New paper | Exposing Zoos and their political anti-palm oil campaigns

by Tim Wilson, July 4, 2010

Today Sustainable Development released its latest paper, Exposed: The Inaccurate and Inappropriate campaign by Zoos Victoria, looking at the behaviour of Zoos Victoria, and many Australian and New Zealand Zoos, who are engaged in inaccurate political campaigning against palm oil.

It’s important to understand that zoos have a reasonable role to promote conservation campaigns. And they have a reasonable right to promote facts about conservation issues. But Zoos Victoria’s Don’t Palm Us Off campaign does neither.

As the report highlights, of the twelve ‘facts’ promoted by Zoos Victoria on palm oil, only two can be substantiated with evidence. The remainder are directly contrary to evidence, or there is no evidence to support them. And while Zoos Victoria has a broad mandate to promote conservation and zoological resources, the Don’t Palm Us Off campaign doesn’t qualify. It is simply a political campaign based in dodgy facts.

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