Rangers at the Kahuzi-Biega National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo are said to have raped and killed indigenous people with the aim of driving them out. The park is largely funded by Germany.
To date, 2021 has proved to be one of the most consequential years for Indigenous rights and participation in global climate and conservation efforts. As biodiversity loss mounted and urgency was added to mitigating climate change, Indigenous environmental stewardship was put centre-stage, conservation efforts continued to displace communities, and extractive industries resumed operations on ancestral […]
A series of raids by soldiers and rangers in the Democratic Republic of Congo’s Kahuzi-Biega National Park have left one Indigenous man dead and a pregnant woman missing, feared burned alive in her home, activists have reported. Two other women were also reportedly injured in the joint operation between Nov. 12 and 14 on two […]