A rehabilitation team with a vulture
WVI Appeals For Final Push For Vets4vultures Online Fundraising Campaign:
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2nd December, 2017 13h29
Noon on Tuesday 5 December is the deadline
Charity Wildlife Vets International (WVI) has thanked the veterinary profession for supporting its bird of prey conservation projects in Bulgaria, India and South Africa through the BigGive Christmas Challenge and has asked for ‘one final push’ to help it to achieve the £1,000 it still needs in order to attract the maximum amount of match funding.
The Christmas Challenge went live on #GivingTuesday, 28 November 2017 and, if WVI can raise £3,000 in online donations by noon on Tuesday 5 December, these donations will be doubled through match funding. So far, it has raised almost £2,000 but it needs a further £1,000 to meet the total and secure all of the £3,000 available as match funding.
“We’re grateful to everyone who has supported the campaign and for the response to our hashtag #vets4vultures,” said Olivia Walter, WVI Executive Director. “We really need to reach our target in order to be able to fund our vital conservation projects. Vulture numbers are plummeting in many parts of the world and our Raptor Rehabilitation Programme will significantly increase their chance of survival in some countries.
“We have until noon on Tuesday 5 December to raise the outstanding £1,000 or we will lose the remaining match funding so we really hope our veterinary colleagues will help us to give the campaign a final push during the weekend and on Monday. They can help by:
Using the hashtag - #vets4vultures – and online promotion pack, packed with fun and informative information on vultures for use on websites and social media. Download it here: http://bit.ly/2iYuUft
Liking and sharing our social media posts to help us reach more potential donors
https://www.facebook.com/WildlifeVetsInternational/ and https://twitter.com/WildlifeVetsInt
Making a donation at http://bit.ly/2yurJ5H
For further information please contact WVI at [email protected] or visit its website.
Note to editors
Vultures and other birds of prey are persecuted throughout the world, either through hunting and the poisoning of carcasses, or indirectly through kite strings, wind turbines and the use of the drug diclofenac in livestock. Numbers of some species of vultures have experienced a drop of 99.9% in recent years.
Through its Raptor Rehabilitation Prorgamme, WVI aims to ensure that as many injured birds as possible survive and are successfully reintroduced to the wild. Its veterinary teams, including avian vets Johanna Storm and Stefan Harsch and vet nurse Matt Rendle, are already working in India to increase the survival rate of injured birds and to increase their fitness at release. They are also training local vets and rehabilitation staff in pre- and post-surgical treatment and in surgical techniques.
For further information:
Rebecca George
George PR
Tel: 01449 737281/07974 161108
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