PDF-(EBOOK)-Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and

How native peoplefrom the Miwoks of Yosemite to the Maasai of eastern Africahave been displaced from their lands in the name of conservationSince 1900 more than 108000 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 goalto protect biological diversityand 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. You can join their conservation tradition right in your own backyard There are nearly 2 billion acres of land in the United States About 70 percent of that land is privately owned and care of that land is in the hands of those who live and work on it What is human elephant conflict?. Human elephant conflict occurs when elephants and people live together in an area where they share the same resources. Therefore, they compete for the same food, space and water. . CN/SSC Conservation BreedIUCN encourages meetings, workshops and otherfora for the consideration and analysis of issues related to conservation, and believes that reports of these meetings are most us UNDP/GEF Small Grants Programme (SGP). UNDP/GEF SGP . and the. Indigenous . and Community Conserved . Areas (ICCAs) Registry. GBF/TILCEPA. GBF/TILCEPA. SGP background. Total GEF investment in SGP since 1992 pilot phase over. conservation. Success criteria. 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