Panda Leaks: The Dark Side of the WWF, by Wilfried Huismann

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1. Dowie, Mark, Conservation Refugees, Massachusetts, 2009, p. 123 et al.

2. Quoted from Dowie, op. cit., p. 130.

3. Tiger in Not, WWF Germany, Berlin 2010.

4. Quoted from Schwarzenbach, Alexis: Saving the Worlds Wildlife. WWF -- the first 50 years. London 2011, p. 164.

5. Quoted from Bonner, Raymond: At the hand of man. Peril and hope of Africa's wildlife, New York 1993, p. 176.

6. Quoted from Bonner, op. cit., p. 176.

7. Bonner, op. cit., p. 178.

8. Quoted from Dowie, op. cit., p. 3.

9. Quoted from Douglas, Allen: WWF. Rassenlehre und Weltregierung, in: Der Untergang des Hauses Windsor, Wiesbaden 1995 (Publisher: Executive Intelligence Review). p. 21.

10. Quoted from Bonner, op. cit., p. 61.

11. Quoted from Bonner, op. cit., p. 64.

12. Interview with Kevin Dowling, 1997.

13. Quoted from Schwarzenbach, op. cit., p. 52.

14. Howarth, Stephen and Jonker, Joost, A History of Royal Dutch Shell, Band II, Oxford 2007, p. 427 et al.

15. Schwarzenbach, op. cit., p. 147.

16. Minutes from WWF executive committee from March 24, 1982, quoted from Schwarzenbach, p. 149.

17. Minutes from the WWF foundation council from April 26, 1967, quoted by Schwarzenbach, p. 148.

18. Kevin Dowling, unpublished Interview by Rene Zwaap. 1997.

19. Bonner, At the Hand of Man. Peril and Hope for Africa's Wildlife, New York 1993, p. 180 et al.

20. Bonner, op. cit., p. 77.

21. Quoted from Schwarzenbach, p. 219.

22. Interview with Kevin Dowling, 1997.

23. Quoted from Bonner, op. cit., p. 80.

24. According to Prof. Stephen Ellis, Leiden University, in a television interview with the author, March 7, 2011.

25. Schwarzenbach, op. cit., p. 218.

26. Groh, Dr. Arnold: Report, Assessment and Recommendations regarding the Batwa people, Press Office of the Berlin Technical University July 15, 2011.

27. Locals who once opposed gorilla habitat now exert themselves to protect it, Website WWF International from January 1, 2012 URL: http://wwf.panda.org/what_ we_do/how _we_work/conservation/species_ programme/ species_people/ our_solutions/binp _uganda/

28. Ibid.

29. Feasibility study Kavango-Zambezi-Project, Volume 2 URL:http:/ /www.kavangozambezi.org/sites/ default/files/Publications%20 %26%20Protocols%20/kaza_ tfca_prefeasibility _study_volume%202. pdf

30. MacDonald, Christine: Green, Inc. -- An environmental insider reveals how a good cause has gone bad, Guilford 2008, p. 7.

31. Inge Altemeier conducted the interview with Amalia Prameswari.

32. Malaysian Environmental Consultants Sdn. Bhd., HCV Assessment of the Wilmar Central Kalimantan Project, Jakarta 2009.

33. Ibid. p. 16.

34. Wilmar, Central Kalimantan Project Indonesia -- Proposed Conservation Area (owned by author).

35. Martina Fleckenstein in an interview with Inge Altemeier, 2010.

36. Greenomics, Wilmar Touts Concern for Orangutan, Jakarta, July 11, 2011.

37. Fleckenstein, Martina: Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil, presentation, GTZ, 2010.

38. Fleckenstein, Martina: Umweltverbande schießen sich auf Nachhaltigkeitssiegel ein, in: top agrar online, February 3, 2010.

39. http://www.iscc-system.org

40. Cargill's Problems With Palm Oil, http://www.ran.org/cargillreport

41. Sarawak Report: Top US Economist Jeffrey Sachs was "cultivated" and "influenced" to become a "Champion" of Sime Darby, November 2011. URL: http://www.sarawakreport.org/2011/11/to ... ivated-and -influenced-to-become-a -champion-of-sime-darby-world-exclusive/

42. Sime Darby Website: Sustainability Initiatives, December 29,2011. URL: https://web.archive.org/web/20120204013030/http://www. simedarbyplantation.com/Sustainability _Initiatives.aspx

43. Sarawak Report: Top US Economist Jeffrey Sachs was "cultivated" and "influenced" to become a "Champion" of Sime Darby, November 2011. URL: http://www.sarawakreport.org/2011/11/top- us-economist -was-cultivated-and -influenced -to-become-a -champion-of-sime-darby-world -exclusive/

44. The Telegraph: Palm oil round table "a farce", November 200B. URL: hup://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environ ... s/3534204/ Palm -oil-round -table-a-farce.html

45. WWF Deutschland, Die »Heart of Borneo«-Initiative, Frankfurt 2005, p. 2: www. wwf.de/ downloads/publikationsdatenbank/ddd/10181/

46. Global Witness: Pandering to the Loggers. Why WWF's Global Forest and Trade Network isn't working, p. 8. URL: http://www.globalwitness.org/sites/defa ... es/library /Pandering_to_the_ loggers_WEB.pdf

47. Clay, Jason W.: Agriculture from 2000 to 2050 -- The Business as Usual Scenario, Global Harvest Initiative, speech manuscript, p. 36.

48. The Argentine foundation Fundacion Vida Silvestre (FVS) joined the WWF International in 1988 and has been a member ever since.

49. Atlas del Gran Chaco Americano, GTZ 2006, p. 72.

50. Acta No. 4: Foro por 100 Millones Sustentables, September 14, 2004.

51. WWF press release from May 29, 2009: Soy industry adopts environmental standards. URL: https:/ /web.archive.org/web/20090609151155/http://www.worldwildlife. org/who/media/press/2009 /WWFPresitem12532.html

52. Blanco-Canqui, H., Lal, R.: No tillage and soil-profile carbon sequestration: An onfarm assessment. Soil Science Society of America Journal 72, 2008, p.s 693-701.

53. Altieri, Miguel, Bravo, E.: The ecological and social tragedy of crop-based_biofuel production in the Americas, 2007 URL: http://wrm.org.uy/oldsite/ subjects/agrofuels/crop _based_biofuel.html

54. Roberts, Martin: Limited biofuel land compatible with food: http://www.Reuters.com (Spain) on May 19, 2010.

55. Hungrig oder hurtig, Suddeutsche Zeitung from December 12, 2013.

56. WWF Deutschland: Searching for Sustainability, November 2013 URL: http://assets.panda.org/ downloads/wwf_searching_for_ sustainability_2013.pdf

57. RTRS_STD_001_V1-0_ENG_for responsible soy production: http://www. responsiblesoy.org.

58. The letter is from February 9, 2011 and was signed by Prof. Dr. Hartmut Vogtmann, Vice-president of the German Naturschutzring (DNR). The author owns a copy.

59. Clay, Jason: Speech at the Global Harvest Initiative conference, April 2010, Washington URL: http://vimeo.com/ 10776368

60. Ibid.

61. Clay, Jason: How big brands can save biodiversity, speech at the TED Global Conference, Edinburgh 2010 URL: http://www.ted.com/talks/jason_clay _how _big_brands_can_save_ biodiversity

62. Blackwater's Black Ops, The Nation, September 15, 2010

63. Hans Peter Fricker, head of WWF Switzerland, admits donations to Monsanto in an interview with the Neue Zurcher Zeitung from June 29, 2011: Niemand beim WWF will ein Feigenblatt sein.

64. Note on the agreed WWF Network response to criticisms of WWF involvement in the Roundtable on Responsible Soy (RTRS) due to its links to Genetically Modified (GM) soy production. WWF Internal Document from February 17, 2009. Sebastian Lasse gave it to the author.

65. Quoted from Winstra, Els and Rulli, Javiera: El negocio de la Soja. EcoPortal.net from October 10, 2005 URL: http://www.ecoportal.net/layout/set/sus ... ntent/view /full/ 52665

66. Clay, Jason W: Indigenous Peoples and Tropical Forests. Models of Land Use and Management from Latin America. Cambridge, MA: Cultural Survival, 1988. Cultural Survival Report 27.

67. Glasser, Jeff: Dark Cloud: Ben & Jerry's Inaccurate in Rainforest Nut Pitch. Boston Globe from July 30, 1995.

68. International Hydropower Association: Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, Sutton 2010 URL: http://www.hydrosustainability.org/IHAHydro4Life/ media/PDFs/ Protocol/hydropower-sustainability-assessment-protocol web.pdf

69. The author has a copy of the letter from Minister Guy Lutgen dated September 9, 1997.

70. The author has a copy of the letter from James D. Wolfensohn (president of the World Bank) dated December 4, 1997.

71. Teoh, Cheng Hai: Key Sustainability Issues in the Palm Oil Sector. http:// siteresources.worldbank.org/INTINDONESIA/ Resources/226271-1170911056314/Discussion.Paper_palmoil.pdf

72. Inge Altemeier conducted the television interview with Ronny.

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