VOCABULARY
How is a community of native people called?
Indigenous people
What is the name for an enclosure meant to protect wildlife in the USA?
A National Park
What type of source is it?
A British blog
Give two synonyms for "protect".
Preserve, defend, safeguard, secure.
Where are you going to find Yosemite and Yellowstone?
In the United States
Does the author of the article agree with conservationists? Why?
No, he does not. His or her point to show that wildlife conservation from a Western perspective jeopardises local communities.
How are Indigenous people forced to leave their homeland called?
Conservation refugees
What are the two countries that have deprived communities from part of their land to develop conservation projects?
Kenya and Central Africa
Which concept found in the subtitle is paralleled with the term ecotourism? Explain what it means.
Neocolonialism. The economic and political policies by which a great power indirectly maintains or extends its influence over other areas or people.
Explain what the letters NGO mean.
Non Governmental Organisation
Why are natives called "trepassers"?
Because they are not allowed to hunt or live on their ancestral lands.
What is the author of this text hoping for?
A fruitful collaboration between the natives and the conservationists.
What is the French for poaching?
Le braconnage
What is the meaning of ".co.uk"?
commercial united kingdom
How do conservationists consider nature?
As a "virgin and pristine" land which seems odd to the author.