There is an emerging awareness that Western “conservation” has always been used to take the lands and resources of colonised peoples in order to benefit the colonisers, mainly now through resource extraction, “carbon offsetting” and tourism. Many people are also waking up to the fact that the reasons claimed for doubling “Protected Areas” are bogus. More

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