Wild Futures Winter/Spring Newsletter 2023

Top Tweets
@rickygervais - URGENT! This
monkey sanctuary will have
to close down soon without
donations.
https://wildfutures.org/donate
Can you help me save it?
@KJHockings - A fantastic 2
days at @wildfutures with our
3rd year Primate Biology &
Conservation undergrads @
UniExeCEC @UniExeCornwall.
We learnt about the insanity
that is the Legal, yes Legal, UK
primate pet trade.
@herbieharry - A great cause
here-Karl’s coming out of
running retirement to run for
@wildfutures. Pls sponsor
if you can.
@Action4Primates - The @
wildfutures Monkey Sanctuary
in Cornwall, the UK is in urgent
need of donations due to rising
costs; please help ensure its
care of rescued #monkeys
continues, including those from
the cruel #primate ‘pet’ trade:
https://wildfutures.org/sos/
@PrimateSociety - Please if
you can, donate to help keep
@wildfutures open! They do
incredible work rescuing
primates from the pet trade and
giving them a chance at a second
life. Any amount will help.
@ConScienceExet - Check out
the latest @ConScienceExet blog
by @CharlotteArmi10 on why we
need to give a monkey’s about
monkeys! An eye-opener to the
trade of monkeys right on our
doorstep and the hard work and
dedication at @wildfutures
A note from
our Director
Our work as Wild Futures is a part of a larger ecosystem
of charities, NGO’s, communities, governments, societies
and individuals. Whatever we do affects the environment
of which we are all a part. The welfare of the individual
monkey, rescued from the cruel pet trade, reminds us that the individuals still
living in the forests are as important as the species they represent. Compassionate conservation
strives to balance individual welfare with the bigger picture.
The UNEP Conference on Biodiversity, or CoP 15, held recently in Canada, saw a coming
together of countries, in recognition of and to address the biodiversity crisis that our planet is
currently experiencing. 186 Parties have signed up to the convention on biological diversity –
our species knows that this is really important.
The Conference ended with agreement on 23 targets, including to:
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• Protect 30% world’s lands, inland waters, coastal areas and oceans,
• Restore 30% degraded ecosystems,
• Reduce to net zero loss of important ecosystems,
• Cut food waste, over consumption and waste generation,
• Reduce subsidies that harm biodiversity,
• New targets for biodiversity funding,
• Raise international financial flows from developed to developing countries,
• Prevent and mitigate damage to biodiversity by invasive alien species,
• Require transparency of corporate and financial institutions on their impact on biodiversity.
Wild Futures promotes an ethos that we can all be a part of this – we each have a part, every
day, in the choices we make, underpinned by a compassion for the living world. As a social
species, we primates can understand how our actions affect those around us.
All of our futures depend on us making a difference on a daily basis. As we say goodbye to
the last of the ESC volunteers, we know that many are now long term friends who believe in
the possible wherever they are in the world. Wild Futures is proud that we have been a part of
their journey and we now look forward to creating new friendships as we share our work as
we refocus our volunteer programme.
We have taken a huge knock to our sustainability in the last couple of years and are hugely grateful
to all our supporters who continue to join us in our mission to protect primates and habitats.
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to save on costs and our
environmental impact,
please email us
info@wildfutures.org
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