Paul Renault

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

Um so losing the land means losing the cattle and losing that existential um link um with their cattle.

Uh so in a way, yes, you're right, their identity as a as an indigenous people.

And that also has um yeah, some spiritual and cultural um impacts that can't be fixed once they lose the land.

So for example, uh in the case of um of Loliono, we talked a lot with the communities who um are now unable to go into the

the protected area that was created.

Um and they say that they lost access to spirit spiritual sites and the fact that they um

aren't able to graze their cattle and lost a lot of cattle also means that some um important um cultural rituals can be performed.

So for example, um when a woman gives birth, um

She is supposed to um eat or or or drink blood um or or yeah basically uh rituals that are based on slaughtering um the cattle.

Um and now being unable to do that is really weakening uh the women who just give birth um and yeah, just detrimental to the whole um to the whole community.

Yes, it's not only a matter of livelihood and food security, even though that's a very

core um issue as well, but it really yeah impacts the the core of their of their identity and and their whole way of life.

Um I think it can also be interesting to mention the role of uh conservation organizations, um, especially in the case of the Maasai, the Frankfurt Zoological Society, who's based in Germany, and um has for decades um again pushed um that narrative of the Maasai being um a threat to the environment, and it started with um

It's um one of its first directors, uh Bernard Gimek, um who was a member of the Nazi party um and really um was instrumental in um create the creation of the Serengeti National Park and has always framed the Maasai as um yeah as destroying uh the land.

Um and it's been described um Frankfurt the Frankfurt.

Society has been described by the Maasai as their enemy number one, um, providing yeah the narrative and support um to the to the government um for these evictions.

Um and yeah, an aspect of UNESCO that maybe we didn't um mention too much is this um

um the international prestige and support and publicity that it brings and in turn um that's very key for for tourism and the revenues from from tourism.

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