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Frontline voices from the worldwide movement to decolonize climate
change and revitalize a dying planet. With a deep, anticolonial and
antiracist critique and analysis of what “conservation”
currently is, Decolonize Conservation presents an alternative
vision–one already working–of the most effective and just way
to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the
voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and
local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30
percent of the globe “Protected Areas,” and other so-called
“Nature-Based Solutions” are made clear. Evidence proves
indigenous people understand and manage their environment better
than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth’s biodiversity is
in tribal territories and when indigenous peoples have secure
rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better
conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional
conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs
are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local
communities under the false claim that this is necessary for
conservation. As the editors write, “This is colonialism pure and
simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and
resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it
for the good of humanity.” The powerful collection of voices from
the groundbreaking “Our Land, Our Nature” congress takes us to
the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life
and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights
at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of
colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while
revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do
nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction.
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