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Bataille juridique autour des Plantations et Huileries du Congo entre Kuramo Capital et Nile Capital

Jeune Afrique

June 26, 2021

Kuramo Capital Management (KCM), société de gestion d’investissement contrôlant les Plantations et Huileries du Congo (PHC) en République démocratique du Congo, a déposé plusieurs plaintes contre Nile Global Frontiers, son partenaire depuis 2017, pour malversations et de vols d’actifs.

Lush Forests Laid to Waste: How Pacific Islands Got Hooked on Logging

The Guardian

May 31, 2021

The timber industry in Papua New Guinea and Solomon Islands has brought money and jobs -- but also pollution, environmental devastation and food insecurity

Pension and Endowment Funds Linked to Conflict-Plagued Oil Palm in DRC

Mongabay

March 22, 2021

A new report from the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, reveals that several well-known pension funds, trusts and endowments are invested in a group of oil palm plantations in the Democratic Republic of Congo accused of environmental and human rights abuses.

In Nicaragua, Supplying Beef to the U.S. Comes at a High Human Cost

PBS NewsHour

October 20, 2020

“When outbreaks of COVID-19 at meat processing plants in the U.S. slowed production, American wholesalers and grocery chains turned to foreign beef suppliers. Producers in the small country of Nicaragua were happy to fulfill U.S. demand — but doing so has come at a high cost for local communities. Nate Halverson of the Center for Investigative Reporting’s Reveal has the story.”

Allegations of Displacement, Violence Beleaguer Kenyan Conservancy NGO

Mongabay
- The California-based Oakland Institute published a report on Nov. 16 alleging that the Kenya-based nonprofit Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) keeps pastoralists and their herds off of their ancestral grazing areas.
Report Blames Kenya Conservation Groups for Conflict

BBC News

A new report by a US-based policy think-tank says that some conservancies in Kenya are driving local communities from their lands and fuelling ethnic conflict in the north.
The End of World Bank's "Doing Business Report": A Landmark Victory for People & Planet

Inter Press Service

The September 16, 2021 announcement from the World Bank that it had discontinued publication of the Doing Business Report (DBR) marked a major victory for people and planet.
Ngorongoro Maasai to Be Evicted

CELEP

The Oakland Institute has brought out a new report on pastoralists in northern Tanzania: The looming threat of eviction: the continued displacement of the Maasai under the guise of conservation in Ngorongoro Conservation Area
Fortress conservation threatens Maasai pastoralists in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area: "The Government is systematically starving us"

REDD-Monitor

Maasai pastoralists have lived in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area bordering the Serengeti National Park for generations. But their livelihoods and homes are threatened in the name of conservation.
Are White People Bad For the Environment?

Grist

The origins of global warming are “rooted in a racism of ‘I know better.’”