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How do I use conservation tech ethically?
About the Series Welcome to the third season of WILDLABS Tech Tutors, the series that answers the "how do I do that?" questions of conservation tech! Brought to you with the support of Microsoft AI for Earth, Tech Tutors is made for conservation tech beginners of all knowledge levels (and yes, even experts can still be beginners when it comes to tackling a new aspect of conservation tech or starting a new project.).
Are Conservation Organisations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination? - The Wire
Trishant Simlai, doctoral candidate in geography at the University of Cambridge, is interested in the links between armed conflict, militarisation and conservation in India. Raza Kazmi, a Jharkhand-based conservationist, is interested in conservation militarisation, intersection of forest rights and conservation needs, and conservation in India’s conflict-ridden ‘Red Corridor’ landscape.
Are Conservation Organisations Complicit in Ethnic Discrimination?
Note: A response from the Wildlife Trust of India, received shortly after this article was published, has been reproduced in full at the end. Global wildlife conservation efforts have advocated the exclusion of local people from ‘parks’ and areas considered to be of great value to biodiversity, often supporting coercive means to achieve this goal. Among the coercive measures often suggested, some don’t shy away from even recommending violence towards ‘offenders’.
Grasslands of Grey: The Kaziranga Model Isn't Perfect - But Not in the Ways You Think
Do Kaziranga’s increasing militarised conservation measures necessarily imply a greater security for its wildlife? Credit: shashankgupta/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This is the second of a two-part essay composed as a rebuttal to the BBC’s documentary on Kaziranga national park and the harsh conservation practices its officials allegedly abide by. Both essays are available at this link.
The Kaziranga Model Isn't Perfect – But Not in the Ways You Think
This is the second of a two-part essay composed as a rebuttal to the BBC’s documentary on Kaziranga national park and the harsh conservation practices its officials allegedly abide by. Both essays are available at this link. The success of Assam’s Kaziranga national park in protecting the Indian one-horned rhinoceros has long been credited to what has been called, by supporters and detractors both, a “shoot at sight” policy.
Grasslands of Grey: How the BBC's Flawed Kaziranga Muckraker Has Done Harm
A rhinoceros at Kaziranga national park, Assam. Credit: subharnab/Flickr, CC BY 2.0 This is the first of a two-part essay composed as a rebuttal to the BBC’s documentary on Kaziranga national park and the harsh conservation practices its officials allegedly abide by. Both essays are available at this link.
Grasslands of Grey: Why the BBC's Kaziranga Muckraker is Flawed
This is the first of a two-part essay composed as a rebuttal to the BBC’s documentary on Kaziranga national park and the harsh conservation practices its officials allegedly abide by. Both essays are available at this link. ‘Killing for conservation’, an investigative documentary by the BBC that alleges a dark side to Kaziranga national park’s success in protecting rhinoceroses, has been met with strong condemnation by conservationists as well as threats by the Government of India to blacklist it.
(PDF) Selling green militarization: The discursive (re)production of militarized conservation in the Virunga National Park, Democratic Republic of the Congo | Judith Verweijen and Esther Marijnen - Academia.edu
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T-24, the tiger in the news
Conservation enters a brave new phase, as members of the public unite into a vocal and opinionated band that pitches its voice against the wildlife experts An unprecedented drama has just been played out in the forests of the Ranthambore Tiger Reserve in Rajasthan over the fate of tiger T-24, also known as Ustad. T-24 reportedly killed Rampal Saini, a forest guard in early May in the reserve.
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