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					<title>Debunking the colonial myth of the ‘African Eden’: Q&#038;A with author Guillaume Blanc</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/debunking-the-colonial-myth-of-the-african-eden-qa-with-author-guillaume-blanc/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Sep 2022 08:00:01 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Malavika Vyawahare]]>
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						<![CDATA[Latoya Abulu]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[africa]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Ethiopia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Books, Colonialism, Colonization, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Refugees, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Land Conflict, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Politics, Racism, Social Justice, and Tourism]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the clamor to protect vast portions of Earth’s lands and waters grows louder to meet upcoming international goals, a newly translated book critically examines the first principles of global conservation in Africa and ways forward to avoid past pitfalls. According to Guillaume Blanc, author of The Invention of Green Colonialism, one of these pitfalls [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[As the clamor to protect vast portions of Earth’s lands and waters grows louder to meet upcoming international goals, a newly translated book critically examines the first principles of global conservation in Africa and ways forward to avoid past pitfalls. According to Guillaume Blanc, author of The Invention of Green Colonialism, one of these pitfalls is the idea of an “African Eden” that casts an entire continent as the site of pristine wilderness instead of a region populated and shaped by humans for millennia. Blanc, who specializes in environmental history at Rennes 2 University in France, lays bare the history and contradictions of the European project to secure and, at the same time, exploit Africa’s land during direct colonial rule. He goes on to show how these contradictions continue to play out into the present. Across the continent, pre- and postcolonialism, people who lived in areas designated as national parks or other conserved areas faced expulsion because they were treated as a threat rather than collaborators in the conservation project. The scope of the challenges we face — from biodiversity loss to climate change — is global, but that doesn’t mean the solutions must originate from a clique of NGOs or international experts, Blanc says. Guillaume Blanc, author of “The Invention of Green Colonialism.” Image courtesy of Guillaume Blanc. Blanc challenges readers not to fall into a conspiratorial mode but rather to be clear-eyed about the past. He proposes a more pronounced and transparent break from conservation’s colonial history. In&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/debunking-the-colonial-myth-of-the-african-eden-qa-with-author-guillaume-blanc/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-260596</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Cleaning up our own backyard: Racism, speciesism and the environmental crises (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/cleaning-up-our-own-backyard-racism-speciesism-and-the-environmental-crises-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>19 Sep 2022 15:13:04 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Fanny Olsthoorn]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Nandithachandraprakash]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animal Rights, Animals, Climate Justice, Commentary, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Environmental Policy, Human Rights, Indigenous Rights, Politics, Racism, and Social Justice]]>
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							<![CDATA[I am waiting for the moment when I will be evicted because trees will be planted where my apartment building is right now. I am also waiting for the moment when I will pay a fine for eating steak. I am waiting for the day I will be encouraged to take contraception so that I [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[I am waiting for the moment when I will be evicted because trees will be planted where my apartment building is right now. I am also waiting for the moment when I will pay a fine for eating steak. I am waiting for the day I will be encouraged to take contraception so that I will not have another child. The truth is, these things will never happen to me, because I am a white woman living in Switzerland. These scenarios, though, are the reality for some people on the planet. People being evicted from their homes because the land has been sold to a carbon sequestration project. People being fined for eating a bat. People being encouraged not to have children. All this in the name of solving environmental crises. Vulnerable groups in the whole world are carrying a disproportionately large burden for the environmental crisis while they lack the power over decisions that affect their lives (Schlosberg 2007; Shrader-Frechette 2002; Young 2011). The important questions are, “who reaps the benefits?” and “who bears the costs of environmental protection?” (Reed and Colleen 2017; Sachs and Santarius 2008; Sandler and Pezzullo 2007). Environmental crises are predominantly caused by the West and industrialized countries, but we shift the burden, responsibility and sometimes blame on people on the other side of the planet, on people who do not live the comforts we have. We live in a world where I can fly to Thailand and pay off my guilt by compensating my&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/09/cleaning-up-our-own-backyard-racism-speciesism-and-the-environmental-crises-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Fisheries crackdown pushes Cambodians to the brink on Tonle Sap lake</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/fisheries-crackdown-pushes-cambodians-to-the-brink-on-tonle-sap-lake/</link>
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					<pubDate>26 Aug 2022 03:23:16 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Gerald FlynnVutha Srey]]>
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						<![CDATA[Isabel Esterman]]>
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							<![CDATA[Asia, Cambodia, and Southeast Asia]]>
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							<![CDATA[Community Development, Conflict, Conservation, Environment, Environmental Law, Fish, Fisheries, Freshwater Fish, Governance, Human Rights, Illegal Fishing, Lakes, Law, Overfishing, Poverty, Protected Areas, Racism, Resource Conflict, and Social Conflict]]>
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							<![CDATA[CHHNOK TRU, Cambodia — From her sun-bleached wooden houseboat in the floating village of Koh Tapov, on the southeastern side of the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Thom province, Hai Sokha and her family looked out at the quiet waters one morning in late June. For more than three months, the family of fishers had [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[CHHNOK TRU, Cambodia — From her sun-bleached wooden houseboat in the floating village of Koh Tapov, on the southeastern side of the Tonle Sap lake in Kampong Thom province, Hai Sokha and her family looked out at the quiet waters one morning in late June. For more than three months, the family of fishers had not dared go out on the water. In April, they’d fallen foul of a renewed crackdown meant to stamp out illegal fishing on Cambodia’s largest lake, and only by paying a fine the equivalent of $250 had one of Sokha’s family members avoided prison. The fine, or bribe as Sokha referred to it, had wiped out the last of their savings, and now, with authorities patrolling the water almost daily, she worried that they would soon have to risk taking to the water in search of fish. This surge in enforcement began after March 23, when Prime Minister Hun Sen gave a scathing speech, excoriating provincial officials for failing to tackle illegal fishing on the Tonle Sap and the logging of the flooded forests that surround the lake. Hai Sokha of Koh Topov village said the crackdown has left her unable to fish. Photo by Gerald Flynn for Mongabay. Large-scale illegal fishing operations have long been a blight on the country’s largest freshwater fishery and have contributed to a steep decline in fish stocks in recent years, but local fishers rarely see the profits from these operations, despite working for them on occasion. Using methods&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/08/fisheries-crackdown-pushes-cambodians-to-the-brink-on-tonle-sap-lake/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-259595</doi>				</item>
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					<title>Reframing trophy hunting’s socio-economic benefits in Namibia (commentary)</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reframing-trophy-huntings-socio-economic-benefits-in-namibia-commentary/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Apr 2022 23:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Frowin Becker]]>
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						<![CDATA[Erik Hoffner]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Namibia, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Commentary, Community Development, Conservation, Environment, Mammals, Poverty, Poverty Alleviation, Racism, Social Justice, Sustainable Development, Tourism, Trophy Hunting, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[With the relatively recent proposal in the British parliament to ban the import of wildlife trophies, the issue has once again taken center stage among factions of the global conservation community. Despite the potential ban’s limited impact on its own trophy hunting industry, Namibia is often raised as a case study to make a strong [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[With the relatively recent proposal in the British parliament to ban the import of wildlife trophies, the issue has once again taken center stage among factions of the global conservation community. Despite the potential ban’s limited impact on its own trophy hunting industry, Namibia is often raised as a case study to make a strong argument for a morally contentious practice that has been adapted into a conservation strategy. Most of Namibia’s hunting clients are either EU or US citizens, making a ban in the UK no immediate threat. Data from 2016 suggest that only 4% of Namibia’s hunting clients are even likely to be British. However, as other African conservation sectors stand to lose valuable clientele, fears over a hugely impactful precedent have put Namibia’s conservation and hunting fraternities on high alert as well. Fears arise from revenue generated through trophy hunting being diminished by a blanket ban; revenue often earmarked for conservation and in Namibia’s case, rural poverty alleviation. While not untrue, this framing neglects some socio-political history, which is still playing itself out today. Gemsbok (Oryx gazella) are the largest of the Oryx species and are a common target of trophy hunters visiting Namibia. Image by Joachim Huber via Wikimedia Commons. The country’s conservancy-based conservation model has distinguished itself by conferring rights to wildlife resource use to communally-run conservancies. This was enacted through a legislative amendment back in 1996, after Namibia gained independence from South Africa in 1990. Before that, rights to wildlife resources were reserved for&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2022/04/reframing-trophy-huntings-socio-economic-benefits-in-namibia-commentary/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-255298</doi>				</item>
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					<title>As the Amazon burns, its Indigenous inhabitants choke on the haze</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/as-the-amazon-burns-its-indigenous-inhabitants-choke-on-the-haze/</link>
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					<pubDate>23 Dec 2021 17:22:57 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Juliana EnnesValéria Santana]]>
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						<![CDATA[Karla Mendes]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Brazil, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Air Pollution, Climate Change, Deforestation, Diseases, Environment, Fires, Forests, Health, Impact Of Climate Change, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Pollution, Public Health, Racism, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, and Threats To Rainforests]]>
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							<![CDATA[RIO BRANCO, Brazil — The intensification of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon is increasingly impacting the health of local populations, with a marked effect on the region’s Indigenous peoples. Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of respiratory ailments in northern states such as Acre is escalating. At the peak of the fires in [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[RIO BRANCO, Brazil — The intensification of forest fires in the Brazilian Amazon is increasingly impacting the health of local populations, with a marked effect on the region’s Indigenous peoples. Combined with the COVID-19 pandemic, the risk of respiratory ailments in northern states such as Acre is escalating. At the peak of the fires in Acre between July and August, a total of 88,400 hectares (218,400 acres) of land was burned, a 20% increase from the 76,400 hectares (188,800 acres) burned in in the same period in 2020, according a study developed by Projeto AcreQueimadas, which used data from the National Institute for Space Research (INPE). Recorded cases of respiratory disease increased by almost 8% from June to September 2021 over the previous year, according to data from the Acre state health department. Asthma, chronic obstructive lung disease, upper respiratory tract infection, and community-acquired pneumonia were among the many diagnoses. “Today the Amazon is becoming a wood stove,” Yoka Manchineri, an Indigenous nurse specializing in Indigenous health, told Mongabay at a college in Rio Branco, the Acre state capital, where she participated in a meeting with the state&#8217;s Indigenous health counselors. Yoka Manchineri works to assist Indigenous people seeking health care in Rio Branco, the capital of Acre state. Image by Alexandre Cruz Noronha for Mongabay. An ethnic Manchineri woman, Yoka Manchineri moved from her native village in the state’s southern region to the capital when her mother got sick. As a trained and practicing nurse, she said she worries&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/as-the-amazon-burns-its-indigenous-inhabitants-choke-on-the-haze/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-251064</doi>				</item>
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					<title>In Peru’s Amazon, deforestation and crime sweep through Indigenous communities</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-perus-amazon-deforestation-and-crime-sweep-through-indigenous-communities/</link>
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					<pubDate>06 Nov 2021 08:10:55 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Yvette Sierra Praeli]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Genevieve Belmaker]]>
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							<category><![CDATA[Amazon]]></category>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon Illegal Deforestation, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Land rights and extractives]]>
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							<![CDATA[Amazon, Latin America, Peru, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[Conflict, Conservation, data, Deforestation, Environment, Environmental Law, Forests, Governance, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Infrastructure, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Mining, Politics, Protected Areas, Racism, Rainforest Destruction, Rainforests, Resource Conflict, Threats To Rainforests, Tropical Forests, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Peru is home to many Indigenous communities that don’t appear on official maps. Without government recognition, these communities’ existence rests solely on their community names and on the knowledge of the federations that represent them. This is the case for the community of Manco Cápac, in the Loreto region, in existence for 70 years but [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Peru is home to many Indigenous communities that don’t appear on official maps. Without government recognition, these communities’ existence rests solely on their community names and on the knowledge of the federations that represent them. This is the case for the community of Manco Cápac, in the Loreto region, in existence for 70 years but without any documentation that can attest to it. Its inhabitants know by heart where their community’s land begins and ends. In the Loreto region alone, there are 417 self-identified Indigenous communities that do not have the recognition of regional authorities to certify their existence. The same issue exists in other Peruvian regions, too: Ucayali has 122, Pasco has 85, Huánuco has 13, and Madre de Dios has 10 communities that are not officially recognized. This makes a total of 647 unrecognized Indigenous communities in five regions of the Peruvian Amazon. However, these communities’ main problem is not just their lack of government recognition. When the more than 2,000 Indigenous communities in Peru — the recognized, unrecognized, and those in the process of recognition — are marked on a map, they often overlap with areas affected within the past 10 years by deforestation, illegal mining, and illicit coca crops. Mongabay Latam conducted an analysis on the impact of environmental crimes on Indigenous territories. In these five Amazonian regions, the analysis found that at least 1,247 Indigenous communities are affected by illegal mining, illicit crops, or deforestation. The community of Manco Cápac, in the Loreto region, is&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/11/in-perus-amazon-deforestation-and-crime-sweep-through-indigenous-communities/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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										<doi>https://doi.org/10.66709/news-249045</doi>				</item>
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					<title>New checklist aims to tackle racism in conservation science in higher ed</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/new-checklist-aims-to-tackle-racism-in-conservation-science-at-academy-level/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Sep 2021 16:51:44 +0000</pubDate>
											<dc:creator>
							<![CDATA[Caitlin Looby]]>
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										<author>
						<![CDATA[Jeremy Hance]]>
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							<![CDATA[Sue Palminteri WildTech Reporting Fellowship]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global, North America, and United States]]>
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							<![CDATA[Education, Environment, Fellows, Indigenous Peoples, Politics, Racism, Research, Science, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearing the end of her undergraduate studies in ecology, Drea Darby sat frustrated at her desk, searching for jobs in conservation. She had envisioned a career out in the field, but the positions didn’t pay well, if at all. Many jobs were in remote locations, jogging her memory about her own fieldwork experiences. People frequently [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[Nearing the end of her undergraduate studies in ecology, Drea Darby sat frustrated at her desk, searching for jobs in conservation. She had envisioned a career out in the field, but the positions didn’t pay well, if at all. Many jobs were in remote locations, jogging her memory about her own fieldwork experiences. People frequently interrupted her out in the field, questioning why she was there. But they never asked her white colleagues the same questions. The barriers Darby faced caused her to reimagine her career trajectory. Today, she’s a graduate student at Cornell University, working in a lab setting. Many ecology, evolution and conservation biology (EECB) departments are starting to think and talk about anti-racism, but some don’t know what to do or where to start, leading to inaction. A new perspective piece in Nature Ecology and Evolution outlines the history of colonial attitudes, racism and white supremacy in EECB, and gives a checklist to help dismantle white supremacy in classrooms, research labs and departments. Drea Darby, a graduate student at Cornell University, checks out flies in the lab for her research. She studies the microbes found in the gut of Drosophila melanogaster. Image courtesy of Kathy Denning. “Ecology, evolutionary biology and conservation have problematic histories with race, racism, colonialism, eugenics … weaved into the history of the discipline, and that&#8217;s really important to acknowledge,” says Melissa Cronin, lead author and graduate student at the University of California, Santa Cruz. “You know these manifest today in many ways.” Representation&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/09/new-checklist-aims-to-tackle-racism-in-conservation-science-at-academy-level/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>It&#8217;s time to scrutinize who&#8217;s in the room when conservation decisions are made, says Laly Lichtenfeld</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/</link>
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					<pubDate>25 Aug 2021 22:41:28 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground, Indigenous Peoples and Conservation, and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, East Africa, and Tanzania]]>
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							<![CDATA[Biodiversity, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation leadership, Conservation Solutions, Education, Environment, Environmental Refugees, Gender, Human-wildlife Conflict, Indigenous Peoples, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Racism, Solutions, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[The past 18 months have been a time of upheaval around the world, prompting a wide range of companies, institutions, and organizations to re-evaluate how they operate. The conservation sector has been no exception: Worldwide concern about injustice and inequity, the impacts of the pandemic, and the worsening effects of global environmental degradation has accelerated change in a field that has historically been relatively slow to evolve. But for the shifts underway to be more than just a passing fad, many would argue that conservation requires fundamental structural changes that put more decision-making power in the hands of people who’ve been traditionally sidelined or ignored and recognize the importance of contributions from a wide range of stakeholders in achieving conservation outcomes. One of the organizations working on both of these fronts is African People &amp; Wildlife, a Tanzania-based NGO founded by Dr. Laly Lichtenfeld and Charles Trout that is headquartered on land donated by a local Maasai community. African People &amp; Wildlife works across six landscapes in Northern Tanzania that are famed for their wildlife populations. The group runs several programs that range from supporting sustainable livelihoods in local communities to reducing human-wildlife conflict to empowering women conservation leaders. Lion cub in Tanzania. Photo credit: Laly Lichtenfeld Lichtenfeld told Mongabay in a recent interview that she’s seen significant changes in the conservation since she started African People &amp; Wildlife in 2005, including recognition that “communities are essential partners in creating sustainable change” and “that we need to embrace diversity, equity,&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/08/its-time-to-scrutinize-who-is-in-the-room-when-conservation-decisions-are-made-says-laly-lichtenfeld/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Reckoning with elitism and racism in conservation: Q&#038;A with Colleen Begg</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/reckoning-with-elitism-and-racism-in-conservation-qa-with-colleen-begg/</link>
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					<pubDate>28 Jun 2021 03:38:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Africa, Mozambique, and Southern Africa]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Big Cats, Carnivores, Cats, Colonialism, Community-based Conservation, Conservation leadership, COVID-19, Culture, Ecotourism, Education, Gender, Human-wildlife Conflict, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Lions, Mammals, Racism, Social Justice, transforming conservation, Wildlife, and Women In Science]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s killing last year, long-running concerns about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation have gained prominence, forcing many organizations in the sector to reckon with their origins and how they operate. Current and historic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the name of establishing protected [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the wake of George Floyd&#8217;s killing last year, long-running concerns about discrimination, colonial legacy, privilege, and power dynamics in conservation have gained prominence, forcing many organizations in the sector to reckon with their origins and how they operate. Current and historic injustices against Indigenous Peoples and local communities in the name of establishing protected areas, racism and abusive practices within institutions, representation in leadership, and disparities in funding and advancement opportunities are but a few of the areas that have drawn particular attention over the past year. But while there is certainly an uptick in reflection and discussion, it&#8217;s unclear whether this period will result in lasting, meaningful change or if the sector will revert back to business-as-usual. Colleen Begg, a South African conservationist who co-founded the Niassa Carnivore Project in Mozambique, says she isn&#8217;t sure either, but meaningful transformation won&#8217;t come on its own &#8212; it will require dedicated and sustained efforts to drive real change. &#8220;I have had more conversations about privilege, racism, and sexism in conservation in the last three years than before but there is still such a long way to go,&#8221; Begg told Mongabay during a recent interview. &#8220;To me conservation really is one of the last bastions of racism and exclusion on the continent and it is very resistant to change.&#8221; Colleen Begg As a white South African who has never lived outside Africa and has worked in conservation for 30 years, Begg has seen how race, gender, and privilege play out in&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/06/reckoning-with-elitism-and-racism-in-conservation-qa-with-colleen-begg/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Saving our ‘Beloved Beasts’: Q&#038;A with environmental journalist Michelle Nijhuis</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/saving-our-beloved-beasts-qa-with-environmental-journalist-michelle-nijhuis/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Apr 2021 18:23:41 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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						<![CDATA[John Cannon]]>
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							<![CDATA[Evolving Conservation]]>
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							<![CDATA[Global]]>
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							<![CDATA[Animals, Biodiversity, Books, Community-based Conservation, Conservation, Conservation Philosophy, Endangered Species, Environment, Extinction, Green, History, Human Rights, Innovation, NGOs, Poaching, Poverty, Racism, Trophy Hunting, and Wildlife]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than 50 years, Earth Day has been a celebration of protecting the planet and the array of life, including us, that it supports. Though that common goal seems straightforward enough, the details are anything but. Ensuring the survival of species that populate the Earth turns out to be as complicated as the life-forms [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[For more than 50 years, Earth Day has been a celebration of protecting the planet and the array of life, including us, that it supports. Though that common goal seems straightforward enough, the details are anything but. Ensuring the survival of species that populate the Earth turns out to be as complicated as the life-forms themselves, and the path humans have taken toward conservation turns out to be as full of missteps and U-turns as it is with conservation heroes and species pulled back from the brink. Environmental and science journalist Michelle Nijhuis wrestles with the winding and sometimes problematic history of conservation in her new book, Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction. As the title suggests, charismatic “beasts” such as eagles, rhinos and bison all make cameos in the book. She explores the troublesome backstory of turning points like the creation of protected areas in the U.S. and abroad. National parks and the like are cornerstones of conservation policy but are also reminders of past — and present — colonialist and racist approaches to dealing with the impact humans have on the environment. (For more on the current reckoning with such issues, read Nijhuis’s recent essay in The Atlantic, “Don’t Cancel John Muir. But don’t excuse him either.”) The focus of the book is on the lives of the people who have grappled with that impact we have had on the rest of life on Earth and our attempts to save it. Nijhuis’s lively characters&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/04/saving-our-beloved-beasts-qa-with-environmental-journalist-michelle-nijhuis/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Guarani Indigenous men brutalized in Brazilian ‘expansion of violence’</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/guarani-indigenous-men-brutalized-in-brazilian-expansion-of-violence/</link>
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					<pubDate>24 Mar 2021 18:08:25 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Jenny Gonzales]]>
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						<![CDATA[Glenn Scherer]]>
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							<![CDATA[Brazil, Cerrado, Latin America, and South America]]>
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							<![CDATA[agribusiness, Crime, Environment, Farming, Governance, Green, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Reserves, Indigenous Rights, Land Conflict, Land Grabbing, Land Rights, Land Use Change, Law Enforcement, Racism, Ranching, Social Justice, and Violence]]>
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							<![CDATA[Three Guarani men were assaulted last week in Mato Grosso do Sul state allegedly over an ongoing land dispute between ranchers and Indigenous people; one expert accuses the Bolsonaro government of “restriction of the rights of Indigenous peoples.” ]]>
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							<![CDATA[On Tuesday, March 16, three Guarani Kaiowá indigenous men — Vander Martins, Vitorino Gomes and Ouilson Mendes — who live in the Guaiviry community in the Aral Moreira municipality, in Mato Grosso do Sul state, left their homes in the afternoon to hunt. Finding no game, they returned to their village beside the Yryepyresekã River, in a small forested area surrounded by soy plantations. In the early evening, the three walked 2 kilometers to buy some groceries. Halfway home, in front of the Querência Farm, they say they sighted a pickup truck inside the property which turned its headlights on and drove toward them. Three men got out of the vehicle, one armed with a 12-gauge shotgun. He allegedly hit 37-year-old Gomes in the face with his weapon; Gomes dropped unconscious to the ground. Mendes, 17-years old, ran and hid, but Martins, 29, was brutally attacked. The perpetrators kicked him in the head and body, twisted one of his arms, jumped on his stomach, and in the end, fired several shots near his ears. Martins also passed out. A perpetrator allegedly shouted while beating Martins and Gomes: &#8220;You Indians are tramps, invaders! If you are the chief&#8217;s brother, I will kill you!&#8221; Mendes’ companions, whom he believed to be dead, were put by the gunmen in the back of the truck, which sped away. Mendes was so terrified, he didn&#8217;t speak to anyone in the community until the next day about the attack. Martins and Gomes say they were dumped&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/guarani-indigenous-men-brutalized-in-brazilian-expansion-of-violence/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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					<title>Melina Laboucan-Massimo: Catalyzing an Indigenous-led just energy transition</title>
					<link>https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/catalyzing-an-indigenous-led-just-energy-transition-qa-with-melina-laboucan-massimo/</link>
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					<pubDate>22 Mar 2021 13:41:00 +0000</pubDate>
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							<![CDATA[Rhett Ayers Butler]]>
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						<![CDATA[Rhett Butler]]>
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							<![CDATA[Finding Common Ground and Nature conservation Influencers]]>
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							<![CDATA[Canada]]>
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							<![CDATA[Activism, Clean Energy, Climate Justice, Colonialism, Conservation, COVID-19, Culture, Energy, Environment, Human Rights, Indigenous Peoples, Indigenous Rights, Interviews, Interviews with conservation players, Racism, Renewable Energy, Social Justice, Solar Power, and Technology]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the past decade, the term “Just Transition” has gained more widespread understanding among climate campaigners and environmental advocates. A Just Transition is the idea that the shift toward low-carbon economies needs to be fair and inclusive, meaning it considers the people who will be most impacted by abandoning fossil fuels. Among the groups most [&#8230;]]]>
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							<![CDATA[In the past decade, the term “Just Transition” has gained more widespread understanding among climate campaigners and environmental advocates. A Just Transition is the idea that the shift toward low-carbon economies needs to be fair and inclusive, meaning it considers the people who will be most impacted by abandoning fossil fuels. Among the groups most likely to be affected by the green energy transition are Indigenous communities, especially those living in remote areas where they’ve often been pushed by governments. Indigenous communities may be disproportionately dependent on fossil fuels for their day-to-day energy needs and livelihoods, particularly in places where government policies and incentives mean that extractive industries account for a large share of local jobs. Curbing oil and gas drilling, mining, and other heavy industries would thus cause significant social and economic disruptions in places that currently have few other opportunities and are already struggling with the impacts of colonization, including systemic discrimination, unfulfilled treaty obligations, and legacy traumas stemming from violence, oppression, and stolen land. Aerial view of Syncrude Aurora tar sands mine in the boreal forest north of Fort McMurray, northern Alberta. Image © Jiri Rezac/Greenpeace. Paradoxically, it is Indigenous communities that are also most likely to bear the brunt of the impacts of climate change. Rapid warming in places like Alaska and northern Canada are already triggering dramatic changes for ecosystems, with immediate consequences for Indigenous communities, including Native traditions and cultures, food security, and the very existence of their villages and settlements due to rising&hellip;This article was originally published on <a href="https://news.mongabay.com/2021/03/catalyzing-an-indigenous-led-just-energy-transition-qa-with-melina-laboucan-massimo/" data-wpel-link="internal">Mongabay</a>]]>
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