'Eco-tourism' used to greenwash corruption in Mexico.
source: http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543
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Indigenous communities in the Lacandon Forest in Chiapas are being violently evicted by federal police and army forces , in support of corporate plans for oil palm expansion and other activities, including tourism FALSELY called 'eco-tourism'.
Multinational corporations are coveting strategic natural resources in the Lacandon Forest in the Mexican state of Chiapas. At the same time, the state government is pursuing ambitious plans to surround the Lacondan Forest with oil palm plantations, while disguising the forest around the plantations as ‘eco’- tourism areas.
The corporations are preparing for those projects, by attacking and forcefully removing ('evicting') indigenous communities.
On January 21st and 22nd this year, the indigenous Tselales communities of Laguna El Suspiro and Laguna San Pedro Guanil, both inside the Biosphere Reserve of Montes Azuls in the Lacandon Forest, were evicted --The Montes Azules is home to one third of Mexico’s biodiversity.
The removal operation began with the head of the Federal Agency for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) arriving in Chiapas. A few hours later several helicopters and hundreds of heavily armed policemen and soldiers evicted around twenty indigenous families (120 individuals) from their homes in the region.
Without any official documentation or court order, by using violence and threatening elderly people, women and children, they forced the indigenous people to leave their houses without being allowed to take any of their personal belongings, and took them to the city of Palenque.
Journalists were not permitted to quote the witnesses of the 'relocated' peoples.
Mexican government representatives have stated that the operation was carried out in coordination with the federal police, members of the Mexican Army and of PROFEPA, strangely in the presence of "representatives of the state’s human rights", yet, no details have been given as to who the "human-rights representatives" were.
These atrocities are part of a cynical ‘development strategy’ for the Lacandon Forest, initiated by a multilateral financial organisation and imposed by the Mexican government with apparent international cooperation.
The policy of ‘conservation through privatization’ and ‘green philanthropy is a GREENWASH with dire consequences to human beings, wildlife and the environment.
These green 'policies' are an effort to disguise the ethically bankrupt multilateral financial organisation looking to profit by the commercialization of nature.
The expansion of commercial plantations of oil palms in the Lacandon Forest poses a major risk to biodiversity in the region, as well as to the soil and the sources of freshwater, due to the use of fertilizers and other agro-chemicals.
Destroying rainforests for palm oil plantations worsen climate change, create fragmented wildlife habitat, degrade the soil and water and displace the original communities from their land and territory.
So who is responsible for these projects which are destroying the forest and privatizing from its rich natural resources?
http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543
Multinational corporations are coveting strategic natural resources in the Lacandon Forest in the Mexican state of Chiapas. At the same time, the state government is pursuing ambitious plans to surround the Lacondan Forest with oil palm plantations, while disguising the forest around the plantations as ‘eco’- tourism areas.
The corporations are preparing for those projects, by attacking and forcefully removing ('evicting') indigenous communities.
On January 21st and 22nd this year, the indigenous Tselales communities of Laguna El Suspiro and Laguna San Pedro Guanil, both inside the Biosphere Reserve of Montes Azuls in the Lacandon Forest, were evicted --The Montes Azules is home to one third of Mexico’s biodiversity.
The removal operation began with the head of the Federal Agency for Environmental Protection (PROFEPA) arriving in Chiapas. A few hours later several helicopters and hundreds of heavily armed policemen and soldiers evicted around twenty indigenous families (120 individuals) from their homes in the region.
Without any official documentation or court order, by using violence and threatening elderly people, women and children, they forced the indigenous people to leave their houses without being allowed to take any of their personal belongings, and took them to the city of Palenque.
Journalists were not permitted to quote the witnesses of the 'relocated' peoples.
Mexican government representatives have stated that the operation was carried out in coordination with the federal police, members of the Mexican Army and of PROFEPA, strangely in the presence of "representatives of the state’s human rights", yet, no details have been given as to who the "human-rights representatives" were.
These atrocities are part of a cynical ‘development strategy’ for the Lacandon Forest, initiated by a multilateral financial organisation and imposed by the Mexican government with apparent international cooperation.
The policy of ‘conservation through privatization’ and ‘green philanthropy is a GREENWASH with dire consequences to human beings, wildlife and the environment.
These green 'policies' are an effort to disguise the ethically bankrupt multilateral financial organisation looking to profit by the commercialization of nature.
The expansion of commercial plantations of oil palms in the Lacandon Forest poses a major risk to biodiversity in the region, as well as to the soil and the sources of freshwater, due to the use of fertilizers and other agro-chemicals.
Destroying rainforests for palm oil plantations worsen climate change, create fragmented wildlife habitat, degrade the soil and water and displace the original communities from their land and territory.
So who is responsible for these projects which are destroying the forest and privatizing from its rich natural resources?
http://www.rainforest-rescue.org/protestaktion.php?id=543
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