Image UN body raises alarm over potential mass displacement of indigenous peoples in India’s tiger reserves Today The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed serious concern over information suggesting a significant risk of displacement and forced evictions facing tribal and forest-dwelling Indigenous Peoples in India. The Committee received this information under its early warning and urgent action procedure. Read more Image Conservation, Pastoralism, and Indigenous Land Stewardship: A Call to Action in Ngorongoro May 28, 2025 This report examines the intersection of conservation policy, Indigenous Peoples' rights, and sustainable land stewardship in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), with a specific focus on the Maasai Indigenous Peoples. Read more Image Video Testimony: Kiptoo, an Endorois from Lake Bogoria in Kenya: "We are almost synonymous with the lake” May 27, 2025 As an advocate admitted to the Bar in Kenya with an accomplished background in Indigenous Peoples’ human rights, Kiptoo is committed to continue the Endorois’ struggle in reclaiming their rights and ancestral lands, despite the slow pace of justice in his home country. Read more Image Voices from the frontlines May 27, 2025 Across India, the Mau Forest and Lake Bogoria in Kenya, and Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Indigenous communities are being evicted, harassed, and cut off from their ancestral lands—all in the name of “conservation.” In these powerful video testimonials, Indigenous people speak out about the violence and injustice they face under fortress conservation. Their stories demand attention—and action. Preservation Pause Image Video “Every living being depends on the trees” - Ogiek from Mau Forest in Kenya May 26, 2025 Forests pulsate with life, essential for the Ogiek people and all humankind. For the Ogiek, a hunter-gatherer society rooted in the high-altitude regions of Kenya's Mau Forest Commission and Mount Elgon for millennia, these woodlands are life itself, the source of their sustenance, culture and spiritual beliefs. Read more Image Video Testimony from Maasai Leader Ole Simel: The Forcible Eviction of Maasai Indigenous Peoples from their Traditional Lands in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Name of Wildlife Conservation April 9, 2025 While glossy images of the Maasai and their iconic lands often grace travel brochures, a starkly different reality of land theft and displacement unfolds behind the scenes. Read more Image Video Testimony from Leina & Samuel an Ogiek: The Ogiek being evicted from their forest as victims of conservation. March 28, 2025 A few months before we visited the Ogiek community to film their testimonies, without any prior notice many households had been evicted, an estimated 167 houses and a school burned down. Read more Image The Declaration of Puerto Franco: Gathering of Indigenous Peoples and Nations for Conservation with Respect for their Rights March 4, 2025 Indigenous peoples and nations from Peru and Kenya came together to share their stories related to the exclusionary conservation model that has made them invisible for decades. Read more Image Indigenous peoples' rights are under attack from "fortress conservation." Act now to stop it. Feb. 27, 2025 "If the officials come and shoot us we are ready to die, but not to leave the forest" Read more Image Video Testimony from Choudamma a Jenu Kuruba: How the WCS - India ends up being the government agent for forcible relocation in the name of voluntary relocation Feb. 25, 2025 In carrying out its species protection and conservation goals through Project Tiger, India has been found responsible for the commission of large-scale and systematic human rights violations committed against the Indigenous communities living within or near the protected areas. Read more Pagination … 1 2 3 4 5 6 … Next › Next page Last » Last page
Image UN body raises alarm over potential mass displacement of indigenous peoples in India’s tiger reserves Today The United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) has expressed serious concern over information suggesting a significant risk of displacement and forced evictions facing tribal and forest-dwelling Indigenous Peoples in India. The Committee received this information under its early warning and urgent action procedure. Read more
Image Conservation, Pastoralism, and Indigenous Land Stewardship: A Call to Action in Ngorongoro May 28, 2025 This report examines the intersection of conservation policy, Indigenous Peoples' rights, and sustainable land stewardship in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA), with a specific focus on the Maasai Indigenous Peoples. Read more
Image Video Testimony: Kiptoo, an Endorois from Lake Bogoria in Kenya: "We are almost synonymous with the lake” May 27, 2025 As an advocate admitted to the Bar in Kenya with an accomplished background in Indigenous Peoples’ human rights, Kiptoo is committed to continue the Endorois’ struggle in reclaiming their rights and ancestral lands, despite the slow pace of justice in his home country. Read more
Image Voices from the frontlines May 27, 2025 Across India, the Mau Forest and Lake Bogoria in Kenya, and Tanzania’s Ngorongoro Conservation Area, Indigenous communities are being evicted, harassed, and cut off from their ancestral lands—all in the name of “conservation.” In these powerful video testimonials, Indigenous people speak out about the violence and injustice they face under fortress conservation. Their stories demand attention—and action. Preservation Pause
Image Video “Every living being depends on the trees” - Ogiek from Mau Forest in Kenya May 26, 2025 Forests pulsate with life, essential for the Ogiek people and all humankind. For the Ogiek, a hunter-gatherer society rooted in the high-altitude regions of Kenya's Mau Forest Commission and Mount Elgon for millennia, these woodlands are life itself, the source of their sustenance, culture and spiritual beliefs. Read more
Image Video Testimony from Maasai Leader Ole Simel: The Forcible Eviction of Maasai Indigenous Peoples from their Traditional Lands in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in the Name of Wildlife Conservation April 9, 2025 While glossy images of the Maasai and their iconic lands often grace travel brochures, a starkly different reality of land theft and displacement unfolds behind the scenes. Read more
Image Video Testimony from Leina & Samuel an Ogiek: The Ogiek being evicted from their forest as victims of conservation. March 28, 2025 A few months before we visited the Ogiek community to film their testimonies, without any prior notice many households had been evicted, an estimated 167 houses and a school burned down. Read more
Image The Declaration of Puerto Franco: Gathering of Indigenous Peoples and Nations for Conservation with Respect for their Rights March 4, 2025 Indigenous peoples and nations from Peru and Kenya came together to share their stories related to the exclusionary conservation model that has made them invisible for decades. Read more
Image Indigenous peoples' rights are under attack from "fortress conservation." Act now to stop it. Feb. 27, 2025 "If the officials come and shoot us we are ready to die, but not to leave the forest" Read more
Image Video Testimony from Choudamma a Jenu Kuruba: How the WCS - India ends up being the government agent for forcible relocation in the name of voluntary relocation Feb. 25, 2025 In carrying out its species protection and conservation goals through Project Tiger, India has been found responsible for the commission of large-scale and systematic human rights violations committed against the Indigenous communities living within or near the protected areas. Read more