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Stealth Game: “Community” Conservancies Devastate Land & Lives in Northern Kenya

“COMMUNITY” CONSERVANCIES DEVASTATE LAND & LIVES IN NORTHERN KENYA"

LISTEN: Dr. Mordecai Ogada – A Case for Scrutinizing the Climate Narrative

"This time we go deep into speculating about the more nefarious side of the global climate change narrative, including the obsession with the fertility of African women, the prospect of protected areas being refuges for elites, the establishment of decentralized colonies headed by colonizing NGOs, and conservation being a smoke screen for extraction and industry."

How Science Ignores The Living World — An Interview With Vine Deloria

"In a capitalist system, whoever supplies the money determines the technology. This means that science, as it’s applied, is never really for the good of humankind, but instead for the good of the financial elite or the military. It also means that science will be dominated by the authorities who have found institutional favor, whether they have the best evidence for their beliefs or not."

WATCH: Victim of the WWF (World Wildlife Fund)

"ZEMBLA investigates the collateral damage of the World Wildlife Fund’s (WWF) battle for nature conservation. ZEMBLA discovers that WWF promotes birth control programs that include contraception and even sterilization for men and women."

WATCH: Anti-poaching Militias Backed by WWF Inflict Violence on Baka Men & Women

In these video testimonies, Baka men and women reveal the violence they have suffered at the hands of anti-poaching militias backed by WWF.

Excerpt from The Big Conservation Lie

"In this Samburu woman, I saw the embodiment of a community praised for its traditional conservation ethics that spared for the world vast populations of diverse wildlife, a community, however, shunned by the world, even as acres of paper and decades of airtime are expended by many a conservationist and organization to discuss their welfare. Upon this revelation, I refused to play along, and I made it my career to expose the rot."

Reclaim Conservation: Activists & Communities Vs. Mainstream Conservation Myths

"These large NGOs cannot challenge these overarching systems of oppression because they have become part of them."

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."

Greenwashing Capitalism: Conservation’s Cosy Relationship with Corporations

"Conservationists are turning a blind eye to their own past and to the working of neoliberal capitalism, showing a remarkable willingness to entertain future risks to biodiversity from the outworking of neoliberalism."

Fundación Pachamama is Dead – Long Live ALBA Part VIII [Final Segment]

"Cultural imperialism can take various forms, so long as it reinforces cultural hegemony. Ecotourism easily fills the role of an opaque vellum that attempts to cover cultural imperialism."