Echo, Africa’s most famous elephant, was the subject of many films and the matriarch of perhaps the most studied wild elephant herd in the world. In May of 2009, she died of natural causes. This film is a look back at this remarkable animal through extraordinary footage and interviews with the researchers that cared for and studied Echo and her family. More information: http://www.pbs.org/wnet/nature/episodes/echo-an-elephant-to-remember/introduction/5755/

Kenya’s Amboseli National Park

Watch Echo: An Elephant to Remember on PBS. See more from Nature.

Preservation through Education

STAR Eco Station’s main objective is education. Educating students, visitors and the community on the preservation of our environment and the inter-dependence of all living things.

It is an environmental science museum, an exotic wildlife rescue center, and a haven for endangered and illegally-trafficked exotic animals confiscated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife. They work with over 42 school districts to educate kids.
They hold monthly tours, special events and even have cool camps for kids.
Check out the website to get a feel for this wonderful place. http://www.ecostation.org/

EcoStation the Beginning from STAR Education on Vimeo.

Check http://www.ecostation.org/ecostation/tours.htm for current calendar.
Located in Culver City, CA near Los Angeles and Rocklin, CA — Sacramento, CA.

Facing the Storm documents the history of human relations with the largest land mammal on the continent, the American Bison. What they were, what they are now. It reveals the devastating effect modernization has had on the herds.

When there is a storm, buffalo face right into it and walk out. They do that because they know that’s the shortest way out of the storm.

More Information on the film site: http://www.highplainsfilms.org/

April 7, 2011

This week an urgent call to action: Please help protect America’s last wild buffalo.

More than 660 wild American buffalo are now held in traps by the National Park Service. They urgently need your help.

First, buffalo need you to contact Members of Congress requesting that they co-sign a letter to National Park Service Director Jon Jarvis encouraging Yellowstone National Park to find habitats for wild buffalo to roam.   Take Action Now!  http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2426/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6454

Second, several bills that would cause great harm to wild bison and bison restoration efforts in Montana have moved through the Montana Legislature.  Montana Governor Brian Schweitzer has hinted that he may veto these bad bills.  Americans everywhere should contact Governor Schweitzer asking him to veto HB 318, SB 174, SB 184, and SB 212.
Take Action Now! http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/2426/p/dia/action/public/?action_KEY=6455

They are doing their best in their gentle way to show us.

LAKE ELSINORE:
Donors help rescue animal sanctuary

Property that was home to injured, abandoned animals saved from bank

—Excerpt from Article in The Californian
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Find out More/Donate at http://www.mashrescueusa.org/

Renee Duncan is overjoyed to be allowed to move back onto her 12-acre Meadowbrook ranch, where she has kept 100 or so rescue animals, including horses, pigs, goats, sheep, emus, and dogs. Medical bills led her to fall behind on her home payments and the bank foreclosed on the property earlier this year. Two donors have stepped forward and saved her ranch from the bank.

Thanks to two good Samaritans, the owner of an animal rescue ranch near Lake Elsinore is going home —- with the horses, goats, pigs and other animals that were living on the 12-acre spread before it fell into foreclosure.

“I was overwhelmed, in awe,” said Renee Duncan, a retired registered nurse who had to leave the property after she fell behind on her house payments when she was undergoing cancer treatments.

A neighbor has been letting Duncan house the animals at his ranch while she and a growing squad of supporters worked to raise money to take the ranch out of foreclosure.

News of Duncan’s eviction in June mobilized friends, neighbors and people from afar who were moved by her predicament. Two of those who responded chipped in enough to buy the 12-acre property, which now will be owned in the name of the charity, the Meadowbrook Animal Sanctuary and Haven, or MASH as Duncan likes to call it.