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- In early 2024, African Parks commissioned a U.K.-based law firm to investigate allegations of human rights abuses committed by the park’s rangers against local Indigenous people. The investigation is now complete, and AP has acknowledged that human rights abuses occurred.
- South Africa’s native reptiles and amphibians, including threatened species, are being illegally captured and exported for the global pet trade. A recent study found that eight of the 10 most-exported reptiles from South Africa are native species, most of which are not protected by CITES.
- In 2005, the Brazilian government created PDS Brasília, a sustainable settlement in the state of Pará, designed to encourage 500 families to practice small-scale family farming. But two decades later, only 200 of the 500 families remain, largely due to a lack of government and financial support.
- At the U.N., international mining organizations committed to consulting with Indigenous people. The reality on the ground looks different in the U.S., say Indigenous activists. Projects like Oak Flat in Arizona are continuing to move ahead over Indigenous objections.
- “This marks one of the largest vulture poisoning events in Southern Africa.” In South Africa’s Kruger National Park, a mass poisoning attack this week has left 123 threatened vultures dead and another 83 recovering with the aid of a veterinary team.
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- The rise in e-commerce has created a commensurate rise in demand for single-use paper packaging. Fast-growing, high-yield eucalyptus has become a popular choice for paper but farming communities in Mozambique are paying the price for cheap paper according to a Mongabay documentary.
- The Republic of Congo plans to nearly double its oil production over the next three years, including drilling in protected areas like Conkouati-Douli National Park, an expansion which directly contradicts the country’s climate commitments made at the 2023 U.N. climate conference.
