Nature Consevancy

When people battle nature, sure enough, someone is going to step in to make sure nature wins. Komodo dragons live in splendor while the locals live in squalor. Somehow, this just doesn't make sense to me. I understand the need to preserve, to some extent, a reef, the fish population, an ugly "dragon". But at the expense of a person's livelihood? Shouldn't this type of park benefit the population? Another baffling situation, at least in my tiny mind.