Referring to article last week - Betty's Bay Conservancy a year old. The goals and aspirations of the BBC are noble, needed and necessary! It is high time that more focus was placed on the environment in Betty's Bay, more attention paid to developments, loss of habitat, damage to wetlands etc. Good work being done! But it is very disappointing to see that the management of the BBC have chosen to allow the organisation to be seduced and waylaid by the activists promoting their narrow agenda and rhetoric against baboon management and the officially appointed contractor. It is sad to see them choosing to participate in the continuing of divisions in Betty's Bay, rather than (regardless of their personal choices), choosing to pursue the higher goals of inclusive, wider ranging and needed environmental goals. There are already groups pursuing the baboon issue, rather leave them to it. I, and many others, call on the BBC management to pursue the inclusivity and good work, rather than allowing the divisive and destructive issues to deepen divisions, and turn people, who ordinarily would join the BBC and wholeheartedly support their endeavours, away. Why are they turned away? Because they do not want to join in the destructive activism, which risks both the credibility of the BBC, as well as the environmental goals. BBC management - consider how many more would join the BBC and participate, and thus further the goals, and enlarge the driving force? <strong>Environmentally disappointed.</strong>
