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Jul 24

2017

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Conservation International, Nature Conservancy, Whiteness & Aversive Racism, Wildlife Conservation Society, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Branding Caucasian Validation Conservation Displacement Indigenous Rights Jane Goodall Institute Kenya Kenya Wildlife Service Landgrabs Marketing Nature Conservancy Northern Rangelands Trust Richard Leakey Space for Giants UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) Whiteness & Aversive Racism World Bank World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

The Best Lecture You Will Ever Watch on “Conservation”

"That hot afternoon in Amboseli; I experienced my road to Damascus. I realized that I was part of a system that had no respect for the very bedrock on which it stood. I was a qualified black face put in place to smooth over fifty years of exploitation in two and to create a pleasant backdrop that would allow for the renewal of this insidious arrangement."

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Aug 21

2013

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Conservation International, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Africa African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) British Petroleum [BP] Conservation International conservation refugees Kenya Mobil Serengeti The Maasai The Nature Conservancy World Wildlife Fund Yosemite National Park

Keep Off The Grasslands | Mark Dowie On Conservation Refugees

"He also discovered that the large conservation organizations were partnering with corporations that wanted to build oil wells or gas pipelines or mine for minerals on these lands. Originally conservationists were opposed to drilling and mining, but, Dowie says, the lines between the conservation giants and the corporate giants are being blurred: “International conservation organizations remain comfortable working in close quarters with some of the most aggressive global resource prospectors.”

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Apr 12

2012

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Nature Conservancy, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Africa African Wildlife Foundation (AWF) Ecotourism World Wildlife Fund (WWF)

Failed Saviors | NGOs & Ecotourism [Africa, WWF, Nature Conservancy]

"Both these situations, with ecotourism and wildlife NGOs, represent not just outside interference, but outside indifference to the preeminent rights of local people. And because that indifference has been so arrogant – dare one say “racist”? – it led these otherwise noble organizations into presumptions of their legitimacy that denied the preeminent legitimacy of local peoples."

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