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Follow The Money Environmental Issues of Cape Town Tree, Forest and Fynbos Myths
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 Paul Wolfowitz, president of the World Bank and chief architect of the Iraq invasion. 1997 the World Bank / GEF pledged the first 12,4 million USD and SANPark proclaimed Cape Peninsula National Park in May 1998.
GEF pledges another 11,3 mill. USD in May 2003
and the lease contract between SANPark and MTO was signed.
From the GEF web site :
....The overall goal of this Program, entitled Cape Action for People and the Environment (C.A.P.E. Program) is that the natural environment of the Cape Floristic Region and adjacent marine environment will be effectively conserved, restored wherever appropriate and will deliver significant benefits to the people in a way that is embraced by local communities, endorsed by government and recognized internationally.
For exact facts and figures please see :
http://gefonline.org/projectDetails.cfm?projID=134 What are the significant benefits for us, the people, Mr. Wolfowitz ?
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"Give me control of a nation's money and I care not who makes her laws" - Mayer Amschel Rothschild
More "successful" World Bank projects : Chihuahua City, Mexico, Environmental Conference: The World Bank had proposed to finance a project of logging the last of old growth forest in Sierra Occidental, where Tarahumara Indians are struggling to survive. The timber is feed for a pulp mill. Before an audience of scientists, bureaucrats, environmentalists and trade officials assembled in University of Chihuahua auditorium stands a Tarahumara Elder. His hand holds a cheap pulp magazine, a transmission of rubbish. Gazing calmly at the industrialists and bankers, the Tarahumara speaks softly: "You are cutting the last of our trees to turn them into this. The forest is the life of my people. When you have cut the trees, we will die, and you will read this." A few miles from the auditorium, Tarahumara women and children are living in burrows dug into mounds of garbage at the city dump. |
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