{"id":398464,"date":"2019-03-07T18:46:23","date_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:46:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/militarised-conservation-paramilitary-rangers-and-the-wwf\/"},"modified":"2019-03-07T18:46:23","modified_gmt":"2019-03-07T17:46:23","slug":"militarised-conservation-paramilitary-rangers-and-the-wwf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/militarised-conservation-paramilitary-rangers-and-the-wwf\/","title":{"rendered":"Militarised Conservation: Paramilitary Rangers and the WWF"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Think charity, think vulnerability and its endless well of opportunistic exploitation.\u00a0 Over the years, international charity organisations have been found with employees keen to take advantage of their station.\u00a0 That advantage has been sexual, financial and, in the case of allegations being made about the World Wild Life Fund for Nature, in the nature of inflicting torture on those accused of poaching.<\/p>\n

BuzzFeed, via reporters Tom Warren and Katie J.M. Baker, began the fuss with an investigative report<\/a> claiming instances of torture and gross violence on the part of rangers assisted by the charity to combat poaching.\u00a0 It starts with a description of a dying man\u2019s last days, one Shikharam Chaudhary, a farmer who was brutally beaten and tortured by forest rangers patrolling Chitwan National Park in Nepal.\u00a0 Shikharam, it seems, had been singled out for burying a rhinoceros horn in his backyard.\u00a0 The horn proved elusive, but not the unfortunate farmer, who was detained in prison.\u00a0 After nine days, he was dead.<\/p>\n

Three park officials including the chief warden were subsequently charged with murder.\u00a0 WWF found itself in a spot, given its long standing role in sponsoring operations by the Chitwan forest rangers.\u00a0 As the BuzzFeed report goes on to note<\/a>, \u201cWWF\u2019s staff on the ground in Nepal leaped into action \u2013 not to demand justice, but to lobby for the charges to disappear.\u00a0 When the Nepalese government dropped the case months later, the charity declared…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Think charity, think vulnerability and its endless well of opportunistic exploitation.\u00a0 Over the years, international charity organisations have been found with employees keen to take advantage of their station.\u00a0 That advantage has been sexual, financial and, in the case of allegations being made about the World Wild Life Fund for Nature, in the nature of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-398464","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=398464"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398464\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=398464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=398464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=398464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}