Wingtags fundraising campaign launched

Your Help Is Needed

Dear Colleagues,

Yesterday Environment Minister Robyn Parker launched a Wingtags fundraising campaign to take our research on sulphur-crested cockatoo to the next level.

I ask you to support this campaign by promoting it through your social media networks such as Facebook and Twitter and via email: www.pozible.com/wingtags. I hope this will generate extensive interest and numerous donations that will collectively enable us to reach our fundraising goal.

Over the first 12-months the Wingtags research project has received over 5000 resightings of the 70 cockatoos to reveal their foraging behaviour and distances and inform how they have adapted to ‘city’ life. Over 300 members of the community have reported sightings of tagged cockatoos and over 2000 people are following the project on Facebook (www.facebook.com/CockatooWingtags).

The fundraising campaign will facilitate more community members getting involved in the project, and also enable more advanced tagging methods to be used to complement those techniques currently being used.

The initial fundraising target is $5,000. However the ultimate goal is to raise $30,000. This funding will be used to purchase a new App for reporting sightings of tagged birds and a number of GPS transmitters. Donations will be received via the Foundation and Friends of the Botanic Gardens.

Please visit www.pozible.com/wingtags to find out more about what we hope to achieve and then promote this fundraising drive by posting this Pozible link around your networks via Facebook, Twitter and email.

The campaign will run for 45 days from the 22/4/13.

Thank you in advance for getting involved and helping us learn more about these beautiful birds.

John Martin
Wildlife Officer

Wingtags is a collaborative project: