
Word from the CEO: Year-End
Reflecting on a transformative 2024, the EWT celebrates groundbreaking conservation achievements while preparing for its bold Future Fit Strategy 2025-2050.
Reflecting on a transformative 2024, the EWT celebrates groundbreaking conservation achievements while preparing for its bold Future Fit Strategy 2025-2050.
The 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris celebrate global unity and honor World Ranger Day’s environmental champions
On its 50th anniversary, the Endangered Wildlife Trust celebrates a legacy of conservation success and outlines its visionary Future Fit Strategy to continue protecting wildlife and habitats for generations to come.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust was well-represented at the inaugural Biodiversity Economy and Investment Indaba, themed: “Collective Action for Thriving Nature and People” in Gauteng from 25 to 27 March 2024. As the EWT’s CEO, I was invited to participate in a panel discussion under the theme of leveraging biodiversity-based features to scale inclusive ecotourism industry growth in seascapes and in sustainable conservation landuse.
Turning 50 brings with it a level of maturity, wisdom and some well-deserved scars on your back, for most people. For the EWT, it meant galvanising action, stimulating energy and consolidating our plans for a more impactful and far-reaching future for all.
From the earliest documented history of human life on Earth, mankind has interacted with nature through a variety of systems and relationships. Though not formalised in its practice by early man, one could contend that our use of, and engagement with nature for food, cover, tools and cultural or religious practice over millennia, form the underpinnings of what would lead to what we could call conservation today.