The Question: Why are we Destroying a Living Species?

Around the world, a revolution is quietly taking place. The human race is waking up to the realization that our survival depends on the preservation of earth's magnificent biodiversity. Each acre of rainforest that is destroyed, and each species lost forever to extinction, further threatens the world in which our own grandchildren will live. People can see the looming danger to our planet's future.

Yet our leaders continue to behave as if we're the only species on planet earth. Those who hate the Guinea Worm claim that they would would destroy the species for our own good. Because the Guinea Worm requires something from us -- temporary hosting in a human body -- it is deemed unfit for existence.

We depend on the environmental movement to speak out when a species is threatened, to mobilize support and apply pressure to the forces that would harm earth's biodiversity. But environmentalists, who once did so much to revolutionize our understanding to the natural world, have utterly failed in their duty to preserve all species!

In the early stages of the destructive campaign against the innocent Guinea Worm, the environmental movement faced a choice: to speak out against the killing, or remain silent and permit a living species to be eliminated forever. As defenders of the integrity of our natural world, their choice should have been clear. Yet the environmental movement chose to nestle up in the rich, warm pockets of the Guinea Worm killers and turn a blind eye to the environmental catastrophe taking place around the world. Only the Save the Guinea Worm Foundation continues point the finger of blame at the Guinea Worm-destroying forces of the United Nations.