Wise Use... and Eugene Lapointe

[Donovan.]

"Wise use"....

In the battles of euphamisms... that one is a winner. So it seems is 'sustainable cull'. Wise use means - let us kill stuff and sell it so we make money. Sustainable cull means the same thing but you kill them at a slightly slower pace.
Its a phrase the Japanese Whaling Authority spokesmen have taken to heart. It meshes with 'hypocrit', scientific, research, imperialist and culture phrases with perfection. So if you take a different animal like say the elephant and check the 'wise use' guide book you get...


"People in countries such as Namibia, Botswana, Zimbabwe and Zambia simply wish to use their own nations’ resources in a responsible and carefully managed way."

That is the excuse for wanting to kill elephants to import ivory into Japan.

Of course these are incredibly rich men that make up the 'wise use' and 'sustainable cull' group. They own the game, and they DO NOT LIKE US.




"Environmental groups – regardless of their appearance of moderation and persuasive attempts to portray themselves as friends and allies – operate from agendas completely opposite to that of commercial fisheries. That is especially true in the area of eco-labeling. And statements they issue regarding their motives or goals rarely track with fact. In my opinion, trust is no virtue and almost never honored among these groups."



That quote above is from the website of one of the largest 'sustainable cull' websites. Its from "Eugene Lapointe" and he is a big fi$h.

Here is his letter to the Swiss trying to drum up support raising his army to oppose those against killing seals.




"Radical animal rights and extremist organizations have now joined in a cooperative network of activists who are planning to harass Canadian embassies and consulate offices (47 according to their website) in several countries (22 according to their website). Activists plan demonstrations, marches, and other events aimed at attracting press coverage in a number of large cities from March 12 through March 15. While protesters claim that their goal is to “stop the hunt to save the seals”, their ultimate aim is to raise the profile of protest in order to bully governments into making poor management choices for people and the environment. Their admitted tactics: build up a world wide boycott of Canadian fish products and embarrass Canada as much as possible.

In addition to the damage that could be done to the Canadian economy, this vicious and unjustified campaign against the harvest of harp seals is potentially harmful to all wildlife management sectors, because each time protesters gain any support, they strike a blow to science and to the human rights of those who make their living from the land and the sea. Just go to their website, “Harpseals.org”, and you will realize the viciousness, and the magnitude of the dangers raised by this campaign, if left unopposed. It is a power play that must be defeated as thoroughly and as quickly as possible. "



Make no mistake these guys are crazy :)

How about their opinion on the IWC?




"Today the IWC teeters on the brink of irrelevancy. It routinely ignores its own scientific advice and has turned into an overly politicized and ineffective forum. Traditional whaling nations, indigenous and native peoples, are increasingly outraged at the efforts of radical greens within the IWC to continue to ban their traditional cultural, historical and economic utilization of whales. They view it as heavy-handed eco-imperialism and ethnic and cultural cleansing. Increasingly they are on the verge of simply leaving the irrelevant IWC. To remain relevant, it must evolve, and its highest service to whales, whalers and environmentalists alike would be a legacy of some form of ownership over the great whales. "



they luv it!
So the next time when you wonder why the UN has never made a real move to end whaling.

Think of Eugene Lapointe.... the assasin of CITES.

[Donovan.]

Meet the IWMC.

Basically an alliance of pro-whalers, pro-sealing, pro-elephant hunting, pro-sea turtle eating etc power players.

Their newsletter
http://www.iwmc.org/newsletter/2008/A2008.pdf

Key points of note -deny the whalers tied up sea shepherd crew and make Australia and sea shepherd out to be terrorists.

The board members as you may notice are a group of heavy hitters. They have money and power.

Dame Eugenia Charles - Dominica
IWMC Honorary Chairperson
Former Prime Minister Tel: +1(767) 445-2855
Fax: +1(767) 448-8572

Mr. Eugène Lapointe - Switzerland
IWMC President
Former Secretary-General of CITES Tel/Fax: +41(21) 616-5000
Tel/Fax USA: +1(727) 734-4949
Email: iwmc@iwmc.org

Mr. Jaques Berney – Switzerland
Executive Vice-President
3, Passage Montriond
1006 Lausanne, CH Tel/Fax: +41(21) 616-5000
Email: iwmcch@attglobal.net

Dr. Yoshio Kaneko - Japan
2nd Vice President Tel: +81(3) 3459-5447
Fax: +81(3) 3459-5449
Email: gtrust@wa2.so-net.ne.jp

Dr. Francisco Herrera Teran - Mexico
3rd Vice President Tel: +52(5) 661-8476
Fax: +52(5) 661-8509
Email: herrera@oceanpro3.com

Mr. Johnnie W. Tarver - USA
Counsellor for National Affairs Tel: +1(225) 673-4572
Fax: +1(225) 673-9088

Dr. Cecil Machena - Zimbabwe
Vice-President for Africa Fax: +2634 731-719
Email: machena@art.org.zw

Mr. Ichiro Kanemaki – Japan
Vice-President for Asia Tel/Fax: +81(4) 6688-0589
Email: ichiro.k@trust.ocn.ne.jp

Dr. Qing Jian hua - China
Vice-President for China Tel: +86(10) 6205-8405 or 8418
Fax: +86(10) 6207-7900
Email: klchen@public.bta.net.cn

Mr. Steinar Bastesen, M.P. - Norway
Vice-President for Europe Tel: +47(75) 02-0693
Fax: +47(75) 02.14.50
Email: steinar.bastesen@stortinget.no


Mr. Anthony T. Brough - Kenya
Honorary Board Member
Fax: +1 (254) 2582338
Email: atbrough@iconnect.co.ke

Shigeko Misaki - Japan
Honorary Board Member Email: shigekom@mve.biglobe.ne.jp


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Although funding details for the IWMC are far from easy to come by, IWMC receives some funding from the World Conservation Trust Foundation.
WCTF is a corporation registered in Canada
WCTF's President is...Eugene Lapointe.

Lapointe is on record as saying IWMC funding comes from Japan, Norway, China, Canada, and "two small European countries."

Oslo Dagbladet reported on 24 May 2000: "Before the CITES meeting in Nairobi on the trade in endangered species in April, the Ministry of Fisheries and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs gave large sums of money to Norwegian and foreign lobby organizations in order to ensure a majority for commercial whaling. Some of the lobbyists have very dubious reputations."


"IWMC, an American organization with a questionable reputation and strong economic interests, received 50,000 Norwegian kroner ($6,250) from the Ministry of Fisheries," the newspaper stated. A March 2000 letter from the ministry to IWMC head Eugene Lapointe stated that the government funds were "to carry out activities related to CITES COP 11 and IWC 52 as described in your application to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Support from other Norwegian sources will be allocated separately."


Eugene Lapointe is also on the National Advisory Board of the National Wilderness Institute, some of the funding sources for this organisation will give readers an idea of the sort of corporation sources likely to be contributing funds to the WCTF and the IWMC.

National Wilderness Institute Foundation Grants -

Mobile Foundation - $5000 - 1996

Monsanto Fund - $1000 - 1996

Mobile Foundation - $5000 - 1995

Monsanto Fund - $1000 - 1995

Mobile Foundation - $10,000 - 1995



National Wilderness Institute Corporate Grants -

Chevron - $5000 - 1996

ExxonMobil - $15000 - 1995

Chevron - $5000 - 1995

Chevron - $5000 – 1994

[Donovan.]

http://www.highyieldconservation.org/articles/plus_conservation.html

:GEEK2:

Eugene Lapointe.......


At its most simple he is a seal klubber that made it into an organisation designed to provide animals protection.... nothing is as dangerous as an extremist that infiltrates that far, and he is some one to keep an eye on. He's far from finished.



http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Eug%C3%A8ne_Lapointe


Eugène Lapointe is the president of IWMC World Conservation Trust and former Secretary-General of CITES.

"Lapointe had been dismissed from his CITES office following a strong lobbying campaign by NGOs who contended that he was favouring the interests of wildlife traders." (Rowell, 1995, p. 364)



http://www.nationalreview.com/swan/swan062703.asp


"An attorney who grew up in the woods of Quebec, Lapointe served fourteen years in the Canadian government before becoming the Secretary General of CITES, the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, from 1982 to 1990. CITES is the international trade commission overseeing the multi-billion-dollar-a-year commerce in wild animals and their products.

Lapointe left his post at CITES dramatically on November 2, 1990, when he was dismissed by UNEP executive director Mostapha Tolba. The campaign to remove him was led by U.S. officials and 28 major NGOs, who, according to Lapointe, “claimed I had become the worst criminal on the planet.”



http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2004/sep/30/sciencenews.environment




* John Vidal
* The Guardian,
* Thursday September 30 2004

This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday September 30 2004 on p2 of the Life news and features section. It was last updated at 02:22 on September 30 2004.

One of the world's largest animal welfare groups was last night accused of trying to unduly influence a world meeting on endangered animals by paying for official delegates to attend.

According to Eugene Lapointe, a former director of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (Cites), the International Fund for Animal Welfare (Ifaw) has offered to pay the fare of members of the Russian and several west African delegations to next week's meeting in Bangkok.

This, he says, threatens to "contaminate" the international meeting, which next week will attract 160 countries and more than 500 non-governmental groups. Decisions will be taken at the meeting on the protection of lions, elephants, sharks and turtles.

Mr Lapointe, now a professional lobbyist for countries and industries which want to open up the trade in endangered species, said the worldwide animal protection lobby was dominating Cites meetings.

"These protection groups have billions of dollars for propaganda," he said. "Cites is being used as a tool.

"It is being contaminated by inappropriate lobbying and pressure."

A spokesman for Ifaw admitted that the group, which has 140,000 members in Britain, is paying for delegates from three countries to attend, but that they would have no influence on how the countries vote.

"We have been helping Togo, Senegal and the Democratic Republic of Congo," said Peter Pueschel of Ifaw, in Bangkok for the meeting.

"The countries would come anyway, but sometimes there are key people like the directors of national parks who need to go and would otherwise not be able to.

"These people are not necessarily on our side. They will be on the national delegations but they will not vote themselves. We have also arranged meetings for several countries to meet each other, but they would otherwise not have the chance to discuss the issues."

Ifaw was one of 28 animal protection groups which 15 years ago complained to the UN that Mr Lapointe was lobbying to open the trade in endangered species while a Cites employee.

He was fired in controversial circumstances but received a settlement after the UN found his dismissal had been "arbitrary and capricious".

The new row about undue lobbying at Cites meetings mirrors an alleged vote-buying scandal in 2002, when Japan was accused of giving aid to several small West Indian countries in return for their support for whaling.

"This has now extended into Cites," Mr Pueschel said.

"Vote buying clearly goes on. You can see it clearly at the meetings."



Eugene Lapointe, Esq.
Is involved in many VERY cleverly named pro-whaling groups.
The IMCW, the National Wilderness Institute, sustainable cull, wise use, Sustainable Development Network, and several others.
This is about money and they have more than you by a few billion dollars!





"Japan is not alone in using bribes to promote its whaling agenda. Oslo's Dagbladet newspaper revealed that the Norwegian government has been secretly funding anti-conservation groups around the world.
The Dagbladet has reported that prior to the April CITES meeting in Nairobi, Norway's Ministry of Fisheries and Ministry of Foreign Affairs "gave large sums of money to Norwegian and foreign lobby organizations to ensure a majority for commercial whaling."
The lobbyists included Eugene Lapointe, the former CITES head who, after being fired for incompetence in 1990, founded the pro-exploitation International Wildlife Management Consortium. Norway's parliament is now investigating these secret payments. "



"During the '80s, the CITES Secretariat vehemently opposed banning the ivory trade, despite a poaching crisis that left 100,000 carcasses strewn across the African landscape each year and the utter failure of a hopelessly weak CITES ivory monitoring system. At the 1989 CITES meeting in Switzerland, CITES Secretary-General Eugene Lapointe lobbied fiercely against the proposed Appendix I listing for the African elephant (Asian elephants were already totally protected). He even held press conferences during the meeting to subvert the proposal. Lapointe touched off outrage in leading conservation nations. An inquiry by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) led to Lapointe's removal on grounds of malfeasance."



" However Eugene Lapointe and his greenwashing organisation IWMC make their money from advising countries and corporations on how to avoid the very legislation designed to make 'development' sustainable.

Eugene Lapointe has made a career out of assisting the ruthless commercial exploitation of wild resources with no concern for long-term sustainability only the market's ability to provide short term profit.

Lapointe was fired from his position as Secretary-General of CITES after being caught secretly lobbying on behalf of commercial interests in the Ivory Trade
against CITES Ivory Trade restrictions, designed to protect Africa's elephant populations from unsustainable poaching.

Lapointe is still very active as a lobbyist at CITES on behalf of commercial groups wishing to exploit wild resources, he is still totally unconcerned about sustainability and the IWMC has recently been courting the pro-gun lobby in the US as a lucrative new source of revenue.

Eugene Lapointe also actively lobbies to retain the secret ballot at CITES. Disingenuous suggestions that the protection afforded to private citizens in government elections is of more value than transparency when the voters are politicians merely illustrates the usual spin of political interests that value anonymous influence to protect their nefarious agendas and profits. "




Hi David,

Would that be well known 'environmental' scam artist Eugene Lapointe, president of IWMC, the pseudo conservation organisation that could not survive on contributions from members, so relies on lobbying for bear bile farming, whaling, shark finning etc. to generate cash from governments and globalised big business.

I wonder how much money Mr Lapointe is making a month...We'll certainly never know, but he's no volunteer, that's for sure. Smile


Indeed IWMC is now so greedy for funds it is ignoring the fact that it is supposed to be an 'environmental' organisation and openly appealing to proto-fascists of the NRA persuasion, by lobbying for pro hand gun legislation.

http://www.iwmc.org/IWMC-Forum/JamesSwan/060129.htm

It really confirms everything we hear about IWMC. Their interests in misleading people are clearly exposed, by their own website. Smile

Nice to see Isanatori-san has sorted out the 'technical problems' with his blog. Disapointing but predictable to see that it is now only available in French, so that he could remove our interesting debate on whaling and its history, which he clearly felt was causing him unacceptable 'loss of face'?

- Lamna nasus










Lapointe now advises Japan, Norway, China and Canada and many industries on how to legally avoid animal trade legislation.

His organisation actively supports Whaling, Sealing, the Ivory trade and Shark finning; as listed on the IWMC website



Most conservation groups remain ada-mantly opposed to lifting the commercial whaling ban. "Japan and Norway refuse to act legally and responsibly," said David Phillips. "They've repeatedly violated international agreements by ignoring bans on commercial whaling and trade in whale products, violating whaling quotas, and supporting pirate whalers. They are outlaw nations that cannot be trusted."

In September, Japan's whaling fleet returned home with the bodies of 88 cetaceans - 40 minke whales, five sperm whales and 50 Brydes whales. The last two are endangered species that have enjoyed protection since the mid-1980s. The US has invoked limited trade sanctions against Japan.





Richard Hayduke Lives! 'Our environmental problems originate in the hubris of imagining ourselves as the central nervous system or the brain of nature. We're not the brain, we are a cancer on nature.' Dave Foreman