Last night, June 28, the CBS news magazine show 60 Minutes included a beautiful piece on one philanthropist's efforts to help rebuild the shattered country of Mozambique by rebuilding and protecting the herds of wild animals in the Gorongosa National Park. He is hiring locals to care for the park and doing what he can to attract tourists to the region.
It is a wonderful story, which you can watch on line at:
http://tinyurl.com/nevkcz
You can read the story at http://tinyurl.com/nborv2, and there is a place for comments at the bottom of that page. Please join the discussion -- it is so important to the animals that we do whatever we can to make sure their plight is always part of public dialogue.
Please also thank 60 Minutes, letting the producers know how much we appreciate stories that are about protecting as opposed to killing animals. The show takes comments at http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/feedback/fb_news_form.shtml
Just choose "60 Minutes" from the pulldown menu.
My thanks to Sharlene (or Fifi Vixen) for making sure we knew about the story.
Yours and the animals',
Karen Dawn
(DawnWatch is an animal advocacy media watch that looks at animal issues in the media and facilitates one-click responses to the relevant media outlets. You can learn more about it, and sign up for alerts at http://www.DawnWatch.com. You may forward or reprint DawnWatch alerts if you do so unedited -- leave DawnWatch in the title and include this parenthesized tag line. If somebody forwards DawnWatch alerts to you, which you enjoy, please help the list grow by signing up. It is free.)
Please go to www.ThankingtheMonkey.com for a fun celeb-studded promo video and information on Karen Dawn's book, "Thanking the Monkey: Rethinking the Way we Treat Animals," which was chosen by the Washington Post as one of the "Best Books of 2008." And check out Karen's new blog at www.ThankingtheMonkey.com/blog !
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Date: Mon Jun 29 20:41:14 2009
