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Author and journalist Mark Dowie discusses the historic and tragic dark side of the conservation movement– denying indigenous people land, resources, and sometimes life, in order to make nature reserves.
Indigenous peoples are sometimes kicked off of their land to make way for national parks and reserves for charismatic wildlife. They essentially become refugees in the name of conservation, says author and environmental journalist Mark Dowie. Dowie talks with Steve Curwood about his new book, Conservation Refugees: The Hundred-Year Conflict between Global Conservation and Native Peoples.