Conservation Wildlife
Protecting decay or loss of wildlife and/or natural resources.
What is conservation?
86,000 to 112,000.
What is the current population of the Batwa people?
can be seen as another form of colonization
What is conservation
Batwa people see the forest as their home.
How did Batwa people treat the forest?
A collaborative tourism project that generates income for the Batwa people whilst empowering them through the preservation and practice of their traditional skills
What is The Batwa Trail?
The eviction and destruction of land in Indigenous communities.
What is cultural and legal implications.
Poisoned-tipped arrows and nets.
What did the Batwa people use to survive before being displaced?
not allowed to practice hunting and other food procurement activities
What is food sovereignty?
Batwa people see themselves as an integral part of the ecosystem rather than an intruder in the natural world.
What's the feature of Batwa people's worldview?
This organization enhances the inclusion of the Batwa people in society through income-generating programs, providing educational and healthcare services, and advocating for the Batwa's land rights
Who is the United Organization for Batwa Development in Uganda (UOBDU)?
Responsibility of protecting endangered Silverback gorillas.
Who are the Batwa peoples?
This lead to the displacement of the Batwa people in the 1970s.
What did the creation of national parks and economic development lead to?
livelihood
What is criminalized?
Batwa people believe everything is inherently interconnected, but conservationists argue that humans and nature are inherently incompatible.
What's the main difference between Batwa people's worldview and western conservationists' worldview?
This site provides more information on how to get involved within the betterment of the Batwa community
What is uobdu.wordpress.com?
Responsibility of health and educational resources.
Who are civil society organizations and advocacy groups?
They are known as the oldest recorded inhabitants of the Great Lakes Region in Central Africa
What are the Batwa people also known as?
a big threat to the integrity of indigenous land
What is conservation?
Humans exist separate from nature and act immorally when they disturb nature.
What's the feature of western conservationists' worldview?
This park in Southwest Uganda offers a 4-5hr educational walk, led by a Batwa guide, that showcases Batwa's skills and traditions
What is the Mgahinga Gorilla National Park?
Displacement of the Batwa and development of ecotourism practices.
What is the "double-edged" sword?
Pottering, day laborer, small-scale cultivating, begging or fishing.
After the Batwa people were driven out of their forests and could not continue their practices of hunting and gathering, what did they turn to?
The survival of the Silverback gorillas were placed above this group.
Who are the Batwa?
Conservationists argue that by allowing indigenous populations to grow, hunt, and gather in protected areas, biodiversity will decline.
Why did conservationists force Batwa people to leave their homeland?
These are traditionally used by the Batwa people for collecting water
What are bamboo shoots?