The White Rhino Project &
Conservation Leadership Friday – September 22, 2017 International Rhino Day 11:00 to 12:30 Lisbon Zoo - Auditorium a 6-month campaign
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“The more clearly we can focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for its destruction.� - Rachel Carson
The Campaign Rhinos once roamed throughout Eurasia and Africa. They were many but today very few rhinos survive outside national parks and reserves. Although the Southern White Rhino is one of the more prevailing species, the Northern White Rhino is critically endangered. The subspecies was declared extinct in the wild in 2008, with only three existing Northern White Rhinos in Ol Pejeta Conservancy, Kenya. This September, students from Greene’s Lisbon and Oxford, will direct a 6-month international campaign, communicating the hard facts surrounding the plight of the White Rhino, while focusing on conservation in general. Collaborating with the Lisbon Zoo, WWF, Rhino Pride Foundation, Save the RHINO, Lisbon Oceanarium and other inspiring professionals and institutions, Greene’s students aim to stir up a new awareness and action as a resilient response to human impact. Aspiring not only to deliver results, but also becoming frontrunners - innovative, interdisciplinary, able to communicate effectively the message of conservation the students hope to create a global momentum that will inspire above and beyond the campaign.
“In the end we will conserve only what we love; we will love only what we understand; and we will understand only what we are taught.� - Baba Dioum, 1968 Human survival and prosperity depend on a strong understanding of Nature, with a driven passion to protect its diverse beauty. Consequently, education and how we introduce youth to wildlife and Nature is crucial for the future of conservation. We need to come together to make the commitments, plans and actions to build resilience, protecting our planet, while driving real and lasting change on a global scale.
“Global sustainability will be the driving force changing the way we work and live in the 21st century” - RMIT University `We are entering a new era in Earth’s history: the Anthropocene. An era in which humans rather than natural forces are the primary drivers of planetary change. But we can also redefine our relationship with our planet, from a wasteful, unsustainable and predatory one, to one where people and nature can coexist in harmony. We need to transition to an approach that decouples human and economic development from environmental degradation—perhaps the deepest cultural and behavioural shifts ever experienced by any civilization. ` WWF 2016 Living Planet Report
“The question is whether any civilization can wage relentless war on life without destroying itself, and without losing the right to be called civilized.” - Rachel Carson Scientists warn: humans are ushering in the sixth mass extinction of life on Earth, causing the eradication of species at an alarming rate, at least 100–1,000 times higher than nature intended, ultimately raising questions about our own survival. Extinction rates are similar to the five global mass extinction events of the past 500 million years that probably resulted from meteorite impacts, massive volcanism and other cataclysmic forces WWF’s 2016 Living Planet Report found wildlife populations of vertebrate species—mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, and marine population—have declined by 58 percent over the last 40 years and the impacts will reach far beyond the potential cultural loss of iconic species like tigers, rhinos and whales.
“Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's needs, but not every man's greed.� - Mahatma Gandhi
Save the date and join us Friday – September 22nd, 2017 Lisbon Zoo – Auditorium Jardim Zoológico Praça Marechal Humberto Delgado, Sete-Rios 1549-004 Lisboa Portugal
11:00 to 12:30 Contact
Greene’s Tutorial College Avenida Senhora do Monte de Saúde 266 2765-452 Estoril - Portugal
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