Controversial carbon credits scheme in Kenya re-certified by Verra for the second time - Survival International response
Carbon certifier Verra has re-certified for the second time a controversial carbon credits project in Kenya.
News from the Maasai
Kenya: Indigenous people reject attempts to re-start troubled carbon credit project
Maasai and Rendille people say they are being coerced into signing away land rights.
Tanzania: Maasai protest UNESCO's complicity in their eviction for “conservation”
Maasai people have protested in one of Tanzania’s most important tourism destinations over their eviction in the name of conservation, to highlight UNESCO’s complicity in the persecution of Maasai people.
Tanzania: Commissions call for mass eviction of Indigenous Maasai from world-famous tourist destinations.
Two presidential commissions have recommended the mass eviction of Maasai people from some of East Africa’s most iconic conservation areas and tourist destinations.
Maasai demand Volkswagen pull out of carbon offset scheme on their lands
Maasai Indigenous people in Tanzania call on Volkswagen (VW) to withdraw from a controversial carbon credits scheme.
European Commission cancels planned conservation funding in Tanzania over Maasai abuses
European Commission scrapped plans to fund Tanzania projects – following violent evictions of Maasai for conservation tourism and trophy hunting.
Breaking: European Parliament calls out Maasai evictions from iconic Serengeti landscape
The EU Parliament has condemned evictions of Indigenous Maasai communities under the guise of conservation.
Brazil: “A momentous, historic victory” for Indigenous people as Supreme Court rejects Time Limit Trick
Opponents of Indigenous rights in Brazil have suffered a major setback after the Time Limit Trick was rejected.