We all want to feel fit, healthy and well loved, don’t we? We need our families and friends to care about us, feed us, keep us safe and believe in us. When we are loved and cared for, we feel like we can do anything. But when people dislike us or want to hurt us, we feel sad and afraid. It’s much more difficult to live our lives when nobody seems to care.

Our environment is just like us. When we love and care for the air, water, soil, plants and animals, nature becomes healthy and productive. But when we abuse the environment, it also becomes “sick” and is no longer a healthy and beautiful place to live. In Cape Town, many people are working together to care for nature in the city. These people believe that we need to look after nature so that nature can look after us.