The Alcorn Argument

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Based on Alcorn argument, he said that “ I would like to challenge preconceptions about conservation and conservation decision making by sketching a heuristic contrast between Big Conservation and Little Conservation (see Alcorn 1995, 13-30)” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). In Alcorn argument on this book which is “the first decision makers we think of are governments and international conservation organizations” (Brosius, Tsing & Zerner, 2005). We don’t agree with Alcorn argument. Based on our opinion, the Alcorn argument said that indigenous people who are made a decision not government and international conservation organizations. Based on our opinion, the indigenous people not the people who are made a decision but the government has been create a policy towards them. Next, we also not agreed with Alcorn argument.
As we can see nowadays, the government has been decided to indigenous. The indigenous people don’t have any rights to talk and give our opinion. The problem that has been faced by this indigenous people which is they are not allowed to stay
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The government doesn’t give chance to them to voice and give their opinion during made a policy. The policy that has been made is for their benefits. The indigenous people also have their own right towards that land because they have stay at they in long time ago before they which are government come and intervene. What is community-based conservation (CBC)? Community-based conservation is referring to “the term community in community-based conservation is gloss for a complex phenomenon because social systems are multiscale and the term community hides a great deal of complexity” (Berkes, 2004). “Decisions governing these land-use changes occur almost exclusively at the local level and, as a result, they are made at many different locations and times” (Theobald et al.,

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