Because their survival is linked to yours
Supporting the Endangered Wildlife Trust (EWT) is the most effective use of your company’s social responsibility budget.
Supporting the EWT puts business into the bigger picture.
You don’t have to be in the conservation business for it to be directly relevant to the best interests of your company, your staff and your clientele.
With so many urgent needs and the tendency to see support for the environment being separate from support for social issues, why is it so important for your company to
support the EWT?
Read more about:
Overview of Environmental support
Bottom Line Benefits
Membership Categories
What We're Doing
Contact Us and Support the EWT
Global Reach
Overview of Environmental support
Our natural environment is our greatest wealth. Our natural capital is our greatest investment. For a country in which tourism is the second greatest income earner, and in which more than half the population relies directly on natural resources for their livelihoods, our greatest asset is our environment and the rich species diversity which makes South Africa unique.
The EWT has spent 30 years working with stakeholders at all levels to improve the management and conservation of our resources. Thus, we have become the partner of choice in ensuring that your organization contributes to South Africa’s compliance with
local and international environmental and social obligations, and in making a significant difference to sustaining our natural capital.
- Ecosystem Services. Without a functioning environment, people and business have no future. Our wetland projects don’t just conserve endangered species like Wattled Cranes, they ensure clean, flowing water to surrounding communities, agriculture and industries. Wattled Cranes depend on healthy wetlands for their survival and being closer to the impacts and threats facing wetlands, they are good indicators of wetlands
functioning. The links are clear.
- The EWT integrates the interests of people, the economy and the environment. We form partnerships with landowners, farmers, industry and communities to find ways to reduce impacts, mitigate threats, improve performance, promote sustainable development and support stakeholder interests. In an overpopulated world, the EWT recognises that the future lies not in cordoning-off pieces of untouchable wilderness, but in integrating the interests of people, the economy and the environment, to the benefit of all. As the third-most biologically diverse country on the planet, South Africa’s wealth of natural capital cannot survive with only pristine conservation islands dotted amongst a degraded whole. Rather, the entire region is best served by achieving a balance in which people and ecosystems coexist in a balanced, realistic and sustainable manner.
- Strategic partnerships with industry: The EWT has developed a number of unique partnerships with industry, benefiting threatened species and improving productivity and performance for industry. Environmental compliance is becoming more important for industries which are in themselves, becoming more responsible corporate citizens. The EWT provides solutions which benefit our partners, their markets and ultimately, our environment.
- Healthy oceans underpin our survival: According to the United Nations,
more than 70% of the world's commercially important fish stocks are either over-exploited, depleted, slowly recovering or close to the maximum sustainable level
of exploitation. This situation has potentially serious implications for the 40% of Africa’s population that depend on coastal and marine ecosystems for their livelihoods. Through our Marine and Coastal Working Group, we are committed
to addressing these and other priority conservation issues affecting the oceans.
- The money we receive goes directly into conservation action. You’re familiar with the demand for performance from your business undertaking. You expect results. Apply the same criteria to your social responsibility budget, and you’ll see that the EWT is as exacting and as efficient as you’d expect from any business partner.
- Supporting the EWT is the strategic choice. The statement is sometimes
made “People come first”. We agree. We choose to treat not the symptoms, but
the underlying causes. Take healthcare – a major focus in this country. How many programmes treat diseases and conditions that are caused or exacerbated by an unhealthy environment? Clean water and air and better managed land would increase productivity and reduce many of the preventable health problems that utilize funds better spent on social upliftment and development.
Bottom Line Benefits
EW & Co (Endangered Wildlife and your Company) is your company’s chance to:
- Develop solutions that are realistic, innovative, effective and involved;
- Embrace the bigger picture by supporting an organization that treats the
causes and not just the symptoms;
- Work with an organization with an enviably low overhead cost, and high performance track record, ensuring that every cent goes to work;
- Increase your organisation’s level of environmental responsibility and compliance;
- Assist your country to contribute to our higher goals and obligations as defined by the conventions to which we are a signatory;
- Increase awareness of environmental issues throughout your clientele and staff by developing effective individual membership campaigns and targeted communications strategies;
- Participate in EWT events which build capacity within your organization;
- Set a meaningful example to others.
The time to take action is now. Every day we lose ground in the race to conserve our planet’s resources, but every day we make strides in developing partnerships to address this.
We need YOUR partnership and support, and you need ours.
Conservation isn’t just for wildlife and ecosystems. Conservation is for humanity
and business too.
Membership Categories
EW & Co offers you three levels of corporate involvement:
Corporate Explorer Level (R2 500 – R49 999)
Corporate Custodian Level (R50 000 – R99 999)
Corporate Groundbreaker Level (R100 000 +)
If you’re a bigger picture thinker, EWT corporate sponsorship is the answer.
Support the EWT
For more details on the EWT, call or email Samantha Brown, the Fundraising Manager on
(+27) (0)11 486 1102 or fundraising@ewt.org.za
Non-Profit Organisation Registration Number: 015-502NPO
What we’re doing:
Founded in 1973, the Endangered Wildlife Trust is one of the most effective conservation non-governmental organizations in southern Africa and is dedicated to sustainable development and the conservation of biodiversity in southern Africa, to the benefit of
all the people of the sub-region.
The Endangered Wildlife Trust functions through its specialist Working Groups that collectively implement over 90 conservation projects throughout the sub-region.
Our Working Groups focus on threatened species and ecosystems and issues of conservation importance in order to develop the expertise, partnerships and networks fundamental to addressing critical environmental concerns. This is achieved by establishing and supporting field-based projects, conducting applied research and developing landowner and community conservation programmes.
Some of our projects and their economic importance:
- Bat Conservation Group: This group’s work contributes to averting the risk of
major crop failure through conserving bats that both pollinate plants and consume countless tons of insect pests.
- Industry partnerships: These partnerships work to conserve wildlife threatened by poisoning, powerlines and aircraft and address these threats through strategic industry partnerships which improve industry performance.
- Poison Working Group: Responsible management of agro-chemicals reduces the poisoning of wildlife, people and the environment.
- Blue Swallow Working Group: One of the most endangered birds in the country
is at critical risk because of the ongoing loss of its mistbelt grassland habitat. Rivers and streams that feed our dams and reservoirs dry up for the same reason and grasslands which feed out livestock are vanishing at an alarming rate.
- Conservation Breeding Specialist Group CBSG Southern Africa is a regional network of the CBSG (SSC/IUCN) and catalyses local conservation action by developing processes and tools to manage threatened species and ecosystems effectively, and undertaking species assessments which result in the production
of regional Red Data Books..
- Conservation Leadership Group (CLG): The CLG mentors, trains and educates tomorrows conservation leaders through experiential training and skills development.
- And many more…
Global reach …
The EWT is a member of the IUCN – the World Conservation Union. International partnerships have been formed with various Specialist Groups of the IUCN and TRAFFIC EAST/SOUTHERN AFRICA, which monitors wildlife trade. The Endangered Wildlife Trust works throughout sub-Saharan Africa and was the first conservation organisation to register as a non-governmental organisation (NGO) in Mozambique – making headway with the issues of greatest conservation concern in that country. |
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