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Farming communities abused at troubled DRC mega-farm, campaigners say

Mongabay

April 4, 2019

When then-President of the Democratic Republic of Congo Joseph Kabila hoisted himself into a tractor to celebrate the first harvest of the Bukanga Lonzo agro-industrial park on March 5, 2015, it was supposed to be a triumphant moment. Just under 300 kilometers (186 miles) to the east of the capital city Kinshasa, the park had been heralded as a cutting-edge solution to food shortages in the DRC.

Report Says Loggers Declaring Losses But Increasing Exports

Post Courier Online

February 12, 2019

A high-end investigative report has revealed that despite decades of operating in PNG, logging companies barely declare profits. Furthermore, the report reveals an odd financial contradiction where loggers have reported doubling their losses while continuing to increase their exports of tropical timber. In a comprehensive report furnished by renowned international researching group The Oakland Institute, new evidence of financial misreporting and grand scale tax evasion in the PNG logging industry have been unearthed.

Think Tank Report Highlights Tax Puzzle in PNG Logging Sector

ABC Radio

September 6, 2018

Two years ago the Oakland Institute published a report on illegal logging in Papua New Guinea, and warned that millions of dollars in taxes were being lost because of financial misreporting.

Tanzania’s Maasai Losing Ground to Tourism in the Name of Conservation, Investigation Finds

Mongabay

May 11, 2018

The government of Tanzania is casting aside Maasai communities to make way for lucrative high-end safari tourism and hunting, says the Oakland Institute, a policy think tank, in a report published May 10.

Tanzanie: les Masaï expulsés de leurs terres au nom du tourisme

RFI

En Tanzanie, les Masaï sont toujours plus réprimés. La semaine dernière, une douzaine de villageois a été attaquée par une patrouille de l'armée tanzanienne alors qu'ils faisaient paître leur bétail à quelques kilomètres du parc national du Serengeti, au nord-est du pays. Le peuple semi-nomade voit ses terres systématiquement réduites au profit...
Maasai Clash with Tanzania in Court Over Eviction from Serengeti

Thomson Reuters Foundation

NAIROBI - Maasai herders near Tanzania’s famous Serengeti wildlife park have asked a regional court to stop the government intimidating witnesses supporting their legal bid to return to their ancestral land, a lawyer for the community said on Thursday.
Luxury Safaris Are Expelling This Indigenous Group From Their Ancient Lands in the Serengeti

Global Citizen

The Maasai people of the Serengeti are being expelled from their native lands in Kenya and Tanzania to make way for luxury tourism, according to a new report by US-based think tank Oakland Institute.
Ecotourism is Being Used to Displace One of East Africa's Long-standing Indigenous People

Quartz

Government officials and foreign companies in Tanzania are using ecotourism and conservation laws to displace indigenous Maasai people, evicting them and denying them access to watering holes and vital grazing for their livestock.
Thousands of Tanzania's Maasai Evicted from their Land 'for Tourism'

The Sydney Morning Herald

Kampala, Uganda: Tens of thousands of Tanzania's ethnic Maasai people are homeless after the government burnt their houses to keep the savannah open for tourism benefiting two foreign safari companies, a US-based policy think-tank claims.
Exclusive Safari Tours 'force Tens Of Thousands Of Masai From Land'

The Times

Tens of thousands of Masai herders have been evicted and burnt out of their ancestral land in Tanzania to make way for exclusive safari tours, according to the findings of an investigation into environmental tensions in the region.