inside the park were totally under their control. The reason why contact with the locals is so assiduously avoided seems to be that the local people are intensely unhappy. Although the Park is named in honour of the Masai people, the ancestral inhabitants of the area, the Masais were forced to move out of their native lands against their wishes to set up the Reserve. There are game ranches in other African countries like the Nazinga Game Ranch in Burkina Faso.X!! The game ranch is again owned and operated by Europeans. On these game ranches tourists can hunt elephants and other animals carrying back trophies to Britain, USA and many other countries. Trophy hunters imported over 1.26 million trophies from Canada and Africa of species ranging over snow goose and American black bear to lion, elephant, rhinoceros, impala and wildebeest into the United States in the 10 years from 2005 to 2014. This goes on in Britain as well, though on a smaller scale than in the USA. So, while all hunting of wild birds and mammals is banned throughout India since 1972, no such restraint is observed in the US or Britain, nor, indeed anywhere else in the world.
WLPA provided for National Parks on the model of American National Parks. The history of the American National Parks is most instructive. As the European settlers of North America moved from the east to the west, they destroyed the forests and wiped out the abundant wildlife including millions of bison and billions of passenger pigeon. Once the European conquest of the continent was over and the native people had been pushed into a few reservations, the
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