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Lots of happings on the Ark
December 31, 2005
This month has seen us going into the local schools
,Caravan parks and resorts to give talks on our wildlife in
the northern Territory and what part the Ark plays.Have
started to raise some much needed funds.Students were
amazing and so generious and filled our fund tins up.They
came on an excurion to the Ark and needless to say the
joeys were a big hit.One of the volunteers took the
children two at a time over to the first rehab yard so they
could inter act with them. Everyone was very well behaved
and listened to the volunteer.Next year will be big as we
missed the tourist season by two weeks.More than likly we
will be giving talks most days in 2006.
The local caravan and tourist park would like to start
tours here in 2006. Should get the ball rolling as far as
funding is concerned. The local school Batchelor Area
School has shown a great effort in supporting us with all
the students involved. The teacher came up with the idea of
drawing a kangaroo on a large piece of art paper and
getting all the class students to cover it in coins. This
raised $46.00 to go towards the sponcership of a Kangaroo.
We are forever grateful for their help and continued
support.
We invited the possum team from Wildcare to have a
look at The Ark as a possible release site for them in
their next years possum program. A few sights seemed to fit
their criteria .And hope we will be hearing from them
sometime at the end of the wet season. Which is in full
swing now. To give you readers some idea of the amount of
water that is coming down. Just today in the space of two
hours we had nearly 5 inches and it is still raining off
and on. The river(the Finnis)has started to rise and the
flood plains are full of water,grass is green and alls
beautiful. Plenty of native grass finally so Kangaroo are
all happy. Still have three in cages but hopefully they
will out before to much longer. Three little joeys in the
house in pouches but it will be late in the year before
they shall be ready to venture about.
The T Shirt page on the web is up and running .So all you
past volunteers can purchuse one on line and get
behind all the good you had a hand in creating while you
were here.The models are also volunteers that were here
with us for a time. Thank God for the vollies.
The Ark also writes for a news paper in England and you can
check it out at
www.shookthetree.co.uk
Well that all from the Ark
Nina
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