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.
Dr Justin Kenrick from the Forest People's Programme said that carbon credits and offsetting were "key" to what was happening.
The developing global carbon credit market allows a polluter to emit carbon dioxide or other climate-heating gas and pay a forest owner to capture those emissions through the carbon-absorption power of their trees.
Dr Kenrick argues that by evicting the Ogiek, Kenya's government is trying to cement its full territorial - and financial - control over an increasingly lucrative asset.
"Those in control of Africa's forests stand to earn a lot of money," he said.
Cool. Carbon credit help the rich show to the world that they care about environment.
Carbon credit help government acquire foreign currency.
A small sacrifice for such benefits
The rich always get what they want, and it's always others who pay the cost.
So they’re kicking some of the least polluting people on the planet off their land in order to sell carbon credits so we can roll coal in the West? Fucking clown world.
