Save an Aussie Battler
This Australia Day, WWF Australia is announcing its own Australia Day Honours list – the top ten Aussie Battlers of 2008.
Australia has over 300 animal species threatened with extinction, and over 1200 plant species facing the same problem. And half of the animals that have gone extinct in the world over the last 200 years have been Australian.
Here’s the WWF’s list – check out the link above for more info on where they live and what’s got them in trouble:
- Green and gold frog
- Cassowary
- Green sawfish
- Yellow-footed rock wallaby
- Red-tailed black cockatoo
- Yellow-snouted gecko
- Swift parrot
- Golden sun moth
- Woolly wattle
- Bridled nailtail wallaby
Surely we can do a better job of taking care of our country? Find out more about these animals at the WWF site above – if there’s any near where you live, see if you can do something to give them a hand.
Image credit: Boaz Wibowo
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I was stunned today after chatting to a German guy who was collecting money in Claremont for the environment; to provide better homes for black cockatoes… he told me he was collecting ten hours a day as a job, so he was getting paid for collecting! I always thought it was volunteering work… that means that only a very small part of the money goes to the cause…
Yes, it’s always important to check on people collecting donations – quite a few places are spending a lot of money on collecting and admin, and not so much on the actual saving of the world.
A friend of mine used to do it for a job too, and although the people were lovely to work with, the working conditions were terrible and a lot of people burned out from it too. It just makes me more convinced that I need to be careful who gets my money.