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Frisky_Picker t1_ixcqr3w wrote

Reply to comment by GrapefruitEquivalent in Nepal Fights Deforestation, and Wins by 38384

I have a coworker who's from Nepal and from what he's told me they're very big on conservation efforts there. I guess they hunted the native tiger population to near extinction a few decades ago and ever since then they take this stuff very seriously. In his words "now the wildlife has equal or even more rights than the people".

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GrapefruitEquivalent t1_ixd660o wrote

Yeah that's very common with conservation. Many large organisations like WWF will put animals above people, sometimes in quite ruthless ways due to pressure from donors. It's why I believe in community based conservation as the only realistic way forward. Locals need to be involved and benefiting from these efforts if we want them to last..

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