survivalinternational.org/about/conservation-refugees Many evictions have been brutal, with little or no warning. Communities who once hunted, gathered, grazed livestock and farmed inside an area find themselves squatting on the outside, branded as poachers or criminals if they venture inside. A statement from the Indigenous peoples’ Forum at an international conference in 2004 summed this up: ‘First we were dispossessed in the name of kings and emperors, later in the name of state development, and now in the name of conservation.’ Many evictions have been brutal, with little or no warning. Communities who once hunted, gathered, grazed livestock and farmed inside an area find themselves squatting on the outside, branded as poachers or criminals if they venture inside.
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