{"id":12864,"date":"2020-12-03T14:00:12","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T14:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/?p=12864"},"modified":"2020-12-03T15:07:18","modified_gmt":"2020-12-03T15:07:18","slug":"greenpeace-africa-statement-on-wwf-independent-review-of-human-rights-violations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/africa\/en\/press\/12864\/greenpeace-africa-statement-on-wwf-independent-review-of-human-rights-violations\/","title":{"rendered":"Greenpeace Africa statement on WWF independent review of human rights violations"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Human rights violations and abuses are unacceptable under any circumstances. The <a href=\"https:\/\/wwfint.awsassets.panda.org\/downloads\/independent_review___independent_panel_of_experts__final_report_24_nov_2020.pdf\">Independent Panel report<\/a> makes it clear that \u201cWWF has not fulfilled its human rights commitments.\u201d&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>WWF needs to fully own their responsibility for abuses that are committed by rangers or \u2018ecoguards\u2019 working in the protected areas WWF manages or co-manages. In addition to following up on all the Review Panel\u2019s recommendations, Greenpeace expects WWF to offer a full apology to survivors, and ensure they receive appropriate reparations.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<p>More fundamentally, WWF and other conservation organisations and their funders need to reckon with a colonial \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenpeace.org\/international\/story\/45497\/indigenous-people-biodiversity-fortress-conservation-power-shift\/\">fortress conservation<\/a>\u2019 model which restricts access to customary and ancestral lands, and leads to harassment, abuse, evictions and killings of Indigenous People and other members of local communities.<\/p>\n\n<p>Nature protection must be based on the legal recognition of peoples\u2019 rights over their customary and ancestral land. Indigenous Peoples and local communities, who are themselves among the least responsible for the global extinction crisis, must be acknowledged as leaders in defending nature against industrial and criminal exploitation. The ongoing colonial practice of reducing them to collateral damage of conservation must end.<\/p>\n\n<p>Irene Wabiwa Betoko, International Project Leader for the Congo Basin forest, Greenpeace Africa: &#8220;There are no more excuses for the model of fortress conservation. Eco-guards that WWF funded, equipped and collaborated with have committed crimes. WWF\u2019s investigation must culminate not only in an apology and reparations to the victims, but a complete withdrawal from the colonial &#8220;fortress conservation&#8221; model to the detriment of human lives.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Human rights violations and abuses are unacceptable under any circumstances. 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