At the world’s largest gathering of conservation leaders now underway in Honolulu she says some of the biggest groups claiming to work for endangered species should account for what has happened the people who were moved.

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UN special rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz documents killings, evictions and lands being used for resource extraction without native consent.

In the past year, Tauli-Corpuz traveled to Honduras, Brazil, and to the Sami people in the Arctic regions of Finland, Norway and Sweden.

Other unresolved rights violations include the eviction of local people in India’s Kanha tiger reserve, even though evidence suggests people and tigers can co-inhabit the same area.

Local people have also been forced from their homes in Cameroon and Kenya.

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