Why national parks are not as good as you think…

Did you know that the creation of Protected Areas for conservation has led to hundreds of thousands of Indigenous peoples being evicted from their ancestral lands?

In this video, ecologist and Survival consultant Mordecai Ogada speaks about the problems of national parks for which governments and NGOs have stolen vast areas of land from Indigenous peoples and local communities under the false claim that this is necessary for conservation.

However, evidence proves Indigenous peoples manage their environment and its wildlife better than anyone else and when they have secure rights over their land, they achieve at least equal if not better conservation results at a fraction of the cost of conventional conservation programs. This is why we must decolonize conservation!