SE Asia forest carbon projects sidelining social, biodiversity benefits, study finds
via news.mongabay.com
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Home to Asian elephants, gibbons and critically endangered black-shanked douc langurs, the forests of Cambodia’s Keo Seima Wildlife Sanctuary were brought under a REDD+ project in 2010. However, several years into the project, Indigenous communities whose land was absorbed into the project reported legal harassment, crop destruction and property confiscation as a result of land […]