Give the land back / Ashley Dawson -- Decolonizing conservation / Fiore Longo -- Part I: "In the name of nature": crimes and wrongdoings of the conservation Industry. Section What Is "Fortress conservation"? -- Fortress conservation in modern Africa: past and present / Guillaume Blanc -- Nature conservation in the Democratic Republic of Congo: from policing to community conservation / Blaise Mudodosi -- The fight against extinction : the Sengwer Indigenous people's struggle for land rights in Kenya / Kipchumba Rotich -- The post-2020 agenda and fortress conservation in India / Neema Pathak Broome -- Section 2: The militarization of conservation and its impact on Indigenous peoples. The politics of global funding for militarization in conservation / Professsor Rosaleen Duffy -- The fight against colonial conservation is a fight for millions of people across the world / Pranab Doley -- Cries and tears from the riparian populations of Virunga National park in Rutshuru Territory, Democratic Republic of the Congo / Delcasse Lukumbu -- Chitwan National Park, where the community are the best conservationists / Birendra Mahato -- Our most fervent wish is to return to the forest, our land / Julien Basimika Enamiruwa -- Section 3: 30x30 -- The 30x30 target and Its Impacts on the rights of Indigenous peoples: why a new way forward is needed / Lara Domínguez -- Indigenous peoples should be leaders of biodiversity conservation and climate action, not victims of its policies / Archana Soreng -- What's beyond the protected areas system? / Sutej Hugu -- Conservation needs fundamental economic and political transformation / Ashish Kothari -- Section 4: The false solutions to climate change. Financialization and sustainable finance as guardians of the status Quo / Frédéric Hache -- Nature-based solutions: planet salvation or planetary betrayal? / Simon Counsell -- Indigenous Zapotec in between dispossession and energetic colonialism: the EDF case in Unión Hidalgo, Oaxaca, Mexico / Norberto Altamirano Zárate -- The decolonization of nature conservation: we are Earth, we are nature / Josefa Sanchez Contreras -- Climate change mitigation and conservation in India: false solutions / Dr. Bhanumathi Kalluri -- Displacement and violations of human rights in the name of nature in Petén, Guatemala / Noé Amador -- Section 5: The role of media and International donors. International donors and biodiversity conservation: "Our land is not your solution" / Joe Eisen -- The lion's share: racialized conservation and misrepresentation in Tanzania / Celeste Alexander -- Failing miserably / John Vidal -- What happens in the forest stays in the forest: the role of donor agencies in the current conservation effort and strategies for making It more equitable and effective / Robert E. Moïse -- Part II: Decolonial perspectives and alternatives. Section 1: Why is it necessary to decolonize conservation? Why we need to decolonize conservation in Africa: confronting the challenges / Mordecai Ogada -- The Indigenous peoples of French Guiana are being destroyed by neocolonialism / Taneyulime Pilisi -- Decolonizing conservation and development: hold on to the land, their grand designs will collapse / Madhuresh Kumar -- What decolonizing conservation means and why it matters / Dina Gilio-Whitaker -- Section 2: The land, our future: Indigenous peoples and their role in protecting the environment. The decolonization of thought / Juan Pablo Gutierrez -- I was not born in Chile, Chile was born in my territory / Llanquiray Painemal Morales -- Indigenous peoples on the Caribbean Coast of Nicaragua / Lottie Cunningham Wren -- It is we who guard the forest with our lives / Tokala Leeladhar -- Our forest has been stolen for conservation / Mekozi Rufin -- We need to throw these conservationists out of our forests / J. K. Thimma -- Section 3: Towards an alternative conservation. Towards a collective "Whole Earth" vision for the future of conservation? / Robert Fletcher -- The scheduled tribes and other traditional forest dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006: towards an alternative conservation / Dr. Madegowda C. Ashoka Trust for Reasearch in Ecology and the Environment -- Given all of the obstacles, how do we fight for our future? / Esther Wah -- Marseille manifesto : a people's manifesto for the future of conservation.