Please sign up here and give a brief description of how you can help your WE neighbor. If you have other ideas not already mentioned, please give a brief detailed description. Thanks!
Some of the areas could be......
Helping with recording and editing Videos
Helping with snapping and editing still pics
How to create Slide Shows
How to work in and spruce up Your Page
How to create a Blog
A Welcoming Committee for our New Members
*How to navigate around the pages and how to post in discussions
Above are just some ideas... if you have more, please share.
WE would like to express our gratitude to our Volunteer Community Helpers... Welcoming Committee - Calista, Liz and Margo Video Helpers - Aquila Photo Helpers - Colleen Slide Show Helpers - Colleen My Page Helpers - Volunteers needed Blog Helpers - Volunteers needed MAC Format Helpers - Emjay and Deb
***There is always room for more Volunteers, please consider Signing Up to Help your Neighbor. Thanks!
My blogspot blog is pretty much a WE update site with a bit about me but yes I am that geek who drives my friends nuts about WE. I would be willing to help someone or even create a new blog where a few people will have posting rights. Anyone who is interested let me know. It will strictly be a WE blog.
I am also wondering if maybe Dixie would like some donations as far as winter hats, pencils, paper and school supplies etc. It would be up to Rexon if he feels it's needed.
I have a stash of baby and toddler hats going already that I have knitted.
It is so nice to see this area blossoming with offers of help.
Stacy, thanks for your offer of creating a Blog, just wanted to add that after we see how the Sign Ups are going... "new discussion areas" will be created for the Specific Help Topics in which every one will be able to share resources, tips as well as asking questions too.
Thanks again all!
Well, I already try to welcome everyone as I see they've joined, but I'll be happy to do whatever else I can. I'm not so good with the tech stuff and probably need help in that area myself :o)
Finally we have some news on our Honey Badger project. As you may know we have been holding two troublesome honey badgers, that were killing Geese on a farm and removed before they could get into even deeper trouble. Of-course we have been waiting for permits but (in this case), that is no bad thing. It has provided time for the badgers to loose their homing instinct to that farm (otherwise they would just head home and into more trouble). It's also given us time to arrange for tracking equipment. In this regard, we took lots of advice from badger specialists before deciding on a two pronged approach to tracking these animals that roam in very large areas. Firstly, one of the badgers had a radio transceiver implant yesterday (unobtrusive low range device placed under the skin by a vet), and second they will each be given VHF collars before release. Of-course with such tenacious animals the collars won't last long before the badgers have destroyed and discarded them, but by that time we hope to have logged their new home range and have an idea of where to find them. Thereafter the implant (which has only a small range) will help us to monitor the badgers for the next year or so and gather much needed data on Honey Badgers living outside of formally protected area's. You've heard it before, but these are the area's where all carnivores at the biggest and imminent risk from human conflict. So we very much hope that these two will be only the first of many, so that our study results can hep formulate pragmatic conservation policies. For now, the badgers will be monitored at Moholoholo wildlife rehabilitation centre for another twelve days and then we'll release them into a wild area. Where we hope they'll stay out of trouble. Yea I know, fat chance of that. Badgers just seem to look for trouble. I have to be honest, it's why I love them.
I have to say, I’d rather report after an event, than tempt fate, but I had a very encouraging meeting with the head of wildlife services in Mpumalanga, which has the ILP team buzzing. He has indicated that he would like us to take on a much larger role, increasing our contribution to large carnivore conservation within the province. It’s early days, and we will need to present a detailed proposal, but our meeting was very positive. In short we will step up our support to MTPA especially in terms of research and assisting with problem animal issues. We will need more people and need to raise more funds, but there is an opportunity to provide pragmatic support to provincial conservation authorities and by doing this have a positive impact on large carnivore conservation in Mpumalanga. You may also be interested to hear that there has been another confirmed sighting of a Black Leopard. This time by experienced professionals who followed the animal for several minutes getting to within 5 meters!