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Opposition to conservation initiatives is often presented as a spontaneous reaction of local people to projects or programs promoted by outside environmental institutions or pressure groups. This paper shows that such interpretations, unless based on precise field-work from relevant theoretical perspectives, can be very misleading, often purposefully so. The argument rests on three complementary perspectives : (1) a strategic management approach that sees conservation projects as promoting change, and thus arousing a potential of resistance to change, (2) a geopolitical perspective, focusing on initiatives by given political networks or powerful economic sectors to use this potential resistance to change as a fulcrum for strategies aimed at enhanced control of territories and financial resources from public funds, and (3) a critique of the rhetorics of locality, so often used as a veil for such strategies. A detailed case-study of one emblematic case – opposition to conservation of the brown bear (Ursus arctos) in the French Pyrenees mountains – shows that precisely such strategies are used by an alliance of farming unions and powerful political forces, and play a central role in the evolution of the management of that species. Based on the case study and on the theoretical perspectives they advocate, the authors stress that the many difficulties met by conservation projects and programs should not be ascribed cursorily to bad design or implementation, at least not before an in-depth analysis of initiatives from political, social or economic actors that may have an incentive in bringing about failure of conservation projects and programs.

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Stratégie et géopolitique de l'opposition à la conservation de la nature : le cas de l'ours des PyrénéesStrategy and geopolitics of the opposition against the preservation of nature: the bear in the Pyrenees