Protecting Mpala's Elephants

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We have just a few more days left! Support our elephants and help us win!

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BENEFITING: MPALA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

EVENT: Groupon Earth Day Challenge

EVENT DATE: Apr 19, 2012

THE STORY:

Help us save our elephants!

Mpala ranch lies in the cross-roads of centuries-old migration corridors that are followed annually by more than 7000 elephants. On Mpala, we pride ourselves in providing a 48,000 acre safe haven for these highly social, intelligent and sentient animals. The elephants who rely on Mpala comprise the second largest elephant population in Kenya, and providing for their safety is something we take very seriously.

However, our elephants are in crisis. Illegal killing of elephants for ivory has skyrocketed in the past two years. In 2010 and 2011, elephant deaths due to poaching exceeded the sum of the previous decade, and by the end of 2011, over half of all elephant deaths were attributed to illegal killing – just for their teeth. The statistics gathered during the first months of 2012 show a surge in poaching not witnessed since the 1980s.

Help us protect our elephants by supporting our elephant security and monitoring team. Your contributions will pay for foot scouts to patrol boundaries, for fuel and maintenance of our vehicles so we can keep track of our elephant families and respond to alerts when poachers are in the region, and to gather data to keep anti-poaching activities informed and focused. Our goal is to reverse the current trend in poaching and return Laikipia to its justifiable position as an elephant safe haven.

About Mpala:

Mpala is an international research center, wildlife conservancy and working cattle ranch. Our mission is focused on sustainable human-wildlife co-existence, and we use scientific research, education, and outreach to finding solutions that simultaneously benefit nature and human welfare. We work hand-in-hand with our neighbors to promote conservation and minimize human-wildlife conflict. Learn more at www.mpala.org.

$3,170

MONEY RAISED

Nigel and Shane Winser

$30
a fan

$100
Laurel and George Harvey

$25
Lauree and Gregory Hickok

$100
Katharina

$50
Anonymous

$10
Frank and Jan Beurskens

$25
Alison Lahnston

$100
Katie Henneman

$25
Ralph and Lenore Budd

$100
Sylvia de la Piedra

$20
Anne McGee

$100
Doc
Todd Palmer

$50
ShizzDiz...

$50
Anonymous

$20
Anonymous

$10
Anonymous

$50
Susan Jacobson

$50
Wayne Sentman

$25
Maddie B

$10
Christine Angelini

$20
Pam Longobardi

$40
Happy birthday Keir!

$25
Elizabeth Willett

$25
Mr. and Mrs. Louis J. Appell, Jr.

$500
The Svensson Family

$100
Tom, Ellen, Baxter

$50
Anonymous

$10
Allison Williams

$50
Steph H.

$25
Mary Purdey

$10
David Wilcove
Amanda Corlies Sandos
Matthew Novak

$25
Kitty Eisele

$50
Riginos and Sundaresan

$50
Penny Kalk

$100
Megan and Ashley Seifert

$50
Dabney

$100
Sylvia Harcourt

$200
Jayne

$100
Anonymous

$250
Tara Nixon

$50
Glenn Pagan

$100
The Rush Family

$25
Theresa Laverty

$25
Jason Heckman

$75
Kelly Niemeyer

$25
Jeanie

$25
Anonymous

$50

SET UP YOUR FUNDRAISER

The Team: $3,170 TOTAL RAISED SO FAR

MPALA WILDLIFE FOUNDATION

Amount Raised:

$2,995

Lauree Hickok

Amount Raised:

$100

Susan Jacobson

Amount Raised:

$50

Elizabeth Willett

Amount Raised:

$25

Juan Molina

Amount Raised:

$0

Samreen Samuel

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Allison Williams

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Elizabeth Ragsdale

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DONORS

ANONYMOUS

DONATION: $50

1 year ago

Jeanie

DONATION: $25

1 year ago

Kelly Niemeyer

DONATION: $25

1 year ago

Jason Heckman

DONATION: $75

1 year ago

Theresa Laverty

DONATION: $25

1 year ago

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