Links

Author's other internet sites:

Save The Kalahari San (www.savethesan.org) Author’s earlier quixotic bleeding heart 501-c-3 to compliment his `ghostwritten-for-the-Bushman’ book BUSH FOR THE BUSHMAN (1992), subtitled Need The Gods Must Be Crazy People Die? The issue is `death by dispossession’, the Bushman—San to some scientists, are loosing their land, essentially left to die out as stone age embarrassments, while DNA shows them as probably mankind’s oldest surviving relatives, an endangered human species, a still living legacy of all mankind. 

Save The Lynn Vietor Public Nature Preserve (www.humboldtexposed.org) author’s site to save a Public Nature Preserve created in his aunt Vera’s will  (1972) in Northern California, which the trustees have fraudulently despoiled with the author and family trying to stop them in court and elsewhere.  From 1999-thru-2005 with appeals to (other than the local court) the Planning Commission, County Supervisors, California Coastal Commission, with two appeals to the California Supreme Court. 

Other pro-conservation, endangered wildlife, global development site and potential allies:

African Conservation Foundation (www.africanconservation.org) a UK, African based organization networking on African wildlife conservation, etc.

African Wildlife Foundation (www.awf.org) an organization very active in sub-Saharan Africa proposing a new approach to wildlife conservation:  “The only way to conserve Africa’s wildlife is to manage Africa’s wild lands.  Not small pockets of land, not even national-park-sized swaths of it, but vast landscapes that range for hundreds, even thousands of miles’.  Same tune as Peace Parks Foundation and the herein proposed resurrected enlarged 4000 Sq Mi MZB Elephant Coast development. 

Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation (www.gatesfoundation.org ) is the world’s largest charitable organization (with Warren Buffet’s contribution) which is active especially in Africa in the areas of health, education, and global development.  Our Elephant Coast effort tries to harness some of their funding to saving the Maputaland CPD, by an ecotourism development that saves endangered African wildlife, but with the bush natives as stakeholders and to benefit from uplifted lifestyles across the board, but especially with the malaria-Aids and other threats in the region. 

Care2 (www.care2.com) a networking organization active in petitioning the powers that be on a wide range of environmental issues and concerns. 

Conservation Corps Africa—ConsCorp herein—(www.ccafrica.com) a leading for-profit African ecotourism organization committed to providing world-class mostly African wildlife holiday experiences for discerning travelers.  Manage many of the leading wildlife-watching tourist destinations in East and southern Africa. 

Conservation International (www.conservation.org), HQ in Arlington VA, USA.

Cultural Survival (www.culturalsuvival.org) headquartered in the UK, more into protection of tribal peoples, `endangered human species’, like the struggling hunter gather Kalahari Bushman’s eviction from their traditional `thirst-and-thorn’ Kalahari Desert tribal lands and nomadic hunter gatherer way of life.

ECOTERRA Intl. (www.ecoterra-international.org) is the global society for ECOlogy and sound ECOnomy, especially concerned with Indigenous Peoples (endangered human species) like the forager-gatherer Kalahari Bushman and the protection of their natural habitat.

ECO World (www.ecoworld.com) an internet publishing company focusing on nature and clean technology.

Elephant Culling (www.elephant-news.com), a source of information for following Africa’s elephant culling saga, especially the 5000 `to-be-culled’ Kruger National Park elephants in South Africa. 

Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) (www.ewt.org.za) HQ in Johannesburg, actively supported the original Elephant Coast development (1996) as a strong ally in the Peace Parks Foundation and TFCA initiatives focused on endangered African wildlife, their protection and expanded ecosystems. 

Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) (www.eia-international.org) in three core areas, (1) species in peril, (2) forests for the World, and (3) Global Environment, since 1984, committed to investigating and exposing environmental crimes. 

50.50-SABC 2 (email:  50/50 @sabc.co.za).  50.50 is a TV program like America’s weekly Sunday `60 minutes’ program, but their 50/50 feature concentrates more on regional environmental concerns as presented by Johannesburg based TV-SABC 2. 

Friends of the Earth International (www.foe.org) is a large network of environmental groups more information than action oriented. 

Greenpeace (www.greenpeace.org) is a global campaigning organization (often very on-the-spot active and confrontational) with a goal to protect and conserve the environment and promote peace.  

International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) (www.ifaw.org), big international organization focusing on preventing animal cruelty and abuse, into stopping elephant ivory trade, ending Canadian seal hunts, saving whales from extinction, etc. 

The World Conservation Union (IUCN) (www.iucn.org) HQ in Switzerland, they were co-publishers of the Centres Of Plant Diversity (1994) which gazetted the 250 sites worldwide, 84 sites in Africa (Volume I) as `Centers of Plant Diversity’ (CPD) to be safeguarded `native-and-unspoiled’ per the International Biodiversity Accord, as signed by the world’s heads of state at the Rio 1992 Earth Summit.  A CPD designation is the botanical equivalent of the `endangered species’ classification for mammals, birds, fish or reptiles, but for a rich botanical region vs. a specific species. 

Peace Park Foundation (www.peaceparks.org) one of the most effective and active organizations in southern Africa, with Anton Rupert’s brainchild of the Trans Frontier Conservation Area concept to take down border fences between national parks to allow wildlife greater range.  A good example the world’s biggest (38,500 Sq Mi) Grand Limpopo Transfrontier Park (GLTP) which ties together Kruger National Park in South Africa, Gonarezhou National Park in Zimbabwe, and the being created-expanded mirror image Limpopo National Park in Mozambique, but many more TFCA’s have been created or are being so created. 

Sea Shepard Conservation Society (www.seashephard.org) Headquartered in Friday Harbor, WA, USA who are more into the high seas environmental concerns.  As the Elephant Coast development has some 100 miles of Indian Ocean frontage, there is some opportunity for networking. 

United Nations Environmental Programme-World Conservation Monitoring Center (www.unep-wcmc.org). 

Wildlife Conservation Society (www.wcs.org) HQ in New York with Bronx Zoo, they are active in the field with missions like `orangutans in crisis’, or `save elephants in the wild’, and `save tigers today’.  Their activities with elephants are more in East and Central Africa and Asia, than southern Africa.  But they are well into the international fight for wildlife and their habitat being increased and protected.  That is recently in southern Sudan the organization’s conservationist have discovered large African wildlife migrations in the Boma region of southeastern Sudan on the border with Ethiopia which are on a scale with the world famous Serengeti wildebeest-zebra migrations.  This is as southern Christian and animist Sudan is looking to orient itself more with East Africa, and wildlife ecotourism after years of civil war with the more Saharan Muslim northern Sudan and the government headquartered in Khartoum. 

Wild Aid (www.wildaid.org) is more into fighting illegal wildlife trade.

The Wild Foundation (www.wild.org) HQ in Colorado, have been involved in the resurrection of the Maputo Elephant Reserve (MER) in MZB, a part of the expanded 4000 Sq Mi Elephant Coast that would tie the MER into the GLTP in a wildlife ecotourism development and thus safeguard 4000 Sq Mi of MZB’s gift from the gods, the UN International Biodiversity Accord designate Maputaland Center of Plant Diversity.  Wild is working with EWT and the Peace Park Foundations in their efforts to keep the area `native-and-unspoiled’. 

World Vision (www.worldvision.org) is an organization with headquarters in Washington State, USA, operating internationally.  They are more into the third world people side of the equation, health, with a mantra “HIV-Aids and malaria are child killers in semi-tropical and equatorial Africa”, and hands-on-in-the-field activities to solve the problems.  The Elephant Coast development would have such as they involved to interface-with-and-uplift the bush people while the overall development would be saving endangered Africa wildlife and the UN’s designated Maputaland CPD mandated to be safeguarded `native-and-unspoiled’. 

World Wide Fund for Nature (www.panda.org) (WWF)—formerly the World Wildlife Fund with the Panda icon, is one of the oldest, largest, most well established world environmental protection organizations, striving for a living planet.  Along with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) WWF was co-publishers of the Centres of Plant Diversity (1994)—see details above under their co-publisher IUCN.  WWF’s ultimate goal is to build a future where people live in harmony with nature, and the other members of Noah’s Arc get a fair shake, and representation, their share of our earth’s surface.  One of WWF’s programs (since 2000) in Africa is their African Elephant Programme, to (1) increase protection and management of elephants in Africa, (2) build capacity within elephant range countries to manage and protect while mitigate conflict between humans and elephants, and (3) control the illegal trade in elephant products.