'The colonization of Indigenous lands in the name of conservation has devastated far too many lives and must immediately end.'
showing that meeting the 30% target could directly displace and dispossess 300 million people.
While the devastating impact of fortress conservation has been felt around the globe, the Maasai in Tanzania have been subject to some of the worst brutality and cruelty. Pastoralist communities' rights to life, security, food, housing, and freedom from arbitrary arrest are under siege from a government using the guise of conservation to justify its actions.
Pastoralist communities have remained steadfast in their struggle to halt eviction plans and have their voices heard. Their resistance has come at a great cost—community leaders have been beaten and arrested by state security forces and imprisoned for months without cause. Cattle, a vital part of their pastoral livelihoods, are dying en masse without access to grazing land and water. In the face of such dire circumstances, their courageous resistance endures.
Ignoring calls to respect the rights of the Maasai, the government continues to prepare resettlement sites for so-called"volunteers." Despite government claims of a better life waiting in the resettlement sites, the Oakland Institute haswith the relocation process and viability of the sites, and sounded the alarm on the risk of escalation of conflict between NCA migrants and long-term residents who did not consent to these plans.
The actions of the Tanzanian government violate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and several other international laws and norms—including the U.N. Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, and the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights—along with national obligations including the right to life, as enshrined in the country's Constitution.
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