Become Inspired!
Wally an orphaned baby aligator was found in a pond in Disney World. Joie Henney adopted him. Wally lives with his human companion, enjoys raiding the fridge and watching television. Wally has a bed and no cage. Joie is building a habitat for abandoned alligators to call home.
Tulsi Gowda has no formal education, but her knowledge of diverse plant species and herbs earned her the title ‘Encyclopedia of Forest.’ In over 60 years she transformed vast areas of barren land in Karnataka, southern India into dense forests by planting over 30000 saplings.
2022; Mark Cardenaz took in an injured humming bird, nursing “Buzz” with Pedialyte and sugar for 6 weeks. After releasing Buzz back into the wild, the story did not end there. Every year the bird flies from South America back to Cardenaz’s home in Georgia and lands in his hand.
2022; Chicago, Indian River Marsh was once a dumping ground for waste matter separated during metal refining; toxic metals; lead, manganese, cyanide, arsenic. In 10 years 480 tons were removed, creating a 154 acre wetland of native plants and animals that are starting to thrive.
Jadav Payeng turned a barren, devastated 1,360 acres into a forest by planting a single tree each day for 40 years. His man made forest is home to hundreds of elephants, rhinos, boars, reptiles and birds. Jadav will plant until his "last breath".
In 2000, Yi Jiefang's son died in a car accident. Her son's dream was to plant trees in the inner Mongolian desert. 22 years later, Yi Jiefang is known from Inner Mongolia to Gansu as Mother Earth. Inspired, driven by her deep grief, Yi has planted 10 million trees for her son.
2016, Joao Pereira De Souza rescued a South American Magellanic Penguin covered in oil, near death, on a Brazil beach. Every year, after an 8000 km migration, the bird would seek out and meet with Joao on the same beach. The visits ended in 2020. Joao still waits for his friend.
Sometimes in this crazy, mixed up world, we all need to stop awhile, hang back, take a moment, a deep breath, find a little inner peace to ease our weary minds. Spare a good thought, be kind, focus on the positive; all the beauty that nature has shared with us.
In the Syrian war Ambulance driver Mohammad Alaa Aljaleel stayed to tend the wounded and his neigbours cats. Despite his own grief and loss the love of this man caused more cats to come to him. Soon others joined his cause making a sanctuary and a clinic to care for the cats.
Dale Schroeder grew up poor in Iowa, owned only two pairs of jeans, never married, no children. He worked as a carpenter at the same company for 67 years. Dale spent all that he saved sending 33 strangers through college. Caring for the planet starts with caring for each other.
61-year-old Jung Myoung Sook from South Korea has been saving dogs for the last 26 years. So far, she has rescued over 200 pups and takes care of them all. Sook is not well-off, but she not only takes care of strays, she also buys ill-fated pups meant to be sold to restaurants.
New York, 2017 a ballet dancer jumped down upon a 660 volt subway track to save a homeless man who'd been pushed. “People were screaming to get help,” Gray Davis said. “But nobody jumped down. So I jumped down.” If inaction, indifference rule us, all is lost. Catch all who fall.
1974; Candelaria Villanueva was lost in the ocean after a shipwreck. A giant sea turtle lifted her on to their shell, rescued her. A smaller turtle helped by biting Villaneuva whenever she drifted into sleep. The giant turtle circled her rescue ship twice before finally diving.
In 2004 and 2007 pods of dolphins circled imperiled surfers for over thirty minutes in order to ward off aggressive great white sharks by slapping their tails in the water to frighten them away. Sharks are afraid of dolphins who use their snouts as biological battering rams.
2022; An entire herd of elephants currently living in a British zoo will be released into the wild. 13 elephants (including 3 calves) live at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, southern England, and will be flown to be "rewilded" in Kenya. This venture is an historical first.
2012; A lady in Oxford, Ohio was dragged behind a building by a man who tried to choke her with her purse straps. She feared for her life in the struggle. The man's plans ended when a deer galloped out from underneath a nearby bush, charging, with antlers down, scaring him away.
In the UK from the 1st of October 2022, 400 years after beavers were hunted to extinction and after reclaiming a foothold in their native land in recent years. It's now illegal to deliberately capture, injure, kill or otherwise disturb the lives of these industrious animals.
Before his July 7 death, the nearly 30 year old Aaron Collins asked his brother to give a $500 tip to a waiter or waitress. The family created a blog called Aaron's Wish and collected nearly $50,000 and three lucky servers so far have been surprised with $500 gratuities.
Sometimes we don't need a hashtag, we just need to talk to each other, to listen, to care. The Save the Planet Group believes in humanity, believes that there is purity of spirit, compassion, empathy. We're all in this group should we choose to be. We can all change the world.
