The UK bank HSBC donates $50 million to the World Wildlife Fund. This causes
unease as the bank is criticised for its funding of many environmentally unfriendly projects:
Logging and palm oil in Indonesia.
16 Projects involving the clearing of rain forest and the destruction of local farms for plantations.
A dam on the Yangtze River in China that will displace over 1,000,000
people.
A scheme to pipe water from Lesotho to South Africa that ignores water
shortages endured by the poorest sectors of the population.
