It's Intenrational Dogs Day on 26 Auugst  (which originally started as National Dog Day in the USA) and the idea is to raise awareness of the need to rescue dogs from rescue shelters and give them a home.  

As someone said recently and I can't remember who it was, buy a dog from a breeder and that leaves one in rescue kennels still waiting for a home.  

So it's a good opportunity to tell you that Emma Bridewater has dog related gifts, including a bags, an extra large caddy, mugs and an insulated bottle,   

Dogs Inuslated Bottle for £25.00

Dogs Extra Large Rectangular Caddy for £12.00
Store your dog's biscuits in it!  Woof woof!

Take a look at the other gifts for dogs (and cats) here - there are large and small personalised pet bowls with a couple of different designs (polka dots, pink hearts or blue starts or wallflowers) so you could put your dog's name on one! 

Dig for more information at Emma Bridgewater

 
£25.00 from Emma Bridgewater

This insulated bottle would make a great gift for dog lovers.

They make great gifts all round the year, in winter and in summer!  They are eco-friendly flasks and reusable water bottles.  There are other themes, too, with pink heart, vegetable garden strawberries, the black toast theme, buttercup scattered insolated bottles, polka dogs and starry skies, so lots of different bottles to choose from.

Head off to Emma Bridgewater and take a look.

The 22 June is World Camel Day, and as such, a really good chance to raise awareness of work being done to save the critically endangered wild camel and how you can help.

And if you're looking for a gift for the camel lover in your life, please take a look at the Wild Camel Protection Foundation.

They are doing all they can to help preserve and protect the wild camel (Camelus  ferus) and its habitat in the Gobi and Gashun Gobi deserts in north-west China and south-west Mongolia.  These area is home to a fragile and unique desert ecosystem.

There are a number of ways you can help:

Simply donate to the breeding programme.

Buy a camel gift from their online shop

Sponsor a camel or donate to winter feeding costs 

Become a member

This charity (based in Kent) is really striving to ensure that wild camels survive so please help them in whatever way you can, including spreading the word.

Visit their website here

Tusk 2020 1/2 Pint Mug

Those lovely folk at Emma Bridgewater are marking Tusk’s 30^th Anniversary.  They’ve designed a special mug, with cheetahs, rhinos and lemurs – just some of the species that Tusk helps project.

Emma Bridgewater will donate £5 to Tusk for every mug sold 

And for every mug sold, Emma Bridgewater will donate £5 to help support Tusk’s work across Africa.

About Tusk

Tusk was established back in 1990 as a response to the poaching crisis of the previous decade.  This crisis pushed black rhino to the brink of extinction, whilst 100,000 elephants were killed each year.

The charity has become a very effective force in African wildlife conservation – it is known for its targeted intervention.  Tusk understands that the interests of people AND wildlife are, in its words “inextricably inter-twined”.  Both must be served if achievements are to last.

Today, Tusk gives greater protection for over 40 threatened species. Many of these are flagship species which Tusk promotes to help secure the landscapes in which they are living.  Protect the flagship species, and you benefit other wildlife too.  And local communities can benefit from their presence.

Tusk focuses on three things:

Habitat Protection: Its projects provide vital protection for over 10 million acres of land

Human-Wildlife Co-existence – people and wildlife need to be able to live together

Environment Education – to bring about long term change

To do this, Tusk partners with the leading and emergency conservaitonists in Africa.  In so doing, it does the following:

• It protects endangered species
• It reduces human-wildlife conflict
• It finds sustainable solutions to preserve critical habitats
• It combats the global demand for illegal wildlife products.

Through education and community support, it is shaping a future where the people of Africa can reconnect with nature and understand its value;  then they will protect it for future generations.

Lose yourself in their projects to find out more.  Lions, lemurs, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos, bongos, Grevy’s Zebra, sea turtles, painted dogs, okapi, chimpanzees, gorillas, and vultures are all some of the animals that Tusk projects are working to help – but of course, if you can help one species you help many more, especially if you are working to save habitat where hundreds of thousands of animals live.