We would like to thank everyone for their donations so far.
Keep them coming! To date we have raised over $65,000!!
Wonder what your DONATION is used for?
Here are just a few examples of what your donations are used for.
$25 provides 4 days of care for an orphaned baby Rhino in Zimbabwe
$50 pays for 1 weeks salary of a rhino monitoring team
$100 buys one week of food and veterinary care for a rhino at the sumatran rhino sanctuary
$150 purchases a hand-held global tracking device for a ranger
$200 pays for a radio receiver for tracking rhinos
$250 Allows replanting of 1 acre of Javan Rhino food plants
$300 buys a radio collar for translocated rhinos
$750 purchases one months worth of fuel for a rhino monitoring vehicle
$1300 buys one pair of high quality night vision goggles to detect poachers
$25 provides 4 days of care for an orphaned baby Rhino in Zimbabwe
$50 pays for 1 weeks salary of a rhino monitoring team
$100 buys one week of food and veterinary care for a rhino at the sumatran rhino sanctuary
$150 purchases a hand-held global tracking device for a ranger
$200 pays for a radio receiver for tracking rhinos
$250 Allows replanting of 1 acre of Javan Rhino food plants
$300 buys a radio collar for translocated rhinos
$750 purchases one months worth of fuel for a rhino monitoring vehicle
$1300 buys one pair of high quality night vision goggles to detect poachers
Here are some other ways you can help!
Here is a list of must reads about illegal wildlife trade. Keep you self informed and learn what is driving this epidemic.
1. "Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty," by Craig Welch (From Amazon: "'Shell Games' is a cops-and-robbers tale set in a double-crossing world where smugglers fight turf wars over some of the world's strangest marine creatures.")
2. "Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters and the Making of a New American Food Culture," by Dana Goodyear (I read this book late last year and loved it. It's not exactly on the wildlife trade, per se, but as Goodyear "sets out to meet the people who are stretching our notions of what is edible," as the The Times put it in a review, she also explores people in the United States who are eating rare and endangered animals, including a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, that was busted serving whale.)
3. "Killing for Profit," by Julian Rademeyer ("On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin," the book's site says. This catalogs a "two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld.")
4. "The Lizard King: True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers," by Bryan Christy (From Amazon: "Imagine 'The Sopranos,' with snakes!")
5. "Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia," by Ben Davies
6. "Trading to Extinction," by Patrick Brown (A black-and-white photo book of 10 years of work documenting the wildlife trade.)
7. "Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species," by Laurel Neme ("CSI for wildlife.")
8. "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengence and Survival," by John Vaillant (I'm a couple chapters into this and the suspense is gripping and the writing is eloquent -- and it sounds like it just gets better.From The New York Times review: "The structure of John Vaillant's book echoes that of 'Moby-Dick,' alternating a gripping chase narrative with dense explanations of the culture and ecology surrounding that chase. 'Jaws' fans will recognize the dramatic strategy of keeping the beast offstage as much as possible to allow terror to fill in the blanks, as well as a certain lurid detail at the book's end, which I won't reveal.")
9. "Love, Life and Elephants," by Daphne Sheldrick (A memoir by "the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants.")
10. "Conflict Tiger," by Sasha Snow (A documentary that inspired Vaillant's book. "In the forests of the Russian Far East, an inexperienced and foolhardy poacher triggers an infamous series of tiger attacks on people." Watch a preview on Vimeo.)
11. "Battle for the Elephants," by John Heminway (2013 National Geographic special, which you can watch online via PBS.org.)
12. "The Last Rhino," by Jonah Hull (Al Jazeera "examines the poaching industry from South Africa to Asia.)
13. "Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis," by Ronald Orenstein
14. "Policing International Trade in Endangered Species," by Rosalind Reeve (Examines the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more commonly known as CITES.)
15. "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink," by Jane Goodall
16. "The Last Great Ape," by Ofir Drori and David McDannald
17. "Behind the Schemes," iTunes podcast by Annamiticus
18. "Trafficking: A Memoir of an Undercover Game Warden," by Tony Latham
19. "Bear Sanctuary," by Victor Watkins
20. "The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures," by Lawrence Anthony
21. "Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers," by Marc Reisner (1993)
22. "Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler," by Jessica Speart
23. "Sold into Extinction," by Jacqueline Schneider (A criminologist's perspective)
24. "To Save an Elephant," by Allan Thornton and Dave Currey
25. "Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers and Skulduggery," by Jennie Erin Smith
1. "Shell Games: Rogues, Smugglers and the Hunt for Nature's Bounty," by Craig Welch (From Amazon: "'Shell Games' is a cops-and-robbers tale set in a double-crossing world where smugglers fight turf wars over some of the world's strangest marine creatures.")
2. "Anything that Moves: Renegade Chefs, Fearless Eaters and the Making of a New American Food Culture," by Dana Goodyear (I read this book late last year and loved it. It's not exactly on the wildlife trade, per se, but as Goodyear "sets out to meet the people who are stretching our notions of what is edible," as the The Times put it in a review, she also explores people in the United States who are eating rare and endangered animals, including a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, that was busted serving whale.)
3. "Killing for Profit," by Julian Rademeyer ("On the black markets of Southeast Asia, rhino horn is worth more than gold, cocaine and heroin," the book's site says. This catalogs a "two-year-long investigation into a dangerous criminal underworld.")
4. "The Lizard King: True Crimes and Passions of the World's Greatest Reptile Smugglers," by Bryan Christy (From Amazon: "Imagine 'The Sopranos,' with snakes!")
5. "Black Market: Inside the Endangered Species Trade in Asia," by Ben Davies
6. "Trading to Extinction," by Patrick Brown (A black-and-white photo book of 10 years of work documenting the wildlife trade.)
7. "Animal Investigators: How the World's First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species," by Laurel Neme ("CSI for wildlife.")
8. "The Tiger: A True Story of Vengence and Survival," by John Vaillant (I'm a couple chapters into this and the suspense is gripping and the writing is eloquent -- and it sounds like it just gets better.From The New York Times review: "The structure of John Vaillant's book echoes that of 'Moby-Dick,' alternating a gripping chase narrative with dense explanations of the culture and ecology surrounding that chase. 'Jaws' fans will recognize the dramatic strategy of keeping the beast offstage as much as possible to allow terror to fill in the blanks, as well as a certain lurid detail at the book's end, which I won't reveal.")
9. "Love, Life and Elephants," by Daphne Sheldrick (A memoir by "the first person ever to have successfully hand-reared newborn elephants.")
10. "Conflict Tiger," by Sasha Snow (A documentary that inspired Vaillant's book. "In the forests of the Russian Far East, an inexperienced and foolhardy poacher triggers an infamous series of tiger attacks on people." Watch a preview on Vimeo.)
11. "Battle for the Elephants," by John Heminway (2013 National Geographic special, which you can watch online via PBS.org.)
12. "The Last Rhino," by Jonah Hull (Al Jazeera "examines the poaching industry from South Africa to Asia.)
13. "Ivory, Horn and Blood: Behind the Elephant and Rhinoceros Poaching Crisis," by Ronald Orenstein
14. "Policing International Trade in Endangered Species," by Rosalind Reeve (Examines the 1973 Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora, more commonly known as CITES.)
15. "Hope for Animals and Their World: How Endangered Species are Being Rescued from the Brink," by Jane Goodall
16. "The Last Great Ape," by Ofir Drori and David McDannald
17. "Behind the Schemes," iTunes podcast by Annamiticus
18. "Trafficking: A Memoir of an Undercover Game Warden," by Tony Latham
19. "Bear Sanctuary," by Victor Watkins
20. "The Last Rhinos: My Battle to Save One of the World's Greatest Creatures," by Lawrence Anthony
21. "Game Wars: The Undercover Pursuit of Wildlife Poachers," by Marc Reisner (1993)
22. "Winged Obsession: The Pursuit of the World's Most Notorious Butterfly Smuggler," by Jessica Speart
23. "Sold into Extinction," by Jacqueline Schneider (A criminologist's perspective)
24. "To Save an Elephant," by Allan Thornton and Dave Currey
25. "Stolen World: A Tale of Reptiles, Smugglers and Skulduggery," by Jennie Erin Smith
