Buying A Toy Vampire Bat Could Reduce Deforestation!
Funding conservation of an animal can help protect the very place you love to visit!
If you sponsor an animal for someones birthday or wedding present or even a corperate gift, you could actually be saving the area of the world that that person (or you yourself) loves the most!
If wildlife societies and international conservation societies need to save the vampire bats that live in South and Central America, then they will also be protecting the places that they live in.
This will also, in turn, help preserve all the other species that help form and maintain that particular ecosystem – leaving the rainforest for you to visit on your next vacation – or at least to watch on TV knowing that you have helped to keep it intact!
Why Just 1 Species?
It’s not really just the one species that you will be saving, but it gives you a particular focal point from which to begin your adventure.
Nobody wants to receive a toy tree for their gift – but if you can put a face on something that lives there, it can make a difference. I know I’d rather receive a cuddly animal than just an information sheet!
Also, there is no single environment that is made up of just one species – they belong to a whole network of animals and interations. I remember one study on how to save one species that opened a whole can of worms!
There was the main species (animal A) that was becoming ‘at risk’ of extinction, so they needed to find out about it; what it ate and where it lived. The tree it lived in was very numerous which was good news – until they found out that it was only fertilised by a certain bird (animal B) that had to eat the seeds first before they would germinate – and that bird was becoming rarer and rarer…….
So, to save Animal A, they needed to save animal B first! So they had to find out what animal B ate and where animal B lived and so on.
So by investing in an animal adoption of just 1 species, you are automatically contributing to saving a whole network of other animals and plants that make up the environment it lives in!
If you like a particular animal – then by all means invest in conservation for that in every way – but if you want to help save a certain area of the world – like the Arctic circle (polar bear or walrus), the African Savannah (meerkat or cheetah), the oceans (sea turtles and dolphins) or the rainforest (jaguar, toucan, vampire bat, three-toed sloth or spectacled bear,etc) then get sponsoring!
PS: It’s also and eco-friendly gift in the sense that you don’t need to wrap it up with shiny paper and sticky tape – AND – it creates no waste! Perfect all round!
Start your search with WWF and enjoy yourself…..