by No-Redd | Jul 3, 2014 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture
Plight of Kenya’s indigenous Sengwer shows carbon offsets are empowering corporate recolonisation of the South Between 2000 and 2010, a total of 500 million acres of land in Asia, Africa, Latin America and the Caribbean was acquired or negotiated under deals...
by No-Redd | Feb 25, 2014 | Forests & Biodiversity, Press Release
We, the No REDD in Africa Network and the undersigned organizations and individuals, strongly condemn the massive evictions and forced relocation of the Sengwer Indigenous People, one of the few remaining hunter-gatherers of the world, from their ancestral home in...
by No-Redd | Jan 31, 2014 | Forests & Biodiversity
Last year the Government of Kenya was getting “ready” for REDD in the Embobut Forest, now it is violently evicting the Sengwer People and forcing them “into extinction.” According to Survival International, “as many as a thousand homes have already been torched.”...
by No-Redd | Sep 25, 2013 | Forests & Biodiversity, Press Release
In August 2013, the No REDD in Africa Network met in Maputo, the capital of Mozambique. The members of the Network, which was launched at the World Social Forum earlier this year, produced a short statement, posted in full below. In the past few weeks, REDD...
by No-Redd | Apr 3, 2013 | Climate Change, Forests & Biodiversity, Plantations & Agriculture
By Chris Lang, 3rd April 2013 During the World Social Forum, a group of African organisations and individuals took part in the launch of a “No REDD in Africa Network”. Given the problems with the REDD mechanism, REDD-Monitor welcomes critical debate about REDD, but...
by No-Redd | Sep 8, 2010 | Forests & Biodiversity
In August 2010, the Rimba Raya conservation project in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia hit the headlines. “Indonesia project boosts global forest CO2 market,” Reuters reported. But there’s a catch. Two companies that are responsible for vast greenhouse gas...
