BILLIONAIRES BUYING UP VAST TRACTS OF

Personally I welcome their involvment.

Wild places are going fast and will be a scarse resource in the future. So, it makes sense to invest in it as a commodity! For many African countries it might very well be one of its most precious commodities, aprart from its human capital!

The peace parks foundation was featured in the September issue of National Geographic:
http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/data/2001/09/ 01/html/hm_20010...

Harry Oppenheimers legacy also lives on with the opening of the Harry Oppenheimer Okavango Research Center HOORC in Maun Botswana:
http://www.ub.bw/departments/centres/hoorc.html

and due to the Oppenheimers inclination the Kalahari Conservation Society was formed, one of Botswanas most prominent NGO's.

I suggest the original poster go after the billionairs without a concience ...

I'll just disregarde the rest of the accusations put forward in the original mail.

Yeh, just about all governments have been shown to be completely incapable of looking after wilderness - its about time private enterprise had a go. Here in Australia the gov 'owns' most of the country. Superficially alot of the national parks look OK but they are full of feral animals and weeds. Huge tracts of land are 'leased' to farmers but because they dont own it the incentive is to work it to death rather than conserve it. The government than has to spend a fortune of our money to try and rectify the damage. People that think the government know how to run things (anything!) are plain stupid.

WWF is the World Wildlife Fund, not the 'World Wide Fund for Nature' (or the World Wrestling Federation for that matter), I think.

Peter Melka

Peter,

nope, they changed their name.

THE {WWF} IS THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION.

THE {WWF} IS THE WORLD WRESTLING FEDERATION.