I've just got one more bag to pack! I'll stuff with goodies for India!
Here are my English students holding a message "Let's Save The Wild Tigers!"
Watch them on Youtube as they color in the sign! :)
They are so cute (~8 years old & the little guy is 4y.o.) I am teaching English as a volunteer. These kids colored this sign and made their own drawings. They are contributing them to my educational program with the kids in India! I hope to collect drawings in India as well, and pass them along to my students, when I get back!
I will post more photos on facebook!
I have collected 18 Signature cards from people around me, talked to an additional 6 people since my last update. We talked about India, Tigers, and how helping the Tiger means helping the forests and all the wildlife that depend on them!
Recent links and news that have come in:
Are tiger conservation efforts targeting the right areas?
http://bushwarriors.wordpress.com/2011/02/08/the-big-elephant-in-the-room-are-tiger-conservation-efforts-targeting-the-right-areas/
Closing a Deadly Gateway - youtube video
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OC9CATzZCO4
An email from a great supporter - My big sis! (there's some nice links and promo message about a movie that just came out last FRI! Check it out and leave comments here!)
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Hey Takako-- Thanks for all your info about your efforts!
You'll be nicely surprised to know that yesterday was my Big Cats Day!
I went to see the National Geographic movie--The Last Lions (http://movies.nationalgeographic.com/movies/last-lions/). If you go see the documentary or even if you watch the promo on YouTube, proceeds go to support NatGeo's Big Cats Initiative. It's a great movie about a lone African lioness (she lost her mate when a pride of lions took over their territory) and her struggle to raise and feed her three lion cubs while fending off a pride of lionesses and an aggressive bunch of water buffalo, which are also supposed to be her dinner. If you get a chance to see it, I highly recommend it. According to the movie, there are only 20,000 lions left in the wilds of Africa. NatGeo also has a website--causeanuproar.org--that is for promoting awareness of the plight of big cats. You can buy cool t-shirts to help raise awareness :)
Then, last night, I was watching PBS--yeah, me and my nerdy self--and watched a documentary called Broken-Tail: A Tiger's Last Journey (http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/broken-tail-a-tigers-last-journey/introduction/6351/). It's about a tiger named Broken-Tail who was born and raised in the Ranthambhore National Park. At two and half years old, he managed to travel 150 miles or so outside the park where he got struck and killed by a train. The guy who was documenting the growth of Broken-Tail then made it his goal to figure out how and why this happened as a way to shed more light on the diminishing tiger population and pose the question of how to better protect tigers and their habitats.
Of course, you may already know about these things, given that you're much more "up" on these things than I am. But, through both documentaries, I was shocked how quickly the big cat population is dwindling in our world and was impressed again (after hearing about this from you before) how urgent this matter is. I thought you'd like to know....
Love,Rika
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Thanks for the update, Rika, I didn't know but now I do, and so does whoever reads the blog! I will be going to Ranthambore National Park March 4-7th and look forward to seeing who's in charge there now as the dominant male and female!
Thanks for reading these updates! See previous blogs for ideas about what more YOU can do! I sure can't save them alone...
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