My daughters current school text is Conrads Heart of Darkness, and she came home last night full of outrage and despair. Shed been studying King Leopold of Belgiums subjugation of the Congo - the true purpose of which reign of terror was to extract vast wealth in the form of rubber and ivory. yale.edu/gsp/colonial/belgian_congo/ The history of the whole African continent - all these hundreds of years when its people have been stolen and stolen-from - is one that should make us hang our heads in shame. Today, we continue to steal, especially the last of the great wildlife, and sometimes it makes us feel better to blame the poachers on the ground who kill the animals. In truth, these animals are killed by foreign demand - long before any bullet or poison spear reaches them. Hatred is not only useless in creating a solution, its unjust and hypocritical. Better we should help: Support the IAPF - International Anti Poaching Foundation - iapf.org or itswild.org and read: goodnewsnetwork.org/reducing-human-poverty-saving-wildlife-ecosystems/
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 23:26:02 +0000
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