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  1. Did you know that the National Trust is helping its partner, the National Trust of Australia, to help Australian wildlife recover after the terrible bushfires in Australia?

    A lot of the animals climb trees to escape the flames below - and when they get down again, they get serious burns on their feet.  They need treatment and regular bandage changes for months, food and water.  And a big challenge facing the hospital and sanctuary is that there is no home for the animals to return to when they are better - it has been destroyed by fire.



    They are helping to raise awareness of the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital, which is caring for many animals with burns and dehydration.

    As a result of the drought and wildfires, the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital has experienced about a 20% increase in admissions from in and around the fire zones.  They are working to treat, rehabilitate and release wildlife – wildlife who are sick, injured and orphaned.

    Help Australian wildlife - Buy a Tree
    Help Australian wildlife - Buy a Tree
    ©Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

    In 2019, over 12,000 animals were admitted to the hospital – including 600 koalas.

    You can help the hospital help wildlife by making a donation

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    ©Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary

    Visit the Currumbin Wildlife Hospital’s website here.

     

     

  2. The African Wildlife Foundation needs us to help chimps.

    There are as few as 172,000 chimps left in the wild.  Their populations continue to decline to such an extent that they could be gone in all our lifetimes.

    We need to turn their situation around.

    Chimps are facing real threats.

    • Wildlife traffickers want them for bushmeat. 
    • There’s an illegal global trade in skulls and other body parts
    • Traffickers want the baby chimps for the exotic pet trade.  Sometimes a protective chimp family is killed in the process.
    • And their habitats are decreasing rapidly

    The African Wildlife Foundation is asking us to become Advocates for Chimps and to pledge to save them.   Find out how the Foundation is helping chimpanzees here

    Will you pledge your support for chimps?© African Wildlife Foundation

    Join the fight for Africa's endangered chimps! Become one of 50,000 wildlife advocates to fight for this beloved species. 

     

  3. So very quickly, some organisations which need urgent help to help rescue wildlife - 

    The Rescue Collective in Australia have a very urgent wishlist - they are in very short supply of stuff - you can find them on Facebook here.  They work together with like minded people, to support animal rescue, wildlife organizations and their volunteers across the East Coast of Australia. 

    The Rescue Collective have a BushFire Appeal which you can donate to and it gives you an idea of what they have been facing as you read down the page.

    Animals Australia have an appeal which will help "expert wildlife vets to travel to fire-devastated Mallacoota to assist local carers dealing with injured koalas; and to travel to other fire grounds where needed."

    Wildlife Victoria have an appeal which "will be distributed to wildlife shelters and carers to help rebuild enclosures and equipment that they have lost in the fires so that they can continue their lifesaving work, and support those that are struggling to cope with the enormous number of animals that will need care in the coming weeks and months."  Just click on their DONATE button, the blue one

    WIRES need funds too - they say in December alone the WIRES received over 20,000 calls and volunteers attended over 3,300 rescues

    Koala Rescue Queensland have an appeal too which you can find here.  They say the destruction is massive and the clean up and rehabilitation will take years. Their climbing ropes, throw lines, harnesses, haloes and poles, were destroyed. Please donate if you can - even $5 helps us rescue and get medical help for sick and injured Koalas.

    And the Fundraiser for the Port Macquaire Koala Hospital is continuing to grow - up to $2,868,000 plus as I type. 

    We need all of us to keep donating, spreading the word, and praying for rain in Australia.  And to look at our own lifesltyles and how we are affecting the health and wellbeing of the planet and all its inhabitants.

    Please forgive me coyping straight from these websites - I just want to get the news out there.

    It's heartbreaking.   These people and animals must be absolutely exhausted and terrified. 

    Praying for you, Australia xxx

     


  4. Tell Vietnam:  Stop the Slaughter of LionsTAKE ACTION:  SIGN HERE
    ©African Wildlife Foundation

    The African Wildlife Foundation is asking us all to sign their petition, telling Vietnam to stop the slaughter of lions. 

    Poachers are targeting lions.

    To satisfy demand in Vietnam, China and Southeast Asia, lions are being killed for their claws, teeth and bones.

    These animal parts are turned into jewellery, medicine and even wine.

    There was a horrific event last November.  Vietnamese poachers killed 40 lions in 48 hours. 

    CITES say that in the last 5 years, about 150 lion claws and teeth have left South Africa to go to China and Vietnam.  And that’s a number that’s hardly scratching the surface.

    The African Wildlife Foundation has a petition asking Vietnam to enforce wildlife laws to STOP the lion bone trade and renounce the use of lions’ bones in traditional medicine and wine.

    They are after 50,000 signatures and so far have 80% of that number – let’s join them and get the full 100%.

    TAKE ACTION:  SIGN HERE