istockphoto.com In the last week a Mercedes-Benz W196 from 1954, once driven by Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss sold at auction for €51.15million (US$52.5million). When you compare this to the less than US$30million to modernise the CITES wildlife trade regulator’s permit system globally, to help save more than 40,000 endangered species from overexploitation, it is a vulgar and sad indictment of how people in high-income countries perceive status. Right now, the new owner of…
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