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The global biodiversity crisis is accelerating and international trade is a primary driver threatening species with extinction. Nature Needs More is an Australian registered charity committed to curbing this destruction. https://natureneedsmore.org/
The so-called evidence-base of the legal wildlife trade needs be urgently fact-checked. Only with good quality traceability is that possible.
Why do establishment conservation organisations see calling for traceability as confusing?
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Why do establishment conservation organisations see calling for traceability as confusing?
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To Prove, Or Not To Prove, That Is The Question - Nature Needs More
In 2017, I wrote an article, Want To Know Why Conservation is Failing? Read On. In the article I quoted Vikram Mansharamani, a lecturer who teaches “students to use multiple perspectives in making tou...
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April 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
The so-called evidence-base of the legal wildlife trade needs be urgently fact-checked. Only with good quality traceability is that possible.
Why do establishment conservation organisations see calling for traceability as confusing?
natureneedsmore.org/to-prove-or-...
Why do establishment conservation organisations see calling for traceability as confusing?
natureneedsmore.org/to-prove-or-...
Sadly, wild species have a better chance of survival due to a drop in consumer spending on luxury goods than from anything the conservation world currently does on trade.
For those who care about the exploitation of wild species, enjoy the drop in luxury spending highlighted in the image!
For those who care about the exploitation of wild species, enjoy the drop in luxury spending highlighted in the image!
April 21, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Sadly, wild species have a better chance of survival due to a drop in consumer spending on luxury goods than from anything the conservation world currently does on trade.
For those who care about the exploitation of wild species, enjoy the drop in luxury spending highlighted in the image!
For those who care about the exploitation of wild species, enjoy the drop in luxury spending highlighted in the image!
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Why would conservation charities accept and promote a system that is designed for secrecy, lack of regulation, aid fraud and untraceable ownership? Indeed, why would you legitimize the very strategies used by wildlife traffickers?
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Why Would Conservation Legitimise Strategies Used By Wildlife Traffickers? - Nature Needs More
In April 2016, I wrote an article titled, Want To Know Why Conservation Is Failing? Read On….
In the article, I spoke about the negative implications of the specialist-expert mindset. Over decades, p...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Why would conservation charities accept and promote a system that is designed for secrecy, lack of regulation, aid fraud and untraceable ownership? Indeed, why would you legitimize the very strategies used by wildlife traffickers?
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From the article: Easing cryptocurrency regulations would mark a significant step backward in the pursuit of transparency and accountability in addressing financial misconduct by the wealthy and powerful.
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Under Trump, cryptocurrency is set to go mainstream – but that won’t make it any safer for investors | Larisa Yarovaya
His easing of regulations could leave many unprotected from financial manipulation, misconduct and bursting bubbles, says Larisa Yarovaya, an associate professor of finance
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January 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
From the article: Easing cryptocurrency regulations would mark a significant step backward in the pursuit of transparency and accountability in addressing financial misconduct by the wealthy and powerful.
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The conservation sector needs to stop calling what are effectively ‘guesstimations’ an evidence-based approach. After decades of trade in endangered species there is still no reliable information on what constitutes a sustainable offtake.
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Guesstimations and ‘Encouraging’ Action – This Is No Way To Protect Wildlife - Nature Needs More
The conservation sector needs to stop calling what are effectively ‘guesstimations’ an evidence-based approach. After decades of trade in endangered species there is still no reliable information on w...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:42 PM
The conservation sector needs to stop calling what are effectively ‘guesstimations’ an evidence-based approach. After decades of trade in endangered species there is still no reliable information on what constitutes a sustainable offtake.
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In the years 2010-2019, 1,430,000 [units of specimens!] were exported from Thailand alone, a country where it is estimated only 200 Siamese crocodiles live in the wild. There are 836 crocodile farms registered with the management authority of Thailand.
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CITES Epic Failure: The Legal Trade Of The Siamese Crocodile - Nature Needs More
If there is one species that shows CITES doesn’t work in its current form it’s the Siamese Crocodile. These crocodiles were once widespread throughout much of mainland Southeast Asia. From the 1950s c...
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January 16, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In the years 2010-2019, 1,430,000 [units of specimens!] were exported from Thailand alone, a country where it is estimated only 200 Siamese crocodiles live in the wild. There are 836 crocodile farms registered with the management authority of Thailand.
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The solution to modernise the global regulator would expand CITES remit over the fishing industry and currently global fishery management authorities have too much power. How long will we let them stand in the way of modernising international governance?
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The Long Read: Fishing Industry Lobbies Against CITES Modernisation – Here’s Why - Nature Needs More
Over the last two years, Nature Needs More has continued to meet with politicians and government agencies in our push for modernising CITES. During this time, it has become clear that the fishing indu...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The solution to modernise the global regulator would expand CITES remit over the fishing industry and currently global fishery management authorities have too much power. How long will we let them stand in the way of modernising international governance?
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In the same way that 'boots on the ground' secures elephants, why aren’t 'boots on the ground' used to protect say leadbeater possums in Australia or hen harriers in the UK? The people who step up to protect these species are called activists and can be arrested.
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Boots On The Ground – The Double Standard In Environmental Protection - Nature Needs More
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Boots On The Ground
The Double Standard In Environmental Protection
Lynn Johnson
15 February, 2021
Undoubtedly the ‘boots on the ground’ strategy is saving wildlife and the ...
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January 15, 2025 at 9:21 PM
In the same way that 'boots on the ground' secures elephants, why aren’t 'boots on the ground' used to protect say leadbeater possums in Australia or hen harriers in the UK? The people who step up to protect these species are called activists and can be arrested.
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Europe combined is the biggest profiteer from the trade in wild, endangered species. The important takeaway is that none of the top importing or exporting countries are impoverished. There is no excuse for a regulator like CITES to have not been modernised.
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Is The Wildlife Trade Helping The Poor Or The Rich? - Nature Needs More
Much has been made about the trade in endangered species supporting the livelihoods of poor communities living adjacent to key wildlife populations. Poverty alleviation is used by many players, who ar...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Europe combined is the biggest profiteer from the trade in wild, endangered species. The important takeaway is that none of the top importing or exporting countries are impoverished. There is no excuse for a regulator like CITES to have not been modernised.
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HENRY (High Earners Not Rich Yet) are a target group for luxury brands. Not yet the highest spenders on luxury, they are still seen as a priority. Data on HENRYs is being captured. Sustainability is seen as key to winning this consumer. But is this true?
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HENRYs Love Their Air Miles. - How To Spend It Ethically
HENRYs Love Their Air Miles
Kick your frequent flier addiction during lockdown.
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Lynn Johnson
9 May, 2020
Older siblings of the School Strike For Climate generation are dri...
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January 14, 2025 at 9:17 PM
HENRY (High Earners Not Rich Yet) are a target group for luxury brands. Not yet the highest spenders on luxury, they are still seen as a priority. Data on HENRYs is being captured. Sustainability is seen as key to winning this consumer. But is this true?
howtospenditethically.org/henrys-love-...
howtospenditethically.org/henrys-love-...
The right to destroy in private property law is ‘irrational’ (note the word ‘irrational’, it is important in this legal context). The right to destroy is only ‘implicit’ in law because no legal system attempts to prevent such destruction.
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The Right To Destroy – Needs To Be Stopped - Nature Needs More
The scale of biodiversity loss over recent decades is a stark warning that, worldwide, we must deal with the Right to Destroy, a ‘right’ which is implicit in private property law. In pretty much all l...
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January 13, 2025 at 11:13 PM
The right to destroy in private property law is ‘irrational’ (note the word ‘irrational’, it is important in this legal context). The right to destroy is only ‘implicit’ in law because no legal system attempts to prevent such destruction.
natureneedsmore.org/the-right-to...
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Why would conservation charities accept and promote a system that is designed for secrecy, lack of regulation, aid fraud and untraceable ownership? Indeed, why would you legitimize the very strategies used by wildlife traffickers?
natureneedsmore.org/why-would-co...
natureneedsmore.org/why-would-co...
Why Would Conservation Legitimise Strategies Used By Wildlife Traffickers? - Nature Needs More
In April 2016, I wrote an article titled, Want To Know Why Conservation Is Failing? Read On….
In the article, I spoke about the negative implications of the specialist-expert mindset. Over decades, p...
natureneedsmore.org
January 13, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Why would conservation charities accept and promote a system that is designed for secrecy, lack of regulation, aid fraud and untraceable ownership? Indeed, why would you legitimize the very strategies used by wildlife traffickers?
natureneedsmore.org/why-would-co...
natureneedsmore.org/why-would-co...
A NatGeo article highlighted the fur industry’s strategy to nudge designers back to fur, “Fur auction houses started fighting back, inviting young designers & students to “flirt with [fur] early in their careers”. Their aim, to make fur just another fabric.
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Fur: It’s A Body Part Not A Fabric - How To Spend It Ethically
Fur: It’s A Body Part Not A Fabric
Industry's forty-year game to drive back up the desire.
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Lynn Johnson
8 May, 2020
The fur industry has played a forty-year game to dr...
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January 13, 2025 at 2:10 AM
A NatGeo article highlighted the fur industry’s strategy to nudge designers back to fur, “Fur auction houses started fighting back, inviting young designers & students to “flirt with [fur] early in their careers”. Their aim, to make fur just another fabric.
howtospenditethically.org/fur-its-a-bo...
howtospenditethically.org/fur-its-a-bo...
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WB data says indigenous people make up 6% of world population, who protect 80% of biodiversity. 6% of 8 billion is 480 million. If each person is paid a BI of US$100/month, this would total US$577billion pa. This can be financed with a 2% levy on global trade.
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Basic Income vs. Sustainable Use - Global Breakdown News
A basis income linked to conservation is a valid alternative to the sustainable use model and must be explored as an option.
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December 23, 2024 at 4:14 AM
WB data says indigenous people make up 6% of world population, who protect 80% of biodiversity. 6% of 8 billion is 480 million. If each person is paid a BI of US$100/month, this would total US$577billion pa. This can be financed with a 2% levy on global trade.
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Is it time to call it a day on the WEF and its Davos annual meeting? Because if rich people wanted to save the planet, they would have done it by now.
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The Irrelevance Of Davos - Global Breakdown News
Is it time to call it a day on the WEF and its Davos annual meeting? No longer holding any sway with the 99% who are not benefitting from late-stage neoliberal capitalism, it certainly appears to be i...
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January 7, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Is it time to call it a day on the WEF and its Davos annual meeting? Because if rich people wanted to save the planet, they would have done it by now.
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A Spanish trophy hunter said in a news article, “Three years ago I tried to calculate the time I have spent hunting. I worked out that I had been shooting for 24 hours a day over the course of 11 years and three months of my life. Firing bullets non-stop.”
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It’s Time To Talk About Bloodlust - Nature Needs More
Apex predators and iconic species decimated by a handful of men who can’t control their urge to kill.
It is far too easy to find examples of bloodlust.
Spanish trophy hunter, Marcial Gómez Sequeir...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:20 AM
A Spanish trophy hunter said in a news article, “Three years ago I tried to calculate the time I have spent hunting. I worked out that I had been shooting for 24 hours a day over the course of 11 years and three months of my life. Firing bullets non-stop.”
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Like the magician, governments, industries and companies misdirect the eye and give themselves another term in office or another profit cycle before they must invest in misdirecting again.
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The Art Of Distraction - Nature Needs More
As with the IPBES report published 2 years ago, the recent IPCC report is a stark reminder that we are heading into a much less livable world, not just for humans, but for most living species. With th...
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January 13, 2025 at 1:16 AM
Like the magician, governments, industries and companies misdirect the eye and give themselves another term in office or another profit cycle before they must invest in misdirecting again.
natureneedsmore.org/the-art-of-d...
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True sustainability requires radical supply chain transparency. Given the current lack of commitment by business and investors, surely we are reaching a point where they must be challenged with, No Transparency - No Proof - No Trade.
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No Transparency – No Trade Campaign - Nature Needs More
Wildlife and timber crime is a failure of business, industry, markets and investors. They demonstrate no understanding of the tremendous impacts of the poorly regulated procurement of endangered speci...
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January 11, 2025 at 8:36 PM
True sustainability requires radical supply chain transparency. Given the current lack of commitment by business and investors, surely we are reaching a point where they must be challenged with, No Transparency - No Proof - No Trade.
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Conservation agencies confirm modern day slavery exists in the trade in endangered species. They talked about their experiences with modern day slavery, "it's not unusual to find groups of young men being trafficked to work in the logging of rosewood."
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The Convergence Of Slavery And Extinction - Nature Needs More
Mention the word slavery and for most of us it brings to mind images of ships full of people in chains, transported from Africa to be sold to plantation owners in the USA and the Caribbean. Sadly, too...
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January 11, 2025 at 8:32 PM
Conservation agencies confirm modern day slavery exists in the trade in endangered species. They talked about their experiences with modern day slavery, "it's not unusual to find groups of young men being trafficked to work in the logging of rosewood."
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Thank you for being part of the resistance! Through solidarity, resistance, and unity, we rise together, stronger and unshaken.
January 6, 2025 at 4:17 AM
Thank you for being part of the resistance! Through solidarity, resistance, and unity, we rise together, stronger and unshaken.
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How many marine species are harvested from Australian waters for private or public aquarium displays? And, how is this monitored and regulated?
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We’re Oceans Away From Saving Nemo - Nature Needs More
In this third article investigating Australia's role in the exotic pet trade, Dr Cameron Murray takes a dive into how Australia supplies the aquarium trade. To read the investigation in full:
Art...
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January 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
How many marine species are harvested from Australian waters for private or public aquarium displays? And, how is this monitored and regulated?
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The presumption of sovereignty, of rulership, over nature is now so deeply embedded in our assumptions of ‘being human’ that we no longer notice its origins and we have only just begun to question its usefulness to our continued existence.
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Would You Let Your Home Decay Around You? - Global Breakdown News
You wouldn’t live in a home obviously decaying and not do something about it. But this is exactly what we have done, and continue to do.
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January 9, 2025 at 8:36 PM
The presumption of sovereignty, of rulership, over nature is now so deeply embedded in our assumptions of ‘being human’ that we no longer notice its origins and we have only just begun to question its usefulness to our continued existence.
globalbreakdown.news/2022/08/15/w...
globalbreakdown.news/2022/08/15/w...
Failure of supply chain management, enabling industrial scale wildlife and timber crime, represents a failure of business, industry, markets and investors. All businesses, involved in the trade in endangered & exotic species, must provide proof of sustainability!
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CITES – The Trade System That Doesn’t Know What It Doesn’t Know - Nature Needs More
While Nature Needs More would prefer that the natural world was protected by the precautionary principle and a conservation-based convention, the reality is that CITES is a trade convention and since ...
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January 9, 2025 at 11:33 PM
Failure of supply chain management, enabling industrial scale wildlife and timber crime, represents a failure of business, industry, markets and investors. All businesses, involved in the trade in endangered & exotic species, must provide proof of sustainability!
natureneedsmore.org/cites-the-tr...
natureneedsmore.org/cites-the-tr...
Biodiversity loss is not the result of poverty but the desire for huge profits and luxury products. The extinction crisis is unquestionably the result of the vulgarity of this desire, both the desire to supply and the desire to consume.
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Fact-Check: Not Just One Bad Apple - Nature Needs More
This week saw Nancy González, a Colombian designer whose customers are the likes of Victoria Beckham and whose products have been featured in The Devil Wears Prada, receive an 18-month prison sentence...
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January 8, 2025 at 9:55 PM
Biodiversity loss is not the result of poverty but the desire for huge profits and luxury products. The extinction crisis is unquestionably the result of the vulgarity of this desire, both the desire to supply and the desire to consume.
natureneedsmore.org/fact-check-n...
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