Endangered Wildlife Trust use Earth Day to Commit to Protecting Wildlife

 

The Endangered Wildlife Trust celebrates Earth Day by asking us all to be better consumers; to use our rand power to vote for real change.

 

South Africa (22 April 2021) – Imagine if nobody cared about our natural world. Imagine people could get away with poaching, removing species from their habitats, filling the ocean with pollutions and clouding up our skies with noxious gasses. The world would look very different today.

As it is, the above is a real reality but thanks to the efforts of environmentalists and conservationists around the world, the fight continues.

Earth Day is the one day we all get to celebrate the men and women working tirelessly for the little creatures and the big ones too. Often fighting for our natural world is a thankless job.

The Endangered Wildlife Trust fights for us on many fronts. From working to protect the tinest frog, to saving rhino from the brink of extinction. Their job is a massive one and it never goes unnoticed. Today we are greatful they take up all the causes they do, because without them and many organisations like them, we imagine the world would not be as beautiful as it is today.

The Endangered Wildlide Trust sent out their Earth Day newsletter and this year, have highlighted the Table Mountain Ghost Frog. This frog is critically endangered and perfectly highlights the fight needed to save such a tiny creature.

They also highlight how we all have the power to protect our environment by making the right choices as consumers. We have real power to make change by using our rands to vote for the world we want.

So while we work on changing the world by our choices, Endangered Wildlife Trust commits to protecting our beautiful wildlife.

“One of the World’s New 7 Wonders Of Nature, the iconic Table Mountain rises above the bustling metropolis of Cape Town, a rocky beacon bordered by office blocks, roads, and train stations on one side, and the icy shores of the Atlantic Ocean on the other. As the city grows, human activity now threatens to further disrupt this isolated mountain ecosystem, the sensitive freshwater streams that meander down the mountain, and the unique species that call it home, leaving it isolated, disconnected, and vulnerable to change.  

The Critically Endangered Table Mountain Ghost Frog epitomises the isolation of the mountain. This frog is now restricted to just six perennial streams on the mountain, having vanished from two others in the last 30 years resulting from the spread of alien and invasive plants and extensive path development for tourism. The remaining six streams are facing similar threats.