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Category: Poisoning wildlife | Date: Apr 15 2008 | By: admin

Dear friends, I am posting this appeal to Stop the Poisoning of Wildlife again because it’s critically urgent and we desperately need your help. We are the first organization to raise this issue in Kenya as a national wildlife crisis. It is believed that the sudden decline and total disappearance of lions and vultures in some parts of Africa can be directly attributed to the ease of access and liberal use of deadly poisons like Furadan. This shocking video about the effects of Furadan on a hyena and hundreds of vultures that ate it explains it all.

Apologies to those who saw this before. I just had to post it again because of the problems we have had with the site. When we were asked to hold a meeting of concerned people about devastating and cruel poisoning of wildlife, we expected a few people to come and start a discussion. What we have discovered is an enormous amount of concern in East and Southern Africa and the meeting has swelled to over 25 people with a super range of people from scientists, land owners, and government officials!

We now need to raise $3,000 to cover the costs of getting some of the participants to the meeting, as well as to pay for refreshments, to rent a room big enough for the group, and for all the writing up and follow up.

We are aiming to develop an action plan that will address the following

1. Education - especially of communities who are using illegal poisons, or legal poisons inappropriately

2. Awareness - to get the general public aware of the risks, dangers and impacts of poisoning of wildlife through media coverage

3. Legislation and enforcement - to get officials involved and to look at the possiblity of enforcing existing rules more effectively, or addressing need for new legislation. We demand that the government takes their responsibiliteis seriously - and we will help them to achieve this through our online network.

4. Investigations and monitoring -ensuring that everyone from land owners, scientists and concerned people have the information and tools to establish if poisons are the cause of wildlife mortalities, and to create a reporting mechanism to monitor the trends and respond when needed

5. To create a network of concerned people and a central place for information, ideas, experiences and success can be shared. We will soon have a special blog dedicated to this crisis.

We invite you to be part of this really important initiative by making a small donation to support a delegate to attend the meeting. It will cost 100$ per delegate so all I need is 30 people to donate $100 or 60 people to donate $50. These funds will bring together the people who can make a difference in ending the use of poison in the killing Africa’s big cats, hyenas, vultures and other animals. You can also help us tremendously but circulating this information to everyone in your networks, through email, face book or other means. Or, do you have other ideas to help us? Please drop us a comment. Thank you all and we look forward to hearing from you. Paula

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