Paul Renault

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Breaking Green · Decolonizing Conservation: Evictions of Indigenous Maasai in Tanzania · 6 Jul 2026 podcast

Countless acts of torture, of beatings, uh, of rape, uh, of indigenous peoples um when they try to go back to their lands or or during the creation or management of these protected areas.

And these protected areas um are um often supported or managed or co-managed by um

Western conservation organizations, including some of them uh very famous, like WWF, WCS, African Parks, and these organizations not only adhere and have promoted this model of um

empty nature and the fact that um

Yeah, that um local communities and indigenous peoples are a threat to their environment and they have been doing so again uh for decades and since colonial times.

Um but very concretely they are um supporting and funding the very rangers that um commit the violence.

So I think the situation that the Maasai um have faced is very emblematic of what we have been saying so far about um conservation, its colonial roots and its concrete um impact today.

So the Maasai are pastoralist indigenous people that lives in Tanzania and Kenya.

And um since colonial times they have been facing eviction from their lands um

to make way for um protected areas.

So in the case of Tanzania, um the Maasai were evicted uh to make way for the Seven Getzi National Park by the British colonial administration in nineteen fifty nine.

And from then on, um everywhere they went and all over Maasai land um they have faced and are still facing um evictions to make way for

conservation um but that um also goes with uh hand in hand with tourism and uh trophy hunting for example.

Yeah, basically all the all of the all Maasyland is now under threat, so or has already been um um

grabbed for for conservation related uh purposes, but again, um not with a very

accurate uh sense of uh protecting nature.

It all goes to to back to that um to that model that evicts people but to better profit from the from the land.

Yes, that's correct.

Um so it's the Serengeti is their is their um own um land, but uh they have been evicted from it um and uh so they now live um in other parts um of their territory.

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