Evictions in Simien National Park, Ethiopia

Sentinel-2 MSI acquired on 12 November 2020 at 07:51:51 UTC
Sentinel-1 CSAR IW acquired on 13 November 2020 at 03:16:21 UTC
Author(s): Sentinel Vision team, VisioTerra, France - svp@visioterra.fr
Keyword(s): National park, natural preserve, biodiversity, agriculture, deforestation, poaching, overgrazing, Ethiopia
Fig. 1 - S1 (13.11.2020) - Journalist Guillaume Blanc says conservation organisations backed dwellers eviction from several natural reserves.
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He chooses the exemple of Siemen National Park, Ethiopia, where inhabitants lived along Abyssinia Ibex at its promulgation in 1969. Poaching, deforestation and overgrazing where not a problem then.
Fig. 2 - S2 (12.11.2020) - Inhabitants originally didn't hunt the specie, until they found its disappearance could give them the land back.
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Fig. 3 - S2 (12.11.2020) - Numerous dwellings can now be observed around the National Park, but also within it.
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Fig. 4 - S2 (12.11.2020) - It cannot be known from these images which existed there before the 1969 foundation & which where built after.
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