Albatross - Help!

[Metabarca]

May I put in a plea for the albatross, which I feel represents a little of the spirit of why we enjoy the sea? They are in serious danger of extinction, but you can all help and it won't cost anything! Just imagine: a bird that lives several years at sea without once touching land, that lives up to 60 years, that does up to 10,000 km on a single foraging trip, that has circumvented the world in the Southern Ocean (22,000 km) in 46 days, is in danger of vanishing!
Find out more at www.savethealbatross.net
More to the point, collect your old postage stamps. Get your children, children's schools, friends and relatives to do the same. The RSPB sell these and the proceeds buy the simple devices that prevent albatrosses getting caught in the long lines fishing boats use in the Southern Ocean. Just tear off the corner of the envelope, separate UK and foreign stamps and send to RSPB Stamps, PO Box 6198, Leighton Buzzard, Bedfordshire LU 7 9XT.
Or take the easy way and make a donation via the site. Go on; just a few quid!
Thanks!
Lucian

 

[hornblower]

I am up for that one, Lucian - I'll do it via the site.

 

[Genie]

Yep, gets my vote. Good luck with the campaign - I'm off to have a look at the website!
These are beautiful birds who do not deserve to die out purely because man is inconsiderate to the other creatures who share our planet.
I'm forever removing bags of rubbish and fishing line from our headland, every time I go fishing I come back with half a bag full of rubbish and line that is discarded and can cause real suffering to wildlife! Grrr!!

 

[Rum_Pirate]

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. . . every time I go fishing I come back with half a bag full of rubbish and line that is discarded. . . .

[/ QUOTE ] Your picking up and taking home the rubbish and line that you would have otherwise have left after your trip is greatly appreciated by us Albatross lovers. Thank you. /forums/images/graemlins/wink.gif

 

[snooks]

Instead of sending chrissy cards last year I sent an Email to everyone explaining that if they were receiving the Email then £1 had been donated to the save the albatross fund, which was better than sending out a load of cards that peeps will throw away after a few weeks.

There's also been a link on my website for sometime.

If you donate, you get a pin badge of a hook through the post a few weeks later...which the back falls off and you loose...but the thought was there!

G