"Both these situations, with ecotourism and wildlife NGOs, represent not just outside interference, but outside indifference to the preeminent rights of local people. And because that indifference has been so arrogant – dare one say “racist”? – it led these otherwise noble organizations into presumptions of their legitimacy that denied the preeminent legitimacy of local peoples."
Feb 14
20120
350.org / 1Sky, CIDOB | Confederation of Indigenous People of Bolivia, Conservation International, Democracy Centre, Nature Conservancy, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, USAID, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
"I am convinced that some NGOs, especially those funded by the USAID, are the fifth column of espionage in Bolivia, not only in Bolivia, but also in all of Latin America," Morales said during a press conference in Oruro, a southwestern Bolivian city. Morales said the United States, through the cover of development aid operations of those organizations, knows "all the details of the activities of the social sectors and union leaders" in those Latin American countries. The president regretted that some union leaders were allegedly used by these NGOs to stir disputes such as the one over a highway project in an indigenous territory in his country.
"The corporate greenie Nature Conservancy takes greenwash to an all-time low. Quite unprecedented even for an "enviro" outfit that partnered with Dow Chemical." - Tin Alvarez, Ecological Activist, EcoJustice Pilipinas
"The ambition of market transformation is on a grand scale. There are schemes for palm oil (theRoundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil; RSPO), soybeans (the Round Table on Responsible Soy; RTRS), biofuels (the Roundtable on Sustainable Biofuels), Sugar (Bonsucro) and also for cotton, shrimp, cocoa and farmed salmon. These are markets each worth many billions of dollars annually and the intention is for these new “Responsible” and Sustainable” certified products to dominate them."
Around 2,000 Samburu families have stayed squatting on edge of disputed territory,...
Nov 23
201110
Amazon Watch, Avaaz, Carbon Markets | REDD, Conservation International, Democracy Centre, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, The International Campaign to Destabilize Bolivia, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
November 23rd, 2011 by Cory Morningstar DI NO AL REDD – Rapido...
Nov 22
20112
Environmental Defence Fund, Friends of the Earth, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Sierra Club
Katherine Barkley and Steve Weissman, “The Eco-Establishment,” in: Ramparts (eds.), Eco-Catastrophe (Harper...
Sep 25
20111
Conservation International, Environmental Defence Fund, Greenpeace, Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Blog Post from the Belly of the Beast: In the Bowels of...
"…many European firms buy the offsets to claim to be carbon-neutral for...
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