http://conservationbytes.com/2008/07/15/iucn-chief-scientist-asia/ Conservation research... with bite Thu, 09 Feb 2012 21:17:50 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://conservationbytes.com/2008/07/15/iucn-chief-scientist-asia/#comment-56 Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:54:23 +0000 http://coreybradshaw.wordpress.com/2008/07/15/iucn-chief-scientist-asia/#comment-56 I was superbly unimpressed with that speech (sorry Jeff)- what’s going on in China is just the top of the iceberg and I’m alarmed that nobody is SCREAMING. A group of Africans are considering doing an evaluation of Chinas environmental footprint in Africa as a symposium for SCB Beijing. Lets hope we will be allowed to ignore “political correctness” towards our Chinese cousins, and be allowed to express ourselves openly in Beijing. All this tip toeing around the cultural issues disgusts me. When I worked on wildlife Trade issues I was astonished that CITES allowed China to call turtles, pangolins, tortoises and sharks “seafood” and therefore bypass the regulations.

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