Kenya's Ogiek people being evicted for carbon credits - lawyers

Kenya's government is illegally evicting hunter-gatherers from their ancestral lands to profit from carbon offsetting schemes, human rights lawyers say.

Hundreds of members of the Ogiek community are being evicted from the Mau Forest, say their representatives.

Ogiek leader Daniel Kobei said armed forest rangers were "pulling down the houses with axes and hammers".

Kenya's government says such operations are to protect the environment. read more