Well, 2023 has been an incredible year for the Koala Clancy Foundation in Australia.

They have a mission, you see:  to plant 300,000 trees by 2030 in order to save koalas from extinction.

They started planting in 2016 and since then, they’ve constantly surpassed the number of trees they’ve planted every year.   And now, they’ve planted 129,422 trees!!!

Every tree counts!
Working together to achieve a goal really makes a difference.
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Image © Koala Clancy Foundation

2023 has been no exception – these are ALL records for the Foundation:

• 33,518 koala trees total in one season.
• 10,663 koala trees on one site in one season.
• 1,931 Koala trees in one day.
• 3,618 Koala trees in one weekend.
• 5,891 koala trees in 7 days – their biggest week ever

The work doesn’t stop there, however!  The Koala Clancy Foundation will be busy weeding in the You Yangs – a vital activity to restore koala habitat – and they are running regular bonus events for Koala Clancy members.  For instance, they’re doing visits to past tree planting sites to collect tree cards so that they can use them in future projects.

You can become a member here, and if you live outside Australia, why not support the work of the Koala Clancy Foundation and simply donate?

Visit the Koala Clancy Foundation here.

It’s International Orangutan Day on 19^th August and the Orangutan Foundation have a wonderful opportunity for us all to create real impact for orangutans, forests and people!

How can we do this?

By sponsoring an acre of tropical rainforest!   You can protect an acre of essential rainforest habitat for one year from ONLY £2!

 
Please sponsor an acre of rainforest and
  help orangutans this International Orangutan Day.
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Sponsorship will directly benefit 5,000 orangutans in the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve and Tanjung Putting National Park.  The Orangutan Foundation is aiming to protect 3,000 acres in the run up to International Orangutan Day!

Donations support:

• 500,00 acres of tropical rainforest – we all need tropical rainforest to help keep the balance of nature and keep us all well and healthy
• 5,000 critically endangered orangutans
• 10 forest guard posts in critical orangutan habitat
• 25 Local people directly protecting habitat
• Training in SMART technology to improve forest and wildlife protection

You could also sponsor an acre as a gift to someone who loves orangutans and the natural world.  All you need to do is to leave a name and email address in the “Additional Info” section at checkout.

Please give others the opportunity to sponsor rainforest too – tell everyone you can about it! 

There’s more information about it – just swing over to the Orangutan Foundation’s website!

The charity Free the Bears are busy with rescue bears.  

They rescue sun and moon bears held in captivity in Laos, Cambodia and Vietnam and they have a couple of bear sanctuaries where they look after the bears.  

Last week, they took a tiny male moon bear cub- Laos Rescue 122 - into their care.  He was an orphan and very traumatised, and weighed only 8.5 kg. 

The little cub was spotted high up in a tree in the capital of Laos, Vientiane.  Free the Bears think he probably escaped illegal wildlife traders who were trying to sell him in the city after poachers killed his mum.

Visit Free the Bears to find out more about them.
Image ©Free the Bears

Visit Free the Bears You Tube Channel
to see videos of rescues and of the rescued bears.

This tiny bear is cowering in the corner of his quarantine den and Free the Bears say it is going to take a lot of expert, loving care to help him recover.  He’ll be in quarantine for a month, and then he may be introduced to a couple of other cubs who have also been rescued recently.  This should help him recover and develop. 

But there’s more – Free the Bears have heard of a juvenile female mon bear, orphaned, and being held in a tiny cage.  She is in the far north of Laos and she looks desperate.  Free the Bears are working with government partners to sort out a rescue which hopefully will take place at the end of the week.

You can help these bears and Free the Bears help the bears by making a small donation or sending a Cub Care Kit to help Laos Rescue #122 – the little moon bear rescued up a tree. The kits are £19 each.

Why not be a bear carer? (This is from £5 a month) or consider volunteering with Free the Bears? 

Let’s help Free the Bears help free the bears – and care for them afterwards!

Find out more from their website.

The 29^th July is World Tiger Day (also known as International Tiger Day and Global Tiger Day).  It's an opportuniity to celebrate tigers, one of the world's most iconic big cats. 

Today, the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation (DSWF)** reports that there are only 4,500 tigers left in the wild today –a decrease from 100,000 in a century and three subspecies have become extinct.  There are more tigers in captivity around the world than in the wild, bred for consumption and entertainment. 

Threats to tigers include:

1. The illegal wildlife trade in both tigers and tiger parts – captive breeding facilities have made things much worse
2. Habitat loss -tiger habitat has decreased by 93% - all species need the right sort of habitat to survive and thrive, and it needs to be protected habitat
3. Human-wildlife conflict 

The illegal wildlife trade is using wild and captive tigers to meet the demand for their body parts.  As the tigers are now so scarce in the wild, cruel and dirty tiger farms make these body parts far easier to source.

Please help the DSWF shed light on the dark side
of the illegal tiger trade today. 

Find out more about the 
David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation's Tiger Appeal

David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation launches a Tiger Appeal:

DSWF supports frontline tiger conservation initiatives in India, Thailand and Russia and provides funding for undercover investigations and exposés into the illegal wildlife trade. DSWF have launched a Tiger appeal to raise vital funds to fight the illegal trade in tigers.

By donating today, you can provide funding to debunk myths on the use of animal by-products in traditional medicine, fund anti-poaching rangers and fund undercover investigations to disrupt criminal networks involved in the illegal tiger trade.  Donate Here

Find more information on tigers and how the DSWF is helping them here.

Visit the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation here.

**DSWF is a UK registered charity no 1106893.