Kenya’s indigenous Ogiek evicted from ancestral lands for carbon credits | DW News

In Kenya, a plan to save forests and fight climate change is being linked to the removal of indigenous people from their homes. The Ogiek community have lived in the Mau Forest for generations. But they now find themselves on the wrong side of forest restoration efforts and say rangers from Kenya Forest Service are destroying their houses, leaving them displaced and destitute. DW’s Felix Maringa reports from Sasimwani village in the Mau Forest complex.

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