Take Action

Seriously threatened wildlife needs your help now.

Everything you do in life has an impact on the natural world. The first step towards saving endangered wildlife is being aware of what you can actually do.

Below are a few links and tips we hope will leave you feeling informed and inspired. Join the Heartlands Mailing List for updates.

~ For direct Heartlands Animals threats and actions you can take visit the Heartlands Animals Page - Click Here


What you can do now:


  • Multiply existing conservation efforts by engaging with everyone you know to promote participation in these urgent issues.


  • Be aware of the products you buy and how these products are link to and effect endangered wildlife and environments.


  • Meet the Animals Face to Face - Take your friends, family, and colleagues to a day at the zoo. The Heartlands staff will be glad to join you!


  • Create Awareness Raising Projects at local schools and community centres.


  • Use your creativity! Make arts and crafts, have auctions and donate the proceeds. See the Artists for Conservation Foundation (AFC) website for a nice example.


  • Become an “Online Cyber Activist” with various conservation organisations such as Greenpeace and The AWF Rapid Response Network


  • Sign conservation petitions and join campaigns. - The Heartlands Newsletter will help keep you informed about the latest campaigns.


  • Take Action from your own arm chair! Sign online petitions. All you have to do is add your name and click! - The ‘Stop the Clock on Extinction’ petition at Conservation International is a good example. - Plus many more at Care2.


  • Financially support existing conservation efforts.


  • Volunteer for conservation or make your next holiday an eco-trip.
    - Fly Carbon Neutral with Green Seats



How you can help Heartlands:


  • Join the Heartlands Mailing List so we can keep you informed.


  • Send an email message linking the Heartlands website to your own network.


  • Add the www.heartlandsfilms.com link to your website and online networking communities such as Myspace, Facebook and Hyves.


  • Take to the streets! Tell everyone you meet about the plight of the Heartlands wild ambassadors and our ‘Inspire to Participate’ campaign.



Links:

A short list of links to help you on your way.

  • IUCN The World Conservation Union – Red List - A global system designed to catalogue and highlight species that are Critically Endangered, Endangered and Vulnerable.


  • UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme) - Viewed by many as the World’s most comprehensive international ecological project. The UNEP links ecological problems to social issues with the goal of developing solutions that combine with Human Development, capacity building and the environment.


  • 51 Things We Can Do to Save The Environment and help to slow and stop Global Warming.


  • Subscribe to E-newsletters such as the ENN Newsletter to be kept up to date on environmental news from around the world.


  • Good Stuff Guide - published by the Worldwatch Institute. Ranging through topics as diverse as chocolate to gold or even antibacterial soap, This Free PDF is a great guide to the unusual environmental facts hidden behind common consumer products.


  • Skin Deep - An online safety guide for cosmetics and personal care products.

    Includes a cosmetic database of over 23,192 products and 6,850 ingredients.


  • FSC – Forest Stewardship Council - "an international non profit membership-based organization that brings people together to find solutions to problems created by bad forestry practices, and to reward good forest management."


  • Tree Hugger - A One-Stop Shop for green news, solutions, and product information.


  • Hier Klimaat Campange - A national Dutch initiative consisting of 40 NGO's that share the objective of combating global warming.