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WWF - Scaremongers in conservation

5/18/2014

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WWF-SA – SCAREMONGERS IN CONSERVATION

By Chris Mercer – Tuesday, April 06, 2004

On 20-Nov-03, the WWF (World Wide fund for Nature) in South Africa published the following article.
 
Unfortunately, it is written in Ecobabble, a language designed by the High Priests of Conservation to confuse the uninitiated, and so we have provided a translation below.





"WWF-SA Position on Animal Rights" Dr. Rob Little of WWF-SA

ANIMAL RIGHTS AS A THREAT TO CONSERVATION
1. As the population of the wealthy "developed" nations move ever further from their daily interactions with Nature, they move into a realm where simplistic "animal rights" approaches/solutions to mankind's interaction with wildlife become ever more appealing to "the man in the street".
2. WWF-SA believes that the conservation community completely underestimates how devastating this trend could be, if allowed to proceed unchecked.
3. This attitude can lead to mismanaged or unmanaged systems; for example (A) the lack of control of introduced invasive alien species which can threaten the future viability and biodiversity of the invaded ecosystems, (B) the lack of control of overabundant large native herbivores in protected areas where their uncontrolled population growth similarly reduces the viability and biodiversity of the protected ecosystems, and (C) the issue of opposition to the sustainable consumptive use of native wildlife populations – where allowing this use might be of fundamental importance in ensuring that native species and untransformed ecosystems survive in areas where human needs will otherwise drive these areas into alternative land usage under which ecosystems are transformed (e.g. cultivated) and/or native wildlife is replaced with domesticated livestock.
4. By failing to recognize, and then face head-on, the enormous strategic challenge posed by the growth of the animal rights movement, the conservation community could seriously impair its ability to influence for the better the fate of the natural world in the decades to come.
5. WWF-SA is continually on guard to ensure that our own conservation policies continue to be driven by genuine conservation imperatives and not by animal rights agendas.


TRANSLATION IN TO PLAIN ENGLISH.
1. As human populations become urbanized, people become more sophisticated and therefore more concerned with the ethical treatment of animals.
 
2. WWF-SA believes that this process is subversive, and if unchecked, might even result in hunters having to sell their guns.
 
3. An ethical attitude to the treatment of sentient beings will result in chaos:
A. Invasive aliens will run wild, destroying nature. The Tahrs will graze crop circles in the fynbos, and then declare Table Mountain a Tahr Republic. The WWF alien Panda logo will have to go to an animal experimentation laboratory to be sustainably utilized. It will be replaced by a Cape Molerat with Certificates from the Alien Classification Board that its ancestors are all pure South African going back as far as carbon dating allows.
B. Elephants and Buffalo will form up into ranks and trample game parks into deserts.
C. Hunting will become unpopular, so natives will plough up the land. Wildlife will be killed by poor blacks (poaching, bad) instead of by rich whites (conservation, good).

4. Unless the High Priests of Conservation form a tight scrum to exclude the urbanized, ethically – literate invaders, we will lose the power to decide what animals to kill and when.

5. The Tuli elephant traffickers may rest assured that we will be ready to issue another Press Release rubbishing the animal rightists who, for their own wicked agendas, spread malicious rumours that the Tuli elephant babies were being beaten and tortured. WWF-SA, upon whom the Almighty has bestowed a monopoly of all knowledge relating to environmental governance, will never allow ordinary, concerned citizens to participate in wildlife management, regardless of the laws and the Constitution.


7 Comments
Diane Easey
6/3/2014 05:35:43 pm

I cannot explain how much I hate hunters, and as for showing off their kill, well, they had better NOT cross my path.

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Des Wegner link
6/4/2014 03:45:18 am

I am disgusted by the pretence of CONSERVATION of Wildlife being exploited for personal gain by people who clearly have no deep concern for the wellbeing of the Wildlife. Not surprising that the numbers are so embarrassingly low in SA! No regard for our beautiful animals who have no voice! That is why true animal activism it vital in SA. The hunters are welcome to destroy their guns! Not sure what gave them the right to use them in the first place? Our future generations will simply see pictures of Lions and Elephants if we are not careful. Not to mention all the other wildlife already practically wiped out by poachers and hunters. There is not, AND NEVER WILL BE any justification for Canned Hunting in SA! SA's dirty secrets are being exposed finally!

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Diane Easey
6/4/2014 04:21:24 pm

Thank you Des, finally, a good and honest person has told the truth on this blog.
Thank you so much
Diane

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chris mercer
6/4/2014 09:02:02 pm

Thanks Diane. We get so many complaints from people when we criticise WWF and other establishment institutions. Best Chris.

Diane Easey
6/4/2014 09:39:28 pm

Thanks so much Chris, all the very best to you and WWF for the future.

Danny Henriksen
1/25/2015 05:40:49 pm

I have been shocked by reports of members of the board of WWF involved in hunting for trophies.
Now I am convinced this organisation is as corrupt as I have suspected.
Thank you Chris for all the hard work and effort you put into informing the masses wrt animal welfare.

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Diane Easey
6/1/2015 04:04:26 pm

I want to kill tjhis thing that shot the Leopard, he has no brains, no heart, so that makes him inhuman, so, ok, lets get rid of him from this world, he does classify as a human.

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