HAYLEY MENZIES T-SHIRTS FIGHT BACK FOR WILDLIFE

 

It’s one year since we launched our collaboration with London-based fashion designer, Hayley Menzies, on Earth Day 2023. She created a rockstar-worthy tee to raise awareness and funds for Wild Tomorrow and our work fighting back against the major cause of extinction: habitat-loss. To date, this awesome tee has raised £7,000 pounds for the protection of threatened wildlife and their wild places (and more to come)! Read more about our collaboration creating impact for wildlife in our latest blog below.

Hayley Menzies in the field at the Greater Ukuwela Nature Reserve last April. As a volunteer, she replanted trees, shoveled rhino poop, banded birds for science, went on a snare patrol, worked alongside our Green Mambas restoration team, and felt and breathed ‘the wild’ and all that we are fighting for.

It’s a sad reality that incredible wildlife around the world, including rockstar species like giraffe, rhinos, tigers and jaguar, are disappearing one by one from our planet, edging closer to extinction. It’s heartbreaking, but together we can take a stand and use our talents to help wildlife. That’s exactly what London-based fashion designer Hayley Menzies has done. She used her creative talents and her fashion brand to create the limited edition “The Extinction Tour” charity t-shirt, for which she dedicated 100% of profits to Wild Tomorrow.

Harnessing the power of fashion for a cause, the Extinction Tour t-shirts have so far generated £7,000 in donations for Wild Tomorrow. With more to come if we can sell out the tees, to reach the £10,000 goal.

The front of the t-shirt features iconic species that have long inspired Hayley Menzies’ designs whilst the back features their most recent population counts - some numbering less than 100.

“When I learned these figures my heart broke”, said Hayley. The species populations listed all reflect the most recent population estimates from scientific studies as per the IUCN’s Red List of Threatened Species.

Already, these donations have been applied to impactful projects fighting back for wildlife on the ground at Wild Tomorrow’s wildlife corridor in South Africa, supporting training for our rangers, restoration at our critically endangered sand forest, and high-tech GPS monitoring tags for two endangered species in our region: vultures and pangolins.

Here’s how the first £4,000 of Hayley Menzies’ donation will be used to help fight back for endangered species in KwaZulu-Natal South Africa! This is quantifiable impact for endangered species, funding their direct protection on the ground at our wildlife reserve and in our region.

  • £1400 for 2 Vulture tags for the monitoring of rehabilitated and released African white-backed vultures (endangered)

  • £1300 towards our critically endangered dry sand forest restoration project with our all-woman Zulu “Green Mambas” team

  • £1000 for a Pangolin tracking tag (Temminck’s pangolins were locally extinct in our region until the rewilding program reintroduced them!)

  • £800 to fully fund a specialized ranger training program for our team in Wildlife Awareness. They are the protectors of over 1200 species at our newly proclaimed wildlife reserve in South Africa.

Thank you to all the wildlife rockstars who bought t-shirts to help save wildlife from extinction.

If you don’t have yours yet, it’s not too late! Grab your Extinction Tee before they sell out.

 
 
 
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