Conservation refugees are people, mostly indigenous people, who are displaced from their traditional homelands to create conservation areas including national parks and biodiversity reserves.
Since the “discovery” of the Yosemite National Park on March 21, 1851, as many as 20 million people have been turned into Conservation refugees.
Conservation Refugees – Expelled from Paradise, an award-winning documentary by Marketfilm and Friends of People Close to Nature, introduces us to some of these refugees and the struggles they now face as displaced peoples.
You can watch the film online at http://www.fpcn-global.org/de/video/Conservation-Refugees-Expelled-Paradise or http://vimeo.com/12273503
Synopsis
It is no secret that millions of native people around the world have been forced off their homelands to make way for oil, mines, timber, and agriculture. But few people realize that the same thing has happened for a cause which is considered by many as much nobler: land and wildlife conservation.
Indigenous peoples evicted from their ancestral homelands, for conservation initiatives, have never been counted; they are not even officially recognised as refugees. The number of people displaced from their traditional homelands is estimated to be close to 20 million. These expelled native peoples have been living sustainable for generations on what can only be reasonably regarded as their ancestral land.
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Little do we know about this type of REFUGEE in America? We drive to our National Parks, Government built dams, even state owned land dedicated to saving the land for the future and we think good but is it good. Who lived on this land? Who really owned this land? Were did the people that lived on this land go? How or did they get compensated for the taking of this land. Immigrants that came here to the colonies, immigrants that come to the colonies that were getting away from tyrants in the land they came from! Why did they not think of helping these displaced peoples in moving? This is bad,sad news of today.
Some of these Refugee’s are now coming of age and doing better and we still fight them and try to keep them from doing well. They wished these refugee’s to just assimilate and take the white mans ways and now they have the schooling to fight back, their children has learned the white mans laws in the schools/colleges/universities they attended. I applaud these refugee’s in their fighting back and doing to the white man his just due.