Nature Positive: Simon Counsell explains how this new phrase could open the floodgates of endless corporate greenwashing.
The Frankfurt Declaration on biodiversity promotes protecting 30% of the earth, “Nature-Positive”, and offsetting. To make matters worse, it excludes Indigenous Peoples
The Frankfurt Declaration is complicit with governments, corporations, and the conservation industry in the biggest land grab the world has ever seen.
New statement opposing 30×30: “Target to ‘protect’ 30% of earth by 2030 – a disaster for people and bad for the planet”
New statement opposing 30×30 from Amnesty International, Minority Rights Group International, Rainforest Foundation UK, and Survival International.
Addressing the Amazon tipping point is more urgent than ever. REDD is not working. The worst thing we could do is trade the carbon stored in the Amazon against emissions from burning fossil fuels
Amazon tipping point: If the Amazon tips from rainforest to savanna it would be a disaster for the people living in the forest and for the world’s climate.
Charges against Maasai in Loliondo, Tanzania dropped; “Their only ‘crime’ was exercising their right to protest while security forces tried to seize land from them in the name of ‘conservation’”
Maasai in Loliondo continue to face threats of eviction and human rights abuses – in the name of conservation.