By Emmanuael Koro- As you might know, climate change is one of the biggest threats to both wildlife and humankind.
Its impacts on and kills all forms of life in the air, on the land, freshwater bodies, rivers and seas and oceans.
Sadly, the Western animal rights groups are hell-bent on selfishly and selectively singling out emotional /charismatic wildlife protectionist issues linked to fundraising opportunities.
Therefore, they ignore the self-regulating Organisation of Petroleum Producing Countries (OPEC) and preferfor selfish fundraising purposes; to impose poaching and illegal wild trade-triggering bans on international wildlifehunting and all forms of wild trade, so that they can profit from it through fundraising.
Meanwhile, African wildlife and people become harmed by such decisions. Without trade, there are no funds for wildlife and habitat conservation. Also, no money socioeconomic developments in communities that co-exist with wildlife. This is a sad scenario because it disincentives conservation. When African communities don’t benefit from wildlife, they see no need to conserve it and its habitat. Hence the popular saying in southern African countries “Use It Or Lose It.”
However, for these animal rights groups, the best way to maintain their fundraising ventures is to continue the dictatorshipstyle imposition of bans on international wildlife hunting and all forms of wild trade, including ivory and rhino horn.
Because if there is no wildlife poaching and illegal trade in wild products (problems that they have created to profit from), then their lucrative fundraising opportunities fall away.
Therefore, we should not be surprised by their ‘deafening silence’ when it comes to climate change because they can’t raise as muchmuch from the climate change issues as they do from emotional wildlife-focused issues.
If they were serious about saving wildlife, they should be brave enough to tell OPEC member countries (that include Iran, Saudi Arabia, USA, Qatar and Russia to name a few powerful ones) to stop oil production and use alternative sources of energy. But they won’t because there is not much money linked to climate change issues. Also, of course, because they are scared of them!
The secret about the Western animal rights’ agenda is out again, they follow the money, not wildlife conservation.
WE WOULD HAVE EXPECTED THEM THIS WEEK ON EARTH DAY, TO SAY SOMETHING ABOUT HOW OPEC IS DAMAGING NOT ONLY WILDLIFE BUT HUMAN LIVES.