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Mar 22Liked by esc

Very Interesting. We in south Africa are experiencing exactly what you describe. The scoping phase is much earlier where the Private player convinces the Government that they will get a never-ending revenue stream of tax in the process. A so called initiation phase. A draft strategy to test the water and see what objections arise for the regulator to overcome.

In the current proposal is to exploit natural resources. The Department of Forestry, Fisheries and the Environment (DFFE) has released a 48-page plan (the Draft National Biodiversity Economy Strategy) to create integrated “mega landscapes” on land and sea encompassing extensive areas where hunting, bioprospecting and tourism would monetise wild animals and plants for “consumptive use”.

The proposal is to grow areas under conservation — called mega living conservation landscapes — from 20 million hectares to 34 million hectares by 2040, an area equal to seven Kruger National Parks.

What happens within the new areas, however, would be nothing like Kruger’s wilderness but would involve “biodiversity business”.

In the process privately owned Nature Reserves and Game Farm's would be expropriated and nationalised and the New Privately Joint owned Biodiversity Businesses would run the business with the State as a stakeholder.

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Well done! I have spent some time on the “indigenous” side of the carbon tax credit scheme. It is a well-orchestrated racket of Monopoly money. It’s a solution looking for a problem. In the end it’s the people whose lives depend on those carbon sinks who will lose.

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Excellently and well written article, comprehensive, and the custom diagrams really help to cement what is a complex framework obviously designed to obfuscate the malicious intentions.

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you might enjoy this. Not as in depth as your research but simple.

https://youtu.be/8ZgEZqMju2M

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Important information! Thank You!

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You have my attention. Why was the dissolution of BIS stopped? Who has written the best history of that particular period in BIS history? Thanks.

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