The Baka have suffered violent evictions from their forest territory near Odzala-Kokoua National Park, to enable a “conservation” project managed by African Parks. The Baka are a hunter-gatherer tribe who rely on the forest for food and medicinal plants. They are prohibited from re-entering their forest and threatened with beatings, torture and rape by African Parks rangers. © Survival
UNEP publishes new guidelines for the respect of human rights in conservation on the eve of UN Human Rights Day
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