2024-09-24 23:17:39
Adjective (indigenous) have mobilized in some of the most famous tiger reserves in India in the last two weeks to deny that the Government of the country is evicting them from forests where they have “always lived” to make way for tiger reserves, according to tax the NGO International Survivalwho warned that further mobilization is planned. Almost 400,000 live under the threat of being expelled from their territories
“Intruders” on their own lands
“These deportations are illegal under national and international law, and they don’t work: the jungle, the indigenous people and the tigers cannot live without each other,” said the organization’s director, Caroline Pearce. In his opinion, the Indian authorities seem “decided” to maintain colonial conservation model “completely outdated and discredited” who consider indigenous people as “invaders” on their own lands and expel them “brutally.”
“The major conservation organizations, WWF and WCS “never speak out against evictions and declare that the “relocations” of indigenous people are “voluntary”, even though these “relocations” are “almost always, in fact, forced evictions “
In addition, he has criticized the “support” offered by the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). As the organization points out, major conservation organizations “never” speak out against deportations and declare that the “relocations” of the indigenous population are “voluntary”, although these “relocations” are “almost always, in fact, deportations mandatory”.
Conservation organizations and tour operators are “complicit in this scandal” as tourism in tiger reserves becomes “big business” when indigenous people are driven out of their forests.
According to Pearce, ““Deep-rooted racism is at work: the government and conservation organizations consider Adivasis, at best, second-class citizens.”. In his opinion, conservation organizations and tour operators are “complicit in this scandal”, since tourism in tiger reserves becomes “big business” when the indigenous population is driven out of their forests.
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