Mikhail Pozharsky: "Tears of the rhino"

"The other day, an interesting investigation of BuzzFeed was published: it turns out people in the third world countries are tortured and killed not only for the sake of universal good, but also for the sake of a tear of the rhino. The famous WWF Wildlife Protection Fund sponsor paramilitary and government structures to combat poaching (" rangers "). Rangers conduct raids on the villages closest to the parks, where they beat, kill, rob, rape, burn at home and arrange other terror, ”writes a publicist in his Telegram channel .

"Poaches, which are organized crime, also kill rangers in packs. In fact, there is a full -scale war, where a civilian population falls under the distribution, which in such countries traditionally does not give a damn. Sweet details: WWF sells toy figures of rangers of 75 bucks, marked the heroes of the advanced line.

Interestingly, in many cases, the population living next to the parks was expelled from their raised lands when organizing these same parks. That is, people were first deprived of her bed, a familiar lifestyle, and now they are still terrorized as poachers. The article hints that it would be much more effective to fight poaching, enlisting the support of such local tribes, and not at all militarized oak -ups.

It would also be worthwhile to think about the effectiveness of the approach of the wildlife associated with the creation of parks. That is, at first in poor countries, closed clusters containing valuable animals are created, which attract poachers like flies, then to protect these clusters attract army, which are accepted to terrorize everyone around. So that a well -fed European can proudly wear the icon "I save animals and subsidize WWF." It seems that with this approach, something fundamentally wrong. "