My favorite line in the article?
Kareiva is also a giant among conservation biologists. Inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences with Al Gore and Spike Lee …
Were it not for the fact that it’s posted here, I would have stopped reading right there. But I still wasn’t all that impressed.
Don’t get me wrong. I think it’s great that someone important like him finally noticed that orangutangs were dying, not because of the loss of the forests, but because they are being hunted for bushmeat. Full points for the conclusion.
But my goodness, to just notice that in 2012? For shame. Anyone but the leader of a major conservation organization noticed that decades ago.
I don’t mind some idiot coming late to the party. I do object when he wants to take credit for having invented the party … what he describes as great breakthroughs, like animals being killed for bushmeat, he of all people should have seen decades ago.
So yeah, it’s good he’s saying it, but its depressing that it has taken so long …
w.