Along the same lines, advanced human civilizations have pretty much always wiped out large predators in the vicinity of their dwellings. If you look at where large predators such as lions and tigers are, they are in under developed areas where people in the past did not have the ability to eradicate them. Now that they are able to, the people are often lectured by outsiders who in no way face risks from these animals that they should not do what is best for themselves, but sacrifice their livelihoods and perhaps their lives for some greater environmental good. Many times the modern conservation movement smacks of leftover colonialism where white people in safe areas purged from large predators attempt to keep brown people from bettering their lives by doing the same things that the white people&#x27;s ancestors did- eliminate threats to themselves and their livestock from wild large predators.