The Nature Conservancy, based in Virginia, is proving on a regular basis that it is an extreme, left-wing, radical environmental organization that will allow the death of human beings for the sake of what they call conservation and saving animals. It is thoroughly disgusting to discover their strong arm tactics used to create “wilderness” while trampling on the long held traditions of natives. All this for the sake of saving the Komodo dragon.
The Wall Street Journal tells the obscene story of these Komodo dragons preying on men, women and children in villages near the Komodo National Park, where the dragon makes its home.
The Nature Conservancy stuck its nose into Indonesian business, offering money and advice, seeing a way to promote their self-righteous, Marxist agendas, forcing themselves on the natives of the area.
With this funding and advice, park authorities put an end to villagers’ traditional deer hunting, enforcing a prohibition that had been widely disregarded. They declared canines an alien species, and outlawed the villagers’ dogs, which used to keep dragons away from homes. Park authorities banned the goat sacrifices, previously staged on Komodo for the benefit of picture-snapping tourists.
“We don’t want the Komodo dragon to be domesticated. It’s against natural balance,” says Widodo Ramono, policy director of the Nature Conservancy’s Indonesian branch and a former director of the country’s national park service. “We have to keep this conservation area for the purpose of wildlife. It is not for human beings.”
While reading this story, we can just as easily replace Komodo dragon with wolf or a number of other such species. Check out all the key words and phrases used which are classic examples of the bile spewed forth by animal lovers and environmentalists; “natural balance”, “conservation area”, “purpose of wildlife”. “It is not for human beings.”
It seems that the natives had discovered how to get along just nicely with the Komodo dragon as traditions weren’t just pulled out of the sky. How does anyone think traditions begin?
The natives learned how to feed the hungry dragons so they wouldn’t feed on the villagers. The traditions have been around for so long, they are now deemed as a sacred duty.
These locals have long viewed the dragons as a reincarnation of fellow kinsfolk, to be treated with reverence. But now, villagers say, the once-friendly dragons have turned into vicious man-eaters. And they blame policies drafted by American-funded environmentalists for this frightening turn of events.
“When I was growing up, I felt the dragons were my family,” says 55-year-old Hajji Faisal. “But today the dragons are angry with us, and see us as enemies.” The reason, he and many other villagers believe, is that environmentalists, in the name of preserving nature, have destroyed Komodo’s age-old symbiosis between dragon and man.
For centuries, local tradition required feeding the dragons — which live more than 50 years, can recognize individual humans and usually stick to fairly small areas. Locals say they always left deer parts for the dragons after a hunt, and often tied goats to a post as sacrifice. Island taboos strictly prohibited hurting the giant reptiles, a possible reason why the dragons have survived in the Komodo area despite becoming extinct everywhere else.
These people aren’t stupid. The knew what they had to do to get along with the Komodo dragon. But that means nothing to groups like The Nature Conservancy. They blame the villagers for these problems. Take a look at the pointing of the finger and accusations.
Despite such disbelief in the Komodo villagers’ theories, executives at the Nature Conservancy’s headquarters in the U.S. pledge to reach out and tackle local fears. “Any concern expressed by the villagers will be taken seriously and we will address it if we can,” says Chief Communications Officer James R. Petterson. “The Komodo effort is a work in progress.”
Dragon and man could coexist here in harmony in the past, Komodo park officials add, because at the time the area’s human population was a fraction of today’s size. Now, with local villages pushing deeper inland and attracting new settlers from elsewhere in Indonesia, conflict may be inevitable — and even a fence won’t be able to prevent dragon infiltrations.
“The smell of the village — goats, chicken, drying fish — all this invites the dragons,” says Mr. Latief. “And if the dragons can’t grab the animals, they will bite the villagers.”
Ah, yes! These ignorant natives with their superstitious beliefs. How could one righteous, holier-than-thou organization, bent on controlling the world and stealing the land and stripping people of rights, beliefs and traditions, allow such barbarism? Evidently these people never cooked and raised food before TNC moved in.
They blame the natives for living, accusing them of having the audacity to encroach on the Komodo dragon’s habitat and cook food, raise livestock and live.
The Nature Conservancy should be ashamed of itself but unfortunately they have manage to lie, cheat and steal their way through the American society, convincing enough of them that they are serving the best interest of the animals and the people (notice people listed second). They will continue their evil ways while more human beings, who don’t belong there, according the TNC, get eaten by hungry dragons.
But as Chief Communications Officer of The Nature Conservancy James R. Petterson says, “The Komodo effort is a work in progress.”, The Nature Conservancy places no value at all on human life and the long held traditions of the Indonesians, whether we like them or not.
Fear mongering? Go tell that to the family who had to watch their child get consumed by a hungry dragon. I don’t want to hear it!
Tom Remington
