"It is imperative that we recognize the predicaments of the people who are most oppressed within our society, while we firmly recognize the dynamics within the capitalist hierarchy, and stay away from being a part of the mechanism which safely turns our predicaments into driving forces of capitalism."

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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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Jan 04

2014

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Foundations, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, Whiteness & Aversive Racism

Africa African Wildlife Foundation Conservation Kenya Kisargei Racism Samburu The Conservation Initiative on Human Rights The Nature Conservancy

WATCH: A Message to Nature Conservancy & African Wildlife Foundation from Evicted Samburu

"The Samburu of Kisargei, in Kenya’s Laikipia district, were brutally evicted from the lands they call home in 2010 after the land was sold to the African Wildlife Foundation (AWF). AWF, using funds from The Nature Conservancy (TNC), says it bought the land on the understanding that no-one lived there. When the Samburu protested and took the matter to the courts the land was hurriedly ‘gifted’ to the government."

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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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Dec 16

2011

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Nature Conservancy

Africa African Wildlife Foundation (U.S.) Corruption Exploitation Kenya Nature Conservancy Samburu Peoples