By Beth Duncan | Project Leader
Global Alliance for Big Cat Conservation
Project Update
We are very grateful to our donors who collectively have donated (to date) over $2,000 towards our $10,000 goal. Because we received enough individual donors, we were invited to have a permanent spot on the GlobalGiving website, for which we are also immensely grateful. It’s through the generous donations of our donors that we are able to carry on this important work to help save the critically endangered big cats.
The past few months, we have been working hard to pull the global gathering together, inviting indigenous elders and scientists from around the world. Twenty representatives from Central Asia, Africa, South America, Europe, and the United States will attend. The gathering will be held in South Africa in late August, and we will provide an update of how the meetings went in our next report. As the momentum builds, we will also at this meeting be laying the groundwork for the next global gathering that will be held in 2015 in Oaxaca, Mexico, home to the endangered jaguar.
As a result of the funds raised to date, we were able to invite two additional participants—two Bushmen—to the gathering. With their profound understanding of the big cats and of nature as well as their outstanding knowledge of the ancient art of tracking, their participation will be very important to the success of this and future meetings. We are immensely grateful to our donors for helping make it possible to bring these individuals to this important gathering.
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