WWF hires paramilitary torturers to guard animals

by **United Muscovite Nations** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:15 am

This is why Western governments and NGO's shouldn't trust proxies in their interactions.

by **Bienenhalde** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:48 am

I agree that we probably need to resort to authoritarian methods to solve our current environmental crisis, but punishing innocent people and committing rape are completely unacceptable.

by **Ostroeuropa** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:49 am

United Muscovite Nations wrote:This is why Western governments and NGO's shouldn't trust proxies in their interactions.

This is my takeaway too.

by **Saint Alban Islands** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:02 pm

Ummm, no. I can‘t believe any „news“ from Buzzfeed

by **Woodfiredpizzas** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 12:58 pm

With the media’s recent record I’m going to go with the paramilitaries are tourists who politely asked the villager, an actual sex slave trafficker mastermind, to stop impaling children vlad the impaler style while riding an endangered rhino species.

That’s how much I trust the accuracy here.

by **Ethel mermania** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 2:33 pm

Thermodolia wrote:For a second I thought we where talking about the WWE and not the WWF

Well the WWF is the precursor to the WWE, so you may be on to something. And I wouldnt put any of this beyond Vince McMahon.

by **Yusseria** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 3:45 pm

Militant environmentalists are a cancerous lot.

by **Costa Fierro** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:18 pm

> Buzzfeed

Oh boy, it's not like they haven't been found out to have been full of shit before.

by **Loben** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:20 pm

Ethel mermania wrote:
Thermodolia wrote:For a second I thought we where talking about the WWE and not the WWF

Well the WWF is the precursor to the WWE, so you may be on to something. And I wouldnt put any of this beyond Vince McMahon.

God i miss the attitude era.

by **The Caleshan Valkyrie** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:21 pm

Urge to make puns... rising...

by **Shofercia** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:29 pm

"Put the fucking Panda down, or else I will rape you!"
"Alright! Okay, okay! Good Panda"
"Fuck it, you're being raped anyways!"

Found this little gem from 2017: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/worl ... 64756.html

Anti-poaching patrols in central Africa have been accused of committing atrocities against local tribes in order to protect wildlife. A report by Survival International, a UK-based group campaigning for tribal peoples' rights, alleges that wildlife guards funded by the WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature) and other conservation organisations "harass, beat, torture and kill" people of the Baka, or Bayaka, tribes.

WWF has rejected the charges in the report and said it was "shocked and saddened to hear of the violence and abuse of indigenous people." Mike Hurran, a researcher at Survival International, told The Independent the report summarises "the history of human rights abuse that happens in the name of conservation in" the Congo Basin between Cameroon, the Republic of Congo and the Central African Republic.

by **Aclion** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:35 pm

Heloin wrote:
Vyluria-Aseko wrote:Honestly, this seems like a pretty badass job.

Point your gun at people and yell at them not to lay a fucking finger on the pandas or else they’re getting Swiss-cheesed.

It's somewhat less badass when the group they're paying is pointing guns at villagers not poachers.

Plot twist, most poaching is done by the local villagers. This is why conservationists are so big on allying conservation with hunting, it turns animals that are a pest and a danger into valuable assets, while ingesting the cash to protect those assets.

by **Liriena** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:52 pm

That's... a hell of a trip. Yikes.

Proctopeo wrote:
Andsed wrote:Also what is it with animal right groups doing illegal awful shit? I mean look at this incident and all the shit PETA has done.

Well, at least the WWF isn't killing what it's supposed to be protecting. That counts for something, I suppose.

mfw PETA has placed the bar so low that hiring paramilitary torturers to protect wildlife doesn't automatically make you the worst charity.

by **Liriena** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:55 pm

Saint Alban Islands wrote:Ummm, no. I can‘t believe any „news“ from Buzzfeed

Friendly reminder that Buzzfeed News employs several professional journalists who have gone on to do serious and reliable investigative work. So if you can't engage with the actual content of the piece, don't engage at all.

by **Liriena** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 4:56 pm

Woodfiredpizzas wrote:With the media’s recent record I’m going to go with the paramilitaries are tourists who politely asked the villager, an actual sex slave trafficker mastermind, to stop impaling children vlad the impaler style while riding an endangered rhino species.

That’s how much I trust the accuracy here.

Now this is rational skepticism

by **Bear Stearns** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 5:59 pm

Liriena wrote:
Saint Alban Islands wrote:Ummm, no. I can‘t believe any „news“ from Buzzfeed

Friendly reminder that Buzzfeed News employs several professional journalists who have gone on to do serious and reliable investigative work. So if you can't engage with the actual content of the piece, don't engage at all.

No it doesn't.

by **Liriena** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:10 pm

Bear Stearns wrote:
Liriena wrote:Friendly reminder that Buzzfeed News employs several professional journalists who have gone on to do serious and reliable investigative work. So if you can't engage with the actual content of the piece, don't engage at all.

No it doesn't.

BUZZFEED BAD

by **Scomagia** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:19 pm

An animal rights group did something unethical? How unprecedented.

by **LiberNovusAmericae** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:23 pm

If this is true, then a movement should be established to boycot the charity, and they should be sued if there is sufficient evidence.

by **Scomagia** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 7:25 pm

Aclion wrote:
Heloin wrote:It's somewhat less badass when the group they're paying is pointing guns at villagers not poachers.

Plot twist, most poaching is done by the local villagers. This is why conservationists are so big on allying conservation with hunting, it turns animals that are a pest and a danger into valuable assets, while ingesting the cash to protect those assets.

I think you've got things a little screwed up. Conservation and hunting have long been intertwined, probably as long or longer than conservation and the "animal rights" movement have been. It's a little weird to talk about conservation and hunting as if they're separate things when they overlap more often than not.

by **Torrocca** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:33 pm

Well... that's fucked up. I... guess... good on the guards for at least... guarding animals? Either way, that's extremely fucked up and there's undoubtedly better people to hire, I'd imagine.

Liriena wrote:BUZZFEED BAD

Uh... that image came off Breitbart's website, lol.

by **Ayytaly** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:41 pm

Did someone say WWF?

Jesse "The Body" Ventura wrote:This is panda-monium, Gorilla!

Gorilla Monsoon wrote:This place is going bananas!

by **Infected Mushroom** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 10:52 pm

This is treason against humanity, plain and simple.

The WWF must be disbanded so this is stopped.

by **Liriena** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:03 pm

Torrocca wrote:Well... that's fucked up. I... guess... good on the guards for at least... guarding animals? Either way, that's extremely fucked up and there's undoubtedly better people to hire, I'd imagine.

Liriena wrote:BUZZFEED BAD

Uh... that image came off Breitbart's website, lol.

Lol yeah. First result when Google image searching "NPC".

by **Trollgaard** » Mon Mar 04, 2019 11:07 pm

Well, guards doing naughty things isn't really news, especially in war torn areas of the globe.

What is sad is that paramilitary forces have to be hired in the first place so Earth's animals aren't hunted to extinction.

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