The WWF Funds Guards Who Have Tortured and Killed People

Also when you are dealing with the extinction of a species, drastic measures are necessary. Are you saying you prefer the economic well being of every single person on Earth over the right of a species to exist?

That is indeed twisted morality.

You're leaving out the part where innocent people are being directly targeted. That's not just collateral damage. That's a supposedly charitable organization providing funds and legal/PR support to groups with a known penchant for ethnic violence.

But there are not only the two groups of people you mentioned. There are three: environmentalists, locals, and professional poachers. The smart approach would be to get the locals on the side of the environmentalists, but instead the opposite is happening:

> With deep knowledge of the land and its animals, these communities should be ideal partners in WWF’s war against poaching, anthropologists and activists said. Alienating locals only encourages them to assist professional out-of-town poachers, making that battle harder. “The Baka are the eyes and ears of the forest and could really help conservation,” said Charles Jones Nsonkali, a Cameroonian indigenous rights activist. “But they are treated as the enemy instead.”

The majority of critically endangered species are amphibians. Around 30% of all amphibians are classified as critically endangered, endangered or vulnerable by the IUCN. Why have you never heard this fact before? Because practically no-one actually gives a shit about conservation.

The major conservation charities are a boondoggle. Their work often has little or no basis in science, their priorities are completely disconnected with protecting biodiversity, they often work to "save" species that are under no real threat and their efforts to protect charismatic megafauna are often detrimental to broader conservation issues.

As highlighted by this article, the impact of their activities on native peoples ranges from "highly disruptive" to "grievous and persistent abuses of human rights". In many places, the activities of conservation charities resembles the British Raj; vast numbers of people are uprooted from their homes and displaced to make room for wildlife reserves, despite those people often playing a vital role in protecting the ecosystem they inhabit.

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1502366541/

The people who are, at a minimum, deliberately lying to make the alleged victims of torture that they have funded less sympathetic and discredit the accusations are, if ethically motivated at all, motivated by only the most sick and twisted ethics.

Honestly, I'm uncomfortable with the notion of a tiger farm or a rhino farm, but it's hard for me to say exactly why.