...the majority of indigenous communities who traditionally occupied current ecotourism destinations, such as wildlife or biosphere reserves, have been forcibly evicted from these areas in order to create these spaces. An escalating number of case studies around the world confirms that the majority of these evictions were undertaken without the free prior informed consent of indigenous communities, and/or without adequate compensation for their loss...A further problem...is the insistence by tour operators that tourists do not want to see cattle or pastoralists such as the Maasai, whose lifestyle has supported the wildlife for all these years, because it spoils the idea of ‘pristine wilderness’.