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Wildlife

Hunting, Humanity & the Circus at CITES

BY JOHN NASH COP20 — the latest Conference of the Parties to CITES — has just drawn to a close in Uzbekistan, and once again, what ought to be a sober gathering of grown-ups discussing wildlife trade was overrun by the usual swarm of parasitic NGOs and tin-shakers clutching fluffy toy elephants like infants’ emotional support animals. Instead of encouraging the tried-and-tested systems that actually … Continue reading Hunting, Humanity & the Circus at CITES

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Monkey Business – The Real Jane Goodall

BY JOHN NASH Recently, under the somewhat misleading banner of BBC News “Inside Science” (I kid you not, Dear Reader), we were treated to another pokey finger of hypocrisy courtesy of some Bash Britain Corporation (BBC) Radio 4 presenter or other. It was a piece about that much decorated monkey wench, Dame Jane Goodall, warning us that “The sixth great extinction is happening.” Will someone … Continue reading Monkey Business – The Real Jane Goodall

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