This scared the local peasants who avoided the area after dark.

You mean the local peasants do not place a value on wildlife simply for its own sake.

The trial attracted a large audience, including many of the local peasants.

On the Turkish side, the local peasants had set up a market.

"These religious people had really developed their farm, and they were working very much with the local peasants."

He was not concerned about resistance from the local peasants.

In time it became a source of building material for local peasants.

They were stopped by an angry mob of local peasants.

The local peasants must have all gone out to work in the fields.

Take off the uniform and each of them is just another local peasant.