By Manuel Camino | Marketing Manager
Hello All!
Firstly, I would like to thank you all for your incredible support! Week in and week out we are reminded of all the amazing people who have helped us and are helping us achieve our goal of inspiring young people to care about the environment. For that, we are incredibly grateful!
Over the last few months we have had the additions of a fair few new animals! In addition to the baby Nyala Chancy, which we welcomed last time, we welcomed another young baby nyala which we named Nyalou. He came to us from a nearby farm at a very young age, and he even still had his umbilical cord attached. Incredibly, from the beginning he was very calm around people and he has grown up for the last month and a half incredibly well. Him and Chancy are inseparable and are getting along very well. As they both grew up without a mother, they find comfort with each other.
In addition to this, we are going through one of the worst droughts which our area has seen in years. The bush is very dry and we have reached a situation where we fear for the wellbeing of the animals that live on the DAKTARI Farm. All three provinces affected have been labelled as being disaster areas due to the severity of the situation. With the baby-season coming we want to be able to provide a little support to prevent malnutrition, dehydration, or even the death of some of these animals, as well as ensuring that the future mothers can provide for their young ones in the heat.
The drought which is currently affecting the area in which DAKTARI is has become more severe than was initially thought. Around this time, we would have experienced scattered rainfall and a progressively greener bush going into the rainy season. Follow the link to this project (Drought relief for the farm) which aims to counter the potentially devastating effects of the drought by providing a food source for the wild animals without majorly interfering.
We also wanted to invite you to participate in our December fundraiser on GlobalGiving! From December 1st until December 31st all donations made to this project (Educate African children to save their environment) will be entered into a competition which could see us win a grand prize of $3000! If you would like to learn more or to get involved with this fundraiser please send us an email at marketing@daktaribushschool.org !
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