Another massive attack on Indigenous lands - and on our planet - is underway. You can take action today to help stop it.Samburu woman, Northern Kenya. One of her family members was killed when grazing
his animals near an NRT conservancy, allegedly at the hands of NRT park rangers.
© Fiore Longo/Survival

Dear Jack,

Another massive attack on Indigenous lands - and on our planet - is underway.
You can take action today to help stop it.

Take action
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Spending time in arid Northern Kenya with the Indigenous Samburu, Borana and
Rendille people, and their beloved livestock, one cannot fail to be impressed by
the incredible resilience of their way of life in such a “hostile” environment.
Accelerating climate change, driven by the Global North and its corporations,
has exacerbated drought in recent years. But thanks to their long-distance
grazing patterns, that follow the rain as necessary, these pastoralist peoples
are still able to thrive and feed their families.

But not for long.

An organization called The Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) has pushed for the
establishment of huge wildlife ‘conservancies’ in the area, which are patrolled
by armed rangers. This has limited pastoralist land and contributed to an upsurge of violence
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pretend they’re doing something to ‘fix’ the climate crisis while pastoralist
peoples, who have done nothing to cause the crisis, pay the price.

The project claims to store additional carbon in the soil by replacing
sustainable and self-sufficient pastoralist grazing patterns with a pattern that
is centrally imposed and controlled, more akin to commercial ranching. The
resulting carbon credits are being sold to companies like Netflix and Meta
(Facebook), whose emissions are real, so they can claim to be “carbon neutral”.

NRT is making millions from this. But we are all losing.

Under examination
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enabling companies to greenwash their pollution, the scheme could accelerate
rather than prevent climate change - while threatening sustainable, Indigenous
ways of life and survival.

This is just one example of many offset projects initiated on Indigenous lands,
without their consent, that could fund more human rights abuses while doing
nothing to prevent climate change. This project is not just dangerous greenwashing, it’s blood carbon and we need
to stop it.

Send an urgent email today
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Despite all this, Verra, an organization which oversees the certification of
projects and the sale of carbon credits, has certified NRT’s scheme and plans to
continue doing so.

Please act now
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other projects on Indigenous lands where human rights violations have occurred
and which did not obtain Free, Prior and Informed Consent from the communities.

Thank you,



Fiore Longo
Survival International



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