Charles de Haes

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Charles de Haes (* 1938 in Antwerp ) is a Belgian lawyer and economist .

Life

Charles de Haes was the manager of the South African entrepreneur Anton Rupert . He helped at the beginning of the 1970s in organizing the club of 1001 the World Wildlife Fund (now the World Wide Fund for Nature called). In 1975 he was appointed General Director of the WWF together with Fritz Vollmar . After Vollmars resigned, he held the post alone from 1977 before he was replaced by Claude Martin in 1993 .

During his work for the WWF, Charles de Haes initiated various campaigns, in particular fundraising gained in importance under his aegis . He also built partnerships with the World Conservation Union (IUCN) and the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP). In 1980, IUCN, UNEP and WWF drafted the World Conservation Strategy, a global environmental protection strategy that introduced the term “sustainable development”. In 1988 Charles de Haes was involved with Prince Bernhard of the Netherlands in Operation Lock , which led to strong criticism after it became known. With proceeds from the sale of two paintings that were initially donated to the WWF, Prince Bernhard hired British mercenaries to take action against poachers .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach: WWF - The Biography. 50 years of nature conservation under the sign of the panda bear . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-491-2 , p. 155 .
  2. ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach: WWF - The Biography. 50 years of nature conservation under the sign of the panda bear . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-491-2 , p. 156 .
  3. ↑ WWF International Director Generals 1962-present. (No longer available online.) In: wwf.panda.org. Archived from the original on November 17, 2014 ; accessed on April 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / wwf.panda.org
  4. ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach: WWF - The Biography. 50 years of nature conservation under the sign of the panda bear . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-491-2 , p. 176 .
  5. ^ World Conservation Strategy. (PDF; 5.5 MB) (No longer available online.) IUCN, UNEP, WWF, 1980, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; accessed on April 27, 2016 (English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / portals.iucn.org
  6. ↑ Klaus-Henning Groth (Ed.): The great book of the WWF. 40 years of nature conservation for and with people . Edition Rasch & Röhring, Steinfurt 2003, ISBN 3-934427-37-5 , p. 292 .
  7. ↑ Lothar Guendling: Global environmental policy - rhetoric, ritual or more? In: taz . May 8, 1992, p. 12 .
  8. ↑ Alexis Schwarzenbach: WWF - The Biography. 50 years of nature conservation under the sign of the panda bear . Collection Rolf Heyne, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-89910-491-2 , p. 209–230 ( wwf.de [PDF; accessed April 27, 2016]).
personal data
SURNAME De Haes, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian lawyer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp