Outrageous statistics of our movement's corruption

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On 1/22/07, azam24x7 <azam24x7 wrote:

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> Original message submitted on from Animal_Net:

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>

> Fellow activists:

>

> In every December issue of the Animal People magazine is a section

> titled The Watch Dog, which tabulates over 150 " animal protection

> charities " in terms of their annual donation revenue, budget,

> overhead, net assets and the salaries of their top executives, among

> other things.

>

> Some of these figures are OUTRAGEOUS!

>

> Here are some examples:

>

> Salaries of the executives paid more than US$340,000/annum (2005):

> Steve Sanderson, Pres, Wildlife Conservation Society - $750,000 (no

> mistake)

> Joseph Keenan, Nature Conservancy - $480,000

> Frederick Krupp, Pres, Environmental Defense - $408,000

> Larry Hawk, Pres, MSPCA - $403,000

> Steven McCormick, CEO, Nature Conservancy - $395,000

> Peter Seligmann, CEO, Conservation International - $391,000

> John Stevenson, Pres, North Shore Animal League - $390,000

> Darryl Vamado, Human Resources, Nature Conservancy - $386,000

> Russell Mittermeier, Pres, Conservation Intl - $377,000

> Kathryne Fuller, Pres, World Wildlife Fund - $372,000

> Lawrence Amon, Former Pres, National Wildlife Federation - $365,000

> David Cleary, Amazon, Nature Conservancy - $362,000

> Ed Sayres, Pres, ASPCA - $348,000

> John Flicker, Pres, National Audubon Society - $343,000

>

> Note that some of the organizations are pro-hunting, disguised

> as " conservation " , to which thousands of anti-hunting but

> unsuspecting people donate their hard-earned dollars.

>

> Wildlife Conservation Society brought in $137,365,590 in donations

> in 2005

> Nature Conservancy brought in (would you believe) $787,940,268 (i.e.

> $788 MILLION) in donations in 2005

>

> The Wildlife Conservation Society paid 415 salaries in excess of

> $50,000, including 13 in excess of $150,000

> The Nature Conservancy paid (would you believe) 1,073 salaries

> >$50,000. incl. 9 >$200,000

> Environmental Defence paid 132 salaries >$50,000, incl. at least 12

> >$100,000

> The SPCA paid 108 salaries >$50,000, incl. 12 >$150,000

> Conservation Intl paid 214 salaries >50,000, incl. 14 >$150,000

> The World Wildlife Fund paid 207 salaries >$50,000, incl. 6 >$200,000

> The National Wildlife Federation paid 181 salaries >$50,000, incl.

> at least 9 >100,000

> The National Audubon Society paid 214 salaries >$50,000, incl. at

> least 13 >$136,000

> The Conservation Fund paid 39 salaries >$50,000, incl. at least 16

> >$100,000

> Defenders of Wildlife paid 42 salaries >$50,000, incl. at least 5

> >$100,000

> Etc.

>

> The salaries paid by the Nature Conservancy alone totaled at least

> $50 MILLION, more like $70-$100 MILLION.

>

> These funds were donated to the animals and the environment, NOT to

> these executives' yachts! Need I say more except to reiterate that

> unless we clean up our act, i.e. eradicate our corruption, we will

> never win, and the animals will always suffer.

>

> Anthonty Marr, founder

> Heal Our Planet Earth (HOPE)

> www.HOPE-CARE.org

> Salary: $0

>

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