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]]> By: Ozma /2005/09/13/saving-the-great-apes/comment-page-1/#comment-1535 Tue, 13 Sep 2005 17:22:45 +0000 /?p=232#comment-1535 hooray for helping great apes. But having studied local involvement in conservation efforts, I wonder actually if that’s the right level on which to focus. There was a *huge* dust-up on the topic late last year, prompted by an essay Mac Chapin published in World Watch magazine. A “free pdf”:http://www.worldwatch.org/pubs/mag/2004/176/ is available, letters pro and con followed in the next issue and on their website (my take was basically con, I thought his piece was sloppy and hugely unfair). Anyway, I have begun to wonder if all of the focus on “local people” in conservation efforts has as much to do with limited budgets and limited policy-making power as it has to do with “hooray for indigenous and traditional peoples!”. That is to say, I wonder if conservationists’ 1990s attention to the microlevel had a lot to do with being able to wield enormous influence at that scale, vs. their very limited ability to do much about the overarching drivers of habitat loss, species decline, etc. For enviros in the 90s, becoming a champion of local people, indigenous peoples, traditional peoples was the alternative to become a revolutionary or giving in to despair (full disclosure: I totally was one of those 90s enthusiasts).

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