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The €50,000 KfW Bernhard Grzimek Prize for #conservation will be presented today in Frankfurt.
But should Bernhard #Grzimek really be celebrated as a role model? 🤔
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But should Bernhard #Grzimek really be celebrated as a role model? 🤔
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Following his civil service career in Nazi Germany as a member of the SA (Nazi Stormtroopers), Grzimek became a director of a zoo & an animal rights activist.
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Grzimek discovered his love for conservation in the #Serengeti, where he:
🔴 campaigned for yrs alongside @FZS_Frankfurt AGAINST the land rights of the Indigenous #Maasai
🔴 “professionalized” the militarized monitoring of Protected Areas
🔴 boosted mass #tourism in the area
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🔴 campaigned for yrs alongside @FZS_Frankfurt AGAINST the land rights of the Indigenous #Maasai
🔴 “professionalized” the militarized monitoring of Protected Areas
🔴 boosted mass #tourism in the area
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#Fil Comment la stratégie néolibérale et néocoloniale du développement durable par la « neutralité carbone » ravage le monde et les peuples autochtones.
🎥 survivalinternational.org/articles/triba…
🎥 survivalinternational.org/articles/triba…
Le 22 juin 1988, James Hansen, un climatologue de la NASA, est auditionné devant le Congrès américain où il présente les preuves scientifiques du réchauffement climatique et de la responsabilité première des activités humaines.
L’« effet de serre » devient connu du grand public.
L’« effet de serre » devient connu du grand public.
Prince William says mounting pressure on Africa’s “wild spaces as a result of human population” is a “huge challenge for conservationists”.
Staggered by the racism & hypocrisy?
👇Kenyan ecologist @m_ogada on Westerners criticizing African "overpopulation."
Staggered by the racism & hypocrisy?
👇Kenyan ecologist @m_ogada on Westerners criticizing African "overpopulation."
Oh BTW Prince William, there are no "wild spaces" in Africa - people have been living there for literally millions of years. @KensingtonRoyal
#DecolonizeConservation
#DecolonizeConservation
In case you missed it, last week was the #OurLandOurNature alternative congress, which finished on Friday with a #protest in Marseille, France, where we were joined by a number of other orgs including @xrFrance, @amisdelaterre & @yfcmarseille.
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Despite the torrential rain ⛈️ the turn out was big, showing how strong the resistance is towards the false solutions to tackle #ClimateChange being proposed at the #IUCNcongress.
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The plan to turn 30% of the world into Protected Areas by 2030 (30x30) is a distraction from the real causes of #environmental destruction - instead it puts a price on #nature & allows big business to profit.
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In my humble opinion as someone who has devoted most of their life to conservation, Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas, Indigenous Guardians networks are the most exciting and impactful development in nature conservation in a very very long time.
#decolonizeconservation
#decolonizeconservation
Important to remember that Indigenous conservation is nothing new. Indigenous Peoples have been stewarding traditional lands & waters for millennia. Colonial Govs and the conservation science and NGO community is finally recognizing its significance, collaboration, support.
Today's @thenarwhalca panel on Indigenous Protected and Conserved Areas offers wonderful opportunity for us to learn from Indigenous leaders in conservation and to transition away from colonial conservation models to those that are more effective and just #decolonizeconservation
As it stands, #Conservation is run in Africa around white tourism, in a romanticised "empty wilderness" that has never existed. It has become more about making money than enacting policies good for people and planet.
No ifs, no buts – it has to change. Here's how 👇
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No ifs, no buts – it has to change. Here's how 👇
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1. Conservation orgs have to recognise their history.
The belief in "empty wilderness" is a historic, dangerous myth that has seen millions of #Indigenous people thrown off their lands to make way for tourist initiatives.
alternet.org/2017/01/our-mo…
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The belief in "empty wilderness" is a historic, dangerous myth that has seen millions of #Indigenous people thrown off their lands to make way for tourist initiatives.
alternet.org/2017/01/our-mo…
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2. Conservationists must listen to #Indigenous peoples.
All the evidence is there – Indigenous peoples are the best defenders of the planet. To ignore them is nothing short of racism, and it is detrimental to us all.
theelephant.info/culture/2019/0…
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All the evidence is there – Indigenous peoples are the best defenders of the planet. To ignore them is nothing short of racism, and it is detrimental to us all.
theelephant.info/culture/2019/0…
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