Earth Sanctuaries
Earth Sanctuaries Ltd are the private sector alternative to the government-funded national parks system. "The net profit/(loss) after income tax attributable to members of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd. for 2003/04 was $(2,513,091) (2002/03 $(1,217,587))." [1]
In 2000, Jim Green writing in the Australian Green Left Weekly said :"The only “environmentalist” to get a good rap from the Australian think tanks is John Wamsley, who runs Earth Sanctuaries Ltd, a company which uses investors funds to buy land for conservation. Wamsley told the March Institute of Public Affairs Review, “The first investor who came in said he wanted to be green, but he took out his half million profit when it came to that.” Wamsley is as blinkered by economics as the best of the think tankers: “Things which are not profitable must fail, or be run in a minimum way. That is why Australia's conservation record is so poor.” “Is there anything you want to say in conclusion?”, the IPA Review asked Wamsley. “If anybody has any sense, they would buy our shares. The future will tell that they are an excellent buy now.”"
According to their website "Earth Sanctuaries Ltd has recently completed an exciting merger with ES Link Pty Ltd to create a diversified environmental sustainability group." [2]
Directors
- Prudence M. Geddes - Managing director
- Kevin P. Lynch
- David R. Macklin
- Richard V. Ryan AO
- Bruce M. Jackson
Source Previous CEO - Wendy Craik
Publications
Other SourceWatch resources
- Citizens for a Sound Economy/Free market environmentalism?
- Environmental Defense and Free Market Environmentalism
- Free market environmentalism
Contact
- PO Box 1135, Stirling, SA, 5152, Australia.
- Phone: (08) 8370 9422
- Fax: +61 8 8339 7233
- Email: wildlife (AT) esl.com.au
- Web: http://www.esl.com.au/
External links
- Jim Green, Corporate think tanks assault environmentalism, Green Left Weekly, 2000.
- Barbara Aretino, Paula Holland, Deborah Peterson and Michael Schuele, Creating Markets for Biodiversity: A Case Study of Earth Sanctuaries Ltd, Australian Government Productivity Commission, 4 September 2001.
- Jasmin Sydee and Sharon Beder, The Right Way to Go? Earth Sanctuaries and Market-based Conservation", Capitalism Nature Society, March 2006.
