Mar 23, 2019 | Climate Justice, Earth Minute, Earth Radio, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Social Media News
On this week’s Earth Minute, GJEP Executive Director Anne Petermann discusses the inherent racism and colonialism of big conservation groups promote the idea that “nature” should be separated from humans. Transcript of the Earth Minute: Protecting forests is...
Mar 12, 2019 | Brazil, Deforestation, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Rainforest, Social Media News, Tree Plantations
From the article: “It seems that conservation and developmental projects (mega dams, mines, fossil fuel extraction, industrial monocultures, etc.) are, in a way, two sides of the same coin. Top-down impositions over communal territories determined by outsiders,...
Nov 14, 2017 | Climate Justice, Concerned Photography, Featured, Forests, Indigenous Peoples, Latin America, Protests & Resistance, REDD, Social Media News, Zapatistas / Chiapas / Mexico
This is an example of conservation gone wrong. Very, very wrong. Conservation strategies that involve forced displacement of rural, land-based and Indigenous communities are nothing new and stem from a twisted worldview in which humans and nature have nothing in...
