People & Groups Archives: Big Green

Mainstream so-called environmental and conservation organizations, which mostly function to greenwash business as usual. They divert funds and energy contributed by well-meaning people into reformist or even destructive projects.

Colonialism & Conquest

UK’s Charity Commission Launches Investigation into WWF

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Featured image: A major investigation by news site Buzzfeed, released March 4, 2019, exposed a shocking level of violent abuse by ecoguards and rangers funded by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). © Buzzfeed     by Survival International Britain’s charity regulator has launched an official investigation into WWF, in a major blow to the embattled organization. The inquiry … Continue reading UK’s Charity Commission Launches Investigation into WWF →
Colonialism & Conquest

WWF-Funded Guards Helped Poachers, Then Tortured Informant Who Tried to Stop Them

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Featured image: The collusion between officials and poachers was exposed in India’s Down to Earth magazine. © Down to Earth      by Survival International Park officials in India’s Rajaji Tiger Reserve colluded with poachers in the killing of endangered leopards, tigers and pangolin, according to an investigation by a senior wildlife officer. The accused … Continue reading WWF-Funded Guards Helped Poachers, Then Tortured Informant Who Tried to Stop Them →
Colonialism & Conquest

The Baka Peoples Don’t Want To Be Sacrificed for Conservation

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Featured image: A man from a village near the proposed Messok Dja national park shows scars from a beating he received at the hands of ecoguards supported and funded by World Wildlife Fund. © Fiore Longo/Survival International      by Gabriella Rutherford, Survival International / Intercontinental Cry The dense Messok Dja rainforest has been home to … Continue reading The Baka Peoples Don’t Want To Be Sacrificed for Conservation →
Colonialism & Conquest

“Disaster” As Indian Supreme Court Orders Eviction of “8 million” Tribespeople

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Featured image: Many tribes, like some Chenchu, have already been evicted after their lands were turned into tiger reserves. Now millions more face eviction. © Survival International      by Survival International India’s Supreme Court has ordered the eviction of up to 8 million tribal and other forest-dwelling people, in what campaigners have described as “an … Continue reading “Disaster” As Indian Supreme Court Orders Eviction of “8 million” Tribespeople →
Biodiversity & Habitat Destruction

Capitalism is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, not ‘Humanity’

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Featured image: Simon Eeman / shutterstock      by Anna Pigott, Swansea University / The Conversation The latest Living Planet report from the WWF makes for grim reading: a 60% decline in wild animal populations since 1970, collapsing ecosystems, and a distinct possibility that the human species will not be far behind. The report repeatedly stresses … Continue reading Capitalism is Killing the World’s Wildlife Populations, not ‘Humanity’ →
Colonialism & Conquest

Congo Republic: Baka “Pygmies” Beaten and Arrested

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Featured image: The Baka are better at looking after their environment than anyone else. © Selcen Kucukustel/Atlas      by Survival International Four Baka – two women and two men – were beaten up by eco-guards in the Republic of Congo last week. The Baka had just returned to their village, after spending the day in the … Continue reading Congo Republic: Baka “Pygmies” Beaten and Arrested →
Colonialism & Conquest

Conservation Giants Implicated in Public Health Crises Among “Pygmies”

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Featured image: A recent epidemic in the Republic of Congo is said to have been aggravated by the loss of indigenous peoples’ resources due to conservation and logging projects. © C. Fornellino Romero/Survival International      by Survival International A Congolese organization has recently raised concerns that conservation contributed to the deaths of several dozen children, mostly … Continue reading Conservation Giants Implicated in Public Health Crises Among “Pygmies” →
Colonialism & Conquest

New Report Exposes Widespread Abuse Funded by Big Conservation Organizations

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Featured image: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) has been working in the Congo Basin for decades – supporting squads who have committed violent abuse against tribal people. © WWF      by Survival International A new Survival International report details widespread and systematic human rights abuses in the Congo Basin, by wildlife guards funded by the World … Continue reading New Report Exposes Widespread Abuse Funded by Big Conservation Organizations →
Lobbying

Survival International–WWF OECD talks break down over tribal consent

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Featured image: This Baka woman and her husband are among many tribal people in Cameroon who have been beaten by WWF-funded wildlife guards. They were attacked and had their belongings taken from them while they were collecting wild mangoes. © Survival International      by Survival International The landmark mediation talks between Survival and the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) … Continue reading Survival International–WWF OECD talks break down over tribal consent →
Colonialism & Conquest

Bronx Zoo Organization Funds Serious Human Rights Abuses

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Featured image: Vast swathes of the Bayaka’s ancestral homelands in the Republic of Congo have been taken over without their consent by loggers and big conservation NGOs. © Lambert Coleman      by Survival International An investigation by Survival International has revealed that the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), the parent organization of New York’s Bronx … Continue reading Bronx Zoo Organization Funds Serious Human Rights Abuses →