Post by elle on Mar 30, 2006 2:56:56 GMT -5
I'm not good at hitting folk up for money but here it goes!
Some of you may know that I'm fairly active in Conservation efforts, specifically endangered animals. EAZA (European Association of Zoo's and Aquaria) choose a campaign to focus on every year to raise awareness and fundraise to help support endangered wildlife. This year it's the Rhino, their numbers have dwindled over the last 200 years from greater than one million to approximately 18,000. More than 3,000 of which have been white rhinos released into african wildlife parks from captive zoo breeding programs. With the most rare being the Javan rhino which they approximate at 22 left in the world.
I volunteer three days a week at Edinburgh Zoo and we've organised a raffle that's to be drawn on August 31 this year. Some of the prizes are quite smart, including a rhino sculpture by a local artist and also an original oil by another. I've not seen the sculpture yet, but the painting is remarkable.
I'm trying to get Edinburgh Zoo to put a page on the website showing the prizes, but it's not happened as of yet, they're in the middle of quite grand things, including getting enclosures ready for two young female rhinos. Here's the web address for EAZA though www.eaza.net/
If you're interested in buying a raffle ticket or selling a book of ten raffles tickets, please contact me.
Edit: Forgot to add the tickets are £1.
*embarrassed*
Some of you may know that I'm fairly active in Conservation efforts, specifically endangered animals. EAZA (European Association of Zoo's and Aquaria) choose a campaign to focus on every year to raise awareness and fundraise to help support endangered wildlife. This year it's the Rhino, their numbers have dwindled over the last 200 years from greater than one million to approximately 18,000. More than 3,000 of which have been white rhinos released into african wildlife parks from captive zoo breeding programs. With the most rare being the Javan rhino which they approximate at 22 left in the world.
I volunteer three days a week at Edinburgh Zoo and we've organised a raffle that's to be drawn on August 31 this year. Some of the prizes are quite smart, including a rhino sculpture by a local artist and also an original oil by another. I've not seen the sculpture yet, but the painting is remarkable.
I'm trying to get Edinburgh Zoo to put a page on the website showing the prizes, but it's not happened as of yet, they're in the middle of quite grand things, including getting enclosures ready for two young female rhinos. Here's the web address for EAZA though www.eaza.net/
If you're interested in buying a raffle ticket or selling a book of ten raffles tickets, please contact me.
Edit: Forgot to add the tickets are £1.
*embarrassed*