Decolonize Conservation
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Frontline voices from the worldwide movement to decolonize climate change and revitalize a dying planet.
With a deep, anticolonial and antiracist critique and analysis of what ?conservation? currently is, Decolonize Conservation presents an alternative vision?one already working?of the most effective and just way to fight against biodiversity loss and climate change. Through the voices of largely silenced or invisibilized Indigenous Peoples and local communities, the devastating consequences of making 30 percent of the globe ?Protected Areas,? and other so-called ?Nature-Based Solutions? are made clear.
Evidence proves indigenous people understand and manage their environment better than anyone else. Eighty percent of the Earth's biodiversity is in tribal territories and when indigenous peoples have secure rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation programs. But in Africa and Asia, governments and NGOs are stealing vast areas of land from tribal peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation.
As the editors write, ?This is colonialism pure and simple: powerful global interests are shamelessly taking land and resources from vulnerable people while claiming they are doing it for the good of humanity.?
The powerful collection of voices from the groundbreaking ?Our Land, Our Nature? congress takes us to the heart of the climate justice movement and the struggle for life and land across the globe. With Indigenous Peoples and their rights at its center, the book exposes the brutal and deadly reality of colonial and racist conservation for people around the world, while revealing the problems of current climate policy approaches that do nothing to tackle the real causes of environmental destruction.
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Ashley Dawson is Professor of Postcolonial Studies in the English Department at the Graduate Center / City University of New York and the College of Staten Island (CSI). His latest books include People's Power: Reclaiming the Energy Commons (O/R), Extreme Cities: The Peril and Promise of Urban Life in the Age of Climate Change (Verso), and Extinction: A Radical History (O/R).
Fiore Longo is a Research and Advocacy Officer at Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples. She is also the director of Survival International France and Spain. She coordinates Survival's conservation campaign and has visited many communities in Africa and Asia that face human rights abuses in the name of conservation. She has also visited Indigenous communities in Colombia and worked on Survival's Uncontacted Tribes campaign.
Content
Preface
Give the Land Back
Ashley Dawson
Introduction
Decolonizing Conservation
Fiore Longo
Part I: ?In the Name of Nature?: The Crimes and Wrongdoings of Colonial Conservation
Section One. What Is ?Fortress Conservation??
1. fortress Conservation in Modern Africa: Past and Present
Guillaume Blanc, Historian of the Environment, Rennes 2 University, France
2. Nature Conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: from Policing to Community Conservation
Blaise Mudodosi, Actions Pour La Promotion Et Protection Des Espèces Et Peuples Menacés (Apem), Democratic Republic of the Congo
3. Fight Against Extinction: The Sengwer Indigenous People' Struggle for Land Rights in Kenya
Kipchumba Rotich, Sengwer of Embobut Cbo, Kenya
4. The Post 2020 Agenda and fortress Conservation in India
Neema Pathak Broome, Kalpavriksh, Icca, India
Second Two. The Militarisation of Conservation and Its Impact onIndigenous Peoples
5. The Politics of Global Funding for Militarisation in Conservation
Professor Rosaleen Duffy, Biosec, United Kingdom
6. The Fight Against Colonial Conservation is a Fight for Millions of People Across the World
Pranab Doley, Jeepal Krishak Shramik Sangha, Kaziranga National Park, India
7. Cries and Tears from the Riparian Populations of the Virunga National Park in the Rutshuru Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo
Delcasse Lukumbu, Lutte Pour Le Changement (Lucha), Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo
8. Chitwan National Park, Where the Community Are the Best Conservationists
Birendra Mahato, Community Conservation Nepal, Chitwan National Park, Nepal
9. Our Most Fervent Wish is to Return to the Forest, Our Land
Julien Basimika Enamiruwa, Actions Pour Le Regroupement Et L'auto Promotion Des Pygmées, Kahuzi-Biega National Park, Democratic Republic of Congo. With An Introduction By Deborah S. Rogers, Initiative for Equality.
Section Three: 30x30
10. The 30x30 Target and its Impacts on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples: Why a New Way forward is Needed
Lara Domínguez, Minority Rights Group, United Kingdom
11. Indigenous Peoples Should Be Leaders of Biodiversity Conservation and Climate Action and Not Victims of its Policies
Archana Soreng, Khadia Activist and Member of Un Secretary General Youth Advisory Group onClimate Change, India
12. What's Beyond the Protected Areas System?
Sutej Hugu, Indigenous Taiwan Self-Determination Alliance, Icca, Taiwan
13. Conservation Needs Fundamental Economic and Political Transformation
Ashish Kothari, Kalpavriksh, India
Section Four: The False Solutions to Climate Change
14. Financialization & Sustainable Finance as Guardians of the Status Quo
Frédéric Hache, Green Finance Observatory, Belgium
15. Nature-Based Solutions: Planet Salvation or Planetary Betrayal?
Simon Counsell, Survival International Consultant, United Kingdom
16. Indigenous Zapotec in Between Dispossession and Energetic Colonialism: The Edf Case in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Mexico
Norberto Altamirano Zárate, Binniza (Zapoteco) from the Unión Hidalgo Indigenous Community, Istmo De Tehuantepec, Oaxaca, Mexico
17. The Decolonization of Nature Conservation: We Are Earth, We Are Nature
Josefa Sanchez Contreras, Member of the Zoque People of San Miguel Chimalapa, Oaxaca, Mexico
18. Climate Change Mitigation and Conservation in India: Solutions Are False Problems, Too Many and Tree-Less
Dr Bhanumathi Kalluri, Dhaatri, India
19. Displacement and Violation of Human Rights in the Name of Nature in Petén, Guatemala
Noé Amador, Community Delegate from Laguna Del Tigre and Sierra Del Lacandón, Guatemala
Section Five. The Role of Media and International Donors
20. International Donors and Biodiversity Conservation: ?Our Land Is Not Your Solution?
Joe Eisen, Rainforest Foundation, United Kingdom
21. The Lion's Share: Racialized Conservation and Misrepresentation in Tanzania
Celeste Alexander, Princeton University, United States
22. Failing Miserably
John Vidal, former Environment Editor of the Guardian, United Kingdom
23. What Happens in the Forest Stays in the Forest: The Role of Donor Agencies in the Current Conservation Effort and Strategies for Making it More Equitable and Effective
Robert Moise, Independent Anthropologist, United States
Part Two: Decolonial Perspectives and Alternatives
Section One. Why Is It Necessary to Decolonize Conservation?
24. Why We Need to Decolonize Conservation in Africa: Confronting the Challenges
Mordecai Ogada, Conservation Solutions Afrika, Kenya
25. Indigenous Peoples of French Guiana Are Being Destroyed by Neocolonialism
Taneyulime Pilisi, Copresident of the Aw Kae Collective for the Preservation and Development of Kalin'a Culture and Arts, French Guiana
26. Decolonizing Conservation and Development: Hold onto the Land; Their Grand Designs Will Collapse . . .
Madhuresh Kumar, National Alliance of People's Movements (Napm), India and Resistance Studies Fellow at the University of Massachusetts.
27. What Decolonizing Conservation Means and Why It Matters
Dina Gilio-Whitaker, Colville Confederated Tribes, United States
Section Two. The Land, Our Future: Indigenous Peoples and their Role in Protecting the Environment
28. The Decolonization of Thought
Juan Pablo Gutierrez, Organización Nacional Indígena De Colombia
29. I Was Not Born in Chile, Chile Was Born in My Territory
Llanquiray Painemal Morales, Colectivo Mapuche Mawvn, Germany/Chile
30. Indigenous Peoples on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua
Lottie Cunningham Wren, Centro Por La Justicia Y Los Derechos Humanos De La Costa Atlántica De Nicaragua Cejudhcan, Nicaragua
31. It Is We Who Guard the Forest With Our Lives
Tokala Leeladhar, Amrabad Tiger Reserve, India
32. Our Forest Has Been Stolen for Conservation
Mekozi Rufin, Member of Baka Tribe, Republic of Congo
33. We Need to Throw these Conservationists Out of Our forests
JK Thimma, Shaman and Leader from the Jenu Kuruba Tribe, India
Section Three. Towards An Alternative Conservation
34. Towards A Collective ?Whole Earth? Vision for the Future of Conservation?
Robert Fletcher, Professor at Wageningen University, Netherlands
35. The Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: Towards an Alternative Conservation
Dr Madegowda C, Ashoka Trust for Research in Ecology and the Environment, Brt Tiger Reserve, India
36. Given All of the Obstacles, How Do We Fight for Our Future?
Esther Wah, Conservation Alliance Tanawthari, Myanmar
37. ?Marseille Manifesto: A People's Manifesto for the Future of Conservation?
Collective Statement of the ?Our Land Our Nature? Congress
