Fwd: Jungle News: kids stuff, volunteer stuff, events stuff

[Guest guest]

January 11, 2009

 

Dear Friends of Jungle Friends,

 

 

 

 

 

Charlie Brown was ‘for sale’

at a pawn shop until compassionate people rescued him. He is looking for a sponsor!

Visit our website to sponsor Charlie Brown!

junglefriends.org/monk_charliebrown.shtml

 

 

 

 

We hope everyone had a great holiday season. We sure were busy over

here doing what we do best…serving the 118 monkeys in our care. We would

like to whole-heartedly thank everyone who donated to Jungle Friends during our

time of need this past holiday. It was a rough one, and it will be tough going

for a while, but we saw what amazing and caring supporters the monkeys have. So

from the bottom of our hearts (and the monkeys’ too!) we thank you. Kari

wants to apologize for not thanking everyone personally. We have been so busy

here and the thank you notes are coming slowly. If you donated, please rest

assured you will receive one soon!

 

Our Kids for Monkeys page

needs more kids to participate! We will be adding more fun stuff in the coming

weeks… and we would like to hear more from our monkey-loving young

friends.

 

Share your monkey

love with the world and join our new ‘Monkey Fan Club.’ Just

send in a photo of yourself with an essay, poem, letter or drawing about

monkeys and we’ll put you in our online Monkey Fan Gallery.  Email webmaster,

and be sure to include your name, age, and address. We will not publish

your address. This is for our records only and will not be disclosed to

anyone outside of our staff.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mela enjoys her dried

papaya.

 

 

 

 

 

Take action! The New

Year is a perfect time for a food or

toy drive. You’ll have a great time working for the monkey

cause, and your friends and family will love seeing your picture in the Kids

For Monkeys Hall of

Fame! Visit How

You Can Help to learn more about the other great ideas to support the Jungle

Friends monkeys. (www.junglefriends.org/kids/kids_help.shtml)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Samantha and Charlotte paint a

masterpiece. Find out why

monkeys paint.

 

 

 

Two more monkey art exhibits are coming up! The exhibit at the Artisans’ Guild Gallery of

Gainesville (www.artisansguildgallery.com) runs from February 6 through

February 28. The opening night reception is Friday, February 6 from 7-9pm at

the gallery. There will be light refreshments, and Jungle Friends’ staff

will be in attendance to answer questions and catch up (or to meet you for the

first time!) We hope that everyone who lives close will come out to support

Jungle Friends and our artistic monkeys!

 

Donna’s art exhibit in Tallahassee at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art & Science

(www..thebrogan.org) will open March 17. We are so excited about this…the

museum is giving Jungle Friends five walls and it is sure to be a very exciting

exhibit. Kids, if you live in the Tallahassee area, check it out! There will be

lots of fun stuff for kids to do.

 

Please join us on January 29 at the Animal Activists of Alachua meeting at

University of Florida in Gainesville at the Reitz Union, Room 355 from

7:30-8:30pm. (www.animalactivists.org) Kari will be speaking on how to start

and run a successful sanctuary and talk about our Special Volunteer Days. There

will also be a panel discussion afterward with the Jungle Friends carestaff and

interns. Everyone is welcome -- Animal Activists of Alachua are always looking

for new members, so please come and support them!

 

 

 

 

 

Volunteers build a new habitat.

 

 

 

February 7-15 is the first annual Florida Week for the Animals  (www.floridaanimalweek.com)

and Jungle Friends has planned an event to celebrate! We will be holding a

Special Volunteer Day from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm on Saturday, February 14 with

Veg4Life

(www.veg4lifegainesville.com) providing a vegan feast after the work day.  We

are asking volunteers to sign up in advance so we can plan appropriately -- space

is limited! Please email info

if you would like to attend.

 

 

 

 

 

Tessa receives a kiss from her new

best friend, Mario. See it on video. ‘Brown

Capuchin Romance.’

 

 

The National Geographic Wild Chronicles episode featuring Jungle Friends aired

this week on PBS. If you missed it, you can watch the video on our Monkeys in the Media

(www.junglefriends.org/mediamenu.shtml) page! It will be up on the website

Wednesday night. It’s one of the best TV segments yet, so don’t

miss it. It chronicles Tessa,

a brown capuchin (www.junglefriends.org/monk_tessa.shtml), from her days as a

‘pet’ monkey with severe diabetes to her new Jungle Friends life,

weaned off insulin and her diabetes stabilized. It also examines some of the

reasons ‘pet’ monkeys may have a much more difficult life than

those born in the wild as nature intended.

 

 

 

 

Happy New Year,

Shauna

 

Please forward this to everyone you know!

 

Shauna Canty

Executive Assistant

shauna

www.junglefriends.org

 

The Jungle Friend monkeys are Going Nuts!  

 

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary

13915 North State Road 121

Gainesville, FL 32653

(386) 462-7779 Executive Director

(386) 418-0808 Main Office

(386) 418-0988 Volunteer Center

(386) 418-0106 Caregiver's Quarters

(386) 418-0070 On-Site clinic

(386) 418-0808 Fax

 

"Each

one of us matters, has a role to play and makes a difference. Each one of us

must take responsibility for our own lives, and above all, show respect and

love for all living things around us, especially each other. Together we must

reestablish our connections with the natural world and with the Spiritual Power

that is around us. And then we can move, triumphantly, joyously, into the final

stage of human evolution--spiritual evolution.”  --Dr.

Jane Goodall

 

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