Jane Goodall Live

Jane Goodall Live

09/27/2011

Join NCM Fathom and MDA Productions for a rare and intimate evening LIVE with Jane Goodall as we take a look at the private person behind the famous icon.

On September 27th at 8pm ET/7pm CT/ 6pm MT/8pm PT(tape delayed), for only one night, famed chimpanzee researcher Jane Goodall will appear LIVE in hundreds of select movie theaters throughout the country for an exciting and unique event.

To submit your question(s) for Jane to answer on event night visit the JaneGoodalLive Facebook page (https://www.facebook.com/pages/Jane-Goodall-Live-Movie-Theater-Event/208096522581827)

This entirely unique movie theatre broadcast will highlight not only the 50 years of Jane Goodall's most extraordinary observations of the wild chimpanzees in Tanzania, but will provide rare insight into who Jane is today. This special LIVE event will be broadcast exclusively to a national audience in nearly 500 theatres and will unveil never-before-seen 45-year-old 8mm film footage shot in her first years in the African forest, and just recently discovered in Jane’s home attic in Britain as well as Jane and music legend Dave Matthews will talk about their experiences in the field. In addition, other celebrity friends like Academy Award Nominated and Winner Best Actress Charlize Theron will look with Jane at her first day ever in the forbidding jungle as a 26 year-old from Britain and will interact with the national audience attendees. This intimate setting will provide a look at the fun and playful Jane few get to see.

The event also features the national debut of the multi-million dollar cinemagraphic story "Jane's Journey," with appearances by Academy Award Winner for Best Supporting Actress Angelina Jolie and James Bond's Pierce Brosnan. This biography is a fascinating four-year look at Goodall's diverse days across three continents, viewing chimpanzees in the jungle and hippos in steamy pools in Tanzania, explosive, calving glaciers in Greenland, and meeting challenged youth on the Pine Ridge Native American reservation.

Jane Goodall is one of the most universally respected figures on earth. Her power has come from her unique vision and strong values. Now at 77--and still traveling 300 days a year-- her amazing body of work and accomplishments span 50 years and at this one night live event, you have a rare opportunity to look into the life of one the world's most extraordinary people.

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One Family Weathers Climate Change in Ethiopia

She opened her eyes, and it was all around her. Her clothes were drenched. She was no longer on her bed, but floating next to it, among rocks, sand, and what remained of her home.
“That’s when I realized the flood had overpowered the walls and swept us off the bed,” she said. “I started to shout and wake everybody up.”
Fatima and her husband, disoriented and barely awake, frantically fished for their six daughters in the rising tide. They waded through the water, climbed over rocks and hurried to Fatima’s father’s house. At first, they couldn’t find their infant, and Fatima feared she had been swept away in the flood. Thankfully, the girl survived, despite taking in a lot of water through her nose and mouth.
“I never thought that my family would be in danger because of a rain,” Fatima’s husband, Mohammed, said. “We’ve never experienced it. For the rain to come down that hard and flood my house with rocks and sand, and endanger my family… it never crossed my mind.”
Unfortunately, the flash flood Fatima and her family experienced is not an isolated incident. Across the world, temperature and precipitation patterns are changing, and severe storms and extreme weather events of all types are becoming more frequent. Consequences of climate change – such as floods, droughts, and declining agricultural production – affect everyone. But in many developing countries, these changes are making life especially hard for women and families.
Fatima’s family lost everything in the flood – including the stock of food they had been saving for the coming year. They now live with about 20 other families in a relocation camp of corrugated metal shacks covered with plastic tarps. The government has provided them with 15 kilograms of wheat per person. Everything else Fatima’s family has, down to the jerrycan that they use to gather water, is borrowed from relatives and neighbors.
Fatima feels lucky for surviving the flood, and for the generosity of others that is allowing them to scrape by. But she’s barely able to nurse her infant because of her own lack of nutrition, and she can’t afford both food for her daughters and the clothing they need to attend school. She and her husband don’t own their own land, so they work on other people’s farms for a share of the profits. Before the flood, they had been trying to have a son, despite the difficulty of providing for their family of eight on Mohammed’s salary as a laborer.
“I never thought about it before the flood,” Fatima said. “But after the flood, life became really hard. So I made family planning my goal. I got angry at myself for being poor and penniless. I said I’m done having babies from now on. My decision is based on how I will raise my children.”
In Ethiopia, the average woman has more than four children, with fertility rates highest among women living in rural areas, and women who are poor or uneducated. One-third of married women want to prevent pregnancy but lack modern contraception.
Mohammed said he’d heard about family planning before, but didn’t take it seriously. Now, he wishes he had, and supports his wife in her decision. “It would have been useful to us if we had taken spacing our children to heart,” he said. “Having to raise that many children and not having enough to eat takes its toll.”
For now, they take it day by day. Fatima nurses her baby and bakes injera bread in their temporary shelter. Mohammed works in the fields, but the unpredictable weather means the crops are suffering. And their daughters still have nightmares about the flood.
Mohammed used to wish for a boy. Now, he said, his priorities are simpler.
“From now on, we just wish that the children we have will grow up.”

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/one-family-weathers-climate-change-in-ethiopia.html#ixzz1ZBTu31bY

Gorrolla Flight-to-Freedom needs YOU!

Today I am asking you to help six orphaned gorillas take their final flight to freedom.

Pinga, Serufuli, Itebero, Ntabwoba, Dunia and Tumaini were all rescued from poachers and need our help to return to the wild.

They are between 5 and 9 years old and have outgrown their temporary facility in Rwanda. Now they must be flown back to their homeland in the Democratic Republic of Congo where, after a quarantine period to assure their readiness, they will be able to have access to native forest land to prepare for eventual freedom in the wild.

IFAW has pledged US$30,000 for this flight to freedom, supporting the renowned Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund, who has built the wonderful GRACE Centre in the DRC, a state-of-the-art facility on 350 acres where the gorillas will learn how to survive in the wild in preparation for their long hoped for release.

What an incredible moment that will be!

I am asking you to be a partner in that moment - to help me sponsor one of the world's last gorillas back into the wild - where he will be free to create a family group, to have gorilla babies, to help increase the numbers of the last of these beautiful animals.

Your gift will also help us continue our critical work rescuing, rehabilitating and releasing animals in crisis.

Can you please donate today?

Overcoming challenges is easier than you think!

"Stand up to your obstacles and do something about them. You will find that they haven't half the strength you think they have."Norman Vincent Peale

Never too late to graduate!!

One of the best pics of my life!! My dad may have waited longer than most fathers for this picture to be taken - but it finally happened.

I may be 45 years old, but I think I can quite honestly say (in retrospect!) that the last five years of my life have been the most productive and creative for me since I was at school in my teens!

It just goes to show you that finding yourself in a position of complete change does not necessarily mean there is nothing left - it just means there is nothing left of that part of your life.  This clears the way for new beginnings, new goals and new achievements.  

I have achieved more in the last five years than in the 15 years before.  I just didn't realize how stagnant I had become until now.  

That realization is liberating in itself.  Life really can begin again at 40 x

UK Badgers due for pilot cull in 2012

Badgers are considered a protected species under UK and European laws but on Tuesday, Caroline Spelman, Environment Secretary said she was “strongly minded” to allow culling, after details of the methodology was sent out for consultation.  Ministers have authority to approve culling of protected species in consideration of health issues.  Dairy farmers are delighted; animal advocates are annoyed.
Responses will be examined and can be emailed to the Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs at tbbc@defra.gsi.gov.uk .  The DEFRA website requests “When responding, please state which organisation you are responding on behalf of.”
The long term UK study, Randomized Badger Culling Trial (RBCT) performed between 1998 and 2007 concluded:

“First, while badgers are clearly a source of cattle TB, careful evaluation of our own and others’ data indicates that badger culling can make no meaningful contribution to cattle TB control in Britain. Indeed, some policies under consideration are likely to make matters worse rather than better. Second, weaknesses in cattle testing regimes mean that cattle themselves contribute significantly to the persistence and spread of disease in all areas where TB occurs, and in some parts of Britain are likely to be the main source of infection. Scientific findings indicate that the rising incidence of disease can be reversed and geographical spread contained, by the rigid application of cattle-based control measures alone.”

What the People Want
Many animal advocates including the RSPCA do not believe in badger culling as a viable option.  A poll performed last month in the UK found the majority of UK citizens do not want a badger cull to take place.  According to BBC, the poll showed 63% said badgers should NOT be culled for cattle TB with 31% in favor and the remainder is undecided.
What You Can Do
You can read about England’s Bovine TB Eradication Program.  Despite public opinion, it looks like the UK will proceed with badger culling beginning next year.  Please let your feelings be known.

• Email tbbc@defra.gsi.gov.uk
• Sign the Open Petition
• Follow RSPCA’s Facebook campaign to stop the badger cull
• Learn about Badgers

Read more: http://www.care2.com/causes/uk-badgers-in-danger.html#ixzz1SvwrazpW

Kenya to burn almost 5 tonnes of stockpiled ivory

On 20th July Kenya will burn almost 5 tonnes of stockpiled ivory (4.96 tonnes), which originated from Eastern and Southern Africa and was seized in Singapore in 2002.
It is over 20 years since Kenya last drew media attention to the extent of the illegal ivory trade when then President Moi ordered the burning of almost 12 tonnes. Demonstrating Kenya’s then determination to win a ban on the trade in ivory. That ban has sadly been lifted twice since for ‘one-off’ sales, the most recent a few years ago, which opened the floodgates for a revised illegal trade.  Today elephants are again being poached in high numbers, with daily reports of bulls and matriarchs being found with their tusks hacked out.
Next week’s burning is a positive step, drawing media and government attention to this issue and the DSWT’s founder Dame Daphne Sheldrick will be there with the charity’s UK Director to witness the event, to be attended by the President of Kenya, Ministers and leading conservation groups. This event is though just the tip of the iceberg, more stockpiled ivory remains in stores and elephants are being killed every day for their tusks!
http://www.nytimes.com/1989/07/19/world/kenya-in-gesture-burns-ivory-tusks.html
http://www.kbc.co.ke/news.asp?nid=71230https://www.facebook.com/notes/the-david-sheldrick-wildlife-trust/kenya-to-burn-almost-5-tonnes-of-stockpiled-ivory/10150273828529889

Robbie Williams latest blog...E.Africa needs your help.

East Africa Needs Your Help

14 Jul 2011

East Africa is in a state of crisis and, as UK Ambassador for UNICEF, Robbie is asking for your help.
The devastating drought, the worst in 50 years, the conflict and the rising food prices have together created a situation that means over 2m children under the age of five in the region are currently at risk. Risk of disease. Risk of starvation.
In just one refugee camp in Kenya, there are nearly half a million people in urgent need of food, water and basic healthcare. The situation throughout the region is becoming more and more critical; the threat of starvation is very real. 

UNICEF is on the ground doing what they can but need to raise much more vital life-saving funding. They need your help.
Please donate what you can, any amount is welcome, to help UNICEF to bring aid to those suffering in East Africa.

How to donate

Online: Click here to donate via UNICEF's website
Text: Text DROUGHT to 70007 to donate £5

What's the point of a Life Coach?

I can't remember the number of times I saw adverts for 'personal development coaching' or 'life coaching' years ago and thought "WHAT IS THE POINT!?" before I actually decided to try it and see for myself.  Now, retrospectively, I would answer like this:

I've always been into keeping fit and have had a gym membership on and off throughout my adult life.  I only ever really did the induction classes, figuring the rest I could do myself through books, magazines and friends to train with.  It worked quite well too! Until one day I was given a personal training course as a birthday gift - WHAT A REVELATION!!  I realised I had not been using most of the machines to their full advantage, and had not been working on the best muscle groups for what I was trying to achieve.

In the same way I can liken a life coach to my gym trainer.  I had been interested in personal development for many years, and once again through books, magazines and friends - I had 'personally developed' myself well enough through various ups and downs in my life.  I hit a particularly low point and decided to try a life coach.  In the same way the gym trainer showed me how to use the machines properly to develop those muscles I needed to work on the most - my life coach showed me how to use the tools I had already been using to their best advantage.  My life coach was also able to see issues from a different perspective and offer different combinations for using those tools (as well as giving me many more).

If you subscribe to a personal gym trainer helping you to develop your physically to be at your best, and achieve those physical goals you have always wanted - why is it any different to seek the services of a life coach to help you achieve those life goals you always aspired to?

I was so impressed, and was so converted - I became one!  If you have any queries or would just like more information - you can find me at www.jacquihughez.co.uk.

Success - Real or Virtual?

In general, when we think of success, we tend to think of it as something in the future; something we have to aspire to; somewhere  we need to go or have to be.  This almost makes it a 'virtual' state of being.  This to me makes it a constantly moving boundary, like the carrot in front of the donkey that it never actually ever gets to eat! It's no wonder so many people eventually give up trying to reach their goals in life.

Surely it is better to think of yourself as successful already, and anything you achieve from this moment forwards is just more success!  We are all successful in on way or another, whether you are a housewife or single mum just getting the kids sorted, housework done and life in general order; whether you are a breadwinner making a living each and every day.  Each of us has something they achieve every day that they can say is a 'success'!

So why not see yourself as SUCCESSFUL NOW!!

This small change of attitude could be the start of something wonderful happening in your life.  Try it - what have you got to lose?

Stop Makers of Barbie from Destroying Wildlife Habitat!

As little girls all over the world play with their Barbie dolls joyfully, Mattel is destroying critical wildlife habitat in order to package these dolls in cheap, throw-away packaging. It's just disturbing.

Tell Mattel to stop destroying rainforests for Barbie's packaging. »

Mattel uses paper packaging from one of Indonesia's most notorious companies, Asia Pulp and Paper (APP). Rainforests are torn down and turned into paper products, while the empty land is converted into pulpwood plantations. The wildlife that rely on these areas are hopeless against the rapid devastation that occurs.

Email Mattel now and demand that it stops playing around with deforestation.

Thank you for taking action! Emily L. Care2 Campaign Team

Take action link: http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgkR./zlTo/AEciK

Time for a Challenge! Are you up for it?

This years seems to have been a fast, challenging and, for some, a painful year.  Yet here we are just over the longest day of the year (22 June) already - and now into the period of nights drawing in again.  Before you know it (dare I say it?) Christmas festivities and the New Year (there - I said it!!) will be upon us once again.  So it seems the right time to reflect on the last six months:  where did you get to with this year's resolutions?  If you  made them - did you start any?  More importantly - did you achieve any?  

Whatever your answers, we are still only half-way through the year and have plenty of time to redress the situation.  For those struggling with debt, fearful of the current economic crisis and paralyzed by the pace of change, this could be the time to take control of your future and finish the year off with a bang.

One of my challenges!

I want to provide you with an opportunity to redeem yourself and turn things around for the  better - much better.  The one thing we all love is a challenge!  For some it could be a goal that puts you to the test, an obstacle that says, "You can't beat me," a belief system that is begging for a breakthrough, or even a mountain that just dares you to climb it, or a plane that drops you out of it!

There is nothing like an old-fashioned challenge that makes you say "BRING IT ON!"; that shows you what you're made of; that causes you to push the boundaries and test your limits.  For it is ONLY when we overcome various challenges that we get to reap the sweetest rewards.

If these words have stirred something that urges you to find out more, email me (jax@lifepathpro.com) - get in touch.  You have nothing to lose but a few minutes of your time, and who knows what you will eventually gain from it?

DO YOU DARE TO DREAM OF A BETTER LIFE?  I did - and I got it!  If I can do it, anyone can.

I look forward to hearing from those of you that choose to take the challenge.

More than 100,000 stand up for elephants: Spread the word!

Thank you for telling the EU to end the international ivory trade. Care2 members have rallied for elephants -- more than 100,000 people have signed the petition!

The more signatures we get, the better chance we have at making the EU listen. Please ask your family and friends to join you and sign the petition to EU leaders »

Recent ivory stockpiles sales to Japan and China have signaled to poachers that killing elephants is OK. If we want to make sure no elephants are killed for their tusks, we need to stop the demand for ivory worldwide -- and that means a ban on international trade.

Please urge your friends and family to take action. You can send a message with our tell-a-friend tool, post the petition to your Facebook profile or copy and send the sample message below:

Sample email:

Hi -

Twenty years ago, illegal poaching was wiping out the world's remaining elephants. But the international outcry led to a ban on ivory trade. Demand plummeted and the elephants had a chance to rebound. But recent stockpiles sales have spurred demand for ivory and elephants are dying.

Join me in urging the European Union to oppose any international ivory trade.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgJh6/zls4/AEciK

Seizures of illegal ivory are skyrocketing. The lesson is pretty clear: Any legal ivory trade leads to illegal killing.

Please take a moment to stand up for elephants. Join me in telling the EU to protect elephants and stop legal ivory trade.
http://www.care2.com/go/z/e/AgJh6/zls4/AEciK

Thanks!

I love what I'm doing!

Isn't life amazing when you realise how many of us there are helping to change other people's lives? What better way to make the world a better place?

Keep Kids in School and Out of Coalmines

For an estimated 70,000 children, the coal mines in the Indian region of Meghalaya are the only known way of life.

Keep children in schools and out of coal mines. »

Although child labor is outlawed in India, the national ordinances go ignored in large regions of India, including Meghalaya, allowing children to be pulled away from school and into the dangerous mines.

Clad only in shorts and plastic flip-flops, children as young as eight squeeze into dangerous fissures deemed too small or hazardous for adults.

Most of these children are immigrants, lured or outright abducted from Bangladesh and Nepal on the false premise of finding riches under the hills of Northeast India. Instead, they are forced to work in the mines for as little as a dollar a day.

Urge Indian President Smt. Pratibha Devisingh Patil to end child labor and give Meghalayan children the chance to escape the mines. »

Adopt a Baby Elephant Today for US$ 50/yr (Min Fostering Fee)

A tiny newborn elephant is orphaned, often its mother and family gunned down to serve the Ivory trade, its life support gone; any survivors fleeing in terror; its fate now suffering and death in hopeless and lonely isolation it cannot understand. For an elephant, the family is all important; its very existence dependent upon its mother's milk for the first two years of life and a life that should span three score years and ten, equivalent to that of man. In a perfect world that elephant life would be filled with fun and joy through the companionship of friends and a close-knit and loving family, whose love is pure and unconditional all the days of its life.

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Good times living a life of passion

Going for your Dreams

Instead of sharing posts that help others I thought I'd take the opportunity to share a link of my own.  Unless you dare to go for your dreams, how will you ever know if they can ever be achieved?  Instead of staying where you are in your life at this moment, thinking you'd like something more.... why not take the action of trusting yourself and making the first step onto the other path towards going for them?  "Nothing ventured - Nothing gained" is such a good motto. 

I seriously do not believe we were put here on this amazing earth to do nothing with our lives but 'survive'.  We are surely here to progress and achieve - but in order to do that, we have to make those first steps out of our comfort zone.  Once you get of the fear, and just do it anyway.... life can be like a Pandora's Box.  You just never know what's in there for you!

SO GO AHEAD, PRESS THIS LINK AND OPEN THE BOX

If you don't like it, just go back to where you are now - I challenge you today to live your life - don't just exist!

Live, Laugh and Love

African Lions Will Suffer Unless U.S. Cuts Its Own Red Tape

Loss of habitat and prey, over-exploitation for trophy hunting and commercial trade, and retaliatory killings from human-wildlife conflict, have all contributed to the decline of the African lion. Now we can add one more threat to the list: bureaucratic delay.
Last week marked the passing of the 90-day deadline for the US Fish & Wildlife Service’s (FWS) initial response to a scientific petition to have African lions listed under the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
This petition, filed on March 1st by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and a coalition of other wildlife and animal welfare groups, is aimed at providing vital protections for a species that has declined by nearly 50 percent over the last two decades from a variety of threats including trophy hunting by wealthy Americans.
But this isn’t about the numerous and serious threats to lions in the wild, it’s about the bureaucratic red tape hindering a timely endangered species listing.
Listing delays prevent tangible protections from coming into place against on-the-ground threats to species, and in the case of species lusted after by the trophy-hunting community, delay provides an opportunity, if not a twisted incentive, for hunters to kill individual animals while they still can.

Deadline 2 June - Stop the Bio-fuel land-grabs in Africa

Extractive resources like oil and natural gas have a horrid history of exploitation. So when it comes to alternative fuels, it's time that we chart a new course -- not one that continues to exploit people who are struggling to survive.

Sign the petition to stop the biofuel land-grab in Africa »

1.1 million hectares in 5 African countries have already been seized in order to grow biofuels, displacing families and leaving them with no compensation and no way to feed themselves. Fueling our cars is not worth the millions of displaced, starving families that the production of biofuels creates.

In Mozambique, Matilde is a farmer who is struggling to survive after an industrial biofuel company took her land without offering jobs or compensation. Her small farm used to provide enough food to support her family, but is now used to grow sugar cane to be used as biofuel.

The UK government is considering an increase in the amount of biofuel in petrol and diesel, but we only have until this Thursday, 2 June, to affect that decision. Sign the petition to tell Mr. Norman Baker, the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for Transport, to scrap plans for trebling the UK's biofuel targets.

Restoring Kenya’s Most Important Forest

The African Wildlife Foundation has collaborated with key partners in Kenya to plant 25,000 trees for restoration of the critically important Mau Forest. You might not be fully aware of the Mau Forest’s significance, but after reading this you will. Firstly, it isn’t just the largest mountain forest in Kenya–it is the largest in all of Eastern Africa. In Kenya, it is also the largest water catchment area, meaning it is the habit that collects the most rainwater. The 675,000 acre forest catches so much rainwater it is the origin of a number of important Kenyan rivers. One of the rivers, the Mara, runs through the Maasai Mara National Reserve, which is Kenya’s most celebrated wildlife conservation area. This area is world famous, and its fame is well-deserved due to the concentration of wild animals such as lions, rhinos, leopards, cheetahs, giraffes, zebras, elephants, antelope, and wildebeests.
The Maasai Mara National Reserve covers over 500-square miles, and yet it is just the northernmost part of the Mara-Serengeti ecosystem, which covers nearly 10,000 square miles. Without rainwater collected first in the habitats of the Mau Forest, and then fed into the watershed, rivers such as the Mara would not get the water that is the lifeline for wild animals and people alike. It isn’t just the Mara, however, that is fed by the Mau Forest. Eleven other rivers also get their water from this critically important mountain habitat. Countless animals and millions of people depend upon water sources that originate in the Mau Forest. In fact, the United Nations Environment Program has called the Mau Forest, “the single most important watershed in the Rift Valley and western Kenya.” (Source: UNEP)
Rivers that flow from the Mau Forest water collection are very important for biodiversity on their own, but they also feed three lakes in Kenya, and one of them, Lake Victoria, is the largest lake in Africa by area. This single lake supports a tremendous amount of wildlife, and is home to Africa’s largest inland fishery. Lake Nakuru and Lake Natron are no less important. For example, Lake Nakuru National Park is the most visited park in Kenya, and generates fifteen percent of all tourism dollars in the country, due in large part to the huge populations of flamingos that feed there.
You might be wondering at this point, what all this information has to do with tree planting–but it is indeed very relevant. Due to various human activities, the size of the Mau Forest has been reduced by about a quarter of what it once was. This loss of trees and natural habitat could prove disastrous at some point, because when there are fewer trees, there is less rain, and therefore less water to drain into the rivers and lakes that feed all the animals and people who have no other water supply. Already some of Mau’s rivers have shifted from a perennial status to seasonal, due to decreased rainfall. Also a very severe drought there in recent years, is believed to be related to deforestation in the Mau Forest. Additionally, tropical soils are vulnerable to erosion and nutrient depletion – two effects which only degrade habitat even more, and are caused by deforestation.
Planting trees is an excellent way to restore the Mau Forest to its’ full ecological health, and capacity for supporting life. The African Wildlife Foundation partnered with the Interim Coordinating Secretariat, Kenya Wildlife Service, and Kenya Forest Service for the tree restoration project.

Read more: http://www.care2.com/greenliving/restoring-kenyas-most-important-forest.html#ixzz1NaNZMwf1

Elephant Tragedy: Newborn Calf falls into ravine, mother dies trying to rescue

IFAW has just rescued a newborn elephant calf who was injured and trapped when he fell into a rocky ravine in northeast India.

IFAW's rescue team was headed up by Dr. Abhijit Bhawal. Dr. Bhawal led the rescue team through the narrow and dark cave and to the injured calf.

A sling was slipped under the calf, and then Forest Department staff and villagers pulled the calf through the narrow rocks as Dr. Bhawal and other rescuers pushed from behind.

They were eventually able to move the calf through the cave. He was then carried on a stretcher up a steep hill, and was transported to a field office where he was treated immediately.

The calf is now in critical condition and receiving around-the-clock care.

But sadly, the calf has lost his mother.

She somehow navigated the perilous rocks and caves and reached her baby, but was gravely injured in the process and became wedged between two giant rock walls. From a trunk-length away, she comforted her calf until she knew her baby was safe, and then she quietly passed away.

I wish we could have saved the mother also - IFAW rescuers and local villagers worked feverishly to free her, but she was too injured.

And I'm so sad for this calf, all alone in the world, and desperately clinging to life.  The newborn elephant calf was unable to stand up when we reached him. He has bruises and wounds to his back, head and legs. We are desperately trying to save him. Please help us rescue and care for innocent animals like this calf by giving today.

29 Ways to Attract Money Now

by Joe Vitale on July 13, 2009

You’ll get access to my new book shortly.  (If you signed up for it at www.attractmoneynow.com, then just go back and check your email for the secret link to the book). Meanwhile,  in completing my new book Attract Money Now I’ve  included numerous ways to attract money using the law of attraction and the law of right action. Since so many people need help right now, I’m sharing some of the ways right here. Please share this with whoever may benefit from it.  Here goes:

1.  If you’re in the US, and in an emergency, call 211.

2.  Call the Silent Unity prayer line in the US:  1-740-362-4214.

3. Give money to wherever you received inspiration or encouragement.

4. Buy something you want and can afford.

5. Take action on an idea you have.

6. Write a script of you being wealthy and how it feels.

7. Watch the movie The Secret.

8. Watch the movie The Compass.

9. Watch the movie Try It On Everything.

10. Use EFT to help dissolve feelings of desperation.

11. Turn off the mainstream news.

12. Join or create a support group, such as Attract Miracles Online.

13. Forgive yourself and others.

14. Read Think and Grow Rich.

15. Turn a problem into a product and sell it online.

16. Feel grateful for something you have.

17. Practice the seven steps in Attract Money Now.

18. Listen to The Secret to Attracting Money.

19. Get a Miracles Coach.

20. Pray.

21. Create a vision board of what you want.

22. Do 5 things each day on items on your vision board.

23. Ask for help.

24. Help someone else.

25. Worship time, not money. Use your time wisely.

26. Imagine what you would do if you won the lotto for $37,000,000. Do it.

27. Do whatever you are afraid to do. Wealth is hiding behind your fear.

28. Get a job. While you pursue your dream, feed yourself with work.

29.  Get clear of limiting beliefs about money.

Obviously, each of the above needs a little explanation, which is why I’m writing my new book. My book will also reveal my new seven step formula for attracting money. If you would like to receive a free copy of it when it is done, just click here.
Or you can order the hardcover book, which comes with a FREE DVD of a fiery presentation by me on how to attract money, by clicking on the below image: Ao Akua,
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Uganda's anti-gay law has failed!

Uganda's anti-gay law has failed! It looked sure to pass last week, but after 1.6 million petition signatures delivered to Parliament, tens of thousands of phone calls to our own governments, hundreds of media stories about our campaign and a massive global outcry, Ugandan politicians dropped the bill!  

It was down to the wire - religious extremists tried to push the bill through on Wednesday, and then convened an unprecedented emergency session of Parliament on Friday. But each time, within hours, we reacted. A huge congratulations to everyone who signed, called, forwarded and donated to this campaign - with our help, thousands of innocent people in Uganda's gay community do not wake up this morning facing execution for whom they chose to love.

Frank Mugisha, a courageous leader of the gay community in Uganda sent us this message:

 "Brave Ugandan LGBT activists and millions of people around the world have stood together and faced down this horrendous anti-homosexuality bill.The support from the Avaaz global community has tipped the scales to prevent this Bill going forward. Global solidarity has made a huge difference"

The EU High Representative for Foreign Affairs' Office also wrote to Avaaz:

"Many thanks. As you know, thanks to a very large extent to the intensive lobbying and combined effort of you, other civil society representatives, EU and other governments, plus our delegation and embassies on the ground the Bill was not presented to the Parliament this morning."

This fight is not over. The extremists behind this bill could try again within just 18 months. But this is the second time we've helped defeat this bill, and we'll keep going until the hate-mongers give up.

Transforming the deeper causes of ignorance and hatred behind homophobia is an historic, long term struggle, one of the great causes of our generation. But Uganda has become a front line in that struggle, and a powerful symbol. The victory there echoes across many other places where hope is desperately needed, showing that kindness, love, tolerance and respect can defeat hatred and ignorance. Again, a huge thanks to all who made it happen.

With enormous gratitude and admiration for this amazing community,

Ricken, Emma, Iain, Alice, Giulia, Saloni and the whole Avaaz team.

Save Elephants: End International Ivory Trade

• Target: European Union
• Sponsored by: International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW)

Twenty years ago elephants were being wiped out by poachers. International outcry halted the trade in ivory and elephant herds started to recover. Now, elephants are in crisis once again. The ivory trade continues to flourish and seizures of illegal ivory are skyrocketing. Recently, stockpile sales to Japan and China sent a signal to poachers that it is open season on elephants. The lesson is crystal clear: Any legal ivory trade leads to illegal killing.

Join the fight to help free elephants from the threat of ivory poaching. Please sign the petition to urge the European Union to protect the world's remaining elephants by opposing any further international trade in ivory.

 http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/168/639/035/?z00m=19976103

Syrian risks life to call for help

A desperate video plea has just come in from an Avaaz member in Syria who has risked his life to call on us for help.

The Syrian regime is laying siege to whole cities, and is willing to annihilate them to crush the peaceful democracy movement. Security forces have cut off all food, water and medicine to these towns, shot hundreds of citizens, and detained and tortured thousands -- in many cases ripping out their fingernails before releasing them, as a warning to other protesters.

Despite this unimaginable terror, the Syrian people refuse to be silenced, and are committed to a non-violent path out of this nightmare. But while they have no shortage of bravery, they are short of funds. They are asking for financial and other support -- for needs ranging from urgent medical help to ads and public messages urging soldiers to refuse to shoot protestors.

Click here to watch the harrowing video appeal and donate to help the Syrians' crucial efforts:

https://secure.avaaz.org/en/syria_stand_with_the_protesters/?vl

EU Blocks access to herbal medicines

The EU has just blocked our access to many herbal medicines, and already some household remedies are being taken off the shelves.

A new EU Directive came into force this week that erects high barriers to any herbal remedy that hasn't been on the market for 30 years -- including virtually all Chinese, Ayurvedic, and African traditional medicine. The EU Commission itself has recognised this is an over-regulation that will needlessly restrict consumer choice, but lobbyists have opposed efforts to fix it.

We need a massive outcry against this. Together, our voices can press the EU Commission to amend the directive, push our national governments to refuse to apply its excessive standards, and support a legal case that is challenging this regressive regulation. Sign below, forward this email to everyone, and let's get to 1 million voices to save herbal medicine:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/?vl

It's hard to believe, but if a child is sick, and there is a safe and natural herbal remedy for that illness, as of this week it may be impossible to find that cure.

The EU says the new rules respond to several public health incidents involving herbal products that were applied incorrectly. Their stated goal is to protect consumers, but while regulatory oversight of herbal remedies is important, this new directive significantly reduces the number of products available to consumers, and practically drives out non European traditions, while doing little more to protect people from harm than the prior regulatory set-up. Three years ago EC itself recommended improvements to the directive to make it less prohibitive of Chinese and other non European traditions, but even their own suggestions have been ignored.

The Directive also creates major barriers to manufactured herbal remedies, costing up to 100,000 euros to acquire licenses, years of effort, and long expert processes to get each and every product approved. And research shows that it was the over the counter medicine group, AESGP that lobbied hard to push through the most restrictive elements of the legislation. Pharmaceutical companies have the resources to jump through these hoops but hundreds of small- and medium-sized herbal medicine businesses will not, and consumer choice will be seriously restricted.

We can stop this. The directive has been passed in the shadows of the bureaucracy, and it cannot stand under the light of democratic scrutiny. The EU Commission can amend it, and a court case in Britain is currently challenging it to do so. If European citizens everywhere come together now, it will give legitimacy to the legal case, and add to growing pressure on the Commission. Sign below, and forward this email to everyone, and Avaaz will deliver the petition when we reach one million signers:

http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_medicine_ban/?vl

Natural medicine deserves adequate regulation, but this heavy-handed directive harms the ability of Europeans to make safe and healthy choices. Let's stand up for our health, and our right to choose safe herbal medicine.

With hope and determination,

Ricken, Iain, Giulia, Benjamin, Alex, Alice, Pascal, Luis and the rest of the Avaaz team.

PS. Feel you need a greater understanding of this to sign on -- read our response to concerns here: http://www.avaaz.org/en/eu_herbal_response_to_concerns. The Alliance for Natural Health Questions and Answers also has useful questions and answers:
http://www.anh-europe.org/news/frequently-asked-questions-about-eu-herbal-registrations-and-bans

SOURCES:

EU herbal medicines law set for legal challenge:
http://www.euractiv.com/en/health/eu-herbal-medicines-law-set-legal-challenge-news-503563

EU concerns on the Directive:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=COM:2008:0584:FIN:en:PDF

European Union directive to ban natural remedies in favour of pharmaceuticals:
http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/8826364-european-union-directive-to-ban-natural-remedies-in-favor-of-pharmaceuticals

Traditional Chinese medicine firms may face delisting in EU market:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/7343301.html

EU crackdown on herbal 'remedies':
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/eu-crackdown-on-herbal-remedies-2628345.html


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