Conservation measures that dissociate people from their native landscape can destroy traditional ecological knowledge and hurt the very biodiversity that the conservation policies aim to protect.rnSitting under a moonless February sky on the outskirts of a wildlife sanctuary in southern India, Acchuge Gowda be-moans the failing health of the forest that was once his home. The tall, gaunt, and silver-haired community elder recalls the time when the grass was plentiful, the animals were content, and the forest had many tubers and medicinal plants.
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