Baraza

Category: Uncategorized | Date: Aug 28 2008 | By: baraza

Hello everyone. Apologies for the absence, it has been very busy, first week back to school for the brat - uniform, books, shoes….its never easy.

I have been monitoring the blog activity and donations and wanted to say a big thank you to all those who have helped us over the past 12 months. We have just spent the last three days processing the donations for the virunga blogs which they will receive today.  It will go a very long way to helping through this crisis.

On the Mara Triangle we recently received a thank you from their board  for the donations received so far through the blog. Not only has the blog been superb, but a proposal we submitted to US Fish and Wildlife Service for them was approved bringing in another $50,000 towards emergency costs. It feels great to have had that much of an impact.

We’re now looking at a few new blog requests, one for rhino conservation in the Aberdares, another for dolphin conservation in Argentina amongst others.

I’m also preparing for a trip to USA for the launch of our book ‘looking for Miza’ and then to the IUCN World Conservation Union meeting in Barcelona. The African NGO’s are organizing to coordinte conservation in Africa.  If you had three points to say to the head of the IUCN , what would they be?

Tags: Gorillas, IUCN, Mara Triangle

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