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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Regulation of Biofabricated Wildlife Products* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) [BLOG POST] pembient.com/blog/2019/8/20… This issue is on the agenda of #CITESCoP18, a wildlife conference being held in Geneva! @MyFrogCroaked @IELPlegalclinic

@lisanyt, @amyvirshup In "For Planet Earth, No Tourism is a Curse and a Blessing" please fact check "a surge in trafficking of rhino horns." Both South Africa and Botswana dispute this assertion: ✓environment.gov.za/mediarelease/r… ✓facebook.com/BotswanaGovern… Thanks!

Government funding was misused by conservation NGOs (e.g., @WWF) for purposes prohibited under US laws, including rape & murder. $12M of that funding has now been cut thanks to @StephenCorrySvl, @RepRaulGrijalva, @DepSecMac, … #DecolonizeConservation survivalinternational.org/news/12475

"Let Africans decide". Whose voices should we listen to? Celebrities famous for acting, or representatives of more than 50 community conservation organizations in Africa? bit.ly/3jsDwFf

As California debates banning the import of hunting trophies, #BlackLivesMatter says "In effect, they’re saying it’s racist & insulting for wealthy white Westerners to imply that all Africans are too corrupt or incompetent to make hunting sustainable" bit.ly/3fqtZfo

Thus concludes our critical look at conservation from the perspectives of @m_ogada & @E84022. We encourage you to follow and RT them in a bid to #DecolonizeConservation, #ShutDownSTEM.

Fellow Natives, What could be more upsetting than this? What's next a message from the Ku Klux Klan saying black lives matter?? Shame

Say no to Western animal rights groups influenced racist decisions within UN agency CITES that violate Africa's rights to wild trade.Floyd's brutal murder has put a spotlight on racism worldwide. @ivonnehiguero @IWMCWCT @WWF @EFFSouthAfrica @Oprah @CNN @Zimparks @SANParks

For those who don't yet understand how the monster of "community based conservation" destroys pastoralist societies. Watch how self sufficiency and sustainability is transformed into dependency and slavery to raise funds. Any questions? youtu.be/clnpNc3zBRg

The racism is ramping up now. The Conservation colonial project mouthpieces are now struggling to convince the world that white tourists are the only reason why black savages don't kill and eat all the wildlife in Africa. Shame on National Geographic! nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/0…

Share your views on possibility for wildlife-rich SADC countries to sue Western animal rights for violating their rights to trade in live elephants & rhinos, including ivory & rhino horn. @CITES @ICJ_org @SADC_News @IWMCWCT @ifawglobal @eNCA @SABCNews @CNN @TGA_Mahohboh

Conservation is replete with racism: Classifying indigenous hunters as poachers, advocating "shoot-to-kill" policies, promoting white eco-tourism, denying opportunities to POC, forced relocations, etc. We'll be RTing insights from @m_ogada & @E84022 today. #ShutDownSTEM

U.S. Pharmacopeia has opted to keep barriers in place that hamper the adoption of a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in endotoxin testing. reuters.com/article/us-lon… by @JPMillerSwitz This action shows how hard it can be to get synthetic wildlife products to market.

Check out our latest episode, feat. @Pembient CEO @matthewmarkus on the science + politics of lab-grown, fake rhino horn: bit.ly/3gmqSqm #AfterAnimalspodcast #savetherhino #RhinoConservation #biofabrication #CITES #wildlifetrafficking #WorldRhinoDay #endangeredspecies

Horizon scans are important. Here, one funded by @oxmartinschool and led by @NafeesaEsmail looks at emerging issues within the illegal wildlife trade: doi.org/10.1111/conl.1… Issue #55 deals with "advances in bio-fabricated wildlife products."

THIS IS HUGE!! New iGEM Partner @Revive_Restore will award up to 12 grants of $5500 each to #iGEM2020 teams whose projects are focused on solving a problem in conservation. 📆 Mark your calendars --> Applications close Monday, May 4 2020.igem.org/Sponsors/Reviv…

@PerfectDayFoods @StartUscc @BeOnChip We're honored to be included in this analysis, which contains such giants in the field!

@StartUscc @pembient @BeOnChip Thanks for including us in your analysis!

👨‍🔬 Synthetic biology startups are hard at work to replace animal-based products including milk, spider-silk or rhino horns. Here's how they do it: startus-insights.com/innovators-gui… @PerfectDayFoods @pembient @BeOnChip #BioTech #Materials #AnimalBased #SyntheticBio #Lab

@BLeviB Hi! Thanks for the message. We're still in the research and development phase; however, we hope to have an initial product on the market by late 2022!

@pembient is this ready yet?

@VeraldiJames @RachelNuwer @NYTScience @WildAid @NatureNeedsMore @WJCommission Hi James! Faux fur is an interesting case, but it is a substitute competing against a legal product. We're looking at a substitute undermining an illegal or extralegal product. The best case study might be Samuel Upham: owlcation.com/humanities/Sam…

Would flooding the market with fake rhino horn help or hurt rhinos? A newly engineered fake horn reignites the perpetual debate: nyti.ms/2rnPb2h @NYTScience @WildAid @NatureNeedsMore @WJCommission @pembient