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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I've done quite a few interviews over the years. This one is definitely one of the oddest. Evertreen posted the interview on its own website - but without the questions. That's mainly because they didn't really answer my questions. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/we-have-ne...
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“We have never sold a carbon credit against tree planting.” Interview with Evertreen
The company’s website gives a figure for CO₂ absorbed to date from tree planting and a figure for tonnes expected to be absorbed over these trees trees’ lifetimes.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
The Federico Hecker Foundation is planning a carbon project on Indigenous Peoples' territory in Bolivia. The Indigenous Peoples living there have rejected the plans. Aimé Hecker continues to push carbon markets at government level. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/indigenous...
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Indigenous Peoples have rejected the Federico Hecker Foundation’s proposed carbon project in their territory
Meanwhile, Aimé Hecker, chairman of the Foundation and an MP, continues to push carbon markets at government level.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
An analysis of some of things wrong with carbon markets by the Centre for Economic Policy Research. Despite explaining why the world would be better off without carbon trading, CEPR concludes that, "The answer is not to abolish offsets." reddmonitor.substack.com/p/an-autopsy...
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An autopsy of the voluntary carbon market
New research from the Centre for Economic Policy Research exposes the flaws in the voluntary carbon market.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
SwissX’s Soil Booster™ programme is one more ridiculously obvious climate scam - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/swissxs-so...
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SwissX’s Soil Booster™ programme is one more ridiculously obvious climate scam
“Earn prosperitry” [sic]. “Earn proserity” [sic].
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Here's my take on the recent decision in Australia to sell carbon credits from the Great Koala National Park - that Labor first promised in January 2015. Including an Honest Government Ad from the wonderful @thejuicemedia.com : reddmonitor.substack.com/p/koalas-and...
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Koalas and carbon credits in Australia
“We shouldn’t have to choose between saving native forests and stopping climate change.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
New report by Elisa Morgera, UN special rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights in the context of climate change: "Rethinking carbon credits according to international climate and human rights obligations." reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
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UN special rapporteur warns that carbon markets fail to meet international climate and human rights obligations
The report “identifies structural misalignments between carbon credit markets and the international obligations of States with regard to climate change and human rights”.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Indonesia faces wildfires every year. El Niño makes the wildfires worse. This year's super El Niño could make the fires very much worse. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/indonesia-...
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Indonesia faces a wildfire catastrophe. Again
And El Niño could cause the fires to get much worse.
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Estuário Ramos @estuarioramos.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Relator especial da ONU alerta que os mercados de carbono não cumprem as obrigações internacionais em matéria de clima e direitos humanos. @reddmonitor.bsky.social #climatechange reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-special...
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UN special rapporteur warns that carbon markets fail to meet international climate and human rights obligations
The report “identifies structural misalignments between carbon credit markets and the international obligations of States with regard to climate change and human rights”.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Deforestation from gold mining inside the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project in the Republic of Congo - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/deforestat...
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Deforestation from gold mining inside the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility project in the Republic of Congo
The FCPF project was set up with an exaggerated baseline, it ignored the threat of mining, and was rigged to pay money to logging and palm oil corporations.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
“It’s all a bit like a carbon Ponzi scheme.” Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/climeworks...
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Climeworks: The carbon capture company that emits more than it captures
No surprises. Direct air capture was designed to delay the end of fossil fuels.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
A new report by Swedwatch, @hekseperworld.bsky.social and Silnorf reveals the impacts of a carbon tree plantation project in Sierra Leone: - Loss of land and livelihoods; - Limited consultation; - Unequal benefits; - Women disproportionately affected. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-human-...
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The human rights impacts of Miro Forestry’s carbon tree plantation project in Sierra Leone
A new report by Swedwatch, HEKS, and Silnorf documents communities’ concerns.
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Estuário Ramos @estuarioramos.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
O 12º Fórum Social Pan-Amazônico exige "financiamento climático a fundo perdido e rejeita mercados de carbono, trocas de dívida e outras falsas soluções". reddmonitor.substack.com/p/pan-amazon...
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
The 12th Pan-Amazonian Social Forum demands "non-repayable climate financing and reject[s] carbon markets, debt swaps, and other false solutions”. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/pan-amazon...
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Pan-Amazonian Social Forum rejects carbon credits with jaguars
Press release from the Pan-Amazonian Social Forum.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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CO2-Projekte: Betrugsverdacht bei Klimaschutzprojekten
Millionenschwere Klimaschutzprojekte von Mineralölkonzernen in China existieren offenbar nur auf dem Papier, zeigen ZDF frontal Recherchen.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
A German government carbon offsetting programme in China resulted in millions of fake carbon credits. Big Polluter ExxonMobil was one of the companies buying the carbon credits. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/exxonmobil...
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ExxonMobil spent US$4.9 million on fake carbon credits
Germany has withdrawn carbon credits from 30 projects in China.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
REDD-Monitor's latest collection of REDDisms - this edition includes comments about carbon markets, the climate crisis, fossil fuels, and cuts to USAID. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/reddisms-a...
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REDDisms: August 2026
This is the seventh in REDD-Monitor’s occasional series of REDDisms. Each post consists of ten quotations, nine of which are recent and one of which comes from my collection of REDDisms dating back to...
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Reporting by the Danish newspaper Politiken exposes Ecotrust's failure to address long-standing problems with its tree planting project in Uganda. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/trees-for-...
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Trees for Global Benefits: Farmers in Uganda are still cutting down trees planted to generate carbon offsets
A recent investigation by Danish newspaper Politiken reveals that Ecotrust has failed to resolve long-standing problems.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
German aid agencies are still in denial about the impact of "conservation" on the human rights of the Maasai. German finance is playing a direct role in the threats, evictions, and violence against the Maasai. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/tanzanian-...
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Tanzanian NGO statement calls on German aid agencies “to conduct an independent, transparent, impartial, and rights-based investigation” about conservation on Maasai territories
“Conservation with communities, not conservation over communities.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Sign the petition to protect forest defenders in Liberia and to reject false climate solutions! reddmonitor.substack.com/p/liberias-c...
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Liberia’s Carbon Market Policy threatens forest communities’ rights and puts the future of forests at risk
Sign Rainforest Rescue’s petition to protect forest defenders and reject false climate solutions.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Research published in Suomen Antropologi earlier this year documents the impacts of Tozzi Green's carbon plantations in Madagascar. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/research-o...
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Research on the impacts of Tozzi Green’s carbon plantation land grab in Madagascar: “The company has brought poverty to Ihorombe”
Research published in Suomen Antropologi in April 2026.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Carbon cowboys plan REDD-type projects inside the proposed Atacuari Indigenous Reserve in Peru - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/carbon-cow...
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Carbon cowboys plan REDD-type projects inside the proposed Atacuari Indigenous Reserve in Peru
The proposed reserve is for Indigenous Peoples living in voluntary isolation.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Response from Beatrice Battelli, Director of PR and Communications at Evertreen: “We take transparency seriously”
Hmmm. I have some questions about this.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
The article by Paine Eulalia Mako, Tunga Bhadra Rai, Gideon Sanago, Rosario Carmona, and Stefan Thorsell is available here: debatesindigenas.org/en/2026/07/0...
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Carbon Markets and Indigenous Peoples: Between False Solutions and Forced Choices - Debates Indígenas
Carbon markets, promoted by governments, corporations and international conservation NGOs, are expanding rapidly across Indigenous territories in Africa, Asia, and Latin America. For many Indigenous P...
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
Very interesting recent article on carbon markets by @iwgia.bsky.social on the website Indigenous Debates. A key problem with carbon markets is that they utterly fail to address the structures that created the problem in the first place. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-expans...
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“The expansion of carbon markets suggests that the global economy continues to seek ways to manage the climate crisis without confronting the structures that created it in the first place”
“Indigenous critiques expose the limits of that approach.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
El Niño events are bad news for the Amazon rainforest. This year's super El Niño is likely to be particularly bad. "For the Amazon rainforest, the timing could hardly be worse," journalist Quentin Septer writes in Nature. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/el-nino-co...
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El Niño could have a devastating impact on the Amazon rainforest
Scientist warns that if too much of the Amazon rainforest burns, “it could basically cross the tipping point”.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Thank you for shouting!
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
I mentioned the violence in 2018, because that was when sent some questions to KfW and GIZ. You're right - the violence in 2017 was much worse. Sorry to hear you're unable to finish an update - best wishes for a swift recovery!
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Susanna Nordlund @susanna-nordlund.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Article by @reddmonitor.bsky.social on the weak, but laudable considering the current climate of terror and sellout, statement by the Tanzanian pastoralist NGOs on the ever stubborn German support for the Tanzanian government’s war on the Maasai. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/tanzanian-...
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Tanzanian NGO statement calls on German aid agencies “to conduct an independent, transparent, impartial, and rights-based investigation” about conservation on Maasai territories
“Conservation with communities, not conservation over communities.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
This post is based on great reporting by @emmastromberg.bsky.social for Hufvudstadsbladet - focusing on Finnfund's support for Tozzi Green's land grab: www.hbl.fi/varlden/finn...
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Anklagelser mot Finlandskopplat bolag – ”Känner sig lurade”
Finnfund finansierar bolag som anklagas för markrofferi.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Italian company Tozzi Green is planting trees for carbon credits on communities' land on the Ihorombe plateau in Madagascar. For more than a decade communities have protested against Tozzi Green's operations - they accuse the company of land grabbing. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/questions-...
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Questions raised about Finnfund’s support to Tozzi Green’s land grab for carbon plantations in Madagascar
Finnish and Belgian development finance institutions are funding a land grab.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
The first carbon credits approved under Article 6.4 of the Paris Agreement are generated by a cookstove project in the military dictatorship of Myanmar. On 11 August 2026, civil society organisations wrote to SK Telecom urging it to divest from the project. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/civil-soci...
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Civil society organisations urge Korean company SK Telecom to stop investment in Article 6.4 cook stove project in Myanmar’s military dictatorship
Since February 2021, the elected leaders of the country remain in arbitrary detention.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels,” Energy Australia admits - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/offsets-do...
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“Offsets do not prevent or undo the harms caused by burning fossil fuels,” Energy Australia admits
Energy Australia’s statement is part of a settlement in a legal case about greenwashing brought by Parents for Climate.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Pranab Doley has been jailed under the National Security Act for protesting against a planned luxury hotel near the Kaziranga National Park. (This R-M post is from early August 2026 - BBC covered the story recently: www.bbc.com/news/article...) reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-state-...
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The state of Assam has invoked the National Security Act to keep Pranab Doley in prison for peacefully protesting against Hyatt Group’s planned luxury hotel near Kaziranga National Park in India
New statement from the Community Network Against Protected Areas.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
Excellent reporting by Lynda Andriatsitont on the World Bank's Atiala Atsinanana REDD project in Madagascar. Only 5% of the money from sales of carbon credits is allocated for local communities. Even that isn't reaching them. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-world-...
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The World Bank’s Atiala Atsinanana REDD project in Madagascar: “5% of the revenues from carbon credits are allocated to local communities.” And even that isn’t getting through
An excellent investigative report by Lynda Andriatsitonta of the Malina network.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 19/08/2026
This is likely to change forever what I think about whenever I hear the National Anthem.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
“These communities also challenge the capitalist, racist & colonialist logic of these projects - which seek to use forests historically protected by communities in order to greenwash the image of polluting companies…” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/no-to-redd...
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“NO to REDD and Carbon Markets”
A new documentary from World Rainforest Movement.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
And I'll do another post next week based on Jenni Mölkänen's research on the Ihorombe plateau. Which is very interesting - and does not look good for Tozzi Green.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 14/08/2026
Thanks for this - here it is on R-M: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/questions-...
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Questions raised about Finnfund’s support to Tozzi Green’s land grab for carbon plantations in Madagascar
Finnish and Belgian development finance institutions are funding a land grab.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“Don’t use rainforests or any other carbon sink as a way to offset your reliance on fossil fuel.” Interview with Martin Simonneau, Cool Earth - @reddmonitor.bsky.social reddmonitor.substack.com/p/dont-use-r...
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“Don’t use rainforests or any other carbon sink as a way to offset your reliance on fossil fuel.” Interview with Martin Simonneau, Cool Earth
“The unconditional payments are not results-based payments, but rights-based payments.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
Thank you! (Pardon, je ne parle qu'un petit peu Français...) I've just written something based on CNAPA's latest statement about this: reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-state-...
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The state of Assam has invoked the National Security Act to keep Pranab Doley in prison for peacefully protesting against Hyatt Group’s planned luxury hotel near Kaziranga National Park in India
New statement from the Community Network Against Protected Areas.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Friends of the Earth new report on biodiversity & climate crises: “REDD is not an effective climate solution” - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
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Friends of the Earth new report on biodiversity and climate crises: “REDD is not an effective climate solution”
Governments and corporations are banking on offsets and are locking in emissions.
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Anne-Sophie Simpere @asimpere.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Pour garder le défenseur des droits des communautés indigènes Pranab Doley en prison, l'Etat d'Assam, en Inde, vient d'invoquer le National security act. Pranab s'oppose à la construction d'un hôtel du groupe Hyatt dans un parc naturel #droitdemanifester #droitshumains
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
Please sign on this statement condemning the arrest and demanding the release of human rights defender Pranab Doley and four other Indigenous leaders. Please circulate widely and encourage others to sign on! reddmonitor.substack.com/p/statement-...
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Statement Condemning the Arrest of Human Rights Defender Pranab Doley and the Criminalisation of Indigenous Resistance in Kaziranga
Please sign on to the statement by the Community Network Against Protected Areas.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
Study in the Colombian Amazon reveals that REDD projects exacerbate conflict in Indigenous communities - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
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Study in the Colombian Amazon reveals that REDD projects exacerbate conflict in Indigenous communities
Elite capture, weakened governance, and lack of transparency trigger conflicts.
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Oakland Institute @oaklandinstitute.org · 27/07/2026
@grain.org @mittaloak.bsky.social @reddmonitor.bsky.social @foeeurope.bsky.social @greenpeaceafrica.org
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
On 12 July 2026, Pranab Doley and four other Indigenous human rights defenders were arrested. The arrests followed protests about a Hyatt Group luxury hotel planned next to the Kaziranga National Park in India. UN experts have demanded their release. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/un-experts...
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UN experts demand release of Indigenous activists arrested for protesting proposed luxury hotel next to Kaziranga National Park in India
Following protests against the proposed luxury tourism project, police arrested five Indigenous activists.
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yukongertie.bsky.social @yukongertie.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The global mining rush will trigger hundreds of new mines in a short period. The resulting human and planetary devastation will be at a scale never seen before – livelihoods will be destroyed, millions will be displaced, and environmental destruction will become irreversible.”
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
The World Heritage Committee is currently meeting in South Korea. One decision involves the Ngorongoro Conservation Area in Tanzania, where the Maasai are facing mass evictions. Will the World Heritage Committee respect Indigenous Peoples' rights? reddmonitor.substack.com/p/the-world-...
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The World Heritage Committee must oppose the eviction of Indigenous Maasai from the Ngorongoro Conservation Area
The World Heritage Committee meets in South Korea next week and the fate of the Maasai of Ngorongoro hangs in the balance.
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Chris Lang @reddmonitor.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
New report by the Oakland Institute reveals that the rush for critical minerals is not about a green transition. More than 70% of mineral demand comes from industries outside the energy transition, like aerospace, military, Big Tech, and AI sectors. reddmonitor.substack.com/p/rush-globa...
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RUSH: Global Scramble for Minerals Wages War on People and Planet
New report from the Oakland Institute highlights how the military, AI, and corporate interests are driving the global rush for critical minerals.
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Phil Free @philfree.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa & its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia - @reddmonitor.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/reddmoni...
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Carbon pirates: The fake country of the United States of Kailasa and its “perpetual” land grabs in Bolivia
How a fake country tried to set up land deals in Ecuador, Paraguay, Honduras, and Bolivia.
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