Conservation refugees

Batwa demand land and aid from the Ugandan government

Submitted by FdN on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 20:09
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Sat, 05/12/2007 - 14:35 Forced out of their ancestral homes in the early 1990s, the Batwa now demand land and aid to the Ugandan government.

Below is an article published by All Africa.com:

The Batwa have appealed to the Government to resettle them after they were evicted from their ancestral homes in the forests, writes Darious Magara.

The Government forced the Batwa out of the forests in the early 1990s to gazette them as national parks for conservation. (fPcN's added comment: with the help of WWF)

Conservation Refugees

Submitted by rains on Sun, 04/06/2008 - 18:59
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A LOW FOG ENVELOPES the steep and remote valleys of southwestern Uganda most mornings, as birds found only in this small corner of the continent rise in chorus and the great apes drink from clear streams. Days in the dense montane forest are quiet and steamy. Nights are an exaltation of insects and primate howling. For thousands of years the Batwa people thrived in this soundscape, in such close harmony with the forest that early-twentieth-century wildlife biologists who studied the flora and fauna of the region barely noticed their existence.

WWF - World Wide Fraud

Submitted by FdN on Fri, 03/28/2008 - 16:20
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All around the world, as you read this, children of other cultures are being kidnapped and forced into schools against their will and that of their tribes. People from Indonesia to Zaire are being forcibly removed from their ancestral homelands into shoddy shanty towns with poor sanitation and bad food. These people want to stay in their homelands, living as they always have; with no leaders and no civilisation; hunting and gathering. But the land they live on contains rich minerals and trees. The greedy eyes of westerners want it, so they take it. A familiar story? Corporate aggression?