I’m sorry" just won't cut it when Africa's precious animals are gone.

I have presented these beautiful photographs of Africa so everyone appreciates what we have and how much we have to loose.

Many of you say you care, but don’t do anything?

All Nations need to come together to help to develop a “strategy” and form a World government body to save Africa's animals and significant wilderness areas. To assist other governments and local stakeholders. Charities like WWF are doing great, but stretched between so many issues. Individual countries appear to be struggling with the current explosion in poaching. Extinction is an all to common word. Roads are carving up significant wilderness areas and far too many animals are dying due to our negligence and lack of planning. Africa's problems of excessive population growth and encroachment upon wilderness reserves together with lack of sufficient education, suitable infrastructure and poverty are devouring the features we most love about this amazing continent. It is happening now! It is up to every individual in every country of the world to contact their representatives and ask them to become involved. For us to tell them it is our problem too, a global problem that needs a global solutions, recommendations and funding. Remember we all genetically originate from Africa. Africans are our relatives, so are all the other animals to which we rule over as they are genetically connected to us, we are all interrelated. We are the most intellectually superior beings on this planet and therefore the onus falls upon us to care and protect them. These creatures and places belong to everyone. We are now all global caretakers and they are under our watch. Everyone says they care, but wait for others to do something. "I'm sorry" just won’t cut it when they are gone! I know what your thinking, you hear this all the time, Lions are going. Elephants are going, Rhinoceros are going, some already extinct. But the problem is so much greater than that unless we start right now we will no longer stop the compounding effects of huge populations of people which are infringing upon these animals and places in many insidious ways. It is not just about Ivory and Rhino horns, some of these people are poor villages looking for bush meat or trying to protect their welfare or cattle from predators. Some of you may well hate these offenders or even wish them harm but that itself will not help nor be enough to stop their decimation. It is such a huge problem the average person finds it to difficult to comprehend or find a solution. That is why the worlds Nations need to come together to help form a strategy before it is too late. There will need to be enough political persuasion, education and funding put aside to balance out the competing issues. Governments all over Africa are struggling in their efforts to beat the tide of poachers and extinctions are seeming much more probable. I don’t have the answers but there are many things we can do. Continue to work in education both in human birth control and ways for competing interests to work synergistically together. There needs to be global solutions. About now people are saying,”What about the rest of the world" "what about the encroaching residential areas on Koala populations in Australia or the plight of indigenous people there too". In truth there often needs to be political pressures and assistance provided from and to all countries around the world. We need to become focused here on the issue of protecting the endangered animals and significant wilderness areas, becoming distracted from the problem wont help anyone or anything at all. The African continent is huge and extremely complex but if we form a body to come together to breakdown some individual parts of the problem so we can start effectively working on them. All scientists would have a centralised impartial body to work with. There is so much to do, even if we can first Identify what is most at risk, which many scientists are already doing, then with their advice develop long term strategies for improving the situations. The benefit of an international body would be the political influence and world wide assistance on agreed solutions with scientific assistance and worldwide funding. It’s time ask the question? "Will the loss of these amazing places and creatures be just Africa's, or a universal or world wide loss”? The answer is clear. "We do not own Earth's precious animals or places, as the planet's most intellectually developed creatures it is our duty to be the caretakers. Although the task is monumental a lot of work appears to be already done but maybe not co-ordinated enough. With many significant animals, environments and solutions already being studied. The group could now start tackling the most critical and any new evolving issues with an independent body offering impartial solutions advice, funding and infrastructure.

Steps you can take right now.
1.Write to your local paper with a copy of the above or your thoughts.
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3. The same or similar letter to your member of government.
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