India is about to create what may be the biggest mass eviction of indigenous people ever. All in the name of conservation

In the spring of 2003 about 8,000 tribal people and low-caste farmers living in the Kuno area of Madhya Pradesh, India, were summarily uprooted from the rich farmlands they had cultivated for generations and moved to 24 villages on scrub land outside the borders of a sanctuary created for a pride of six imported Asiatic lions

Is it fair to do this to 1,600 families for a few lions?

Wildlife conservation in India has generally emulated the early American (Yosemite/Yellowstone) model which regarded forests as pristine wilderness, excluded human beings from national parks and other protected areas, and saw its aboriginal people as “marauders,” “poachers” and “encroachers,”

....while sanctioning the lifeways and hunting practices of elite sportsmen and urban tourists.