Art For The Animals' Adds Key Conservation Enterprises to Holiday Giving Program
Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation International and Virunga Artisans Offering Featured Carmel, CA October, 2006 -- With the Holiday season approaching, consumer who have supported wildlife conservation and helped artisan communities in the years past by giving donation gifts from Art for the Animals to families and friends, will have two new programs offerings to choose from. .
The International Gorilla Conservation Program has established a business enterprise known as virunga Artisans that works with local communities in the Virunga Heartlands in Central Africa, home of the last remaining mountain gorillas. Only about 700 remain. The men and women in these communities produce traditional Nkurngo baskets (great as planters), Fou Fou bread baskets, carved gorilla tree ornaments and peg holders, wonderful wild honey and a carved gorilla honey spoon to serve it with.
Conservation through Poverty Alleviation International (CPALI) is saving Madacascar's forests and wildlife and helping local communities generate sustainable income through an ambitious wild silk program. Local farmers collect wild silk cocoons and raise silkworms in their natural settings, and Malagasy women weave beautifully crafted shawls and aviator scarves.
“We've also added new gifts in many of our other programs”, said Lori Stewart, AFTA's President. “We have new snare art from the Painted Dog program, wine and gift bags from Project Seahorses' Kanagmaluhan Project; colorful straw fish ornaments to support Oceans; recycled metal musicians for African Elephants; mango wood boxes for Asian Elephants; felt booties and camel wool yarn for knitters support Snow Leopards and Camels; and pine needle baskets, bells and barrettes from the Michoacan Forests.
Conservancy organizations currently participating in the Art For The Animals program include:
African Wildlife Foundation
Amazon Conservation Team
Conservation Through Poverty Alleviation International
Smithsonian Conservation and Research / Friends of the National Zoo
International Gorilla Conservation Programme
International Snow Leopard Trust
Lemur Conservation Foundation
Michoacan Reforestation Fund
Project Seahorse
Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute
Wild Camel Protection Foundation
Wildlife Conservation Network
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To view the Art For The Animals donation packages, or request a catalog visit www.artfortheanimals.org or call 1-831-624-6100.
Art For The Animals is a program of AFTA Associates, Incorporated ( www.aftaassociates.org ) AFTA is a 501c3 non profit organization that works in collaboration with existing wildlife and nature conservancy organizations to preserve wildlife and nature through programs that make the business of saving wildlife, a business from which local people can make a living.
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