Green Grabbing

Over the past 20 years or so, growing concerns that mainstream approaches to conservation are failing have converged and clashed in ‘the great conservation debate.’ This debate has been propelled in part by <a href="https://thebreakthrough.org/journal/issue-2/conservation-in-the-anthropocene" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">critical assessments</a> of what’s gone wrong with conservation, as well as by a number of terrifying scientific <a href="https://www.ipbes.net/news/Media-Release-Global-Assessment" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">press releases</a> and <a href="https://www.ipcc.ch/report/ar6/wg1/" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">reports</a> of ‘species extinction accelerating’ and ‘Nature in decline.’ Some suggest the debate can be boiled down to two clashing positions on how best to save nature in a time of ecological crisis: ‘<a href="https://e360.yale.edu/features/sparing-vs-sharing-the-great-debate-over-how-to-protect-nature" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">sparing vs. sharing</a>’. Others argue that <a href="https://www.futureconservation.org/about-the-debate" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">this is way too simplistic</a>, as conservationists are a diverse bunch of people grappling with very different circumstances around the world, and therefore hold a much more complex range of positions. In their <a href="https://www.versobooks.com/books/3149-the-conservation-revolution" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">recent book</a> on this debate, political ecologists Bram Buscher and Robert Fletcher write that “[i]n analysing the great conservation debate, it is clear that the lived reality of the conservation community is a tense and pressurized one, imbued with a great sense of crisis and responsibility.” <a href="https://medium.com/thewildones/green-grabbing-06da49f7568b">Click Here</a>