CORRUPTION OF THE WILD with NICK LYNCH
EPISODE DESCRIPTION
Zimbabwe: Wildlife and mineral rich, home to one of the Seven Wonders of the World and World Heritage Site. My guest Nick Lynch an I discuss how, once a model of progressive management between Old and New Africa, Zimbabwe now daily symbolizes egregious cronyism and greed running rampant. The dubious murky dealings of 24 baby elephants taken from the wild for live-export to an ivory hungry China has roused national and international headlines of inept and failing wildlife policies management in favor of vested private interests and conflicting ideals. Opportunity knocks. Will Zimbabwe be the forerunner of catastrophe, or will it be a catalyst for reform, raising the bar of how we value life- of what, who and how we define ‘trade’ and ‘benefit’ of endemic, priceless and iconic wildlife and lead the way toward a new independence from looting a country’s coffers and citizens in favor of the peculiarly human penchant of commodifying nature- anything and everything can be had for a price.
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