Paul Renault
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Breaking Green · Decolonizing Conservation: Evictions of Indigenous Maasai in Tanzania · 6 Jul 2026
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Yes, of course.
So Survival is a human rights uh NGO campaigning on the rights of indigenous peoples.
Um so we do various campaigns on various topics around the world.
Um and today I will speak um more precisely on our campaign to decolonize conservation, um which is fighting against human rights violations that are committed in the name of nature protection, but most um most accurately um that are um
um following um a colonial uh system that leads to the systemic eviction of um of indigenous peoples from their lands and um of um a lot of of of violence.
Yeah, as you were saying, the whole premise is to say that indigenous peoples or local communities are destroying the land um that they live on, and that in order to protect nature, but this abstract idea of nature that would be empty of people, um, we would have to to evict them.
But the truth is that these spaces that we consider or that the West uh considers um as the most um uh wild places
on earth uh or even the most biodiverse um are actually the lands of indigenous peoples.
And if they are in such good shape, it's because they have um not only lived in them, but also protected them and shaped them.
Um so that's what that's why from a conservation point of view it makes no sense to evict uh the best uh guardians of these spaces.
It's just um
a model that um is based on again colonial um colonial history um and uh increasingly um
the goal is to include these places in the capitalist system and try to make profit from them.
So once um the original inhabitants are evicted, then um there is room for all kinds of uh exploitation, whether it be extractive industries or tourism.
Um
Um or yeah, that kind of thing.
Yeah, it's actually very concrete when we say that um these people are evicted or or framed uh as a threat to the environment.
Actually what it means for the people who live in these spaces and who face this is um
Brutality.
So the rangers that are supposed to guard our t these these spaces, these wild spaces, um are not only evicting them but also um doing so very violently, and we have documented um over years um
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