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  1. Will you donate to SPANA's tetanus appeal?

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    SPANA is an international charity which helps working animals around the world. 

    SPANA work in the developing countries of the world where millions of people are dependent on their animals – horses, donkeys, mules, elephants – for a living. 

    What SPANA does and where

    SPANA treats animals, it teaches the owners about animal care and it trains local professionals and communities.  SPANA works in countries such as Somaliland, Tanzania, Namibia, Sierra Leone, Peru, Liberia, Mongolia, Kenya, and Cameroon.   You can find out more about its work here.

    And they know that from their visits in mobile clinics to out of the way places, many of the animals can suffer terribly from tetanus and they can die from it as well.

    The problem: tetanus can kill

    Just a small scratch is enough for tetanus bacteria to enter their stream.  And then they need treatment immediately – if they don’t get it, the animal is not likely to survive.

    The solution:  to vaccinate against tetanus

    The simple solution is to vaccinate the animals against tetanus

    Introducing Mory

    Mory’s story is typical.

    He transports waste to rubbish dumps in Mali.  The work is backbreaking, in scorching heat and a hazardous environment.

    An open wound on Mory’s back getes worse as the cart knocks his back. His wound is the perfect place for tetanus bacteria to enter his body – and multiply.

    But Mory’s owner saw Mory’s wound was getting worse.  SPANA’s mobile clinic was luckily close by. Their vets cleaned the wounds, sprayed them with antiseptic and dressed them.  They gave Mory a vaccine to stop tetanus and gave Mory’s owner advice about harnessing him correctly to stop the cart running into the wound.

    How you can help animals like Mory

    You can help with a donation to vaccinate many animals like Mory and keep them safe from tetanus.

    Please donate here.  Every vaccination makes a difference to a hard-working animal like Mory.

    • £20 could vaccinate 8 animals against tetanus. 
    • £45 ...could pay for bandages, antiseptics and anti-inflammatory medicine to treat the wound of a working animal at risk of developing tetanus.
    • £80 ...could pay for medicines, food and bedding to treat an animal with a mild case of tetanus at the SPANA stables for three days

    Mory says THANK YOU on behalf of all his friends!

  2. Paul O'Grady's The Great Escape in Kent features The Wildwood Trust and Port Lympne

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    I love  Paul O’Grady’s programmes and tonight, I’m looking forward to watching The Great Escape in Kent.

    For tonight at 8:30, the programme will include a visit to The Wildwood Trust near Canterbury.  (It also has a base in Devon.)

    The Wildwood Trust is dedicated to saving Britain’s most threatened wildlife, and it is or has been involved in work such as:

    • Saving the water vole
    • Using wild horses to help restore Kent’s nature reserves
    • Bringing beavers back to Britain
    • Returning the hazel dormouse and red squirrel to areas where they had previously been extinct

    You can find out about their mission here.

    6 Ways to Support the Wildwood Trust:

    1. Become a member – you can give a membership as a gift too
    2. Adopt an animal – there are three different levels of adoption starting at £25
    3. Support an appeal by making a donation
    4. Buy something from their online shop – these include experiences and courses
    5. Discover more about what they are doing so that you can tell people about it!
    6. Follow them on Twitter and/or Facebook and help spread the word

     

    Donate to help bears Mish and Lucy here
    (They were found as cubs abandoned in Albania and the Trust offered to give them a home.)

     

    A quick timeline:

    1999 The Trust opened as a centre of excellence for conservation

    2002 It was established as a registered charity

    2015 It opened up a park at Escot in Devon

    2020 In Kent, it now has 40 acres of ancient woodland, with bears, wolves, bison, der, foxes, red squirrel, wild boar, lynx, wild horses, badgers, beavers and others – there are about 200 native animals there.

    Visit the Wildlife Trust’s website

    Visit their Facebook Page

    Visit their Devon Park website

    16 December 2020

    Paul O'Grady is visiting Port Lympne, a safari/wildlife park in Kent - find out more - and the Aspinall Foundation.   The Foundation is committed to conservation, through captive breeding, education and reintroduction. It is working in some of the world’s most fragile environments to save endangered animals and return them to the wild.

  3. BETA Lebanon faces eviction and needs urgent funds for new sanctuary

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    There’s a charity caring for lost and abandoned pets who urgently need all our help.  

    It’s based in Lebanon, and it’s the Beirut for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (BETA). The charity has six staff and it relies on volunteers and international donations.  Today, it featured in the Mail on Sunday who ran an article about it and the help it needs.

    It houses 850 dogs, 250 cats, three horses, two vervet monkeys and a pelican.

    Not only that, the charity’s volunteers give food and medical care to all the strays roaming Beirut.

    Dogs and cats in Beirut need help

    As you know, there was a huge blast in Beirut in August when 2,700 tons of combustible chemicals stored at the port exploded.

    The result was that 200 people were killed.  Thousands more were made homeless.  And BETA’s teams are searching for dogs and cats who were very distressed and ran away from the explosion area.  At the same time, many cats and dogs have been abandoned because of the financial crisis.  BETA estimate there are about 150,000 strays in the city of Beirut. 

    BETA has a Crowdfunder

    BETA has issued an urgent appeal – they need to complete a new rescue centre.  


    With everything that’s going on – the explosion, the economic crisis and COVID-19, progress on the building has been slow.  The fully equipped stable and a monkey enclosure have been built.  Work is going on to finish the dog kennels – and the area for seniors.

    £150,000 is urgently needed to finish it for the rescue dogs, cats and other animals before Christmas because they are being evicted from the current shelter.   And there is a need to provide for the animals’ basic needs such as food and medical care and to carry out their daily tasks. 

    Please help provide these animals with the safe haven they deserve.  They have been through enough and need help.

    If you have a cat or a dog, why not make a donation on their behalf and give cats and dogs in Lebanon a safe haven!

    BETA is now a 501(c)3 charity organization registered in the USA. Tax identification number: 83-2075807

    Please donate to the crowdfunder with GoFundMe

    There’s also a wishlist on BETA’s website and you can find out more about the charity here.