Why Africa needs community-led conservation | Resson Kantai Duff

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🗓️ 16 May 2022

⏱️ 15 minutes

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Conservation efforts in Africa have typically been led by "parachute conservationists" -- outsiders who drop in thinking they have all the answers, hire locals to implement them and then disappear. But conservationist Resson Kantai Duff has a better way to save wildlife in Africa: let locals lead these efforts themselves. She calls for a major shift in how conservation in Africa works, showing why the people closest to the land are the ones best fit to care for it.

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0:00.0	It's Ted Talks Daily, I'm Elise Hugh.
0:06.9	It's staggering how much wildlife has disappeared just within the past 50 years.
0:12.9	Rayson Canthai Duff is calling for a major shift in the way conservation works in Africa.
0:19.4	In her talk from Ted Women in 2021, she makes the case for why the people closest to the
0:23.9	land that needs conserving should be the ones designing the best ways to care for it.
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1:29.1	The world has lost 68% of its wildlife populations in under 50 years and there are people around
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1:41.2	In Africa, however, the approach to conserving this wildlife has almost always involved a
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