RAGES - A Rotary Action Group

 
RAGES - A Rotary Action Group

Endangered Species

Our purpose is to mobilize Rotarians and provide global awareness and focused ACTION in the continuing struggle to preserve and protect endangered species. Our efforts will start with a particular focus on the rhinos, elephants and mountain gorillas in Africa, where poaching is a danger not only to these rare animals, but to the economic survival of the indigenous people who rely on eco-tourism for their livelihood.

 If you are a Rotarian, Rotaractor or family member of a Rotarian, then you are eligible to join our Rotarian Action Group for Endangered Species or RAGES.

Recently a RAGES team visited Hout Bay in Cape Town and then traveled  to Port Elizabeth and the Rotary Club of Kenton-on-Sea where two fellow RAGES Directors, Jo Wilmot Projects Director and DGE Bruce Steele-Grey as well our two rhino advisers Dr. William Fowlds of Investec Rhino Lifeline Foundation and Brent Cook the founder of the Chipembere Wilmo Projects Director and DGE Bruce Steele-Grey.

Watch the video of Thandi & Thembi featuring Helping Rhinos Founder & Chairman Simon Jones & wildlife vet Dr William Fowlds at Kariega Game Reserve near Port Alfred South Africa:

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The Black and White rhinoceros of Africa are under severe threat and potentially on the verge of extinction in their wild habitat due to excessive poaching, driven by a burgeoning market for rhino horn in China and Vietnam. Despite continued efforts from the South African government and other in situ conservation attempts in African nations, the situation continues to deteriorate. We have now reached the tipping point where more rhinos are killed each year than are born and extinction becomes a real possibility.

The Australian Rhino Project has the primary objective to establish a breeding herd of rhinoceros in Australia as an “insurance population” in the event of extinction of the species in South Africa. The first shipment of rhinos has now been identified and we are working with the Governments of Australia and South Africa to bring the rhinos to Australia. We need your help in raising the necessary funds to make this project a reality. We ask you to please donate today to help save the rhinos and create an insurance population of rhinos in Australia.

As Dame Jane Goodall DBE said “What will future generations think of us when they look back and the rhino is only in a picture book?
I don’t want my great grandchildren to say ‘why did they let this happen’ because by then it will be too late.”

Not on our watch.