Long Overdue Critical Change Needed In Conservation, Animal Cruelty, Wildlife Protection, And Nonprofits

                               There are a number of important roles that government or the public sector must perform. In important areas where government is lacking, weak and inefficient, the key is to improve and strengthen the weakness and inefficiency. Stepping into the vacuum created by weak and inefficient government and exploiting this weakness to promote a nongovernmental organization is not an appropriate role for a nonprofit organization.
                               Nonprofits are not law enforcement agencies, for example. It is not appropriate or useful for any nonprofit entity to try and be the substitute for adequate law enforcement. By doing so, they allow certain crimes to flourish. First, because it enables law enforcement to continue to avoid their responsibilities. Second, as I have already discussed at great length, the so called investigations by nonprofit organizations into crimes such as animal cruelty and dog fighting are not only incredibly inadequate and lacking, but are oftentimes harmful.
                                There are many areas where nonprofits are of enormous service. Law enforcement roles or pseudo law enforcement roles are not one of them.  Regarding conservation and wildlife protection, nonprofits cannot replace, nor should they try, to be the inadequate substitutes for appropriate government involvement. Protecting wildlife and habitat, which they have failed at miserably, especially in the third world (the places with the greatest biodiversity), needs to move fully into the hands of responsible governments that can assist countries in need. Preservation and protection has to be a more financially viable option than continued habitat destruction and wildlife decimation. Mankind is now in the midst of a mass extinction event, in which untold numbers of species are being lost, or are near to being lost forever. The collapse of biodiversity threatens the very survival of humanity.
                                     Conservation and wildlife organizations can supplement appropriate government conservation and wildlife protection, but these organizations must stop being the horribly poor substitute for governments, particularly in the third world. Nor should they continue to be the timid enablers, granting undeserved legitimacy to governments and other entities that are destroying habitat and wildlife. Rather than advocate for endangered species, wildlife and habitat, they choose instead to be "constructively" engaged with the very corrupt forces that they know are destroying flora and fauna. They calculate that being present in a third world country is better for their own promotional and fundraising purposes, even if their presence and activities are utterly useless and even harmful.
                                      Before more habitat and wildlife is lost forever, strong international and national interventions are required. Conservation and wildlife organizations can play important advocacy roles (for nature and for wildlife, not in order to promote themselves), but the bread and butter of wildlife and habitat protection must move fully out of their hands, where they have a long history of failure. Too often conservation and wildlife organizations have put their own interests over conservation interests and wildlife protection,  Protecting habitat and wildlife must become an international priority, if for no other reason than that the survival of humanity itself is at stake.
                                       All crimes, including dog fighting and animal cruelty, must move fully out of the hands of nonprofit organizations, and fully into the hands of law enforcement. Many animals, many people, have paid a huge price in pain and suffering by the actions and failures of these nonprofit organizations. They have made animal cruelty and dogfighting far worse than they ever had to be.
                                       Governments, nonprofit organizations, for profit organizations, all have important roles in society. The failure to hold any one of these three accountable is an enormous mistake. Nonprofits must be scrutinized as to the efficacy of what they do, or claim to do. The failure to scrutinize has rewarded the undeserving, punished the deserving, and exacted a heavy price in pain, suffering and misery.