RESTORING KEY SPECIES FOR ECOSYSTEM RESTORATION — Wild Tomorrow Fund

The excellent news is that the reverse of the butterfly impact is true – if we reintroduce misplaced species, we will begin to restore biodiversity, to return a few of what has been misplaced. If we actively restore ecosystems, we can provide Nature the area and help she must sew again collectively the connections that had been damaged.

At our wildlife hall in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, now an official protected space referred to as The Higher Ukuwela Nature Reserve, we’re preventing again for nature and threatened species by defending, restoring, and reconnecting habitat in a world biodiversity hotspot. We’re saving wild area and creating hope for 46 threatened species (and counting).

This 12 months, as a part of our energetic ecosystem restoration efforts, our all-woman restoration workforce, the Inexperienced Mambas, proceed their arduous work eradicating alien invasive vegetation. Their employment can be regenerative – offering much-needed earnings to help their households and communities. We’re excited to launch our first afforestation mission – in different phrases, planting timber! And these gained’t be simply any timber – we will likely be replanting native timber to revive South Africa’s most threatened forest sort, the dry sand forest. Plus we proceed our species reintroductions with a brand new arrival tomorrow – the African wildcat.

Ecosystem restoration, together with species reintroductions, is hopeful and galvanizing work, and we hope you’ll be part of us in help of our mission to save lots of wildlife and wild locations this World Wildlife Day.

Collectively, we will rewild the world.