai people is unequivocally the right decision. They […]

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Amnesty International: Convention on Biological Diversity's proposal to vastly expand protected areas MUST NOT go ahead unless full Indigenous rights protections are hard-wired into Target 3!

#EndFortressConservation

https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/ior40/6162/2022/en/

Amnesty International recommendations to States ahead of COP 15 (Convention On Biological Diversity) 30 X 30 Proposal - Amnesty International

The Global Biodiversity Framework, to be negotiated at the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD), contains a proposal to commit states to declaring 30% of the Earth’s land and sea mass as protected areas for conservation purposes, by 2030. This is the so-called 30 x 30 proposal. Choose a […]

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