Ian Redmond - Global Great Ape Conservation
Event: Flora London Marathon 2004 on 18/04/2004
£6,009.50 raised of £10,000.00 target
126 donations
My Target:
£10,000.00
£6,009.50 raised so far
How to make a donation
Donate online at - www.justgiving.com/redmond
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My story
I've promised to remove the chain from Gentil's neck - will you help me? Please sponsor my run in this April's London Marathon and help protect our great ape cousins. Using a Born Free Foundation (www.bornfree.org.uk) 'Golden Bond' place, I'm seeking sponsorship from ape-lovers everywhere.
**NEWS FLASH - carrying a gorilla placard with 'SAVE THE APES' across the top, I made the 26.2 miles in about 4 hours and 40 minutes, spurred on by enthusiastic crowds chanting 'GO APE-MAN GO' and 'WE WILL SAVE THEM'. Thank you to all who stood in the rain to support the runners - and do tell your friends it is not too late to sponsor me!
Funds raised will be divided between the Ape Alliance and Born Free ape projects great and small - from Gentil and other chimp orphans at Lwiro Sanctuary in Congo (see below), to the UN Great Apes Survival Project.
Apes are in crisis and there's no time to lose. Chimps, gorillas, bonobos and orangutans face imminent extinction due to human exploitation. We destroy their forest homes, hunt them for 'bushmeat' and steal their babies for pets.
The world must act together NOW to stop the slide to extinction. I've been hooked on great apes since working with Dian Fossey in the 1970's to protect the mountain gorillas of Rwanda. I'm determined to do everything I can to save our great ape cousins. Please help me.
To sponsor me please click the 'Sponsor me now' button and follow instructions. Thank you.
Yours, with hoots and chest beats, Ian Gentil's story: This young chimpanzee is cared for at Lwiro Primate Sanctuary in eastern DRC. He is kept permanently chained by the neck as the fledgling sanctuary has no other way to keep him from raiding neighbours' crops. Ian has made a personal promise to Gentil to get him off that chain (see pic above). Like the other primates at Lwiro, Gentil was born in a forest and cared for by his mother. But she was killed, probably for bushmeat, and Gentil was sold illegally as a pet. Luckily Congolese authorities confiscated him and brought him to the sanctuary. Now Born Free is raising money to remove Gentil's chain and build him a large enclosure. With enough funds Born Free could create a permanent forest sanctuary in DRC for all Lwiro's primates.
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My charity
Born Free Foundation
Charity Registration No. 1070906
The Born Free Foundation is a dynamic international wildlife charity working throughout the wild to save lives, stop suffering, conserve species, protect wild animals and keep wildlife in the wild.
Donations 126
HELP CONGO
Donation by Tansy Jefferies on 09/06/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Fantastic work - only wish more people were like you
Donation by Lisa Newton on 31/05/04
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
HELP CONGO
Donation by Baiju McCubbins on 28/05/04
£250.00
+ £70.51 Gift Aid
Help Congo
Donation by Debra Marinelli on 27/05/04
£50.00
HELP CONGO
Donation by David Johnston on 24/05/04
£50.00
Sorry so late...hope this helps! With all that panting was there any time for hooting?
Donation by Tim & Katy Aldred on 19/05/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Donation by derek flynn on 17/05/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
HELP CONGO
Donation by Gabrielle Street on 16/05/04
£40.00
+ £11.28 Gift Aid
HELP CONGO
Donation by Judy Pluto on 15/05/04
£15.00
Donation by Anonymous on 15/05/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Help Congo - Baiju
Donation by Kelly Compton on 15/05/04
£50.00
Help Congo
Donation by Steve Garnett on 10/05/04
£100.00
+ £28.21 Gift Aid
Donation by Anonymous on 10/05/04
£30.00
+ £8.46 Gift Aid
Donation by Elizabeth Owen on 09/05/04
£6.00
well done Ian - this includes Doug's sponsorship too
Donation by vassili papastavrou on 06/05/04
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
HELP CONGO
Donation by Anonymous on 05/05/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
HELP CONGO
Donation by Anonymous on 05/05/04
£25.00
+ £7.05 Gift Aid
What a wonderful cause!
Donation by Claire Gallier on 04/05/04
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
"Help Congo" - Well Done Baiju !
Donation by Nathan Wyld on 04/05/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
"HELP CONGO"
Donation by Louise Tate on 02/05/04
£15.00
Well Done and hope you reach your target.
Donation by Anonymous on 01/05/04
£20.00
Help Congo - this is for Baiju's run. Good going, girl!
Donation by Shelly Dee on 01/05/04
£200.00
Wishing you all the luck in the world with your ape-saving plans.
Donation by Judith Baird on 30/04/04
£10.00
+ £2.82 Gift Aid
Help Congo
Donation by james stratford on 29/04/04
£50.00
+ £14.10 Gift Aid
Keep up the good work
Donation by Deborah Cooper on 28/04/04
£20.00
+ £5.64 Gift Aid
Donation summary
- * Online donations£4,861.50
- Offline donations£1,148.00
- Text donations£0.00
- Total raised£6,009.50
- Gift Aid£922.08
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