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We Love Ensemble Theatre!

The wonderful Ensemble Theatre is supporting Animal Works by giving us 50 great seats on each of two nights  30th March and 6th April for FRANKENSTEIN  BY NICK DEAR at the Sydney Opera House!                         50% of the ticket cost will be a donation from Ensemble [...]

UPDATE! Orangutans – Rawa Kuno Legacy Forest

Rawa Kuno is a Biological Treasure and an Important Orangutan Refuge  Borneo’s Rawa Kuno Forest is home to an estimated 200 wild orangutans and many other endangered species. This beautiful forest was at risk of being clear-cut and converted to palm oil agriculture – a monoculture in which few, if any, species can survive. Hundreds of wild orangutans [...]

Bees!

What does Animal Works have to do with bees?  We’re not talking about the small, buzzing insect (whose diminishing populations are actually a great cause for concern) but rather a much larger animal…. Animal Works’ affiliate organisation ‘BEES’ focuses on rescuing and then enriching the lives of old, female Asian elephants that have spent their [...]

Saving Borneo’s Rawa Kuno Legacy Forest

Darek Figa,  behavioural biologist and key committee member of both Animal Works and Orangutan Foundation International (Australia), explains the critical importance of saving the Rawa Kuno Legacy Forest in Borneo. Rawa Kuno Legacy Forest – a place I’d not heard of until only a few months ago.  A place close to Borneo’s Tanjung Puting National Park and [...]

It’s a Jungle Out There!

There was a touch of the wild in Sydney early Tuesday morning when the Animal Works team unveiled their latest project at Ripples, Sydney Wharf. As guests arrived the ‘piece de resistance’ greeted them in the doorway – an Aprilia Scarabeo 200cc motor scooter transformed by Animal Works Co-founder and multi award winning Artist, Nafisa, [...]

On Safari with Animal Works

Animal Works co-founder, Nafisa, was a participant on our second and latest safari to Zimbabwe and South Africa. Here she recounts some magnificent wildlife moments and explains what to expect when on safari with Animal Works. The African Experience : Part 1 ……………..Zimbabwe The journey to Humani seemed to take an extraordinary length of time as [...]

Elephants Without Borders

In 2009 Animal Works co-founders, Nafisa and Dr Tammie Matson, were in Botswana filming Elephant Wars with Animal Media. Whilst there, they met Dr Mike Chase and Kelly Landen of Elephants Without Borders to discuss a variety of conservation issues, including human-elephant conflict. Elephants Without Borders is a non-profit organisation based in Kasane, researching elephant [...]

Elephant Inspiration

Animal Works co-founder Nafisa recounts her first elephant encounter and the subsequent inspiration behind her amazing elephant artworks. When I first met an elephant face to face, it was a case of ‘love at first sight’, not for just this one matriarch, but for all pachyderms I would then ever have the privilege to meet. [...]

‘Adopt an Elephant’ Artworks!

Animal Works is calling for people to take an Elephant into their homes in support of the adoption program we help in India. Art Smart at Seaforth are 100% behind us!!! For a payment of $100, you can take an original elephant work home by artist Nafisa, and deposit $100 per month by PayPal (fully tax deductible) into Animal Works which [...]

Snow Leopard Conservation in Nepal

One of the projects Animal works enthusiastically supports is snow leopard conservation in Nepal. Snow Leopards are a species on the brink of extinction. The only hope is for locals, who share their harsh environment, to work to protect and conserve them rather than kill them in retaliation for livestock loss. Animal Works associate, Tshering [...]