Fw: Animal Hero of the Year!

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--- On Mon, 9/29/08, Lola Arapow <lolaarapow wrote:

 

Lola is also a hero - tirelessly working for all animals and a rescue/rehab of possums and raccoons.

 

 

 

It is with great pleasure that I announce that Amanda Lollar, President and Founder of Bat World Sanctuary, in Mineral Wells, Texas has been nominated for Animal Hero of the Year. Amanda is a champion for all animals, with a lifelong emphasis on bats and a close personal friend. As a co-director of my very own Bat World Center, Bat World Mid-Cities, I urge you to speak up on her and the bats behalf. She has dedicated her life to bats and works 24/7, 365 days a year to make certain that all bats, worldwide, get the attention and help they need and so desperately deserve. This is such a great opportunity to bring attention to the plight of the most misunderstood animal on the face of the earth.

 

Please go to http://animal.discovery.com/convergence/hero_of_the_year/poll/poll.html and vote for Amanda Lollar as the Animal Hero of the Year. Bat World desperately needs the $10,000 prize.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In 1989, Amanda Lollar found an injured bat and saved it from a painful death. Soon after she founded what is now the world's largest bat rescue group, Bat World Sanctuary (BWS).

BWS saves thousands of bats around the world each year and provides refuge for bats retired from zoos, permanently injured, used in labs and confiscated from the pet trade. Amanda also started 17 volunteer bat rescue centers across the US. BWS and the rescue centers give educational programs to thousands of school children per year. Amanda teaches a week-long intensive workshop on the rehabilitation of bats that animal professionals attend from across the globe. She also saved 30,000 bats from destruction by purchasing a building bats had used as habitat for decades. The previous owner wanted the bats killed to sell the property. This building now serves as a permanent wild sanctuary.

Amanda has authored books on bats, including a medical reference used by professionals the world over. She maintains batworld.org, which includes a local rescue page so immediate help can be found for injured bats. Amanda also co-founded nickoftimerescue.org to save dogs and cats from gas chambers in rural Georgia. Amanda has worked to save animals 16 hours per day, 365 days a year, for over 15 years, with no pay.

 

You can vote as many times as you like so please click, click and click again and again. Others will be voting for their favorite – animals much more popular than bats. Please, please vote for bats by voting for Amanda. Just a couple of minutes a day and you can vote scores of times or even if you can just vote once, please do it now. The polls close very soon.If you are not familiar with Bat World and the vital work done there, please visit the www.batworld.org for more information.

 

Please forward this message to everyone in your address book.

 

Thanks!

Laura Warren

Co-Director, Bat World Mid-Cities