Republic of the Congo / African Parks - The Benevolent Self Commits Atrocities Behind the Mask of Conservation, Proving the Illusion of Care

Event Baseline: Prince Harry resigned from the board of African Parks after the charity admitted that its rangers committed human rights abuses in the Republic of the Congo. The abuses were revealed the previous year.

The conservation self believes it is saving nature, so it can brutalize the native body. The label 'protection' is used to justify violence. The self divides the world into worthy wilderness and expendable humans. This is the colonial mind rebranded as eco-savior. The celebrity's departure is a theatrical gesture that does not end the underlying fragmentation: the thought that some bodies are less real than others. Until the observer sees that the poacher and the protector are the same thought, the killing continues.