The team also documented a range of serious impacts on communities’ livelihoods, including malnutrition and denial of cultural rights – all knock-on effects of the mass displacement that happened at the parks’ creation in the 1950s, its expansion in 1970 and the ongoing criminalisation of their livelihoods. [...] Major institutional donors remain largely top-down, dominated by strengthened their safeguards and oversight big bureaucracies and large Western-based mechanisms, and conservation NGOs took conservation NGOs, while the voices and steps to improve due diligence and downward agency of local communities and grassroots accountability of their activities. [...] This grounded in the recognition and securitisation implies taking responsibility for past and of collective land and resource rights and ongoing harms and committing to righting giving leadership powers to Indigenous and the wrongs of fortress-type conservation local communities in project planning and projects. [...] existing land claims have been mapped and resolved and have adequate access Meanwhile, the need for militarised to these areas, are protected from forced enforcement in most contexts and the evictions and are consulted in all decisions relevance and adequacy of existing protected affecting them; areas also need to be thoroughly re-examined. [...] FURTHER READING AND RESOURCES • Righting Wrongs: How to ensure grievance mechanisms effectively support communities impacted by protected areas in the Congo Basin, November 2024 • 30x30: The Good, the Bad and What Needs to Happen Next, January 2023 • Protected Areas and Indigenous Peoples’ Rights: A Submission to the UN Special Rapporteur on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, April 2022 • Severe hu.
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