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Topic: Announcing the Grand Bonobo Petition-athon!!!!!

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George C.	Announcing the Grand Bonobo Petition-athon!!!!! June 30, 2006 5:00 PM NEW - The Grand Bonobo PETITION-ATHON!!!!!! Up to 80 Bonobos are killed every week and there's only a few thousand left! It is critical that the plight of the Bonobo is drawn to the attention of the wider public and we believe our petition, back with media targetting can achieve this. For the week commencing 1st of July 2006 we are asking all group members wo sign the Save Bonobo petition. We aim to get our petition to 10,000 as quickly as possible. Pan Paniscus Management Team are also going to pull their weight and we have each agreed send our 1,000 Friends of Friends requests via Network Messaging, we find a polite note to be highly effective. Please take this call to action seriously! We cannot wait until Bonobo are down to hundreds until the alert is finaly heard. Here is a sample request: Please help me save Pigmy Apes Dear friend, There is an animal catasrophe happening in the Congo thanks to man's greed for precious metals and ores. It is looking very likely that Bonobo Apes (pigmy chimpanzees) will be extinct within just a few years (95% population drop in two decades) I am a member of Pan Pansicus, a group set up to raise awareness of the plight of the Bonobo Apes in the hope that urgent action can be taken. Please may I ask you to sign our petition: http://www.savebonobo.org/container.asp?content=actions And also to recommend it to your friends. This is a very important and urgent petition. Thank you very much See our website for more details, http://www.savebonobo.org [ send green star]
George C.	June 30, 2006 5:02 PM Current signatures 1138 [ send green star]
Friedhelm B.	June 30, 2006 11:54 PM Done already!!! Nr.754 Have a nice weekend George! your friend Friedhelm (peacekeeper) [ send green star] [ accepted]
Sam E.	July 01, 2006 2:43 AM Signed on May 3rd [ send green star] [ accepted]
George C.	July 01, 2006 2:57 AM And Sent to 100 Friends of Friends? That is the action call, and everyone needs to do it if we are to stand a chance at success. [ send green star]
Ruth S.	July 01, 2006 4:07 AM What can we still make? Dear George.... The German armed forces are soon in Congo. She should protect the elections. They should protect rather the chimpanzees. This would be a sensibly task. Greetings Morris [ send green star] [ accepted]
Ruth S.	July 01, 2006 4:43 AM I forgot.... I signed the petition on 5th May [ send green star] [ accepted]
George C.	July 01, 2006 4:53 AM Any idea how many German troops are going in? [ send green star]
Ruth S.	Saturday 1. July July 01, 2006 5:17 AM At the beginning of July the application starts. More than 500 soldiers fly off on the 10th July. An Ahead troop is on site. All together 1500 soldiers are used. 780 from Germany, the other from France. [ send green star] [ accepted]
George C.	July 01, 2006 5:27 AM 1500 soldiers for a country of 40million, 70% of which has been described as the "worlds worst" humantarian disaster - a warzone. These troops can verify that the elections were unfair, or they can give the impression that they were fair, what they cannot do is enforce fairness onto elections that would otherwise be unfair. [ send green star]
Ruth S.	July 01, 2006 5:43 AM The troops are meant only for the application in the capital of Kinshasa. All other would best of all fine too dangerously. What I find as very doubtful, is the fact that from Congo and other African countries meat of monkeys gets to Europe. Especially to England. For the Africans living there. The EU is not to be stopped in the position this. [ send green star] [ accepted]
Eva L.	July 01, 2006 6:53 AM You signed this petition at: 8:21 PM PDT, May 3, 2006 [ send green star] [ accepted]
Linda A.	July 01, 2006 7:13 AM I signed and i will forward it [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 01, 2006 7:38 AM I signed! Thank you, George for bringing this very alarming situation to my attention. Love, Kathy [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Eleanor B.	Forwarded again, George! July 01, 2006 8:46 AM I forwarded very happily for the second time. Hopefully, my new friends will sign and some others who may have missed it first time round. I forgot to ask them to forward but I could do that next week! Good luck with this for these wee souls' sake!!! [ send green star] [ accepted]
Sandy K.	Saturday Current signatures when checked ... 1145 July 01, 2006 9:18 AM Hi George and everyone here! I signed on May 6, 2006. I forwarded a personal message to all that I know and for them to send on to all that they know. When I last checked on Saturday there were 1145 signatures. The petition is in dire need of support in order to have an impact. I hope the efforts help! The Bonobo are beautiful creatures. I hope they can be saved. to all who have signed and forwarded the petition to everyone possible to spread the word!!! [ send green star] [ accepted]
Paola Z.	July 01, 2006 11:27 AM DONE and i will pass to my friends too! thank you George for the alert !! 1168 [ send green star]
Yvette T.	July 01, 2006 11:48 AM I signed on May 3rd. I will pass this along to all my friends and family! [ send green star] [ accepted]
Muriel T.	July 01, 2006 11:50 AM I've already signed. Now sent to all my friends! Muriel [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 01, 2006 2:54 PM Thank you, Tara!You signed this petition at: 2:49 PM PDT, May 3, 2006 If this is not you, please log out. *A Photition™ is a petition which can be signed with an attached photograph. and sent to 220 people inside and outside of care2 and asked them to forward, one friend through care 2 passed it onto 832 people so im shocked to see so little signatures on the list. Good work to all those that have and are now signing and passing on remember to put links of petition all over what you have to with a quick message. Lets stand together as one and make this work, lots of people have put so much work into this group and those darling animals need our help and fast.GOOD LUCK ugs Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Ya Takoy X.	July 01, 2006 3:07 PM I sent it to all of my friends. [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 02, 2006 12:11 PM Thank you, Mustang!You signed this petition at: 10:15 AM PDT, May 3, 2006 [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
Gypsy W.	July 02, 2006 5:36 PM Thank you, gypsy! You signed this petition at: 7:51 PM PDT, May 19, 2006i also sent this petition out; can't believe there are only +/-1300 signatures...i am reposting... [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 02, 2006 5:44 PM HAPPY TO HAVE SIGNED''.KEEP THE BONOBO ALIVE''. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 03, 2006 1:50 AM Thanks to all, its great to see the signatures picking up again on the petition. I aim to ask around 500 FoF today, lets see how that impacts the signatures. George [ send green star]
George C.	July 03, 2006 2:29 AM Thats the first 100 done. [ send green star]
anonymous	July 03, 2006 2:39 AM Signed on May, 4. Thanks! [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	Thanks Rui July 03, 2006 3:43 AM Thanks Rui [ send green star]
George C.	July 03, 2006 3:44 AM I've now sent 200 FoF requests - petitionnow at 1328. [ send green star]
George C.	July 03, 2006 5:49 AM I've now sent 300 FoF requests. [ send green star]
Jessie C.	FRIENDS OF FRIENDS July 03, 2006 5:15 PM George - today I sent to 370 FOF - i have had only 3 respond to me personally so I hope that more than that sign!! I had already sent to all friends but will try again a bit later. Sometimes it works when it comes at people in different waves. [ send green star] [ accepted]
Jessie C.	July 03, 2006 5:22 PM Went to check and actually recognised quite a few names - I was doing the 'Bs' today - don't ask me why I just decided to start fof from B - maybe because the last time I did A and never got to the end [ send green star] [ accepted]
George C.	July 04, 2006 3:04 AM I'm ruinning behind schedule - now done 400 FoF. Jesse, I've given up sending them out in blocks of ten as this way you end up clicking for ages. I now send them individually via this page: http://www.care2.com/c2c/my/friends.html?view=all_fof&page=1 I reckon this is overall more efficient, still a pain though. [ send green star]
anonymous	July 04, 2006 3:36 AM Yes i agree George its a pain but if it works then its well worth it right? wd everyone its good to see the numbers growing, take care and stay safe.hugs Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 04, 2006 3:45 AM Back on target - now done 500 FoF's [ send green star]
George C.	July 04, 2006 5:03 AM Now done 600 FoF. Petition has just hit 1,400 signatures. [ send green star]
George C.	July 05, 2006 2:05 AM Now done 700. [ send green star]
George C.	July 05, 2006 5:04 AM Now done 800. Also sent it to a number of Yahoo groups. [ send green star]
Ursel K.	July 05, 2006 9:13 AM You signed this petition at: 10:56 AM PDT, May 10, 2006 [ send green star] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 05, 2006 5:53 PM Petition signed and message forwarded to my Care2 list and that on Yahoo, MSN and AOL. Here's hoping for much success! [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 06, 2006 6:44 AM Thanks everyone. I've now sent out 1,000 FoF requests. Petiiton is at 1489. [ send green star]
anonymous	July 06, 2006 7:12 AM Wow George good work, and is that amount in total with the two petitions or just the new one that got done ? Have a good weekend, im away for the weekend so see you on monday hugs Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 06, 2006 7:29 AM The total number for both is 1561. [ send green star]
anonymous	I JUST DONT GET IT July 06, 2006 9:00 AM Thanks for responding George, but i dont get it why arent people signing ? i mean all these e-mails petitions we have been forwarding to our friends and fof its not many is it to say we need 10,000 at least , well i hope it picks up again and people wake up and smell the coffee, it really annoys me i mean its two seconds of someone's time. Well all we can do it try and say we give it our all.Hugs Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 06, 2006 9:13 AM Hi Tara, This is a very new campaign and its one that few people have heard of, many do not even know of the Bonobo's existence and I suspect many delete petitions on subjects they don't recognise. This is why our efforts are so important. Asking people to sign petitions is all part of spreading the word, even if this time it does not result in the huge response we know the issue deserves, every one extra person that signs is likely to look into the matter further and tell their friends about it. It is also the reason why it is critical far us to push extremely hard to widen the overall level of knowledge about the issue. We are obviously doing that with our press releases (some press coverage expected soon) but there's a lot group members could do - posting news of the issue as shares, adding links to savebonobo.org on any website they can (including groups that have links sections) all add to the overall level of awareness. The new press article I mentioned will have a quote from a very significant great apes campaigner, she says she expects the Bonobo to be one of the first apes to go extinct! I also think we need more people to take an active role in Pan Paniscus management this is much than yet another online group to join, sign the petition then forget about it - we are to a great extent the vanguard for the movement to protect the Bonobo, we MUST build up critical mass for this campaign and that can come from real effort by individuals. The world has shirked its responsibility to the Bonobo for too long, we must change that and we have precious little time. [ send green star]
anonymous	July 06, 2006 9:24 AM Yes i appreicate that, and of course know how important it is, i have done al that i can now except for sending them all out again for the third time, as soon as there is something i can do i will jump right on it of course, like i have with all the other things i have done. Now lets go kick some butts. Hugs Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 06, 2006 9:37 AM Thank you, Catherine!You signed this petition at: 10:05 AM PDT, May 5, 2006 If this is not you, please log out. A Photition™ is a petition which can be signed with an attached photograph. ************************************** Hi George, I agree with Tara I having Post & Crossing post! As I stated to you if I can do more just say the word!!!Iam on it!!!as My FriendTara " kicks some Butts" Sincerly, Catherine K. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
anonymous	July 06, 2006 9:51 AM Sweetie, lol, sorry you made me laugh there,Thanks for the posting, and making my day. hugs always your friend Tara. [report anonymous abuse] [ accepted]
George C.	July 06, 2006 10:42 AM Thanks folks, I guess all we can do is keep plugging at it. [ send green star]
Adriana G.	July 06, 2006 10:53 AM 1500 signatures!! [ send green star] [ accepted]
Mohammed H.	July 06, 2006 3:37 PM signed and passed Thank you, Mohammed!You signed this petition at: 3:47 PM PDT, Jun 8, 2006 If this is not you, please log out. [ send green star] [ accepted]
Candy L.	July 08, 2006 8:32 AM I signed June 2nd. [ send green star] [ accepted]