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RED SQUIRREL SANCTUARY   by Steve Mackay

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Greenwood Wildlife Rehabilitation Center is a non-profit organization that provides care for sick, injured, and orphaned animals in order to release them back into the wild. 2,400 animals are rehabilitated each year, most of which come in as orphaned or abandoned babies.

View this video for a look at what we do everyday: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7n_6QttZIbI&feature=player_embedded#!

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THANK YOU SO SO MUCH!!!

Hi, I’m Shane!

I’m just a normal guy (debatable by some I know ha ha!) who wants to help someone who is desperately in need of funding to keep her Lions alive. I have lived in Africa most of my life and my heart remains there. Please help if you can as any amount will help.

   You can contribute from as little as just $1

The SanWild Wildlife Sanctuary is a protected wildlife reserve that spans 6000 hectares. This stunning wildlife reserve is home to more than 5500 rescued wild animals of all species including elephants, lions, giraffe, leopards and many others. 

UPDATE 01/08/2012: Thank you all for your generous support so far but please remember to keep sharing. To feed the 16 lions costs around $5,000 per month as each lion consumes about 150 Kilograms of meat per month at a cost of $300 per month. I’m hoping we can raise enough funding to carry them for several months until a new corporate sponsorship deal is secured. Something I am working on as I type. Please, please keep sharing!http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151152974839810&set=a.164879329809.149558.678604809&type=1&theater&notif_t=like

UPDATE 29/07/2012

“Sixteen lions on a South African game reserve are facing death because of a shortage of funds to feed them, it emerged today.

The SanWild sanctuary, in Limpopo province, has issued an urgent appeal for donations to save the three prides of 14 adults and two cubs.

Officials have warned that if the sanctuary cannot meet the 45,000 rand (£4,000) monthly cost of meat to keep the lions healthy it will be forced to have them put down them ‑ possibly as soon as next month.

“The situation on the ground for our lions is dire and, unless we can urgently find sponsorship, the lions will have to be put down,” Louise Joubert, founder trustee of SanWild, said. “We find ourselves in a difficult situation. We can’t allow them to start starving. We would rather euthanise them than let them end up as a trophy on some hunter’s wall.”

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         SanWild Lion Sanctuary at risk of closing down

While more and more reports of deliberate lion killings surface in South Africa a small animal welfare charity may have to be forced to shut down their lion sanctuary that has been operational since 2003 when conservation authorities confiscated some lion from South Africa’s infamous canned lion breeding and hunting industry as a result of dwindling donor funding and increased expenditure.

The SanWild Lion Sanctuary funded by mainly international donor funding has been home to a number of rescued lion that are held in large natural habitat enclosures in their respective prides.

The SanWild Wildlife Trust spend approximately R500 000 per year on food for the lions, but in the last year has battled to raise sufficient funding to continue the operation. Despite repeated local and international funding appeals no long term sponsorship could be secured. One of the sanctuaries main international animal welfare organisation donors have also cut funding to the lion sanctuary with 30% and this has put even more pressure on the small organisation to operate effectively.

Louise Joubert, founder trustee of the SanWild Wildlife Trust said that they have reached a point where they are simply no longer in a financial position to fund the lion’s upkeep and feeding from other sources and that the reality of the closure of the lions sanctuary is a very harsh reality unless long-term sponsorship can urgently be found. The only other alternative that can secure the 16 lions future is to find at least 16 local adoptive foster parents or companies that would be willing to take on the monthly expenses of feeding individual lions in order to use the tax benefit they will get in South Africa. All the lions were confiscated from illegal breeding projects or intended hunts. 
South Africa’s reputation as a conservation leader continues to be tarnished by the captive lion breeding and hunting industry that now also supplies the bones of lions that have either been shot or deliberately euthanized to East Asian markets where the bones are in high demand for amongst other uses the manufacture of “lion wine” – a substitute for “tiger wine”. The constant forced removal of captive bred lion cubs continues unchallenged by the conservation authorities to ensure a rapidly growing “volunteer” or “walk with lions” tourism industry.

SanWild has appealed to potential private foster parents, donors and corporate sponsors to urgently help them deal with the immediate financial challenge to ensure that a bona fide lion sanctuary is not forced to shut down its operation which will inevitably result in the SanWild lions facing a very bleak and questionable future.

CONTACT PERSON: Louise Joubert, email louise@sanwild.org tel: +27(0)15-3839958, +27(0)833103882

SanWild on Facebook:http://www.facebook.com/pages/SanWild-Wildlife-Sanctuary/163363760361196

SanWild Website:http://www.sanwild.com/

SanWild FB Event:http://www.facebook.com/events/262609210520001/

Accommodation provided for the “Holiday Perk”, “Premium Holiday Perk” and the “Ultimate Holiday Perk”:http://www.facebook.com/notes/sanwild-bush-camps/last-accommodation-special-for-2012-dont-miss-out/469300333081077

“The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated”. - Gandhi