Jan
18
Campaign to Mitigate Trophies Entering the USA
Survey results are in!
Jan
01
Mambas in The Park
Ongoing monthly since 2018
Date and Time
January 1, 2024
12:00 am –
Location
Greater Kruger, South Africa
🌟 Here’s what you should know:
🦁 In collaboration with Transfrontier Africa, the Black Mamba Anti-Poaching Unit and KORU camp, GMFER organizes and sponsors monthly campouts and workshops with the Mambas and their children in the Greater Kruger.
🐦 Despite the significance of their work, the Mambas’ own children and families rarely experience the wonder of seeing an elephant, a rhino, or a lion in the wild. If African voices are to rise on behalf of Africa’s wild wonder, the cultural and economic distance that separates Africa’s people from the continent’s wild heritage must be dismantled.
🐘 The 2–3-night campout features multiple workshops centered on conservation and community. Each campout is themed to amplify the uniqueness, vulnerability and ecological significance of a specific species or a phenomenon that has global impact such as climate change or plastic pollution.
Dec
27
Computer Literacy Classes for Wildlife Rangers and Communities
Ongoing, bi-weekly at Hoedspruit, South Africa
Date and Time
December 27, 2023
12:00 am –
Location
Hoedspruit, South Africa
💻👩🏫Upskilling through computer literacy:👩🏫💻
GMFER will conduct computer literacy workshops for wildlife rangers and communities challenged by inadequate access to computers and software applications.
The rangers will gain skills to document, catalog and share their findings from the field.
Please help us with the cost of the computers: gmfer.org/donate
Jan
13
Vigil4Elephants
January 13, 2024 - All day
Date and Time
January 13, 2023
6:00 am – 11:59 pm
Location
Virtual online
Join US! 🌟GMFER is serving as co-host participating in Vigil4Elephants – a day of remembrance for elephants who have died in 2023 due to the physical and psychological trauma caused by life in a captive environment such as a zoo, circus, or other entertainment venue. 🌟
Jun
05
Ngwerere Stream Cleanup Campaign
Ongoing. Start: June 5-6 and September 15- 16
Date and Time
June 5, 2023
7:00 am – 5:00 pm
Location
Ngwerere Stream, Zambia
♵ 🌟 Beat Plastic Pollution!🌟 ♵
Here’s what you should know:
💧 The Ngwerere stream in Zambia is polluted with plastic and chemicals so widespread that the entire surface is completely choked, virtually shutting down the flow of water.
💧 The Ngwerere stream cleanup is ongoing with future cleanup events scheduled in 2024.
💧 The initiative to clean up the Ngwerere tributary is organized by Mizu Eco-Care, GMFER and Eco-Rising Zambia, in collaboration with the Zambian Chongwe Town Council and the Lusaka City Council.
💧 The Ngwerere is a vital stream for Zambia’s capital, Lusaka, where it spills into the Chongwe river, which in turn, flows into the mighty Zambezi which feeds into the Indian Ocean. This means pollution is carried along throughout the entire river system.
💧 Working to achieve Zambia ‘plastic free’ is the long-term vision.
Jun
05
Beat Plastic Pollution on World Environment Day. Lusaka, Zambia.
05 June 2023
Date and Time
June 5, 2023
7:00 am – 4:00 pm
Location
Lusaka, Zambia
🐘 🌟 CAN YOU HELP WITH A SMALL DONATION? #BeatPlasticPollution. Support biodiversity on #WorldEnvironmentDay. We have the backing of the UN Environment Programme.
🐘 We are ~600.00 usd short!
🐘 Click Here: DONATE
🌟 Everyone! Our UN registered event for #WorldEnvironmentDay to #BeatPlasticPollution is on the 5th of June and we are about 600.00 usd short of our goal to ensure the event is a success, primarily we are short of the funds to purchase gum boots and safety overalls so cleaners can wade into the tributary.
🌟 UN event: CLEAN UP THE NGWERE TRIBUTARY.
🌟 The Lusaka City Council and the Minister of Green Economy Hon. Collins Nzovu will be participating in the event. Mizu Eco-Care is our voice on the ground, making all of the magic happen in collaboration with #GMFER!
🌟 Help get mountains of plastic out of a tributary of the Chongwe! The Chongwe river drains into the iconic Zambezi which cuts through the heart of the Lower Zambezi National Park, a landscape infinitely rich in biodiversity. The great Zambezi river meets the vast slate of the Indian ocean in Southern Mozambique. The Lusaka City Council and the Minister of Green Economy Hon. Collins Nzovu will be participating in the event.
🌟 A myriad iconic animals call the National Park their “home”.
🌟 CAN YOU HELP with a small donation? Every little bit counts. If you cannot, no worries, please share our event on your page and with others who may contribute.
🙏🙏 To those who have already supported this significant event in Luska/Zambia, mahalo nui loa from the heart. #Gratitude.
Nov
14
Nature Not Money – GMFER and Partners at CoP19,
14 - 25 November 2022
Jan
29
VONG SDG Championships
ONLINE EVENT. January 29-30, 2022
Date and Time
January 29, 2022
9:00 am – 10:00 pm
Location
Online Event
⚈ The VONG SDG Championship focuses on building a deeper understanding of the UN Sustainable Development Goals amongst students in the age group of 13 to 18 years.
⚈ The competition involves several contests such as analysis essays, group discussions, debates, a talent show, trivia pop quizzes, a hackathon and live tweeting. The goal is to inspire the youth to change the world with their energy, ideas and problem solving approach.
WATCH THE VIRTUAL LIVE EVENT HERE!
⚈ Through the #VONGMovement, global youth engage with communities, experts, and authorities employing multiple avenues and strategies – individually and in teams. The new generation is empowered to make informed opinions and engage in discussions with confidence and rigor.
⚈ By motivating the new generation to stand up to secure their right to good health, quality education, and a clean planet we are preparing them to become social auditors of a better tomorrow.
⚈ Recognition and awards will be presented for outstanding participants.
Jan
22
Vigil for Elephants
Rajagiriya, Sri-Lanka. January 22. 4pm, 2022
Date and Time
January 22, 2022
4:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Location
Rajagiriya, Sri-Lanka
ජිවිතයට සමුදුන් අලි ඇතුන් ස්මරණය 2022
👉🏾 Loving === Engaging. Please attend! The event is Organized by RARE (Rally for Animal Rights and the Environment) in collaboration with ELEPHANTEA, #GMFER, the VIGIL founders and many others.
⚈ The event represents Sri-Lanka’s participation in the Worldwide Vigil For Elephants 2022 and in solidarity with elephant lovers across the globe.
⚈ The event will commemorate the deaths of elephant calves and their mothers who were the victims of elephant smuggling in Sri-Lanka, the 369 wild elephants who lost their lives to HEC (Human Elephant Conflict) in Sri-Lanka, in 2021, and the 57 elephants who died in captivity, globally; these latter elephants include Menika and Kandula who were “exported” from Sri Lanka.
⚈ The event raises public awareness and is suitable for all ages. Please be there with your loved ones. We intend to demonstrate our love and care for the conservation, welfare and rights of elephants.
⚈ You can read about #GMFER’s campaigns and programs on our website. Here: 👉🏼 GMFER
We would love to hear from you!
Nov
25
Rosemary’s ‘Giving Season’ fundraiser for #GMFER
November 25, 2021-February 24, 2022
Date and Time
November 25, 2021
12:00 pm – 11:00 pm
Location
Online Event
“If You Want To Walk Fast, Walk Alone. If You Want To Walk Far, Walk Together”
Please support our work!
👉🏾 Loving Earth === Giving Earth. Please GIVE!
Who are we and what are we raising funds for?
⚈ #GMFER centers the human voice in the battle to protect our common heritage, our home, our earth.
⚈ We are a small and dynamic organization with a wide reach. We engage in campaigns and programs that creatively disrupt conventional conservation paradigms and effect meaningful change for human and animal communities.
⚈ You can read about our campaigns and programs on our website. Here: 👉🏼 GMFER
And you can write to us here:
gmfer@gmfer.org
OR
here: march4elesandrhinos@gmail.com
We would love to hear from you!
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