Kenyan Ogiek hunter-gatherers claim to have been expelled from their Mau forest after a UN REDD pilot project was launched there.

ECONOMIST: Will REDD trample on the rights of traditional forest folk?

It is doubtful whether Kenya's government is strong enough to save the Mau forest on which Nairobi depends for water and hydroelectric power.

ECONOMIST: Africa's population

Neither the UN-REDD Programme nor any of its partner UN agencies have been involved in any action to expel any people from the Mau forest or anywhere else.

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