{"id":3388,"date":"2013-03-06T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=3388"},"modified":"2013-03-06T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2013-03-06T09:18:16","slug":"mark-averys-narrow-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2013\/03\/06\/mark-averys-narrow-view\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Avery's narrow view"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I've been nudged towards Mark Avery's <a href=\"http:\/\/markavery.info\/blog\">blog<\/a> which I didn't know about, but, then, I suppose he knows even less about me. \u00a0Avery is an Ex-RSBP Director of Conservation, and <a href=\"http:\/\/markavery.info\/about\">much<\/a> more.<\/p>\n<p>I was struck by the following passage, which is part of a posting about the plethora of Wildlife NGOs:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em><span style=\"color: #333399\">If there are too many wildlife NGOs (as I believe, and as some of you believe) then how will mergers or closer working come about?<\/span><\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<blockquote><p><span style=\"color: #333399\"><em>There are four major stakeholders involved: the senior staff in the NGOs, their trustees and their members \u2013 oh yes, and the Nature whose conservation we all want.\u00a0 But Nature doesn\u2019t have a voice and so one or more of the other three need to speak up for Nature.\u00a0 However, it is worth mentioning Nature because that should be a beneficiary of the decisions of the other three players. <\/em><span style=\"font-style: italic\">...<\/span><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>This caught my eye because of its narrow view, and what I see as a missing stakeholder set. \u00a0That is, all those people who are neither staff (junior as well as senior), trustees, nor members; that is, everyone else. \u00a0From some NGO points of view, looking quite narrowly, that might be everyone in a town or a county. \u00a0However, if the NGO has a sustainability-focused vision that\u00a0views matters much more broadly, or even holistically, it's likely to be\u00a0<em>everyone<\/em> else \u2013 all of humanity, including the unborn and unbegot. \u00a0We do all have a very personal stake in this world.<\/p>\n<p>How myopic; how revealing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I've been nudged towards Mark Avery's blog which I didn't know about, but, then, I suppose he knows even less about me. \u00a0Avery is an Ex-RSBP Director of Conservation, and much more. I was struck by the following passage, which...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3388","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}