Buried in the February 2006 Annex of the supporting documents for the report of the Weidemann Consortium—an evaluation of the CARPE program in Central Africa—is the admission that the rational of “overpopulation” was bogus. For all the satellite sensors, the population control programs, the hand wringing by UNESCO and Conservation International and Fauna and Flora International and Richard Leakey’s ranger-training operation called Wildlife Direct—the alphabet soup of “conservation” organizations gathering like hyenas for the kill of land grabs in Africa, “the population density is on the whole quite low.”
Robert Hellyer elaborates on the global demand for petroleum and timber, and on the adverse impacts of human populations in a landscape—Congo—where “it is in the self-interest of the United States government” to support “sustainable development” in the region. Hellyer confirmed that CARPE and USAID are not interested in the Congolese people, or even biodiversity protection, but only in the interests of the United States.
I have been there. It is beautiful. It is ancient and it is in grave danger—not from the local villagers, but from conservation, mining and strategic interests.
Africa is no more the “Dark Continent” than Iraq was a haven for weapons of mass destruction.
Do not allow the media and especially General Electric owned NBC news which recently gave free publicity to bogus conservation interests in the Congo, to pull the wool over the American consciousness.
The land grab from native populations in Africa will make the horrific genocide perpetrated upon the American Indian pale by comparison.
Villagers in Africa will find themselves on reservations, euphemistically termed “preserves” if we do not wake up.
I could go on and on, but I already have.
Google “King Kong” and glean what you will.
