[Reader-list] Wildlife conservation projects do more harm than good, says expert

[anupam chakravartty]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jul/29/wildlife-conservation-projects-more-harm


"A key failure of the western-style conservation approach is the assumption
that people are the enemies of wildlife conservation – that they are the
illegal traders, the poachers, the hunters and the habitat destroyers.
Equally flawed, she... says, is the belief that those engaged in
conservation are "wildlife saviours".

Such images, she argues, are oversimplifications. "The inability to
negotiate these conflicts and work with people on the ground is where
conservation often sows the seeds of its own doom," she adds.