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The €50,000 KfW Bernhard Grzimek Prize for #conservation will be presented today in Frankfurt.

But should Bernhard #Grzimek really be celebrated as a role model? 🤔

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Following his civil service career in Nazi Germany as a member of the SA (Nazi Stormtroopers), Grzimek became a director of a zoo & an animal rights activist.

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Grzimek discovered his love for conservation in the #Serengeti, where he:
🔴 campaigned for yrs alongside @FZS_Frankfurt AGAINST the land rights of the Indigenous #Maasai
🔴 “professionalized” the militarized monitoring of Protected Areas
🔴 boosted mass #tourism in the area
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Richard (Dick) Estes, Guru of #Gnu, authority on antelopes, a profoundly smart, witty, observant, kind man has passed. He authored the classic Behavior Guide to African Mammals & other guides, mentored many, liberally shared ideas & was tireless in love & awe of African wildlife. https://www.nwf.org/Magazines/National-Wildlife/2005/The-Gur
We met in 2004 at a mini antelope symposium & he became like a grandad to me. We used to talk about mimicry & polyandry, Grumeti colobus, & conservation. He agreed w/ Mark Dowie that if we want to safeguard biodiversity, the dumbest thing we can do is displace Indigenous people.
In 2009, he assisted w/ giant sable operation in Cangandala NP darting & translocating 9 giant sable cows & 1 bull into a 4 sq km enclosure inside the park—he said it made an impression on Angola gov & public. In 2011 he went to see the captive breeding. nationalgeographic.com/animals/articl…
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I have just had the delightful discovery of powerpoint's automatically generated Alt Text.

I bring you 'A giraffe standing in the grass'...
'A lion standing in the field'

An easy mistake to make...

#PowerpointAltText
Where to unpick this....

"A herd of zebra standing on top of a dry grass field"

#PowerpointAltText
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