Let say your family has a wonderful old farm home, complete with clapboard siding and beautiful heart pine floors laid on hand cut oak timbers. A house you have lived in since your childhood. US Fish and Termite Service appears one day and releases termites into your house, because your house is the perfect habitat… Continue reading Termites Extinct in the Wild
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USA WildAid was founded in 2000 by Peter Knights, a former investigator with the Environmental Investigation Agency, with the novel tagline ‘when the buying stops, the killing can too’. WildAid’s mission is to stop the illegal trade in wildlife by reducing consumer demand for wildlife products. It also works with governments, non-governmental organizations, and the… Continue reading WildAid
USA The Sierra Club was founded in 1892 by John Muir, a racist supporter of eugenics and forced-sterilization laws, to help people enjoy and protect the wilderness in the USA. Among Sierra Club’s other early leaders were Joseph LeConte and David Starr Jordan, both of whom believed in white supremacy. In 1969, building on its founders’ extremist… Continue reading Sierra Club
The Netherlands (Don’t Make a Wave Committee) Canada According to Greenpeace, the Don’t Make a Wave Committee was formed in 1970. But this story of radical direct action really began a year later. On the 15th of September 1971, activists from the newly formed body set sail from Vancouver, Canada, in the 25-metre Phyllis-Cormack, which… Continue reading Greenpeace
Wildlife Betrayed is the forward-looking, reforming manifesto which 21st conservation and sustainable development has lacked. It is in the form of a short book-length document, ideal for online propagation. It has six Case Studies ranging from Elephants to COVID showing how populist “hands-off” conservation and animal welfare campaigns are pursuing a well-funded and relentless campaign to mislead… Continue reading Wildlife Betrayed
Originally published in Sustainable Fisheries. Author Emily De Sousa The talk of the ocean world is Seaspiracy, a Netflix Original film produced by the same team responsible for Cowspiracy and What the Health. Like those two previous films, Seaspiracy is full of misinformation and has been panned by actual experts. Others have already addressed the racist and xenophobic undertones of the… Continue reading The science of Seaspiracy
Wildlife Betrayed shows how many of CITES’ Parties and well-funded animal activist groups have betrayed the wildlife for which they declare a great passion. Our purpose SUMMER 2022 IS THE RIGHT TIME TO ADDRESS CITES’ problems and opportunities. Several strands in our work show that the 2019 CITES Conference of the Parties (CoP18) saw a… Continue reading Sample – A brief guide to Wildlife Betrayed and CITES
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