I’m back again, this time to bring you all pertinent information about the WildAid offensive. WildAid has taken the responsibility of protecting hundreds of animal species, and their influence is now being felt around the globe. I am going to present to you all their two largest campaigns that also happen require the most aid, so that you all may decide if you should support their causes. I, personally, think that we should all put some effort into protecting the world around us. If you feel the same I will also inform you all how you can make a difference for WildAid, the animals, yourself, and everyone else that inhabit this planet that doesn’t understand just how important this all is. Shark and tiger species are both critically endangered and face extinction relatively soon, if this isn’t a call for action I don’t know what is. These animals deserve a chance at life, they deserve to be protected, and we can make that happen, but will we?
The sharks of oceans nationwide are facing extinction due to the illegal wildlife trade, great whites especially. Their numbers have dwindled greatly over the last decade. Great white sharks date back 407 million years and now their numbers have possibly dwindled below 90% of their population in the past, but truly accurate numbers are very difficult to come by, but it is speculated that less than four thousand remain on the planet. The main causes of sharks becoming endangered are unregulated trade, and excessive hunting, by humans of course. Due to the public reputation of sharks though, it’s hard to get sympathy from many people, due to the fact that they believe a shark is but a killing machine that lives to feed upon human flesh. For this campaign to work it is necessary for this stigma against sharks to disappear. Until it does, people won’t feel the sharks are “worth” saving, because we get to decide that kind of thing.
Tigers on the other hand are loved by people all around the world myself included. As I told you all they’re part of the reason I chose this non profit from the beginning. Maybe they’re loved too much (voted world’s favorite animal in a poll conducted by Animal Planet) if there is such a thing. Maybe they’re too pretty or something, I’m not sure, but whatever it is it is getting many of them killed. Tiger species are in a lot of danger, threatened to go extinct within 12 years according to WWF or the World Wildlife Fund if things are allowed to continue on the path that they currently follow, with tiger populations dropping by 95% in the past few decades. Tiger populations face nearly the same issues as sharks including unregulated and illicit trade, excessive hunting, and also a loss of habitat. All this information bothers me really, due to my affinity for this amazing animal, but if some people feel that it is better used for food or furniture by all means, who am I to complain? No one, but I’m going to complain anyway and hopefully build a legion of fellow complainers to help me out.
It baffles me how one of the world’s most hated animals and the world’s most loved animal share the same fate, but the sad fact is that they do, and we’re the cause. Other humans, people just like us, are gallivanting around the world deciding if an animal deserves to breathe another day based on how they can make money using what makes the animals unique. The things that make this planet beautiful are all being destroyed, simply to put cash in someone’s pocket. These species need our help, and as much of it that we are able, and willing to give. That’s the broad scope of things, and the worst part is there are other people, who are once again, just like us that fuel this horrible industry by spending money to buy these ill gotten goods. They eat them and use their skin to furnish their homes, not worried about the repercussions of destroying a whole species of animal one fin or skin at a time. So as WildAid says, “When the buying stops, the killing can too.”
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