Friday, 8 March 2019

Has WWF's mission to combat nature's enemy gone too far?

Claims that the World Wide Fund for Nature is in bed with paramilitaries point to a wider need for root and branch reform

World Wide Fund for Nature, put down your weapons. You are not a mercenary. You are not a government. You are not a terrorist. Your mission: to save the planet. Saving the planet does not happen by shooting people, or even by threatening them.

One might be forgiven for thinking that headlines this week revealing allegations that WWF was in bed with paramilitaries in different parts of the world must have been referring to the erstwhile World Wrestling Federation, not the fluffy panda charity that saves tigers. How could this possibly be?

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from World news | The Guardian https://ift.tt/2NOInls

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