walk
on the wild side
BENEFIT FUNDRAISER, JULY 22
Our Walk on the Wild Side 2002 event was a tremendous sucess! Our thanks go out to all of our sponsors, contributors, volunteers and speakers who helped to make it so!
We would like to extend our sincere thanks to:
OUR SPONSORS: Snowmass Club, Salisbury Broadcasting, KNFO, KSPN, KTUN, KCCH, Aspen Daily News, CTS Distributing, Jim and Mary Griffith, City Market, Clarks Market, Nordique, Main St. Spirits-- for your contributions and underwriting the evenings event.
OUR CONTRIBUTORS:(alphabetical) AfriCat Foundation, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Buddy Program, Asphalt Surface Restoration, Sandra Bischoff Saboia de Albequerque, Apen Media Systems, Bagel Bites, Sandra Champion, Colorado Audio Visual, David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust, Endangered Species Chocolate Company, FAO Schwartz, Fendi, Mike Ghaui, GLOBIO Foundation & Gerry Ellis, Baronesse Antoinette Von Grone, Isberian Rug Company, Sandy Moore Guiding Service, Salisbury Broadcasting KNFO, Angela Sheldrick, Take 2 Video, Sue Binkley-Tatum,Trattoria Toscana, Betty Weiss, WildImages, Zulu Nyala Tours: Andre Bosman & Trevor Shaw-- for your incredible donations to our Fabulous Silent Auction which raised crucial dollars for our projects.
OUR VOLUNTEERS: Michelle Willyard, Jeff Hood, Marina Hood, Sandra Bischoff, Sid Schultz, Jennifer, Boone, Jon, and Gerry's Truck - Hey you guys...couldn't do it without you. Without your help, I would have surely gone (more) crazy.
Thankyou. You have all helped keep wildness in our hearts and on our Earth.
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The environmental circumvolution is coming, and, Africa is at the crossroads.
FOCUS: TSAVO ECO-SYSTEM- Kenya, Africa
WildiZe Foundation® has created a comprehensive and integrated plan that highlights to the donor how their philanthropic contributions have direct and far-reaching impacts on conservation efforts in Tsavo, Kenya through a variety of specific projects. These projects form a crucial link in a chain of events that are integral to accomplishing important roles in the overall conservation of wildlife, habitat, resource management and sustainablitly of community development and vision. Our integrated overview provides you with acohesive outlook of what is at stake, and how your contributions- whether by supporting one project or many- will have a direct impact on these conservation efforts in total. With donor's help we can bring BETTER schooling, BETTER security, BETTER healthcare, and BETTER employment opportunities to these communities, and in return we gain their essential participation in the conservation efforts.
This area is the last wilderness
of its kind and size in Kenya, and therefore immeasurably important for
the conservation of Wildlife. Tsavo is the largest National Park in Kenya,
located in the southern part of the country, covering an area of 22.000
square kilometres. The Park’s environs are made up of livestock ranches,
seasonal small-scale agricultural farms and community wildlife reserves.
Therefore, the entire area that wild animals can roam freely upon - the
"Tsavo Eco System" - is realistically larger and covers an area
of approx. 35.000 square kilometres. Tsavo was famous for its large Elephant
and Rhino concentrations, which were estimated at 40.000 Elephants and
6.000 Rhinos in the 60’s. Tsavo then became known for the extensive
Elephant and Rhino die-off because of the 1960’s drought and the
subsequent debate between scientists and park managers about the ethics
of culling Elephants. Then followed twenty years of large scale poaching,
mainly due to the phenomenal rise in price of Rhino horn and ivory on
the international market.
Community projects such as water development, health facilities, education,
and game proof barriers to protect bordering farms from wildlife, need
to be developed to assist the communities who live around the park. By
implementing these projects, the local people will come to benefit from
the park and also to appreciate the necessity of wildlife conservation.
"Although there are several
areas in Kenya possessing greater densities of wildlife, particularly
the plains game, the exceptional importance of the Tsavo Park lies in
the fact that it is by far the largest region in Kenya with National Park
status and therefore devoted exclusively to wildlife. Its strength and
importance lie in its size and status. For this reason it is by far the
most important permanent wildlife sanctuary in the country." Noel
Simon, Board of Trustees for Kenya National Parks.
"Because of its immense size, Tsavo must be the only park in the
country that can be considered ecologically workable in that the conservation
of wildlife can be contained within its boundaries. Most of the other
parks in the country are small, being approximately 400 square miles or
less, and, therefore dependent on adjoining areas for the survival of
the wildlife they contain, with the result that they are exposed to external
pressure." Bill Woodley, one of Kenya's first game wardens of the
country and pioneer of National Parks
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