Is it woke to care about the environment?: how Trumps cuts are dismantling global conservation work

When the guns finally fell silent in 1992, little was left alive in Gorongosa national park. During the 15 years of Mozambique’s civil war – in which more than a million people died – the country’s wildlife also paid a terrible price. Poaching for meat and ivory was so intense that the small surviving elephant population rapidly evolved to lose their tusks. Leopards, wild dogs and spotted hyenas had all disappeared. Populations of zebra, buffalo and other herbivores had collapsed. In the following years, a huge effort to restore the park took shape. Led by the philanthropist Gregory Carr and

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