UK Charity Knowingly Threatens African Wildlife and Communities

BY TREVOR OERTEL The multimillion-pound British charity World Animal Protection (WAP) has built a lucrative brand around “saving wildlife.” But its own recently published study tells a very different story, one that reveals the organization’s hypocrisy, racism, Euro-American neo-colonialism and the danger of its campaigns to Africa’s people and wildlife. In its report, “Attitudes of local communities to wildlife conservation and non-consumptive, alternative income sources, … Continue reading UK Charity Knowingly Threatens African Wildlife and Communities

Big Cats Make Fat Cats

BY JOHN NASH Silly season August it is, and World Lion Day on the 10th has seen the publication of another soppy-science report, this time in Nature Conservation, a publication that “strongly encourages papers on ethical… issues related to the management and use of biodiversity and ecosystems” but then also rejects manuscripts of “low scientific quality”.  How it squares the circle between an unscientific ethical … Continue reading Big Cats Make Fat Cats