The cat’s out of the bag: national geographic’s new cat fund
Category: General | Date: Jun 12 2008 | By: Seamus
Today is an interesing day, media-wise. I helped to fact-check a press release just a short while ago, that mentions lions, Laurence Frank, Amboseli National Park, the Maasai and a new big cat fund, and now its being picked up by most of the usual suspects. CCN International has put this into their technology section Washington Post picked it up, as did News24, the Seattle Times, and the LA Times And it turned up in a few other places like Newsvine and the Science News Review. Most of the press coverage centers around a National geographic fund that has been set up for big cat conservation. the stated uses of the fund are the following:
- Education for students and adults
- Animal husbandry solutions
- Jobs for the Maasai people
- Community conservation efforts
Do have a look at the National geographic fund site as its the most comprehensive description. I’d like to hear your thoughts.
Technorati : Frank, amboseli, conservaiton, kenya, lions
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3 Responses to “The cat’s out of the bag: national geographic’s new cat fund”
Bertie, on 12 Jun 2008
I got to thinking about that AP article on the lions in Amboseli and I made a connection with the recent political violence in Kenya and its effect on tourism. Right or wrong the word got out through the media that Kenya was a dangerous place to go and tourism was hammered. The government and the private sector mobilized to counter that and to encourage people to come.
I think if people start to feel that the wildlife of Kenya is disappearing, with the lion being so emblematic and the reason many people come to Kenya, they won’t come. Disappearing lions mean disappearing tourists! I think this will have a longer and more dramatic impact than the political violence has had.
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