Aug 21
20130
Conservation International, Foundations, Nature Conservancy, Non-Profit Industrial Complex, World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Keep Off The Grasslands | Mark Dowie On Conservation Refugees
"He also discovered that the large conservation organizations were partnering with corporations that wanted to build oil wells or gas pipelines or mine for minerals on these lands. Originally conservationists were opposed to drilling and mining, but, Dowie says, the lines between the conservation giants and the corporate giants are being blurred: “International conservation organizations remain comfortable working in close quarters with some of the most aggressive global resource prospectors.”