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We talk with investigative journalist and filmmaker Zahra Moloo about how conservation in Southeast Cameroon has meant the eviction of the Baka people from their ancestral forests, while logging, trophy hunting, and fortress conservation-style "protected areas" expand side by side. We trace the colonial and capitalist roots of fortress conservation, what violence associated with fortress conservation has done to the Baka people community over time, and what justice might require if conservation is going to include human rights.
• fortress conservation and why “pristine wilderness” often means forced removals of the indigenous inhabitants
• Zahra’s reporting in Southeast Cameroon around Lobeke, Nki, and Boumba Bek parks
• Baka communities living on the roadside and the daily cost of losing forest access
• trophy hunting zones, logging concessions, and how “sustainable development” gets justified
• the 2019 access agreement, reduced violence claims, and why fear can still keep people out
• sedentarization, citizenship paperwork, and how colonial land law shapes dispossession
• violence as a tool of enclosure and discipline across parks and trophy hunting areas
• what accountability could look like beyond so-called grievance mechanisms
• centering Indigenous knowledge as the world pushes 30x30 conservation targets

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