What’s clear is that the conservationist movement, whatever it should be, has been co-opted or even created as a green mask of empire - a way of carrying on imperial policies in an ostensibly more enlightened age.

Notes:

PandaLeaks: The Dark Side of the WWF, by Wilfried Huismann: https://amzn.eu/d/3vr9oUd

Decolonize Conservation, Global Voices for Indigenous Self-Determination, Land, and a World in Common: https://www.commonnotions.org/buy/decolonizing-conservation-global-voices-for-indigenous-self-determination-land-and-a-world-in-common

Sustainability Lie (documentary): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edH9EeHHm6k

Sierra Club reschedules trip to Israel amid backlash from social justice groups, by Michael Arria: https://mondoweiss.net/2022/08/sierra-club-reschedules-trip-to-israel-amid-backlash-from-social-justice-groups/

Colonial roots of dominant conservation policies, Professor Ashley Dawson: https://youtu.be/5k_TIgdI0pY?si=Cd3BRSfJX0AyTIbs&t=12053

Guatemala: Carbon, the Metric of Displacement in Petén, by Aldo Santiago: https://avispa.org/guatemala-carbon-the-metric-of-displacement-in-peten/

WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured And Killed People by Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker at BuzzFeed: https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/tomwarren/wwf-world-wide-fund-nature-parks-torture-death

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