Dispatches

Conservation's Dirty Secrets

Conservation's Dirty Secrets: Dispatches

Dispatches reporter Oliver Steeds travels the globe to investigate the conservation movement and its major organisations. Steeds finds that the movement, far from stemming the tide of extinction that's engulfing the planet, has got some of its conservation priorities wrong.

The film examines the way the big conservation charities are run. It questions why some work with polluting big businesses to raise money and are alienating the very people they would need to stem the loss of species from earth.

Conservation is massively important but few dare to question the movement. Some critics argue that it is in part getting it wrong, and that, as a consequence, some of the flora and fauna it seeks to save are facing oblivion.

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Clips from Conservation's Dirty Secrets

On TV

First Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 20 June 2011 Channel 4

Last Shown

Date Time Channel
Monday 20 June 2011 8PM Channel 4

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