It's September 26th, World Cassowary Day - created to draw international attention to the reasons cassowaries are globally important and need to be protected. On World Cassowary Day, we celebrate and showcase this large, colorful, flightless, dinosaur-like bird and the efforts of conservationists who're working hard to protect them in their tropical rainforest habitats of Papua New Guinea and Australia.
Cassowaries are a keystone species critical to the survival of these rainforests because they spread the seeds of the unique rainforest trees. By protecting their homes, we also protect the homes of many other unique and endangered animals including tree kangaroos, spectacled flying foxes (bats) and mahogany gliders (possums) –not to mention many extremely ancient plants found nowhere else on the planet. ☮️ Peace… Jamiese of Pixoplanet
