Blog Carnival For Elephant Nature Park
This is going to be a pretty interesting post! Many of you may not know of 'Elephant Nature Park', but its well worth learning about! Ill give you a little taste here! This park in Northern Thailand is dedicated to Elephant Conservation. They rescue Elephants from the Tourist and Logging trade and provide them with a chance to live free, to live as elephants should! I highly recommend you check them out!Anyway, on to the post!
As a part of Elephant nature Parks 10 year anniversary at their current location, they are asking all bloggers to write up a bucket list of sorts! So here is mine!
My top 10 bucket list!
10. Watching baby turtles take their first swim
9. Walk the Appalachian Trail
8. Work with wildlife rehabilitation in Africa
7. Save a tree
6. See a clan of Chimps swing through the trees
5. Walk the Great Wall
4. See a Giant Panda in the Wild
3. Dive with Humpbacks
2. Rescue an Elephant
1. Save the Red Panda
“My top 10 bucket list post is a part of Save Elephant Foundation’s blog carnival to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Elephant Nature Park.”
As a part of Elephant nature Parks 10 year anniversary at their current location, they are asking all bloggers to write up a bucket list of sorts! So here is mine!
My top 10 bucket list!
10. Watching baby turtles take their first swim
- Living in Australia (Queensland no less!!) I should have crossed this off by now! Unfortunately i've never had the pleasure of seeing such an event! The main attraction to this is the turtles such determination, such ability and strength, so inspiring! Even so, its thought only 1 out of 100 baby turtles mature to adulthood... the ocean is sure a dangerous place, even worse now thanks to humans... We need to start taking responsibility for our actions!
9. Walk the Appalachian Trail
- After reading Bill Bryson's humorous 'Into the woods' I immediately wanted to try it out for myself! With the immense desire to see a wild bear (at a distance) or even a deer, I'd relish in the challenge! I mean what could be better than hiking for months... well maybe just a few weeks! Haha
8. Work with wildlife rehabilitation in Africa
- A very broad goal! With a variety of experiences at my finger tips I can hardly contain myself from pressing 'buy now' on those South African air tickets! Im planning to dedicate a whole year to this goal, to help a nation where its wildlife is suffering greatly.
7. Save a tree
- Bit of a strange thing to be on a bucket list huh! Not so! In thailand (a buddhist country) conservationists tie blessed orange fabric around trees to prevent them from being cut down by illegal loggers. Even the loggers wouldn't cut down a tree that has been blessed by monks!
6. See a clan of Chimps swing through the trees
- I cannot say how many times i've watched documentaries on studies of chimps, watching them and their unique but slightly human behaviours! However the sight that gets my heart all in a flutter is seeing them drift through the tree tops!
5. Walk the Great Wall
- Ok... maybe not ALL of it! But id certainly LOVE to be a part of something that magnificent!
4. See a Giant Panda in the Wild
- With numbers dwindling Its high time I hopped footed around China waving my banner in support of these great creatures!
3. Dive with Humpbacks
- Being Aussie, i've been on my share of whale watching boat trips. Something about them pulls my heart strings, they are kinda like the elephants of the sea! In a social way!
2. Rescue an Elephant
- After my short but memorable time at the Elephant Nature Park in Thailand I have felt a huge drive to help these amazing creatures. Under huge pressure from the tourist trade, they need our help more than EVER! If I can help but one elephant escape that reality, then my heart would be eternally happy! Always remember, don't participate in elephant rides or shows or street begging, keeps these giants in the jungle! Not under your bum!
1. Save the Red Panda
- With only 400 red pandas left in Nepal, and possibly only 2000 worldwide these amazing animals deserve our help to ensure their survival. Red Pandas are a critical element to the Nepali ecosystem, which acts as the 'lungs of the earth' however the devastating reality is that humans are quickly destroying their habitat to make way to farm land and grazing land for cattle and yak. I have a huge affinity with Red Pandas, my heart skips a beat when I see them! It would be devastating to see such a marvellous animal slide into extinction without people noticing them....
“My top 10 bucket list post is a part of Save Elephant Foundation’s blog carnival to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of Elephant Nature Park.”
How the Firefox changed me... For the better!
Not to say I was damaged or in some kind of rut when I found my calling, but it definitely awakened a fiery passion inside of me!
And now, as I grow into this and begin to have a higher understanding of the task in front of me, I find the Firefox keeps me centred (Little side note here: Red Pandas are sometimes called Firefoxes!).
For example, as a passionate animal rights activists, in all kind of areas, I often find myself in heated arguments with people, and more often than not, its not about them not being on my side, but because I don’t fully understand what I am standing up for. However, If we are talking about animal conservation, I can keep very level headed. Wondering why this was I continuously tried, yes tried, to get into arguments! Unsurprisingly I found that it was because of this deep love for the pandas that I was able to communicate freely and calmly, and leave a lasting impression in peoples mind of the cute and fluffy bundle of happiness that is the red panda! Slowly I am learning to communicate this love for all animals in my communication, as who is going to listen to a crazy person yelling random facts at you!? You are more likely to get your point across as a calm, level headed activist, well in my experience!
Of course, the people that make a noise and push people out of their comfort zones are the real heroes, but I’m not up to that level just yet! Ill focus on deforestation for now!
Peace, Love and Red Pandas, my ‘Soul’ers (how about THAT for a nickname huh!)
And now, as I grow into this and begin to have a higher understanding of the task in front of me, I find the Firefox keeps me centred (Little side note here: Red Pandas are sometimes called Firefoxes!).
For example, as a passionate animal rights activists, in all kind of areas, I often find myself in heated arguments with people, and more often than not, its not about them not being on my side, but because I don’t fully understand what I am standing up for. However, If we are talking about animal conservation, I can keep very level headed. Wondering why this was I continuously tried, yes tried, to get into arguments! Unsurprisingly I found that it was because of this deep love for the pandas that I was able to communicate freely and calmly, and leave a lasting impression in peoples mind of the cute and fluffy bundle of happiness that is the red panda! Slowly I am learning to communicate this love for all animals in my communication, as who is going to listen to a crazy person yelling random facts at you!? You are more likely to get your point across as a calm, level headed activist, well in my experience!
Of course, the people that make a noise and push people out of their comfort zones are the real heroes, but I’m not up to that level just yet! Ill focus on deforestation for now!
Peace, Love and Red Pandas, my ‘Soul’ers (how about THAT for a nickname huh!)
Namaste
Namaste literally translates as I salute the God within you, so much more intimate than a simple ‘Hello’!
As my first post, I want to introduce myself to the world of the internet! I don’t mean my name, or age, or things like that, a much more personal side. I work for a wildlife conservation in Nepal, probably the only job I could really love is something with animals, I have this very pure love for them, as I expect nothing from them, and in return they expect nothing from me.
I am an only child, and when I was younger, my best friends were always animals, to this day my 14 year old cat still holds a very special place in my heart! When I was young I knew I had a deep calling to help animals, at that stage in my life I wasn’t sure on how I was going to do that, but I just knew, I was going to help them, I had to. I was very aware of what was happening to wild animals and the environment, as my Grandmother was a senior lecturer and Professor in Environment.
And then one day, I found how was going to help animals, the very thing I had been put on this earth for, Red Pandas. With their crimson coat and adorable balancing acts high in the tree tops, how could I resist! From that day my fate was set, this is what I was put on Earth for, It was like a huge dust storm had cleared from my brain and vision!
I’ll leave it at that for now, now you know what you are in for!
Peace, Love and Red Pandas
As my first post, I want to introduce myself to the world of the internet! I don’t mean my name, or age, or things like that, a much more personal side. I work for a wildlife conservation in Nepal, probably the only job I could really love is something with animals, I have this very pure love for them, as I expect nothing from them, and in return they expect nothing from me.
I am an only child, and when I was younger, my best friends were always animals, to this day my 14 year old cat still holds a very special place in my heart! When I was young I knew I had a deep calling to help animals, at that stage in my life I wasn’t sure on how I was going to do that, but I just knew, I was going to help them, I had to. I was very aware of what was happening to wild animals and the environment, as my Grandmother was a senior lecturer and Professor in Environment.
And then one day, I found how was going to help animals, the very thing I had been put on this earth for, Red Pandas. With their crimson coat and adorable balancing acts high in the tree tops, how could I resist! From that day my fate was set, this is what I was put on Earth for, It was like a huge dust storm had cleared from my brain and vision!
I’ll leave it at that for now, now you know what you are in for!
Peace, Love and Red Pandas