By Dane Waters | President
Happy New Year!
I just wanted to give you a quick update on our progress as the new year begins!
BUILDING ELECTRIC FENCES: Fencing is being built. We are up to approximately 11,000 feet of electric fencing protecting the crops in several villages - which protects the elephants from certain death by the villagers.
As more funding is available we will invest in additional fencing! You will see footage of some of the fencing we have funded in the film link below!
DOCUMENTARY: We just finished our third trip gathering footage for the documentary. Here is a ROUGH CUT of the trailer for the film https://youtu.be/T3GDHR4OyDM.
I will send the final cut once we have it! In the meantime I would love your comments on the trailer and so please send me any thoughts or suggestions.
RELOCATING ELEPHANTS: Unfortunately, our relocation efforts aren’t going as well as we had hoped. Funding has been slow coming in but we are ramping up our fundraising efforts and hope that the release of the documentary later this year will help with our fundraising efforts. We do have support staff on the ground monitoring the sitution which will help us move fast once we have the funds to begin the relocation efforts!
This is the reality of running an NGO - sometimes funding is slow. But your support has been phenomenal and for that I, and the elephants, are grateful and we have been able to do so much because of your support.
I feel confident that 2020 will be a phenomenal year for our efforts - thank you for all you do for the elephants!
All the best,
Dane
PS: But we are also working as always on our educational efforts and helping spread the word on other important developments regarding the protection of elephants. I hope you will take a minute to read the news articles included in this report.
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