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Green Violence: ‘Eco-Guards’ Are Abusing Indigenous Groups in Africa

Source
Yale Environment 360

Publication Date
2020-03-17

In recent years, conservation groups such as WWF have been embroiled in controversy as the poorly trained “eco-guards” these organizations have funded in Africa have been accused of abusing indigenous people in their ancestral territories in national parks and preserves. Last week, a draft report released by the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) found that some WWF-funded guards had routinely beaten members of the Baka forest community, burned down some of their camps, and severely limited their access to a proposed national park in the Messok Dja forests in the northern Republic of the Congo, a stronghold of iconic species like forest elephants.

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https://e360.yale.edu/features/green-violence-eco-guards-are-abusing-indigenous-groups-in-africa