Monday, November 8, 2010

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The misdeeds of the WWF Polar bears


Often it is difficult to understand abstruse why would someone spend time and money as a colossal fraud arganizzando
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What I do not think you do not think, is that there are enormous interests (economic, political, etc.) behind this, as there are enormous interests at stake on the issue " protection of endangered animals
"(which is another piece of
hoax 'Greenhouse Effect ): major environmental groups like WWF move a lot of money each year and hold a great power in international politics.





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shown below an interesting and well documented article about the misdeeds of the WWF.
Yes, the best known environmental organization for the protection of endangered species seems not only completely ineffective in protecting these animals (despite the enormity of capital that is able to gather enough), but was founded by people very little "green" in its history has always placed before private business interests to their stated mission.
[numerological a gem: the WWF was founded on September 11 by people linked to Freemasonry of high degree, and then fans of numerological symbolism ... and even the Pentagon was just opened on 11 September, as the coup in Chile and the now famous September 11, 2001 ...] Original Link: http://www.stampalibera.com/?p=4777

Good Reading:
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WWF: As I take the Africa


of Lino Bottaro

For the Anglo-Saxons every good scam is to control the world ...

After colonialism came environmentalism, sustainable development, programs for the reduction of the population and the protection of wild animals. The backwardness of the African continent is the result of these policies imposed by financial blackmail, corruption and military.
WWF in Africa


the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) is the world's largest organization for the conservation of nature. In 1948, Sir Julian Huxley, the famous biologist, founded the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).

The IUCN has always had very close relations with the British Foreign Office. Throughout his life, Huxley worked on projects for the conservation of nature. In 1960, he made a journey through the British colonies that were about to gain independence.
It 's the largest organization World Conservation of Nature. In 1948, Sir Julian Huxley, the famous biologist, founded the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources).

The IUCN has always had very close relations with the British Foreign Office. Throughout his life, Huxley worked on projects for the conservation of nature. In 1960, he made a journey through the British colonies that were about to gain independence. Its role was to ensure that the British government was able to keep the management of nature reserves located in countries del Commonwealth. Un anno dopo il viaggio, l’11 settembre 1961 lo stesso Julian Huxley fondò ufficialmente il WWF, insieme al principe Bernardo d’Olanda e al Principe Filippo di Edinburgo, con il solo scopo di raccogliere fondi per l’IUCN. In realtà dopo la nascita del WWF l’IUCN passò in secondo piano, ed a 30 anni dalla sua fondazione, il WWF controllava gia, attraverso l’istituzione di parchi nazionali che gestiva direttavamente, il 10% della superficie mondiale. Ad esempio, controlla il 40% della Tanzania. All’inizio degli anni ‘70 fu istituito, sempre dal Principe Filippo e da Bernardo d’Olanda, un club con lo scopo di generare fondi per il funzionamento del WWF. Tale club prese il nome di Club 1001. Il WWF fu fondato in Svizzera e oltre ai gia citati  Sir Julian Huxley, il Principe Bernardo d’Olanda, il principe Filippo d’Edimburgo, consorte della regina d’Inghilterra, parteciparono come  fondatori anche Max Nicholson e il naturalista e pittore Sir Peter Scott, che disegnò il logo originale, con il panda gigante bianco e nero, su sfondo bianco. Il WWF ha uffici in quasi sessanta paesi e la sua sede centrale si trova a Gland, in Svizzera. Ufficialmente il WWF si batte per: huxley_julian conservare the planet's biodiversity;
ensure that the use of renewable natural resources is sustainable;
promote measures to reduce pollution and wasteful consumption of resources e. currently manages more than 1200 WWF conservation projects a year of wild fauna and flora in the world. The projects also involve the peculiarities of the local population. To identify areas in which to act, the WWF has adopted a strategy ecoregional: 200 ecoregions were selected, large geographical areas, such as preserving, according to WWF, it could save much of the biodiversity the planet.

The Presidents of the WWF International were:

1962-1976: Bernhard of Lippe-Biesterfeld, Prince Consort of the Netherlands
1976-1981: John H. Loudon 1981-1996: Philip of Edinburgh, Prince Consort of the United Kingdom 1996-1999: Syed Babar Ali
2000-2000: Ruud Lubbers
2000-2001: Sara Morrison
2002-present: Emeka Anyaoku

Many have raised doubts about the morality of the founder Bernhard of the Netherlands, which was among the leaders of the Lockheed scandal and declared Nazi sympathies in the thirties and passion for animals of Prince Philip of England, known hunter. Other grounds for objection stems from the fact that often the board of directors of the WWF there are large chemical companies, and multinational banking groups, including multinational corporations responsible for the most serious environmental disasters on the planet.

Criticism WWF are not unfounded.


As the journalist Kevin has shown courage in his documentary Bowling "Ten Pence
in the Panda " submitted by TV inglese nella serie di programmi investigativi “The Cook Report”, nel luglio 1990, il modo giusto di vedere il WWF è di considerarlo uno strumento di un potente gruppo formato dai principali esponenti delle famiglie reali europee e delle più grandi compagnie, specialmente anglo-olandesi, come la Britsh Petroleum, la Royal Dutch Schell, i Lloyds di Londra, la Unilever, Rio Tinto Zinc, l’Anglo American DeBeers e altri, tutti soci del gia citato Club dei 1001. Un gruppo importante nel mercato del petrolio, in quello dell’oro, dei diamanti e di molte altre materie prime vitali . Una delle sue principali preoccupazione è fact that the industrial and technological development and hence population growth, particularly in developing countries, consumption of the world's reserves of raw materials, and destroy the flora and fauna of the planet. Its main aim then is to create an oasis and national parks, and the design and execution, especially in Third World countries, policies of sustainable development, agriculture and other economic activities with low technological content and policies of population control.

These objectives have been well expressed by Prince Philip Moutbatten, Duke of Edinburgh, consort of Queen Elizabeth II, founder and president of the WWF. In his 1986 book, If I
WHERE Animal , writes: " I would like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species is endangered. What would be his feelings toward the human species to exist is denying that .... I must confess, I am tempted to be reincarnated as a deadly virus, particularly
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Prince Philip, the first right, during a hunt the tiger

Propio because the 'I mean the WWF said it is to protect species threatened with extinction, Prince Philip of Edinburgh in 1961 had to relinquish the presidency of the WWF recently founded, because it had attracted a lot of scandal in his participation in England, a few months earlier, for a hunting trip to Bengal Tiger at the invitation of the Raja of Jaipur, in Africa and subsequently killed a female rhino, condemning the her children to starvation. He was then appointed as First President WWF's cousin, Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, because as I say Sir Peter Scott, a founder of the WWF, " start with a President of WWF British colonialists would have been too
. As reported by Kevin Bowling, commissioned in 1972, Peter Scott Alan Parker, a great hunter "legal" who lived in Nairobi, to investigate the illegal trade in ivory, rhinoceros horns, skins and illegal trade in wild animals. Among other things, Parker discovered that the family of the President of Kenya, Jomo Kenyatta, was extensively involved in such trafficking, his daughter Margharet was employed by a company selling rhino horns and elephant tusks in the Middle East. A trade that has decimated the herds of large animals in Kenya. Parker also alleges in his report many of the leading supporters of Kenya's wildlife conservation policies. A few hours after delivering his report to Sir Peter Scott Parker was kidnapped and beaten for three days and told never to reveal the contents of the report. Parker's report was largely taken up by the documentary Dowling.
Dowling also reported that by late 1989 John Phillipson, professor at the University Oxford made an investigation, always at the behest of WWF, the effectiveness of the organization in safeguarding endangered species. The study of Phillipson is a severe condemnation of the WWF. The final conclusion is that the WWF, in spite of its great ability in raising funds, had been totally unable to protect species of animals set out to protect. After 30 years of fundraising campaigns for a total of 4,493,021 Swiss francs and invested in 8 specific projects, the same Prince Philip was forced to admit in 1990 that the Panda was now destined to disappear.
The extermination of the elephants

The ecologist E. Caughey, in a study of 1980 there were reports that in Africa about 3 million elephants in 1950. In 1976, when he made the first census of elephants Doughas Hamilton, a conservationist living in Kenya, only 1,300 were registered. 000 elephants. The WWF had supported in all 70 years and for most of the 90 'that elephants were not in danger of extinction and had supported African governments that were opposed to the ivory trade. In 1988, former President FFW of Frenchman Pierre Pfeifer revealed that the elephants remained did not exceed 400,000. 1989 was suddenly declared by the WWF as "the year of the elephant" and Pierre Pfeifer was forced to resign.
In 1963 the Peter Scott, head of WWF International, had recommended that administrators of the National Park of Uganda 2500 to remove elephants. To this end, he was hired Ian Parker, a noted hunter, who also exterminated in addition to several thousand elephants hippos. The official reason was that it was necessary to reduce the animal population became too large for the balance of the ecosystem. But this reduction of the population of wild animals profited only the companies that produced the valuable wood of mahogany. In 1975 Parker was hired by the same Russell Train Worldlife head of the African Foundation for eliminating a substantial number of elephants in Rwanda, the reason was that Rwanda was not able to protect both the elephants and mountain gorillas and therefore should be eliminated first. In 1986 the then Director of WWF Charles de Haes personally gave a medal to honor the hunter Rhodesian Clem Coetzer for directing the campaign of hunting where they were eliminated 44,000 elephants in Zimbabwe. The following year a campaign was launched to save the elephant wrenching Nell. With the money collected was the WWF set up a park for the rescue of large animals in Africa in Uganda, bordering Rwanda. As we shall see it was from the camps of Rwandan Patriotic Front that the WWF launched its attacks against government forces in Rwanda, causing one of the greatest tragedies of the African continent. Note 1

Save Gertie

In 1961, the WWF began with a press campaign in the Daily Mirror, the mobilization for the preservation of black rhino. "Save
Gertie, rhinoceros
adorably ugly," were immediately collected more than 45,000 pounds. Campaigns to save the "Black Rhino" went on for more than 20 years and funds were raised to 110 million pounds. But the WWF has spent only 118,000 Swiss francs for the rhinos, it's not a coincidence that the population of rhinos blacks in the late 80 'was decreased by 95%. When the WWF finally decided to intervene, the few specimens rimasti furono “salati” portandoli nei giardini zoologici o nelle aziende agricole private dell’Africa e dell’Australia. Oggi il rinoceronte nero è quasi del tutto scomparso in Africa.

Le due operazioni principali per la salvaguardia del rinoceronte  furono l’operazione Strongold e l’operazione Lock. La prima fu finanziata con un milione di franchi svizzeri per mettere in grado il Dipartimento dei Parchi Nazionali dello Zimbabwe di ospitare almeno 700 rinoceronti neri provenienti dalla valle dello Zambesi. Il capo dei ranger di questi parchi Glen Tatham, in un viaggio negli Stati Uniti per raccogliere fondi, annunciò che “
sarebbe stata dichiarata guerra contro i bracconieri che attraversavano le frontiere dello Zambia ”. Nel maggio 1988 Glen e due suoi aiutanti furono accusati di aver preparato agguati e di  aver ucciso diversi cacciatori di frodo. In un dibattito al Parlamento fu segnalato che più di 70 bracconieri erano stati uccisi dai ranger di Glen. e sotto la pressione del Forein Office inglese il governo dello Zimbabwe votò, in tutta fretta, una legge per dare l’impunità ai ranger dei parchi nazionali nell’assolvimento dei loro obblighi. Uno degli oppositori a questa legge il Parliamentary Bhebe Mica reported that from 1974 to 1991 were killed more than 150 "poachers." Many in the Zambezi Valley were attacked even by heavily armed helicopters. According to the aforementioned documentary Ten Pernice in to Panda Kevin Bowling, in reality the motions of these poachers were militants of the African National Congress (ANC), the association of Nelson Mandela who fought against the policies of Apartheid in South Africa. Note 2

Operation Stronghold in practice was to relocate the rhinos blacks caught in the Zambezi Valley luoghi sicuri. Molti di questi rinoceronti finirono nelle aziende agricole dei latifondisti dello Zimbabwe, della Rodesia e del Sud Africa e anche in Australia, praticamente fu dispersa l’unica mandria di rinoceronti neri esistente al mondo.
Come riferisce il documentario di Kevin Bowling si voleva ridurre drasticamente la fauna selvatica dalla valle dello Zambesi perchè il governo dello Zimbabwe , su indicazione del Fondo Monetario Internazionale, preoccupato per l’enorme debito, stava accelerando la ristrutturazione economica. Questo comprendeva la creazione di una serie di Ranch nella valle dello Zambesi per fornire carne ai paesi della Comunità European Economic Area, agreements and contracts had already been made. After the last rhinos blacks were taken away in the valley went hunting and shot down in a short time more than 5000 buffalo, elephants and other animals. When it became obvious in 1980 that the system of 'apartheid in South Africa was doomed to failure, former members of the veterans were used to counter the British SAS abrogazionisti movements, particularly the ANC of Mandela. David Stirling, founder dell'SAS, was put in charge of KAS Enterprises, a private security agency which was operating in the area, and when he died in Sterling 1990 was replaced by Sir Jemes Goldsmith. Officially, the KAS had to protect elephants and rhinos by poachers in South Africa, for this was authorized by the government to use force. Soon he came to know that mote of people killed by rangers KAS were ANC activists. It was also made an attempt to destabilize the country in order to justify the pro-apartheid government in power to declare martial law. The plan was to organize fights between ANC militants, mostly Bantu, with those of the Inkatha Freedom Party to a majority Zulu. Avvenero such attacks and clashes between groups of blacks where they died several thousands of Africans until apartheid ended in 1994. Note 3

The role of National Parks

Reports Kevin Dowling: "
discovered that the so-called National Parks for wildlife were extremely repressive. The people living there had no rights, it was forbidden to work in the traditional way. They could not pick a flower without risking being killed. At the same time, Parks worked as a refuge for all types of mercenaries. The government of South Africa set up camp in this park its secret troops then attacked the cities and states at the border. So too did the terrorists of Renamo and Unita ... .. I got information from my accounts in Africa, on Operation Lock. I discovered that the operation was a military commander, Colonel Ian Crooke, former second in command of British special forces SAS, Gordon Shepard was also an expert of British intelligence who has worked extensively in Northern Ireland. These were the shareholders of Kroll Associates, a private security and intelligence agency based in Wall Street. In practice, a group of "old boys" 's SAS and MI5. The public part of the operation Lok was instead performed by the right arm of Prince Bernhard, John Hanks
. Note 4
J. Wilgers The Dutch court, which resumed the work of Kevin Dowlind, reached the same conclusion: "I know that former members of the British SAS have arrived in South Africa and were installed in the territories controlled by the WWF order to conduct paramilitary operations. In these areas have also carried out training activities. In the valley of the Zambezi River under cover of combating poaching many ANC activists were killed with executions sommarie, senza processo. Ci sono due tipi di parchi, parchi naturali e quelli strategici. Lo scopo ufficiale dei primi è di proteggere la natura. Spesso però contengono anche miniere di importanti materie prime: oro, diamanti, rame, uranio. La popolazione locale, in vari modi, è incoraggiata ad andarsene. I parchi del secondo tipo sono collocati nelle aree utili per osservazioni militari, per esempio quelli al confine tra il Sud Africa e il Mozambico. Questi corridoi sono stati concepiti per salvaguardare la natura, ma anche per avere vantaggi da un punto di vista politico e militare “. Nota 5 Dal 1990 il WWF aveva stabilito Gorilla Protection Program in the Gorilla Park in Uganda, near the border with Rwanda and Zaire and adjacent to the Parc des Volcans, on the side of Rwanda, and Zaire Vircunga Park. All of these national parks were used as the basis for law "rebels" of Rwanda, which in reality were mostly soldiers and officers of the Armed Forces led by the then Prime Minister of Uganda Yoweri Museveni. The use of national parks, managed by the WWF or international entities connected to it, as safe havens outside the control of national governments that install base for subversion and guerrilla operations was repeated for several times as was the case in Kenya and Sudan. Currently two million square kilometers, 8, 2% of the entire sub-Saharan Africa is converted into parks or nature reserves.
In recent decades, the official role dell'AWF (African wildelife funds) which is based in Washington DC, was to manage the main national parks and wildlife reserves in stark contrast to the agricultural and industrial activities that the various national governments were trying to develop. When on 11 June 1999 the first reports began to appear in the media of the assassins mass in the Congo / Zaire, the scandal caused dell'l'AWF statement denouncing the "tragedy" of four mountain gorillas killed in the National Park Vircunga. The animals were killed because they were in the midst of clashes between the forces of the Democratic Alliance for the Liberation of Congo's Kabila and rebel militias.
A similar scandal had occurred a few years earlier. While thousands of Hutu Rowand died every day in refugee camps in Zaire from hunger and disease, the AWF was protesting because the refugees in the refugee camps of istruggevano
the environment, "going into the forests to collect firewood to boil water before you can drink, and degrade " the habitat of gorillas and other animals . Note 6 In recent decades, the AWF has recruited thousands of Africans from various countries who then selected in the College of Wildlife Menagement dell'AWF to Moshi in Tanzania. Then reported to their countries of origin of these "pictures environmentalists" have played and continue to play a key role for the acceptance of their governments and peoples of the economic backwardness arising out of "technology appropriate "under pei projects of" sustainable development ", that is suitable to protect the wildlife. Many of these paintings are now the managers of national parks and wildlife reserves. Note 7




Map of parks in the WWF in 2001. Meanwhile, new parks have been created.

References

Algemeen Dagblad (giornale olandese) Monday, January 17, 2000. di Gerard Rigter
(tradotto dall’olandese all’inglese)


WWF loses from attorney

The World Wide Fund for Nature is a criminal enterprise that should be abolished by the justice system. Chances are slim that the judicature will do this out of its own, because its ties to the WWF are too strong.
This is what mr. J. Wilgers says, attorney in Goes. Last week, the WWF failed in its effort to silence the attorney, after he first called the WWF a criminal enterprise two years ago. The Council of Discipline, the disciplinary organ of the Dutch Bar Association, judged that the WWF didn’t prove that Wilgers knowingly spoke untruths.

The Dutch branch of the WWF systematically perpetrates criminal offences in our country and the World Wildlife Fund is criminally active worldwide, said Wilgers on Saturday. “For the misdeeds of the World Wildlife Fund we can also accuse the Dutch Branch of the WWF.”

It happened before that the Dutch Bar Association lost a case against Wilgers. At the Council of Discipline he disputed the words that it didn’t fit an attorney to “falsely blame a well respected organization as the World Wildlife Fund.” In appeal, the Bar lost again, because it couldn’t make clear why Wilgers knowingly was saying things that were wrong.


The WWF, says the excited attorney, walking through large piles of dossiers, is guilty of deceiving the public by exagerating the illegal trade in endangered species. Trusting people that donate money for this purpose are the victims.

“It’s complete disinformation. Huge numbers are shown, but for the most part these are related to the legal trade. Every 10 minutes, another species would die out. They started with the Panda, but today we have hundreds of thousands of species that supposedly need protection. Legitimate merchants, who have never been convicted, even have never been suspects, are publicly criminalized.

Traffic, the ‘intelligence service’ of the WWF, violates the ‘Law on the police & military units’ (very rough translation) by conducting its own investigations, proceeds Wilgers. In collaboration with the justice department Traffic doesn’t shy away from ‘provoking’ and ‘spy operations’, illegal methods the justice department normally wouldn’t perform.

It worries Wilgers that “already ten percent of the world’s surface” is under the control of the WWF. According to him, the role of the organization in South-Africa is troubling, where in the late 1980′s, in name of fighting the poachers, 1.5 million ANC members [anti-apartheid] and civilians have been murdered. To support this claim he refers to a 1989 report of the Commonwealth.

“I call that genocide. And still, in other third world countries, environmental protectors of the West just shoot so called poachers without any form of trial. In South-Africa, Mozambique, and Irian Jaya, we see that the WWF officially protects the environment, but in reality uses the money to safeguard western strategic and economical interests. The organization is interwoven with the elite of Europe and America through obscure societies like the 1001 Club and the by Prince Bernhard erected Bilderberg club, in which prominent citizens of the world are united. It is no coincidence that these protected areas are often rich in valuable minerals as gold, precious stones, and uranium. The local population is robbed from a normal existence by unreasonably severe environmental laws. That has happened around the American Freeport-MacMoRan-mine on Irian Jaya, where the WWF has even deforested the area. After the WWF-staf was kidnapped, the Papuas were chased away or murdered.”

Wilgers thinks it’s unheard of that WNF representative mr W. Wabeke is a superior officer at the District Attorney’s office. Wabeke is a director at the Dutch WWF. Wilgers: “It didn’t surprize me then that the justice department in Breda, in the investigation of a case of non-threatened lizards, in the report falsely labeled as threatened, eagerly shared the results of the investigation with collegues in America. The reward soon came. With the two American suspects a remarkable arrangement was made in which they had to pay 500 thousand dollars. This had to be paid to the WWF, who used it to pay for a natural resort right next to the Freeport-mine. “The WWF didn’t give a reaction. The Justice Department says that Wilgers “has to be taken with a grain of salt” in his crusade against the WWF. Wabeke will be leaving his post at the WWF soon, because his term is coming to an end.

1. http://www.mitosyfraudes.org/INDICE/Cap12-WWF.pdf

2. January 31, 1997,
The Guardian
, ‘SAS linked to rogue force in South Africa’:
 
“The SAS has been linked to violence by a ‘third force’ that threatened to undermine South Africa’s transition to majority rule, in a report considered so explosive it was suppressed by Nelson Mandela… It confirms the involvement of commando units in random violence, the use of poison – supplied by the Seventh Medical Division – by hit squads, and the supply of arms and training to the Zulu-dominated Inkatha movement… The truth commission document says evidence was given to Gen Steyn that destabilisation of the government and neighbouring countries was planned ‘to enable the military to step in credibly to create order’. Preparations for this allegedly involved stockpiling arms in countries which included Kenya, Zambia, Mauritius and Portugal, to create ‘springboards’ for possible military action. It said there was ‘a suggestion that there was close contact with the British SAS’… As reported by the Guardian, a group of SAS officers working for a private security firm in Britain [KAS] were hired by wealthy conservationists in the late 1980s to come to South Africa to fight elephant and rhinoceros poachers. They became involved with local intelligence agencies and reportedly took part in paramilitary training. The British security firm, Kas Enterprises, was owned by Sir David Stirling, the founder of the SAS, and taken over after his death by Sir James Goldsmith. The security firm’s SAS mission to South Africa was headed by Ian Crooke, who led the SAS…”

3. September 24, 1999, Kleintje Muurkrant, ‘”People have been murdered under the cover of nature protection” – Attorney severely criticises the World Wide Fund for Nature’ (translated from Dutch to English): “It looks like the WWF to a large degree is responsible for several projects, especially in South Africa, where in two fases respectively one and a half million people and subsequently ten thousand people were killed. In the first phase it was about the battle in the frontline states against the ANC [the major anti-apartheid movement], especially against the military wing. The war has been waged under the cover of nature protection and while protecting nature these people have lobbied the legislator to adopt a “shoot to kill” policy, whereby it became legal to shoot poachers in the field before arresting them. Afterwards you have to say that among the victims were quite a lot of ANC members… After 1990 the struggle shifted to the territory of South Africa [instead of the whole of southern Africa]. During that time these people trained a number of elite black units in the wildlife parks [of the WWF], like the anti-cattle thieves brigade and the crowbar-unit that turn out to responsible for the murder of several ten thousand inhabitants of the townships. This was part of the plan to create a civil war between the Bantus and the Zulus, that is to say that the ANC had to be set up against Inkatha [of Inkatha Freedom Party, the second largest Which Mainly anti-apartheid movement represented the Zulus] And That Has Been Conducted operation with the intention of destabilizing southern Africa. "

4. November 5, 1997, The Green Amsterdam (magazine), "The World Nature Army, con una vista a long Kevin Dowling

http://www.groene.nl/1997/45/rz_wnf.html

5. September 1924, 1999, little newspaper, "dvocaat delivers highly critical of World Wildlife Fund (Dutch - USATA traduzione per l'Articolo http://www.stelling.nl/kleintje/336/Wilgers.htm

 
http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/afwild.htm

7.
Washington Monthly, May 1993 v25 n5 p60(2) At the Hand of Man: Peril and Hope for Africa’s Wildlife. Ann O’Hanlon. 

Raymond Bonner moved to east Africa in 1988 to write for The New Yorker, neatly in time to watch the 1989 global ban on ivory take effect. Enchanted by the continent’s peoples and wildlife, Bonner explored the interplay of the two as they relate to wildlife conservation. He discovered that American wildlife organizations such as the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and the African Wildlife Federation (AWF) pay scant attention to local peoples while establishing wildlife policy and distort facts when it is conducive to fundraising. The case in point is, of course, elephants and the argument for a total ban on ivory. Both WWF and AWF paid exaggerated attention to the case of the elephant (elephants have never been doomed to extinction; in fact, several countries had to stabilize their elephant populations well before the 1989 ban) once they discovered this was a fool-proof recipe for fundraising. Bonner himself was seduced into focusing on pachyderms, and he serves up some juicy reporting on the politics of elephants. However, if his topic is “Peril and Hope for Africa’s Wildlife,” as the subtitle promises, Bonnet falls short.
The ban on ivory, announced in 1989 at the initiation of WWF and AWF, was an abrupt reversal of both organizations’ prior position of allowing the sale of some ivory. The wisdom of allowing ivory sales is at least threefold. First, elephant populations outgrow their habitat’s support capacity and therefore must be kept from trampling the forest and farmland around them and dying of starvation. The tusks from these elephants, and from elephants who die natural deaths, should not go to waste. Second, putting a value on the elephants-outside of the western aesthetic value that many Africans don’t have the luxury to share–is the best way to ensure that those peoples work for the survival of the species. Finally, the African people who cope with these dangers should be the people setting and implementing policy, both because it is their land and resource, and because their involvement is a fundamental precursor to caring for the survival of the species. No foreign government that pushed for the ban on ivory ever compensated local populations for their loss of income from ivory sales, nor included any Africans in policy making, an attitude Bonner refers to as “eco-colonialist.”
Though Bonner is critical of a number of conservation organizations, he serves up a particularly thorough indictment of WWF. The organization provided the Zimbabwean Department of National Parks and Wildlife Management with a helicopter used to gun down poachers on sight, killing a total of at least 57 men. A lifelong conservationist working in Namibia described the average poacher as “an average, normal guy, a poor farmer who is trying to feed his family.” There were in-house arguments at WWF over the project, but it later denied knowing how the helicopter was being used. WWF’s ” 1001 Club ,” a fundraising gimmick conceived by South African tobacco businessman and WWF boardmember Anton Rupert, is made up of 1,000 individuals who have given $10,000 to the WWF, the 1001st being Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands, a former WWF president. The secret list of members includes a disproportionate percentage of South Africans, all too happy in an era of social banishment to be welcomed into a socially elite society. Other contributors include businessmen with suspect connections, including organized crime, environmentally destructive development, and corrupt African politics. Even an internal report called WWF’s approach egocentric and neocolonialist. (The report was largely covered up.) The neocolonialist charge gets at a number of uncomfortable truths. The United States and other western nations have helped create a demand for ivory–thus contributing directly to elephant poaching and the ivory trade–and supported many a politically corrupt African government that was tied to the ivory trade. Once it became politically or financially expedient for those who had hunted African wildlife to skip the hunt, they did so and asked the rest of the world to go along. Africans were not included in such decisions.
The Africa section of the U.S. office of WWF hired its first black professional in 1991, and WWF International has yet to hire a single black in its 30-year history. And, if it’s possible to rate such overt racism, the African Wildlife Federation is worse due to its name and mission: In its 30 years, it has yet to have a single black on its board of trustees or in its Washington headquarters.
Sorely missing from At The Hand of Man is an analysis of why none of the successful small-scale efforts to control elephant populations has been attempted or even proposed at the national level in Africa. What are the hurdles that might obstruct such plans? Not one of the wildlife experts proposes a national or continent-wide strategy for keeping elephant populations in check while simultaneously respecting local cultures and allocating tourist dollars. Nor does Bonner, despite his criticism of the ivory ban. Such may not be a reporter’s responsibility, but his omission both of alternative strategies and of obstacles prohibiting such strategies is frustrating. Bonner claims the western approach to African wildlife management is racism and nothing else. In fact, if racism disappeared tomorrow, Africa’s wildlife woes would remain. Topics critical to wildlife management yet barely touched upon in the book–crippling population growth, political corruption, and unstable governments throughout the continent –are as African as elephants and daunting obstacles in the execution of complex policy. And they were, perhaps, factors in the decision to implement the more simplistic ban on ivory than a more complex policy that, no doubt, would have been fairer to the Africans. If Bonner had yielded to his obvious urge to write exclusively about elephants and the ivory trade, perhaps he would have addressed These issues. Instead, he paints a picture That is compelling But incomplete.
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