A Maasai herder in Tanzania. Harvey Barrison via Wikipedia. Five years ago, Tanzanian authorities set out to push the Indigenous Maasai off their ancestral lands in the famed Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Despite global outcry over the forced removals, this month two presidential commissions called for the evictions to continue, citing the need to protect wildlife. The commissions, established by Tanzanian President Samia Suluhu Hassan to assess disputes over land in the conservation area, described the Maasai as an “environmental pressure” and called for the “relocation” of “non-conservation activities.” Hassan has said she will act on the recommendations.  “These recommendations give the green light to more evictions,“ said Caroline Pearce , head of the watchdog group Survival International, who described the commissions as “a gimmick designed to give Tanzania’s violent persecution of the Maasai a veneer of respectability.”  When the Ngorongoro Conservation Area was established in 1959, the…