In 1959, the Maasai were evicted from the Serengeti National Park and moved to Loliondo, a division in Tanzania’s Ngorongoro district. Since then, the Maasai have several times been forcibly evicted from their traditional lands. In 1992, Tanzania’s then-President, Ali Hassan Mwinyi, did a
This type of forcing people off their land is deja vous: Enclosure Movement all over again. This is prime capitalism at its worst - changing the commons into private spaces. This is like a "Phase-Two" of colonialism.
"The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it."
This has always resulted in (a previously unknown form of) poverty and mass-migration of displaced people to cities which provided the industrialists with low-cost labor.
The above Biodiversity wish-list is upper-class BS; the biodiversity lands of their dreams and Indigenous rights are not compatible.
If you really want to help biodiversity, you need to either reduce the population of humans and/or cattle, the two biggest species by weight on Earth - see:
This type of forcing people off their land is deja vous: Enclosure Movement all over again. This is prime capitalism at its worst - changing the commons into private spaces. This is like a "Phase-Two" of colonialism.
"The Enclosure Movement was a push in the 18th and 19th centuries to take land that had formerly been owned in common by all members of a village, or at least available to the public for grazing animals and growing food, and change it to privately owned land, usually with walls, fences or hedges around it."
This has always resulted in (a previously unknown form of) poverty and mass-migration of displaced people to cities which provided the industrialists with low-cost labor.
The above Biodiversity wish-list is upper-class BS; the biodiversity lands of their dreams and Indigenous rights are not compatible.
If you really want to help biodiversity, you need to either reduce the population of humans and/or cattle, the two biggest species by weight on Earth - see:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2301652120
As well, the first best step would be Not One More Sacrifice Zone anywhere on this planet! Earth is NOT a nearby resource planet!