Hindou Oumarou Ibrahim knew a man killed for daring to enter a protected area. The killers were allegedly government forces, the man, a tribesman of the Mbororo people of Chad, Central Africa.
“There is a big conflict between the community and the government people because for the community, they do not understand why they stop them to go there and for the authorities, they say ‘no, you don’t have right to come there’ so then sometimes, people get in because you cannot close a protected area with a wall or something so when they get in, they get into conflict and they fight between themselves,” she told Stabroek News in an interview at the recent IUCN World Conservation Congress in Hawaii.
Such conflicts occur in varying degrees in countries around the world, with the rights of
