Anyone who is up to date with what’s happening in the world will know that poaching in Africa is at an all time high. Many elephants, gorillas, rhinos, cheeta and lions, amongst many others, are being mercilessly slaughtered for their skins, hides, bones for Chinese medicine or simply because there are sick people out there who think it’s nicer to look at a dead animal than a live one. Most of it is ending up in China and Asia.

We have been supporting an outfit for the past few years called IDA Africa which rescues orphaned, imprisoned or pet Chimps in West Africa. Take a look at their website and if you feel you can spare a few bucks, send it to them. Site is www.ida-africa.org

So as we feel that it’s wrong not to practice what you preach, we have decided we will be giving some money from every job we do for the next few months to IDA. If you were wanting to do an upgrade and love animals, hopefully this will give you an incentive to take the plunge. We want to send them a descent amount so they can complete some work they need to do. They really need help right now as poaching and the illegal meat trade, where animals are killed for food, is rife and any help to stop this barbaric practice should be given. I thank you if you do go ahead and either do an upgrade with us or support them directly. We have a chimp, called Foe, that we have been sponsoring for the last few years and it’s a good feeling to know we are helping, even if only a little.