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Conservation Refugees - The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples (Paperback)
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Conservation Refugees - The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples (Paperback)
Series: Conservation Refugees
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How native people-from the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of
eastern Africa-have been displaced from their lands in the name of
conservation. Since 1900, more than 108,000 officially protected
conservation areas have been established worldwide, largely at the
urging of five international conservation organizations. About half
of these areas were occupied or regularly used by indigenous
peoples. Millions who had been living sustainably on their land for
generations were displaced in the interests of conservation. In
Conservation Refugees, Mark Dowie tells this story. This is a "good
guy vs. good guy" story, Dowie writes; the indigenous peoples'
movement and conservation organizations have a vital common goal-to
protect biological diversity-and could work effectively and
powerfully together to protect the planet and preserve biological
diversity. Yet for more than a hundred years, these two forces have
been at odds. The result: thousands of unmanageable protected areas
and native peoples reduced to poaching and trespassing on their
ancestral lands or "assimilated" but permanently indentured on the
lowest rungs of the money economy. Dowie begins with the story of
Yosemite National Park, which by the turn of the twentieth century
established a template for bitter encounters between native peoples
and conservation. He then describes the experiences of other
groups, ranging from the Ogiek and Maasai of eastern Africa and the
Pygmies of Central Africa to the Karen of Thailand and the Adevasis
of India. He also discusses such issues as differing definitions of
"nature" and "wilderness," the influence of the "BINGOs" (Big
International NGOs, including the Worldwide Fund for Nature,
Conservation International, and The Nature Conservancy), the need
for Western scientists to respect and honor traditional lifeways,
and the need for native peoples to blend their traditional
knowledge with the knowledge of modern ecology. When
conservationists and native peoples acknowledge the interdependence
of biodiversity conservation and cultural survival, Dowie writes,
they can together create a new and much more effective paradigm for
conservation.
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