Nature Alert: CHARITY'S DIRTY SECRETS

Sunday, 25 April 2010

CHARITY'S DIRTY SECRETS

If you live in the UK you might want to read in today’s
Sunday Times a full page review of a new book called
"Charity's dirty secrets" by Linda Polman.

Presumably this book will soon be available on Amazon.

A sample exert reads “....The main reason for what amounts to a conspiracy of silence on their (charity’s and their employees) part is that if the general public were to know what happens to their charitable donations, they might never give again to such ventures”.

The newspaper review does not yet appear online.

The book goes on to talk about government aid projects, which as I keep on saying are little more than a scam to entice countries into being influenced (bought) by other countries. USAid might be an excellent example, and the British government as well as the EC are amongst the worst deceivers. ...................and you try and get them to prove where all this ‘Aid’ goes – they either cannot or will not, making them all part of the conspiracy the author mentions.

This book is a 'must read' for anyone who donates to charity....anywhere in the world.

Hall of Shame for President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and the Palm Oil Industry.

Nothing can prepare one for the sight of the systematic extermination of orangutans by the government of Indonesia.

Look at the photos and news articles on these pages in the context of a statement the President made to the media on 10th December 2007.

“In the last 35 years about 50,000 orangutans are estimated to have been lost as their habitats shrank. If this continues, this majestic creature will likely face extinction by 2050,” President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono said at the launch of an orangutan conservation plan at the climate talks in Bali.

“The fate of the orangutan is a subject that goes to the heart of sustainable forests … To save the orangutan we have to save the forest.”

Statements like these are most welcome, but unless backed up by action, such words fall on deaf ears within the Ministry of Forestry....who are busy granting licences to cut down the very forests the President says they should protect!

When you think you are to busy to help, please could you reflect for a moment on .........

The following extract refers to environmental problems in general. I just hope you find it as thought provoking and relevant to orangutans as I have.

"This is such a shocking and unpalatable fact that most people deny it, or they just don't want to think about it. They believe as individuals, they can do little about it, so push it to the back of their minds. But I can't do that.

When something has to be done, we need to do it. It doesn't matter how big the challenge is or how hard the solution; if I know something is wrong, and I am in a position to help, I will do my best to make it right." Duncan Bannatyne, successful British businessman.