survivalinternational.org Baka in southeast Cameroon face serious abuse at the hands of anti-poaching squads supported and funded by WWF. © Selcen Kucukustel/Atlas UPDATE 16 October: WWF has responded angrily to Survival’s campaign. Read the facts behind the headlines. Survival International, the global movement for tribal peoples’ rights, has uncovered serious abuses of Baka “Pygmies” in…
The WWF raises money across the globe to save the orangutan. The organization does, in fact, act to preserve existing national parks that are home to the likeable, funny-faced apes. But at the same time, the WWF – a strong proponent of plant-based energy production worldwide – is aiding its agribusiness partners in annihilating much…
The World Wide Fund for Nature has been the subject of much controversy since its inception. Now a new English translation of a book by German author Wilfried Huismann, PandaLeaks – The Dark Side of the WWF, presents two years of on-the-ground investigative research, exposing their unethical and hypocritical tactics to a much greater depth than before. The book…
Patrick Alley at TEDxExeter talks about how the logging industry and governments have conned people into believing that legal logging is ok and that organizations like the WWF are helping to improve the state of our forests. There’s an article on the redd-monitor site that’s worth reading too.