Animals : Wildlife Conservation
African Wildlife Foundation
Ensuring the wildlife and wild lands of Africa will endure forever
cullling
Posted by vegard | September 29, 2009 8:09:07 AM
As an animal advocate I cannot in good conscience support a charity that practices culling aka killing as a way of controlling wild animal populations, any more than I could support one that culls humans to control their numbers. So I won't send a check to AWF after all, cute fleece blanket or not!
Great Charity
Posted by Esmae | December 11, 2008 6:49:49 AM
This charity is extremely efficient and makes a true difference on the ground. They work on habitat preservation, migration corridors, and species preservation. I have seen their work on the ground in Africa and I am consistently impressed with their use of African scientists and conservationists, not just "outsiders."
hunting and management
Posted by Chansonetta | November 3, 2008 7:03:50 AM
I urge readers not to judge AWF based on the "hunting" critique above. Having just returned from Limpopo region and Eastern Botswana I learned that unfortunately as long as there is limited land the survival of many animal groups depends upon a population balance and humane culling may sometimes be the only resort when moving animals to another area isn't possible. Until more land is available and more corridors are opened and more fences are torn down between reserves managment by killing some animals is inevitable. Support organizations that work to increase wild lands: AWF is one of those.
Never donating to this charity again....
Posted by mb | October 20, 2008 1:23:00 PM
AWF promotes the hunting of certain animals for wildlife "management".
AWF
Posted by ML | August 18, 2008 6:40:01 AM
This is an amazingly efficient charity that keeps its members well informed about where the money is spent. Also, you won't be spurred to "guilt giving" with anything you haven't agreed to receive, except maybe a calendar (which is lovely, by the way).
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ignorance is bliss
Posted by bertman | October 5, 2009 10:51:35 AM
Some of the anti-culling comments simply shows the ignorance of the people making the comments. Effective wildlife management requires the use of all tools available to us. Uncontrolled increase in animal populations will give rise to over-consumption of resources by the animals, rising conflict with humans, imbalances in the ecosystem, and an eventual crash of the population (by starvation and disease).