On 18th June 2026, Survival International published a report alleging that indigenous people of Kenya were coerced by Meta and Netflix to restart a carbon project. In the report, the indigenous people in Northern Kenya accuse the conservation organization Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT) of “tricks and dishonest dealings. The indigenous people denounced its attempt to revive its notorious and twice-suspended Northern Kenya Grassland Carbon Project (NKGCP). The report further states that NRT is pushing Indigenous communities in the project area to sign agreements that are presented as a solution to the project's crisis but could in fact further reduce community control over their ability to graze their livestock, and to manage their own lands. Maasai and Rendille people living in the Leparua and Melako conservancies say NRT is coercing them into signing the agreements. NKGCP has sold carbon credits to Meta, Netflix and other multinationals, but the project severely curtails the traditional grazing practices of the Maasai, Borana, Samburu and other cattle-herding peoples whose lands are used to generate credits.

Rose Orguba, a human rights defender and member of the Melako Conservancy community land management committee, told Survival: “Many felt they were being pressured, intimidated, or rushed through this process, which should be transparent, inclusive, and based on free, prior, and informed consent. The people that were transported in buses to the [meeting] venue were coached to agree to sign without reading the document. The report states that ninety per cent of the community are illiterate.” NRT has sold more than 6 million carbon credits, worth between $42 million and $90 million, according to the Wall Street Journal — yet many people living within the project area were never properly informed about the carbon project or told of its impact on their lands. Without their free, prior and informed consent, there is no legal basis for the carbon project.

Meta (formerly Facebook) and Netflix did not respond