Filming Wild

Category: appeals | Date: May 31 2008 | By: filmingwild

Thanks to the generosity of members here on Wildlife Direct, as well as members of the Safaritalk and Fodor’s forums, combined with donors contributing directly through our own website, we have now raised all the funds required for the prize appeal for the Giraffe Center environmental awards.

Thank you to everyone who contributed. Specific donations from the past week will be acknowledged when we receive our statement of account from Wildlife Direct on June 3rd.

I’ll be back with photos of the prize giving and an account of the whole event which starts at 1.30pm, June 6th.

In the meantime, we have lots of important projects still ongoing, including the production of our Inspiration series of films - my previous post tells of one such film, and more updates on our other films in progress will be posted shortly…

Have a great weekend, everyone!

Tags: africa, animal, award, children, conservation, DVD, education, environment, film, kenya, wildlife

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Category: appeals | Date: May 28 2008 | By: filmingwild

We’ve had such a great response to our Appeal for DVD prizes for the kids in the environmental awareness competition, from our supporters both here on Wildlife Direct and on the SafariTalk forum. I know many of you visit both sites, and some are supporting us here and some there - a big THANK YOU to you all, as well as to those of you who made contributions directly via our main AEFF website.

Thanks to the earlier contributions made in April and the excellent response over the last 24 hours since our last post, we are now just $50 short of our target, in order to provide prizes for all the kids.

• Read the full story about the competition and our appeal for prizes here.

Tags: africa, animal, award, children, conservation, DVD, education, environment, film, kenya, wildlife

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Category: appeals | Date: May 27 2008 | By: filmingwild

I thought it was time for a quick update on the Appeal we launched for funding to cover the 150 educational DVDs to be used as prizes for the kids participating in the Environmental Awareness Competition. Several of you have already kindly sponsored a number of DVDs. We have also received support via our own website and from members of the Safaritalk forum.

We are now just $200 short of raising the total amount we need. Although this is not a huge amount of money, it is something we have to find over and above our regular annual budget. When the Giraffe Centre came to us requesting the donation of prizes, we knew it was important to help, because the Giraffe Center does such an amazing job, hosting thousands of children each year who not only get to see the giraffes close up but are exposed to a comprehensive conservation education program (which includes our films).

By the way, you can see some great photos taken at the Giraffe Center on Iregi Mwenja’s Bushmeat East Africa blog, right here on Wildlife Direct. This is the kind of experience the Giraffe Center gives to thousands of kids (and adults) each year - you can imagine, after experiencing this, how receptive people are to the conservation message! That is why we are happy to be able to work with the Giraffe Center to reinforce this message and bolster the amount of conservation education material available by making sure they have copies of all our films which they use as part of their conservation education program.

We’ll be there ourselves at the prize giving on June 6th, and will be sure to post some photos and a report about the event here…

If anyone is able to help us with the final $200 required to ensure all the kids receive their DVD prizes, we would be very grateful.

The 150 DVD prizes will comprise plus/minus 12 copies each of the 12 films AEFF currently has available.

Tags: africa, animal, award, children, conservation, DVD, education, environment, film, kenya, wildlife

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