Global conservation charity WWF has been accused of funding and working with anti-poaching guards who allegedly tortured and killed people in national parks in Asia and Africa.
Indigenous people and villagers have been shot, beaten unconscious, sexually assaulted, and whipped by armed guards in parks in places like Nepal and Cameroon.
Indigenous people and villagers have been shot, beaten unconscious, sexually assaulted, and whipped by armed guards in parks in places like Nepal and Cameroon.
The World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) funds, equips and works with these guards, the report says, accusing some staff of turning a blind eye to abuses.
It also links WWF staff to a deal to buy assault rifles in the Central African Republic in 2009, against its own policies. It further alleges that WWF acted as a kind of "global spymaster", funding networks of informants to provide park officials with intelligence, despite publicly denying it did so.
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