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- Unfortunately, many NGOs comprising the
Green Movement are an amalgam of all three of these “green” components
– which has tarnished the image that society has developed towards TRUE
environmentalism and towards TRUE animal welfarism.
- Do not be fooled by the inclusion of the
words “animal welfare” or “humane” in the titles of some Green
NGOs. These words are often used as smoke-screens to hide an NGO’s true
purpose and identity. What is, perhaps, the biggest animal rights
organisation in the world – The International Fund for Animal Welfare
(IFAW) – is one of these. The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS)
– reputed to be the World’s second biggest animal rights organisation
– is another.
- IFAW is a convoluted business enterprise
with an annual income that is reported to be in excess of US $ 200 000
000. Last year HSUS declared its annual income to be US $ 95 000 000. The
cornerstone of these NGO incomes, and of others like them, is said to be
monthly donations made by middle-aged ladies who live alone in the big
cities of the First World.
- South Africa has its own animal rights
NGOs who are of much lesser consequence but, nevertheless, equally
dangerous.
- Animal rights organisations all have the
same strategy for raising funds. The first thing they do is create a huge
and highly emotional controversy – such as that which can be generated
from Kruger National Park’s legitimate elephant culling programme. Once
this has been done, and greatly publicised, it is not difficult to
persuade the unversed urbanised peoples of the First World to pay the NGO
‘just a pittance’ to help stop such ‘cruel’, ‘barbaric’ and
‘unnecessary’ wildlife management practices. And the rivers of
pittances that flow into the NGOs’ coffers soon mount up to very large
sums of money. This is easy money, because the gullible and highly
susceptible First World victims of this highly successful confidence
industry don’t have any access to reasoned pro-culling (or
pro-sustainable ‘use’ of wildlife) arguments.
- During the last three decades many animal
rights groups have been involved in trying to stop legitimate hunting
practices, commercial wildlife harvesting and the essential culling of
excessive wild animal populations, in South Africa. They succeeded in
stopping the harvesting of the Cape Fur Seal twenty years ago – which
forced the South African Penguin onto the endangered species list because,
inter alia, the seal population grew so large it pushed the penguins off
their offshore breeding islands. They stopped the culling of elephants in
Kruger National Park after 1994. And, more recently, they stopped the
hunting of surplus male animals in Pilanesberg – which once represented
that Park’s greatest source of income.
- Now they are the biggest opponent’s of
elephant culling in Kruger, and you, Mr. Minister, should take cognizance
of the nature of the tiger that now has you by the tail.
- Among the many worrying inroads that the
animal rightists have made into South African society in recent years is
the sponsoring of leading scientists in our universities, who now
undertake projects, and carry out research, on their sponsors’ behalf.
At least one of these is a ‘scientist’ who has been publicly urging
you, Sir, NOT to resume elephant culling in Kruger National Park.
- One of these sponsorships is said to be
valued at R 5 000 000 a year.
- The nature of sponsorships is such that
people who are sponsored MUST provide the sponsor-donor with the kind of
“returns-on-investment” that the sponsor-donor wants. And if the
sponsored person does NOT provide “the required goods” his sponsorship
will be revoked.
- A R 5 000 000 per year sponsorship is a
compelling incentive to encourage anybody to publicly project his sponsor’s
message! Furthermore, it is irrational to believe that any person who is
being sponsored by an animal rights NGO will NOT be bound by particular
ideological demands from his sponsor. It should be no surprise to anyone,
therefore, that the learned people who have been sponsored by an animal
rightist NGO now vehemently and publicly oppose the culling of elephants
in Kruger National Park.
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