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[11/04/2026]
There hasn't only been a drastic "vibe shift" on pretty much all social media, which feel more and more like ghost towns dominated by the worst of the terminally onlines; there also has been a shift among conservation biology, ecology and similar branches in regards to its almost complete absence of addressing failures. Even worse, their slowly growing change of minds and its rather sudden acknoeledgement of multiple failures in terms of species and landscape protections once again demonstrated its scary overreliance on economics and its neoliberal doctrine; conservation projects that failed are now being sold like "we failed but we learned a lot and now we can work on new ideas" – that's lousy start-up talk reeking solely off the egos of those that get to sit around and largely observe everything from afar while entire villages do the actual work under false promises. Projects in African and Latin/South American countries are just the tip of the "greenwashing" iceberg; this issue also affects Europe and paradoxically receives even less coverage. In fact, if it gets picked up in a rare moment, it's likely by some dumb right-wing influencer, which prompts thr projects to fully justify their bs just because the criticism was voiced by some farmer with thousands of followers on social media. Other rare cases involve the locals themselves such as in Oostvaardersplassen where its failure is mentioned in a tiny sentence hidden between lower sections of its English Wikipedia entry and its project creator just vanished after refusing to admit any fault whatsoever.
Both are only in for the money and moral prestige, actual nature and species conservation is secondary at best, as demonstrated by the German BUND that worries more about its funds rather than the loosened laws that allows infrastructure projects "of military relevance" to override ALL nature protection laws and efforts (and one of my former math teachers quitting their job to sell overpriced cooking lessons with locally-grown spices). "Well done breaking it, hero."
