December 2019

Let’s #SaveTheCheetah As Our Planet’s Fastest Big Cat Races Against Extinction The feline icon of speed and grace, the cheetah is the fastest – and also the oldest – of all the big cats. Capable of reaching a top speed burst of 120km/h in just 3 seconds, with strides in excess of eight metres, cheetahs have outlived ice ages and sabre-tooth cats, remaining unchanged for three million years. Sadly, the world has lost 90% of its wild cheetah population in just the last 100 years, making the cheetah Africa’s most endangered big cat. There are now less than 7,100 cheetahs left in the wild, andRead More →

Johannesburg South Africa 5 Dec 2019 – An estimated 1 billion people worldwide volunteer each year, constituting a powerful global force tackling the many challenges we face in our world today. On International Volunteer Day, instituted by the United Nations and celebrated on 5 December each year, we recognise and appreciate these selfless modern-day heroes and the astounding contribution to they make to shaping a better world for all, including conserving our planet’s endangered wildlife. If the world’s volunteers were a nation, they would constitute the largest adult population in the world, behind only China, and would have seventh largest economy in the world, behindRead More →