Une nature protégée sans les peuples autochtones ?

Abstract

Co-management with indigenous people seems to be a paradigm in nature conservation but the Kalahari case in Bostwana is on the opposite side from this trend. Most of these indigenous people are displaced from the CKGR to resettlement camps nearby. New Xade is one of them. Focusing on this case, we explain how the Government denies hunter-gather lifestyle and settle San as wage laborers and farmers. Most of the San live in poverty and are facing a rapid and violent settling process with difficulties. In this context, neither their local knowledge nor their nature relationship offer commercial interest. An aboriginal territorial appropriation is replaced by based upon tradability opportunities like nature conservation tourism and diamonds reserves. This policy is deeply rooted in local cultural difference between Bantu and San and political choices.

Keywords

• ethnocid
• indigenous people
• Kalahari
• nature conservation
• San
• tradability