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The Big Conservation Lie Exposes Colonial Dynamic at the Heart of Conservation Policy

"It has also created space for white “saviors” (and the “saviors” are always white), such as George Adamson, Jane Goodall, and Iain Douglas-Hamilton, to step in and be seen to make the decisive difference. There’s no place for Africans in the picture."

The Colonial Origins of Conservation: The Disturbing History Behind US National Parks

"Eugenics enthusiasts in Britain included writer H.G. Wells and playwright George Bernard Shaw, who thought those he saw as genetically inferior, who couldn't "justify their existence," should be humanely gassed. John Maynard Keynes, William Beveridge and Marie Stopes joined up, together with most of the liberal intelligentsia."

Conservation Refugees

When protecting nature means kicking people out by Mark Dowie Published in...