Is CITES, the treaty governing threatened species, broken? Could Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe pull out over green colonialism? Should it be scrapped in favor of species-specific agreements? Conservationist Rowan Martin argues the affirmative. dailymaverick.co.za/article/2019-1…

Ethical zebra burgers?! One of the many foodstuffs that cellular agriculture startup @vowfood envisions. "Paradoxically, it may be easier to get people to eat lab-grown exotic flesh than lab-grown beef." — James Serpell inverse.com/article/60396-… by Stephen J. Bronner

Many campaigns targeting the illegal wildlife trade have racist undertones. Scholars @jaredmargulies et al. find WildAid's work especially problematic—"presenting China, and an undifferentiated figure of the Chinese 'Asian super consumer' as the problem." doi.org/10.1016/j.geof…

Would flooding the market with fake rhino horn help or hurt rhinos? A newly engineered fake horn reignites the perpetual debate: nyti.ms/2rnPb2h NYT Science WildAid NatureNeedsMore Wildlife Justice Commission Pembient

THIS IS HUGE!! New iGEM Partner Revive & Restore will award up to 12 grants of $5500 each to #iGEM2020 teams whose projects are focused on solving a problem in conservation. 📆 Mark your calendars --> Applications close Monday, May 4 2020.igem.org/Sponsors/Reviv…

The racism is ramping up now. The Conservation colonial project mouthpieces are now struggling to convince the world that white tourists are the only reason why black savages don't kill and eat all the wildlife in Africa. Shame on National Geographic! nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/0…

For those who don't yet understand how the monster of "community based conservation" destroys pastoralist societies. Watch how self sufficiency and sustainability is transformed into dependency and slavery to raise funds. Any questions? youtu.be/clnpNc3zBRg

Horizon scans are important. Here, one funded by Oxford Martin School and led by Nafeesa Esmail looks at emerging issues within the illegal wildlife trade: doi.org/10.1111/conl.1… Issue #55 deals with "advances in bio-fabricated wildlife products."

Check out our latest episode, feat. @Pembient CEO Matthew Markus on the science + politics of lab-grown, fake rhino horn: bit.ly/3gmqSqm #AfterAnimalspodcast #savetherhino #RhinoConservation #biofabrication #CITES #wildlifetrafficking #WorldRhinoDay #endangeredspecies

Share your views on possibility for wildlife-rich SADC countries to sue Western animal rights for violating their rights to trade in live elephants & rhinos, including ivory & rhino horn. CITES ICJ SADC Secretariat Eugene LAPOINTE ifaw eNCA SABC News CNN TGA

Fellow Natives, What could be more upsetting than this? What's next a message from the Ku Klux Klan saying black lives matter?? Shame

Say no to Western animal rights groups influenced racist decisions within UN agency CITES that violate Africa's rights to wild trade.Floyd's brutal murder has put a spotlight on racism worldwide. Ivonne Higuero Eugene LAPOINTE WWF Economic Freedom Fighters Oprah Winfrey CNN Zimparks SANParks

U.S. Pharmacopeia has opted to keep barriers in place that hamper the adoption of a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in endotoxin testing. reuters.com/article/us-lon… by John Miller This action shows how hard it can be to get synthetic wildlife products to market.

Conservation is replete with racism: Classifying indigenous hunters as poachers, advocating "shoot-to-kill" policies, promoting white eco-tourism, denying opportunities to POC, forced relocations, etc. We'll be RTing insights from MOgada & Emmanuel Koro today. #ShutDownSTEM

Thus concludes our critical look at conservation from the perspectives of MOgada & Emmanuel Koro. We encourage you to follow and RT them in a bid to #DecolonizeConservation, #ShutDownSTEM.

As California debates banning the import of hunting trophies, #BlackLivesMatter says "In effect, they’re saying it’s racist & insulting for wealthy white Westerners to imply that all Africans are too corrupt or incompetent to make hunting sustainable" bit.ly/3fqtZfo

"Let Africans decide". Whose voices should we listen to? Celebrities famous for acting, or representatives of more than 50 community conservation organizations in Africa? bit.ly/3jsDwFf

Government funding was misused by conservation NGOs (e.g., WWF) for purposes prohibited under US laws, including rape & murder. $12M of that funding has now been cut thanks to Stephen Corry, Raul M. Grijalva, Deputy Secretary Kate MacGregor, … #DecolonizeConservation survivalinternational.org/news/12475