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Good cause of the month

The David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation is a small, effective charity funding key projects in Africa and Asia working to save critically endangered mammals in the wild.

Apopt an endangered animal 

For just £32 you will receive:

  • A beautiful mounted print of an exclusive sketch signed by David Shepherd
  • An adoption certificate
  • Information about the history of your animal and a fact sheet
  • A photograph of your chosen animal
  • A greetings card
  • An update of your animal's progress at renewal 
Adopt an animal

 

Wildlife and conservation volunteering

Do you want to sit back, or get your hands dirty and help out? There are many opportunities to help wildlife across the UK and worldwide. Volunteering covers a wide range of activities and costs; 

 

Big game hunting in Africa is economically useless - IUCN

A new IUCN report reveals that Big game hunting is almost unbelievably inefficient as a wealth generator, when taking into account the land used and the financial contribution made to GDP. 

In the 11 main big game hunting countries in Africa, the surface area occupied by big game hunting parks is 14.9% of national territory, and the contribution of big game hunting to the GDP is 0.06%.

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Where to watch wildlife in the UK
See the guide to wildlife watching in the UK.

Wildlife photography: How to enjoy it and how to do it better
Top tips for wildlife photographers.  

wildlife news from the week of 6th november

      bird news

       WHALE, DOLPHIN AND MARINE NEWS

Lemurs of Madagascar

Amazingly, when the first edition of this book was written, in 1994, only 50 species were known, but since then another 43 species and subspecies have been identified, and this book recognises a further 8 as a result of greater understanding of their systematics!

Anyone visiting Madagascar should take a copy of this book with them.

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naturetrek - new brochure

Britain's largest selection of professionally organised natural history holidays and wildlife tours. All are expertly guided by a leading ornithologist or botanist. 

 

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staff photo of the month 

A young lion has a plan but no clue, trying its luck with three wildebeest instead of concentrating on one.

 

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WHERE TO WATCH WILDLIFE THIS WEEKEND

Hundreds of thousands of starlings will turn the sky black around the UK in the next few weeks, as they come together in huge clouds, wheeling and swooping in unison.

Huge starling flocks gather before dusk and often put on spectacular displays.

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Costa Rica Turtle outrage! Why do people forward this email without checking the facts?

There is an email doing the rounds that we get sent several times each week.

Whilst the images are real, most of the facts that appear on the email are not true. 

If you have had and forwarded a copy of this email, please read the facts 


Wildlife and conservation volunteering

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Volunteer in Sri Lanka
Volunteers can join the Sri Lanka Wildlife Conservation Society in the field to participate in ecological research on elephants, assess human elephant conflicts, biodiversity mapping using surveying techniques and community integrated human elephant conflict resolution.
Click here to find out more.