Sharon Feinstein

I’ve never done a campaign before and now I realise how much blood sweat and tears it involves. Contrary to my sunny optimism, the money is not exactly flowing in. It’s barely trickling. It’s currently a mere fraction of what we need to send James Bond to the paradise isle of Tobago and acquire the footage of what’s going on there, in all its brutality.
So who out there wants to change the course of this campaign and save leatherback turtles ? If so, it involves the small issue of donations, the bigger the better. Most welcome would be an animal-friendly, wealthy celebrity who would be honoured with all the accompanying publicity, and who could go to bed at night knowing the future of leatherback turtles was more secure than before. Isn’t that something worth doing ?
You can now download posters of the turtle campaign from my website if you go to the fourth page on the turtle site. You could put the posters in a prominent place and reach out to colleagues. Still banging on today, I like Macca’s Meat Free Monday idea and think we should all support, ditch the meat, and fish for that matter, in favour of his preferred meal of chargrilled asparagus and lemon tart – sounds tasty enough for me. If we can reduce the greenhouse gas emissions from the world’s livestock even a little, let’s all try.
Livestock emissions, shockingly enough, are far more serious contributors to global warming than transport. Belching from cows emits vast amounts of methane, which has 21 times the greenhouse effect of carbon dioxide. And huge areas of the Amazon rainforest are being cut down to make way for cattle ranches and grow soy for feed. Time for us to stop just thinking of ourselves and our own little world every day and do something concrete – turtles, Meat Free Mondays, no blue fin tuna, or any tuna for that matter. You can do it. Let’s all try