Preserving Our Planet

I’ve had an 18-month hiatus from conservation blogging but I haven't stopped following the crises that occur daily around the globe.  Aside from a change in profession, studying, volunteering and being lucky enough to travel, I have followed a multitude of conservation issues and the social media excoriation of problems from the continuation of illegal hunting in the UK; the devastating bushfires in Australia; Trump’s shift in policy over trophy imports that could open the floodgates to further trophy slayings; South Africa’s lion farms, Extinction Rebellion (XR) and Greta Thunberg’s epic campaign to raise awareness of the state of climate change that saw her named Time Magazine’s Person of the Year 2019 . Seeing the uprising of spirited teens unwilling to accept the trajectory the planet is on for the 6 th mass extinction and social collapse is inspirational. But it also highlights the painfully toxic situation we are all a part of that governments seem adamant to quieten.