WildServe looks forward to serving environment in 2021
NORTH RIDING – WildServe looks forward to next year to continue their environmental mission.
CEO of WildServe Dirk Engelbrecht writes:
Wild Serve is an urban specialist biodiversity conservation public benefit organisation. We have developed a 3-prong approach to reduce the risk of injury, illness and orphaning of indigenous wildlife. This is a true prioritisation of the animal’s needs before ours. We start at grass-root education of our future thought leaders within their schools in long-term programmes. We have innovated a practical mentorship approach which inspires a culture change through our 3 Es: Exploration, Experimenting and Expression. While this takes effect in society, we are able to offer technically advanced rescue services for the urban theatre.
This mainly involves rescuing animals in distress or relocating animals who have not adapted sufficiently to the urban environment. Our third inter-supportive tool is preserving and restoring our fragile and rapidly disappearing wildlife habitats and ecosystems. This includes gaining conservation management input in expanses of green spaces in cities. By incorporating wildlife rehabilitators with young natural scientists and early childhood development educators we have created the first multi-specialist team that will insure your grandchildren will live with the same animals you do today.
Our highlights for 2020 have been the following:
1. Our environment DM, Michael Schrenk, was invited to co-author a book on sustainability in conjunction with peer National Geographic Explorers.
2. Michael was certified as a National Geographic Educator and was granted a full scholarship to attend the United Nations Summer Academy.
3. Our work filmed as the BBC Africa promotional material representing the African continent for the David Attenborough series Seven Worlds, One Planet was aired.
4. The organisation was awarded The Nedbank Local Hero Award for 2020. Accompanying prize money was spent entirely on wildlife emergency care equipment.
5. Our CEO, Dirk Engelbrecht, and our environmental DM, were elected chairman and head of conservation, respectively, for Golden Harvest Park.
6. With the massive support of Consort Technical Underwriters we obtained a new property to start our Wildlife Special Projects Centre.
The financial and human resource constraints that the Covid-19 Lockdown imposed were challenging. We would like to thank Zenn and Tarryn Vermeulen for their extraordinary generosity in sponsoring a property toward wildlife and free use of The Rhino Eco Lodge’s facilities in North Riding.
A fencing panel or interlock pavers are on our Christmas list. We will negotiate a discount for you, refer you to the supplier and give you a lifelong reward. This serves to protect our wildlife cases, volunteers and property.
To reduce the number of indigenous wild animals requiring admission to vets and wildlife rehabilitation centres and increase public participation is our goal for next year.
We would like to appeal to manufacturers and agents for household and commercial sustainable products to give us a call to discuss opportunities for active displays and promotions.
This can be done by getting in contact with us on support@wildserve.org or calling 071 755 3791.
