A Challenge to Conservationists - A WAKE UP CALL

As corporate and government money flow into the three big international organizations that dominate the world's conservation agenda, their programs have been marked by growing conflicts of interest-and by a disturbing neglect of the indigenous peoples whose land they are in business to protect. In June 2003, representatives of major foundations concerned with the planet's threatened biodiversity gathered in South Dakota for a meeting of the Consultative Group on Biodiversity.