WWF conservation project threatening Baka people in the Congo rainforest Archived Message
Posted by Ian M on March 4, 2019, 3:16 pm, in reply to "stephen Corry: 'Pristine Wildernesses and Other Myths Peddled by the BBC'"
More on the same theme from SI: https://survivalinternational.org/tribes/bakamessokdja 'In the rich forests of the Congo Basin, the world’s second largest rainforest, a small tribe of hunter-gatherers is at the mercy of a vast multinational organization that wants to seize their land. Should the organization succeed in its objectives, the tribe’s very existence as a people will be put at risk, as will the forests they inhabit. People are going to die. We are born in the forest and grow up in the forest. This is the end of us. It’s going to lead to our death. “Baka, Messok Dja” Who is behind this land grab? Shockingly, it is the World Wildlife Fund (WWF). WWF is working with the Congolese government to turn this area of land, belonging to the Baka people, into a national park. The creation of Messok Dja National Park, in northwest Congo, will exclude the Baka people from the forests they depend on, forever. The Baka have not given their consent. Already Baka in the area are being intimidated and harassed by WWF-funded park rangers. Wrongly accused of poaching, they are bullied and beaten, terrified into silence and submission, and driven from their forests.' [continues at link] petition here: https://www.survivalinternational.org/emails/messokdja I
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