On Threatened Species Awareness Day, Australians bake cakes

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With national Threatened Species Awareness Day on Tuesday, crocodile cupcakes and edible echidnas are on the menu in locked-down kitchens across the country. Hundreds of house-bound Australians are baking cakes replicating everything from bandicoots to moths in a bid to win the hotly contested annual Threatened Species Bake Off.

“The idea is to raise awareness around the range of species that are threatened in Australia, by putting people’s baking to the test,” ecologist, Dr Rebecca West, said.

West is an ecologist with the Wild Deserts Ecosystem Restoration Project, and a judge of the competition. Each year, she joins the bake off with a cake to mark the occasion.

“I try to showcase a species my research involves,” she says. This year, her Shark Bay Bandicoot cake is a realistic replica of the vulnerable marsupial found in southern arid regions of Australia.

West judges the competition, and co-founded the bake off in 2017 with the then Threatened Species Commissioner, Gregory Andrews.

“I always get the opportunity to learn about some new species, because someone’s baked them as a biscuit or cake,” she says.

 

Source - https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2021/sep/06/threatened-species-awareness-day-sends-a-sweet-message-on-australias-vulnerable-natural-heritage?

[IWantYourLove 1,457]

This is such a wholesome idea to raise awareness of threatened animals, other countries should take note 

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Hope it's without eggs. 

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1 hour ago, TSUNAMI said:

Hope it's without eggs. 

And dairy

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That’s a fun interactive way to keep people educated on endangered species. People are going to be baking anyway, so this is a cool idea to spread awareness. Hopefully this idea can generate funds towards conservation