Comments on: Out Now!

By: Nancy Snowman

Nancy Snowman — Wed, 23 Sep 2015 22:22:06 +0000

I am horrified and so mad. How do we take down wwf? I am ready. I AM SO SO MAD.

By: Noor Ali

Noor Ali — Tue, 08 Sep 2015 23:23:21 +0000

I totally agree with this comments..Conservation in Kenya is reserved for a cartel comprising politicians,land grabbers and local elite .
Classic example or case in north Kenya.Local communities who have survived and inhabited land with high wild life population are now being taught how to leave with same animals.Branded as poachers,a threat and millons raised to “sensitize and educate them”
Its a fallancy,fraud and defaming
Open secret conservationists squander money but they are never prosecuted.They are the leading investors in their locality and a majority venture to politics after amassing wealth.Donor funds meant for conservation are funding campaigns and breeding crafty politicians

By: Gail Inkersole

Gail Inkersole — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 05:59:29 +0000

I’m sickened to the core to learn that the very organization that we have been sponsoring, with our hard earned cash, has been supporting the very “causes” , that it purported to challenge and change.

By: amber veeg

amber veeg — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:53:55 +0000

Many, large well-funded conservation groups. Please tell. Thanks.

By: Lesley Williams

Lesley Williams — Tue, 11 Aug 2015 03:23:20 +0000

Thank you soo much for enlightening me
I’ve poured Donations to this organisation
Can’t wait to get the book
Is it available in Audio formats
Respect
Lesley

By: Lorna Salzman

Lorna Salzman — Fri, 17 Jul 2015 18:34:03 +0000

The public needs to distinguish honest credible critiques of environmental groups from those sponsored by corporate and industry interests. Authors, publishers and sponsors of such critiques should be investigated to uncover conflicts of interest and industry-sponsored propaganda such as the recent one by eelegal.org attacking the Sierra Club for taking donations from wealthy donors, which was actually a defense of continued coal and oil burning, written in panic over MIchael Bloomberg’s donation to Sierra and his determination (and theirs) to shut down all coal burning plants. The preponderance of these attacks is undoubtedly due to growing energy industry fears over threats to the value of fossil fuel investments. Equally deplorable are articles in respectable journals like the New Yorker (about The Nature Conservancy dismissal of wilderness and promotion of human management of nature, and a pro-GMO article attacking
leading anti-GMO activist Vandana Shiva by Michael Specter, a shill for Monsanto). Always follow the trail of authors and publishers and their blogs to discover the hidden agendas and politics of those who trash environmental groups and activists.

By: A committed eco defender

A committed eco defender — Wed, 15 Oct 2014 11:11:47 +0000

From my years of working in the development and conservation field in developing countries, I have found many large well funded conservation groups to be engaging in socially and ethically questionable activities in remote locations. They have been able to get away with their unethical ways of doing things in the name of conservation because their supporters in the affluent countries think cute animals and forests are way more important to protect than dealing with the impoverishment and poverty of the locals. They brought with them the notion of conservation from their own countries where the social economic and political conditions are totally different from communities who have co-existed with nature for centuries.

Without first understanding the issues from the local context, they came well resourced to create national parks and no go zones at the exclusion of the locals who are often poor and have been dependent on nature for their survival. Worse they collaborate with corrupt local officials to seize land and forested areas for their projects. They have set a bad image of conservationists for the locals. When genuine environmentalists with a strong social ethics want to work with the locals it takes a lot more effort to develop trust as a result. They have ruined the notion of conservation at the local level. “Conservation” has become a dirty world like corruption and greed in many developing countries where large corporate conservation groups have left their deep and nasty footprints – in many of the world’s pristine areas they are still there and as active as they have ever been because they have a lot of money to burn.

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By: Andrea Bowen

Andrea Bowen — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 02:17:58 +0000

2007 created the largest threat to mankind, all charities were attacked and those that supported them turned against them which made them unable to use funds for conservation and human rights

By: Colm Barry

Colm Barry — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 15:38:45 +0000

Indeed one might even argue that, looking into the foundation history of the WWF, that it may have been founded by the big corporations to nip a grass roots buildup of conservancy groups in the bud.