Human rights groups decry driving Indigenous peoples from their homelands in the name of \u0027nature\u0027
, Amnesty International, Minority Rights Group International and the Rainforest Foundation insist that in its current formulation, the “30/30” target of setting aside 30 per cent of the Earth’s lands and waters by 2030 could be devastating to millions of people among Indigenous cultures and other subsistence societies around the world, especially in Africa and Asia.Sign up to receive daily headline news from Ottawa Citizen, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.
The human rights coalition does have a fairly solid case about the failure of large parks and protected areas in protecting “nature.” It’s been more than three decades since the Society for Conservation Biology took stock of the North American example and found that even the bigger parks in the western United States are places where animals go to die.
In Africa and Asia, it isn’t always epidemic diseases or miners or forest companies that drive ancient peoples from their homelands. It’s environmentalists, or governments determined to cater to the United Nations’ environmental targets and western tourists’ ideas about “nature.”Article content where the Court of Appeal ruled that the family of Bushmen elder Pitseng Gaoberekwe could not bury the man according to tribal custom in his home territory, which has been enclosed by the Central Kalahari Game Reserve.Terry Glavin: Trudeau Liberals too eager to buy into China's green 'co-operation'
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