How has conservation been responsible for the destruction of tribal peoples?

Survival’s director explains… live on YouTube!

‘First we were dispossessed in the name of kings and emperors,

later in the name of state development,

and now in the name of conservation.’

Indigenous Peoples’ Forum

Date: Friday, February 28

Time: 5pm Pacific Standard Time

(1am GMT on Saturday, March 1)

Watch the talk at

’http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RcN8PTKdNg&noredirect=1&utm_source=Survival+International&utm_campaign=83f0e4abc8-Email_update_Oregon_talk_USA_2_27_2014&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_241e47c256-83f0e4abc8-86586237

Survival Director Stephen Corry is giving a hard-hitting talk on the impact of conservation on tribes worldwide at the University of Oregon’s Public Interest Environmental Law Conference.

Explaining the role of conservation in the ongoing destruction of tribal peoples, he will explore how conservation theories grew with scientific racism, which underpinned colonial genocides and the Holocaust.

He will demonstrate that contemporary claims that tribal and indigenous peoples are like our ancestors, and more violent than us, are no less spurious, and that they too damage the people they purport to describe.

Forcibly evicting tribespeople from their ancestral land to create conservation zones is illegal: it destroys tribes and spells disaster for the local environment and wildlife.

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