David Shepherd at WildlifeXpo August 2011. David Shepherd, one of the world's greatest conservationists, will appear at the forthcoming wildlife exhibition in London, WildlifeXpo, on Saturday 15th October (11.30 Am TBC). Mr Shepherd will talk about his life, his work in conservation, and what needs to be done now to conserve those species he has worked to save for some 60 years. David founded the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation in 1984 as a focus for his conservation work.
TigerTime
David Shepherd celebrated his 80th birthday on 6th May 2011 by launching a massive new global tiger conservation project - TigerTime. Thousands of David's tiger and elephant prints can be found in homes all across Britain and his conservation work has won many awards. David Shepherd said, "80 might sound a bit of a grand age to still be on the campaign warpath but I am determined to do everything in my power to save the tiger. There are fewer than 3,500 left in the wild. I've brought in the man who was behind Joanna Lumley's great Gurkha campaign to help me.
TigerTime will be more than a campaign - I want it to become a worldwide movement for businesses and people.
To reach out to the younger generations, we've even got a tiger on Facebook. Qiang the Tiger will bring the tiger experience to Facebook and Twitter'.
Melanie Shepherd, chief executive of the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation said, ‘TigerTime will fight a whole range of campaigns. It will lobby governments at home and overseas. Just as importantly, it will fund the direct on the ground actions that will stop tigers being killed - more anti-poaching patrols, more investigative work to root out traders in illegal tiger body parts and more education programs in Asia to help suppress the use of tiger parts as ‘medicines'.'For more on the campaign see: www.tigertime.info
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