Behind the fortress: Colonial conservation and what to do about it
Channel: New Internationalist
Date: 2023-01-20

Eighty per cent of the planet’s biodiversity is found on lands that are also home to Indigenous people, yet their role in protecting the environment is continually ignored, and communities continue to be displaced in the name of conservation.

With the world’s policymakers meeting to discuss climate change and the protection of biodiversity at UN conferences and one million species at risk of becoming extinct ‘within decades’, we discuss what can be done to stop the rise of militarized ‘fortress conservation’, while looking out for biodiversity, wildlife and the people who protect them.

 This event, hosted by New Internationalist co-editor Amy Hall, featured:
• Pranab Doley, politician and Indigenous activist (belongs to the Mising community), India.
• Fiore Longo, campaigner at Survival International.
• Yannick Ndoinyo, Managing Director of Traditional Ecosystems Survival Tanzania and a Maasai leader.

The event followed the publication of the November-December New Internationalist, focused on land rights. Read more here: https://newint.org/issues/2022/12/08/take-back-land

Thanks to the Polden Puckham Charitable Foundation for the support that made this event possible.