An update from Meli Souter, Animal Works’ elephant adoption co-ordinator: After our last post on the sick calves at the CWRC we couldn’t wait to let everyone know the much better news that the calves are all recovering fast and doing much better.
I said it last time and I’ll say it again – the best thing about Animal Works’ Imagine Africa dinners isn’t making loads of money for Zimbabwean anti-poaching, nor is it hanging out with some of Australia’s biggest names in African publishing, or even the chance to win a luxury safari in Africa, although these [...]
Dihing We hate to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s been a sad turn of events at the Centre for Wildlife Rehabilitation and Conservation (CWRC) in Assam. Early April found Dihing, Junmoni, Tora and Chandi Bandha all sick. All four calves lost substantial amounts of weight and refused to feed regularly. Little Philip-Dev [...]
It’s not that often that opportunities to visit Kenya with a best-selling novelist who knows the place (and its history) like the back of his hand, so when Frank Coates and I first got chatting a couple of months ago about him leading an Animal Works expedition I was pretty excited. And I’m even more [...]
From Animal Works’ co-founder, Dr Tammie Matson: A few days after Animal Works’ first Imagine Africa dinner, one of our volunteers from Sydney, Shirley Minassian (right), flew to Zimbabwe to spend some time working at the Humani Primary School in the Save Valley Conservancy. Shirley is an IT professional and a passionate animal lover, and [...]
Whilst we love writing about the orphaned elephant calves at the CWRC in our regular blogs, we are going one better this time and and showing you some actual footage…. Beware, this video will kill you with its cuteness! Meli Souter, who runs Animal Works’ elephant adoption program, took a video camera with her when [...]
From Animal Works’ co-founder, Tammie Matson: In just a couple of months, I’m off to Zimbabwe with Michael Jeh from Barefoot in Africa safaris and ten very excited people from Sydney. This is not your average safari, you see. Sure, we will be in Big Five areas among elephants, rhinos, African wild dogs and hippos, [...]
Following the success of last weeks’ Imagine Africa dinner, we thought it was time to draw the winner of Nafisa’s framed African elephant drawing, the online competition we have been running since September. Thanks to everyone who entered. The $1000 we raised all goes to our Indian elephant projects in Assam.
A word from Animal Works’ co-founder, Tammie Matson: It’s taken me a day to recover from the huge night that was Animal Works’ first ever Imagine Africa dinner. Wow! What a night! I don’t think I’m the only one who just about fell off my chair hearing Peter Allison talk about the day he was [...]
There’s only one thing better than going to Africa…. and that’s going to Africa on a trip that you’ve won! As part of their sponsorship of Animal Works’ first ‘Imagine Africa’ dinner on 22nd February, The Classic Safari Company is offering you the chance to win a 6 night/7 day safari to Zimbabwe worth US$4000!! [...]
