Morning all,
How are you?
I just wanted to tell you about one of our lovely young Wildlife Explorers members Amelie! Amelie comes along to all out Wildlife Explorer Club meetings - it's a club for children aged between 6-11 to explore nature and have fun! We meet once a month and do loads of different activities! All our club meetings are listed on the Rye Meads events page, check them out by clicking here!
Amelie managed to raise a brilliant £12.25 in aid of the Wildlife Explorers Rockhopper penguin appeal by doing a sponsored swim! She swam two lengthes of front crawl and then backcrawl as well!
Northern rockhopper penguins are one of the coolest-looking animals on the whole planet, but they also have one of the most fascinating stories.
This tough bird has survived fierce volcanic eruptions and catastrophic oil spills, but now desperately needs our help. Most of the world’s rockhoppers live on the remote Tristan da Cunha islands in the Atlantic Ocean, and their numbers are dropping fast.
The truth is that why numbers are dropping is all a bit of a mystery – and we need to solve it before it’s too late.
It could be because their food is disappearing as a result of climate change. Perhaps humans are taking too many fish out of the seas where the penguins fish. It could also be because they have to compete for nesting space with aggressive fur seals.
The first thing we need to do is find out why rockhopper numbers are dropping so rapidly. There are somewhere between 100,000 and 500,000 rockhoppers on the Tristan da Cunha islands.
Studying birds in such remote places is difficult and expensive. We need to buy gadgets like data loggers and satellite tags that we can use to track the penguins.
We need to stop the decline of this endangered and beautiful bird, and we need your help! For more information about the appeal and what you can do to help click here.
Amelie did a great job on her sponsored swim to raise money for this amazing campaign!
Well done Amelie! :)
Didn't she do well?