Civil Rights Matter » land theft http://www.civilrightsmatter.com Working for the Common Good Wed, 16 Dec 2009 10:38:04 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 The Ogiek: Forest People of Africa http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/2009/11/23/the-ogiek-forest-people-of-africa/ http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/2009/11/23/the-ogiek-forest-people-of-africa/#comments Mon, 23 Nov 2009 16:03:04 +0000 Sonj http://www.civilrightsmatter.com/?p=15 International / Africa

The Ogiek are a hunter-gatherer tribe who live in parts of Kenya and Tanzania.  The Ogiek are forest dwellers who face the possibility of being driven from their homes.  The Kenyan governments says that it wants to redevelop the forest, but many believe that they wish to continue logging efforts in the region known as Mau Forest replacing the harvested trees with those the Ogiek consider to be of lesser quality.  Survival International hosts a page with more information about the Ogiek along with a link to write to the Kenyan government in order to urge them to not dislocate this long-settled tribe.


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