What is ecocide?2026-01-08T09:33:43+00:00

FAQ

What is ecocide?

What is human
trafficking?


Direct Answer

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction of ecosystems that severely harms the environment and threatens the lives and livelihoods of people who depend on it.


Direct Answer

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction of ecosystems that severely harms the environment and threatens the lives and livelihoods of people who depend on it.

What is ecocide?

In-Depth Explanation

In-Depth Explanation

Ecocide refers to environmental destruction so extensive that nature’s ability to sustain life is undermined. It includes deforestation, toxic pollution, illegal and unregulated mining, oil spills, river poisoning, land grabbing, and large-scale land conversion. Ecocide is often driven by economic or political gain and is frequently carried out through exploitative labor systems, including forced labor and human trafficking.

How Not For Sale Offers a Solution:

Supports community-led environmental protection initiatives.

Builds transparent supply chains that protect ecosystems while creating dignified work.

We provide support
and rehabilitation for thousands of survivors, each year.

Addresses the systemic link between environmental destruction and human exploitation.

In Summary

In Summary

Ecocide destroys ecosystems and destabilises communities. Not For Sale addresses the link between environmental destruction and human exploitation – and vice versa.

Ecocide destroys ecosystems and destabilises communities. Not For Sale addresses the link between environmental destruction and human exploitation – and vice versa.

Related FAQ’S

Related FAQ’S

No, although some countries recognise it, international legal recognition is still evolving.

Indigenous communities and low-income populations are often most impacted.

Environmental destruction drives displacement, poverty, forced labor, and trafficking, directly undermining human rights.

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Human Trafficking

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.

Social Innovation

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.

Ecocide

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.

News

Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
Ecocide is the large-scale destruction, damage, or loss of ecosystems caused by human activity, to the extent that the peaceful enjoyment of life by current or future generations is severely diminished.
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