#20 Dr. Mordecai Ogada

This week, we talk to Dr. Mordecai Ogada, carnivore ecologist and co-author of The Big Conservation Lie. We dive into the intersections between conservation and food systems, the racist assumptions underpinning conservation in Africa, the Disney-fied myths that perpetuate problems in Western perception of Africa and its wildlife, the fallacy of tourism and capitalism being necessary to protect wildlife, the removal of the sacred during Christian colonization, how conservation today reinforces the institutions of colonialism, and how the language of crisis maintains these dubious institutions.