Ever since I can remember I have always had a passion for wildlife. Whilst spending much of my working life in construction and design I was able to incorporate and able to respect our wildlife and the environment it lives in. 

I see a lot of suffering and thoughtless destruction of the spectacular wildlife that we share our planet with. I encounter wildlife injuries that at best occur through our carelessness and ignorance and at worst through deliberate cruelty. The hierarchy of wildlife in some people’s minds enables them to poison one yet preserve another. The simple facts are if we destroy any part of the food chain there will be no wildlife or indeed no us.

A long time ago, whilst walking my dog very early one morning before work, I found an injured hedgehog that was caught in a fence. His leg was bleeding. I took the hedgehog to the vets expecting that to be the end of it. The vet asked me to keep the little hog and give him antibiotics, which I did, but by the end of the week another hedgehog and an owl arrived just needing a little TLC too, that was a long time ago and and I guess the rest, as they say, is history.

Over the last few decades I have seen a steady increase in sick animals. By sick, I mean weak and suffering wildlife that has been poisoned directly or indirectly. Science and studies show us that these symptoms can relate to toxin build up from pesticides. They cause a suppression of the immune system and therefore an inability to fight any illness and in some cases directly lead to death. We are poisoning the planet we live on in so many ways. We are destroying water courses and the oceans and the rain forest that are the very lungs of the planet, it seems for the most part to go unnoticed but we need to open our eyes and take responsibility. Simple changes can have a big impact.  

With species in the 20th century ashamedly extinct or facing extinction we all need to do our part to encourage understanding and balance of our truly extraordinary and unique wildlife. We cannot continue to destroy our space and expect wildlife to recover. There has been a wildlife decline of over 60%. This should ring massive alarm bells – if Wildlife is declining we will be next!  Our planet deserves our care.  I am simply just doing my part. Through Covid I worked 7 days a week, it’s always been normal for me to do that my passion is never ending. It gave me space and time to see more clearly and it showed globally that our planet can heal, that lesson should be life changing.  

We need tolerance to understand fully the issues we are facing and we need understanding to be able to discuss the complex situations in depth  in order to achieve greeable sustainable solutions for all of us. It’s doable but the clock is ticking. Future generations of humans and all the other species are depending on us. I am simply doing my part.

Things I am not good  at: Typing and reading through after
Things I excel at : Absolutely getting the job done.

I am Trustee and Founder of Harper Asprey Wildlife Rescue and CEO of the Save Me Trust.