Conservation’s Colonialism Problem

[SharkFinatic]

Recently, the World Wildlife Fund has been criticized for perpetuating human rights abuses in the name of conservation, but, based what’s been reported in this 2016 article on Mongabay, WWF isn’t the only guilty party here.

https://news.mongabay.com/2016/05/186480/
Considering everything written there, what steps do you all think should be taken to make the conservation movement more accepting of indigenous peoples and their role in environmental protection?

 

[Fallax]

The WWF has been a bit strange lately, they are doing NFTs now... and if you know anything about crypto and blockchain crap you know how bad it is for the environment!

 

[SharkFinatic]

The WWF has been a bit strange lately, they are doing NFTs now... and if you know anything about crypto and blockchain crap you know how bad it is for the environment!

Supposedly, they abandoned the NFT project after getting criticism for it on Twitter, but I think the human rights abuse accusations are a more serious issue.

 

[Pantheraman]

Here's what they can do.

They can make conservation actually inclusive. Conservation has to be because otherwise it just doesn't work. It's about getting people on board and using local knowledge about the areas from locals.

This, however, doesn't mean there shouldn't be enforcement. It's absolutely needed. Any ranger who acts this way should be terminated. And at the same time, you can't let people hunt or whatever inside national parks, but they should be able to do so in buffer areas so long as the buffer zones are protected.

The wwf (I'm not capitalizing their name anymore) isn't the only group guilty of exclusive conservation. In the United States the state game agencies (that's what they really are) pretend to care about what you think, but in reality, only care about what their paying clientele want.