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Pembient

@pembient

Animal horn, lab-made in a range of dimensions, for artisans, carvers, and designers. 🦏🐃🐂

 Seattle, WA
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Joined December 2014
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About the Regulation of Biofabricated Wildlife Products* (*But Were Afraid to Ask) [BLOG POST] pembient.com/blog/2019/8/20/… This issue is on the agenda of #CITESCoP18, a wildlife conference being held in Geneva! @MyFrogCroaked @IELPlegalclinic
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Government funding was misused by conservation NGOs (e.g., @WWF) for purposes prohibited under US laws, including rape & murder. $12M of that funding has now been cut thanks to @StephenCorrySvl, @RepRaulGrijalva, @DepSecMac, … #DecolonizeConservation survivalinternational.org/ne…
Atrocities prompt US authorities to halt funding to WWF, WCS in major blow to conservation industry

Atrocities prompt US authorities to halt funding to WWF, WCS in major blow to conservation industry

The US government has halted more than $12 million of funding to WWF.

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"Let Africans decide". Whose voices should we listen to? Celebrities famous for acting, or representatives of more than 50 community conservation organizations in Africa? bit.ly/3jsDwFf
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As California debates banning the import of hunting trophies, #BlackLivesMatter says "In effect, they’re saying it’s racist & insulting for wealthy white Westerners to imply that all Africans are too corrupt or incompetent to make hunting sustainable" bit.ly/3fqtZfo
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Thus concludes our critical look at conservation from the perspectives of @m_ogada & @E84022. We encourage you to follow and RT them in a bid to #DecolonizeConservation, #ShutDownSTEM.
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MOgada@m_ogada4 Jun 2020
Fellow Natives, What could be more upsetting than this? What's next a message from the Ku Klux Klan saying black lives matter?? Shame
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Say no to Western animal rights groups influenced racist decisions within UN agency CITES that violate Africa's rights to wild trade.Floyd's brutal murder has put a spotlight on racism worldwide. @ivonnehiguero @IWMCWCT @WWF @EFFSouthAfrica @Oprah @CNN @Zimparks @SANParks
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MOgada@m_ogada8 May 2020
For those who don't yet understand how the monster of "community based conservation" destroys pastoralist societies. Watch how self sufficiency and sustainability is transformed into dependency and slavery to raise funds. Any questions? youtu.be/clnpNc3zBRg
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MOgada@m_ogada10 Apr 2020
The racism is ramping up now. The Conservation colonial project mouthpieces are now struggling to convince the world that white tourists are the only reason why black savages don't kill and eat all the wildlife in Africa. Shame on National Geographic! nationalgeographic.com/anima…
Poaching threats loom as wildlife safaris put on hold due to COVID-19

Poaching threats loom as wildlife safaris put on hold due to COVID-19

Official lockdowns and the loss of tourism revenue create new challenges for protecting the continent’s wildlife.

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Share your views on possibility for wildlife-rich SADC countries to sue Western animal rights for violating their rights to trade in live elephants & rhinos, including ivory & rhino horn. @CITES @ICJ_org @SADC_News @IWMCWCT @ifawglobal @eNCA @SABCNews @CNN @TGA_Mahohboh
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Conservation is replete with racism: Classifying indigenous hunters as poachers, advocating "shoot-to-kill" policies, promoting white eco-tourism, denying opportunities to POC, forced relocations, etc. We'll be RTing insights from @m_ogada & @E84022 today. #ShutDownSTEM
U.S. Pharmacopeia has opted to keep barriers in place that hamper the adoption of a synthetic substitute for horseshoe crab blood in endotoxin testing. reuters.com/article/us-lonza… by @JPMillerSwitz This action shows how hard it can be to get synthetic wildlife products to market.
Drugs standards group nixes plan to kick pharma's crab blood habit

Drugs standards group nixes plan to kick pharma's crab blood habit

Horseshoe crabs' icy-blue blood will remain the drug industry's standard for safety tests after a powerful U.S. group ditched a plan to give equal status to a synthetic substitute pushed by Swiss...

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Check out our latest episode, feat. @Pembient CEO @matthewmarkus on the science + politics of lab-grown, fake rhino horn: bit.ly/3gmqSqm #AfterAnimalspodcast #savetherhino #RhinoConservation #biofabrication #CITES #wildlifetrafficking #WorldRhinoDay #endangeredspecies
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Horizon scans are important. Here, one funded by @oxmartinschool and led by @NafeesaEsmail looks at emerging issues within the illegal wildlife trade: doi.org/10.1111/conl.12715 Issue #55 deals with "advances in bio-fabricated wildlife products."
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iGEM@iGEM18 Feb 2020
THIS IS HUGE!! New iGEM Partner @Revive_Restore will award up to 12 grants of $5500 each to #iGEM2020 teams whose projects are focused on solving a problem in conservation. 📆 Mark your calendars --> Applications close Monday, May 4 2020.igem.org/Sponsors/Reviv…
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Would flooding the market with fake rhino horn help or hurt rhinos? A newly engineered fake horn reignites the perpetual debate: nyti.ms/2rnPb2h @NYTScience @WildAid @NatureNeedsMore @WJCommission @pembient
Scientists Created Fake Rhino Horn. But Should We Use It? (Published 2019)

Scientists Created Fake Rhino Horn. But Should We Use It? (Published 2019)

Experts are divided over whether flooding the Asian market with convincing artificial rhino horn would help or hurt rhinos’ survival.

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Many campaigns targeting the illegal wildlife trade have racist undertones. Scholars @jaredmargulies et al. find @WildAid's work especially problematic—"presenting China, and an undifferentiated figure of the Chinese 'Asian super consumer' as the problem." doi.org/10.1016/j.geoforum.2…
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Ethical zebra burgers?! One of the many foodstuffs that cellular agriculture startup @vowfood envisions. "Paradoxically, it may be easier to get people to eat lab-grown exotic flesh than lab-grown beef." — @JamesASerpell inverse.com/article/60396-la… by @StephenJBronner
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Is CITES, the treaty governing threatened species, broken? Could Botswana, Namibia, and Zimbabwe pull out over green colonialism? Should it be scrapped in favor of species-specific agreements? Conservationist Rowan Martin argues the affirmative. dailymaverick.co.za/article/…
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