Press Releases

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- March 15, 2022, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Leonard Shang-Quartey, [email protected]; +233 242303423/+221 707634061 New report exposes the devastating impact of large-scale agriculture on communities’ access to water, livelihoods, and food security in Africa.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- February 17, 2021, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 On February 13, 2022, over 700 Maasai gathered in Oloirobi village to pray and protest against the impending eviction from their ancestral lands within the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (NCA). The gathering followed a week of debate in the Tanzanian Parliament, which signaled willingness to enact drastic legal changes to undermine land rights and evict Maasai from the NCA.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- February 14, 2022, 12:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Mathias Rittgerott, [email protected] +1 514-803-9070 In a petition delivered today to the World Food Programme (WFP), UN Development Programme (UNDP), and UNICEF, 72,000 people call on the United Nations to end business with the Bolloré Group.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- February 8, 2022, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Communities living adjacent to the PHC oil palm plantations in DRC face arrests, beatings, and extrajudicial killings at the hands of private security and police. Under the majority ownership of Kuramo Capital Management (KCM), conditions have recently further deteriorated — with violent repression of workers on strike. New report from the Oakland Institute exposes additional US-based institutional investors — Washington University in St.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- January 27, 2022, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 On January 11, 2022 the Tanzanian government renewed efforts to seize 1,500 km2 of legally registered village land in the Loliondo Division of Ngorongoro District from Maasai pastoralists, who have sustainably stewarded the area for generations.

As elders and professionals from Borana, Samburu, Somali, Pokot and Turkana communities of Northern Kenya, we are gravely concerned by the killings and maiming of our people by rangers from the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT).

How “Community Conservancies” Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya ---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- November 16, 2021 7:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 The Indigenous people in Northern Kenya are being dispossessed of their ancestral lands as Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) — one of Kenya’s largest conservation agencies — establishes “community” conservancies. Armed security units deployed by these conservancies face allegations of serious human rights abuses including extrajudicial killings and disappearances.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- September 21, 2021, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Frederic Mousseau, [email protected] +1 510-512-5458 Oakland, CA — The Food Systems Summit, hosted by the United Nations, has been reduced to a day-long virtual event on September 23, 2021 — a result of an unprecedented counter mobilization around the world.

The World Bank will cease publication of the Doing Business Report, after revelations of data manipulation shattering trust in the rankings.

---FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE--- September 9, 2021, 6:00 AM PT Media Contact:Anuradha Mittal, [email protected] +1 510-469-5228 Mathias Rittgerott, [email protected] +1 514-803-9070 The Oakland Institute and Rainforest Rescue delivered a petition with 94,000 signatures to UNESCO World Heritage Center and the Tanzanian government, calling to halt the planned eviction of Indigenous Maasai communities from their ancestral lands in the name of conservation.