conservation refugees

Here's an interesting article on what the writer calls "conservation refugees" - indigenous groups in India, although the term applies to groups throughout the world, as well, who are evicted from their homes and the regions they normally farm, hunt, or gather in, for the expressed purpose of conserving the environment and/or a specific species of wildlife. This alone is wrong. But to make matters worse, conservation is rarely the actual practice:

While the alleged purpose of the evictions was wildlife conservation, teak and eucalyptus plantations eventually replaced more than 40 of the evacuated hamlets. As it has in Botswana, Kenya and elsewhere, conservation in India has become a convenient and respectable cover for less savory motives when the very same national government that removes native people from their land in the name of conservation has no compunctions about giving up ecologically sensitive areas to large-scale development projects.