It’s time to embrace community-led conservation vs. the colonial kind (commentary)

Mongabay
May 15, 2023, 7:54 pm128 pts
When I lived on the remote island of Beqa, in Fiji, I watched as foreign-based NGOs entered villages and told Fijians how to live their lives, saying things like “no more eating ika bula (sea turtle),” and “it is time you stop fishing kawakawa (grouper).” These environmental NGOs had good intentions, of…

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