RE:RE:Old news new post on instagram I don't think it is the locals as much as it is the outside rabble rousing anti-progress radicals.
From what I pick up on most local African natives not surprisingly want and need clean water, doctors, jobs, decent living quarters, etc, etc. And let's not forget the elephants.
Development and the related funding have allowed for the local wildlife protective police forces to be beefed up and armed better. In a nearby country they just had a major gun battle with poachers and killed several of them thus protecting the valuable elephants!