It’s been almost a month since our last post on how Ebola is affecting operations in the Gola Rainforest and the disease is still running rife through West Africa. Since we last updated you, our Gola team have been training with aid organisations on the ground in order to distribute vital relief parcels to the hard-hit communities around the Gola Rainforest. Since the beginning of the epidemic, the price of basic commodities, such as rice, have sky-rocketed in Sierra Leone, and these relief parcels really are a life line to the local communities who would struggle to provide for themselves without them.
And it looks like more help is at hand. We’re pleased to see that the UK Government have announced that they will match the first £5m of donations made by the public to a Disasters Emergency Committee appeal for the Ebola crisis in West Africa. If you wish to donate to the international aid effort, you can do so by clicking here.
We’ll keep you posted with further updates as and when we can, but if you’d like to know more in the meantime then please get in touch Nicolas.tubbs@rspb.org.uk