South Africa, Dec. 17 -- The surprise donation, made possible by the incredible R31.5m raised during this year's Hot Cares Teddython, is valued at over R250,000 and arrives at a time when Wild Heart needs it most.

The Wild Heart Wildlife Foundation is a hands-on, non-profit organisation dedicated to protecting South Africa's most vulnerable wildlife. Their mission sees them working with everything from porcupines and bushbabies, hedgehogs to jackals, owls and tortoises.

Rescue and rehabilitation work is hard at the best of times but, in October, this small but determined team was pushed to breaking point after a mammoth storm tore through the Mookgophong region causing enormous damage, forcing a race against time to save their vulnerabl...