World Heritage Site listing for Ethiopian park leads to eviction of farming community

guess I should have read it and not skimmed it, my apologies.

But that's wrong. The park was created in 1970, and most of the settlers moved in afterward. It's only with the UNESCO designation that the government is actually going to start enforcing the law.

The park has a mix of old and new inhabitants — mostly new. According to the park’s official documents, the park had few permanent settlements before it was established in the 1970s, and only seasonal pastoralists came to graze the grasslands. However, the population and settlements increased rapidly along with a shift from traditional livestock husbandry that grazed through the area, to mixed farming that also plowed the land. Today, the park has more than 3,000 households, each with about eight residents, and seasonal resource users.