Criticism of Worldwide Conservation Group for not addressing the Destruction of Nature by Wars and Military Operations

However, there was no mention of the environmental effects on the marine environment from the construction of a huge new naval base on Jeju Island, South Korea, the site of the previous IUCN conference four years ago. At that conference, IUCN, no doubt at the request of the South Korean government, refused to allow citizen activists to have a booth inside the convention or make presentations like the Okinawans did this year. As a result, the Jeju Island campaigners were forced to stay outside the conference site.

Four years later in the 2016 WCC conference in Hawaii, the Government of Japan and the Province of Jeju Island sponsored a large multi-media pavilion about Jeju island which did not mention the construction of the new naval base and the destruction of the cultural heritage of the site nor the displacement of women divers who had dived at the location for generations.

Local Groups from Honolulu have rally and sign-holding against Militarization of Asia and the Pacific

On September 3, local groups in Honolulu came to the Hawaii Convention Center with signs to remind the IUCN of the US militarization of Asia and the Pacific. Issues of the environmental impact from the huge 108,863 acre Pohakuloa bombing range on the Big Island of Hawaii, the largest US military installation in the Pacific, the Aegis missile test center on the island of Kauai and the four large US Army, Navy, Air Force and Marine bases on the island of Oahu and the extensive number of US military bases in Japan, Okinawa, South Korea, Guam and new US military installations in the Philippines and Australia were featured on the signs and posters of the local environmentalists.

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