Vol. 7 · No. 1 · 2003
Indigenous Peoples And Protected AreasRights, Principles And Practice
Marcus Colchester
19 pages
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It is easy to forget, now that conservation has become a mainstream concern of the global community and the subject of international treaties, that the idea of conserving nature through the creation of protected areas is a relatively recent invention. The idea was born in the tumultuous rush of land grabbing during the American conquest of the West, when settler families, the US cavalry, gold miners, cowboys and Indians struggled to impose their different visions of life and land use on the continent.