As I stated on the homepage, the continuing problems facing wildlife sustainability in their natural habitat cannot be ignored if these issues are constantly being highlighted and scrutinized in the press by the general public. But what does that all mean to the youth of today? I asked 26-year-old electrician and budding poet Evered Higgins to write what the slogan Words ④ Wildlife means to him. Evered entertains market-goers in Manly on weekends writing his poetry on any subject given to him using his manual typewriter.
This is what he wrote about W4W.
Words for wildlife before it’s gone.
Day dreaming of rights when most of what we do is wrong,
Long after the birds have stopped singing their songs,
No more rivers and no more ponds,
So much of what we are belongs to nature,
Our social structures and our basic behaviours,
Are much wilder than we think,
We are the world, but it’s teetering on the brink,
Of losing everything that we love and know,
I hope that more words for wildlife can educate and show,
What we can do, but more so what we are,
In a beautiful world that’s being torn apart. E.H
Jens Ward
Words ④ Wildlife