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"Why do we join the Aurora
Rotary?
We join for we know
that collectively we can make a difference.
Like minded individuals joining together to serve society.
Paul Harris |
Birthdays: Earl
Biederman May 28, 2007
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Moebius Nature Center
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Noah’s
Lost Ark Exotic Animal Sanctuary
Patricia and
Ron Chapman, volunteers at Noah’s Lost Ark Exotic Animal
Sanctuary spoke to the Rotary Club of Aurora. They volunteer at
Noah’s Lost Ark in Berlin Center, Ohio.
Noah’s Lost
Ark has become a home to over 130 exotic animals, including
lions, tigers, Ligers, Cougars, Leopards, Wolves, Bears, Zebras,
Camels and many more strange and exotic wonders.
Unlike a zoo,
a sanctuary is a place that provides a permanent, safe home to
unwanted and abused animals. They have a no-kill facility - no
breeding or selling of any animals. They provide an environment
of comfort and peace for the rescued animals.
Through tours of their facility
offered to school children, groups and the general public,
thousands of people are educated each year about the plight of
exotic animals, along with the broader issues of animal
endangerment and extinction. Noah’s Lost Ark offers people the
chance to see and interact with some of the most amazing animals
that inhabit the earth. Innocent exotic animals born into
captivity are being killed each year because people abandon
them, and they have no where else to go or anyone that can care
for them..
The following
stories will give you an idea of how these animals are rescued:
NAKITA - Siberian Tigress
This is Nakita
- up for auction on the internet for anyone with $1.00!!!!
We had just
gotten back from Kentucky with Sheba and had a message from a
very distraught woman in a neighboring town. There was a tiger
on Ebay starting at a $1.00!!! She called Ebay and they
immediately removed the auction as it is against their policy to
sell live animals. The people gave many reasons why they no
longer wanted her. Insurance, no time, was actually their son's
tiger. The founders drove over 17 hours to rescue her. She was
crammed into a filthy, manure laden 10 x 10 pen up to her neck
in manure and very thin. 17 hours back, stopping only to water
and to feed her, we promised her a peaceful life. A life where
her belly would be full and an enclosure she could run and play
in. A life to make up for the years endured in filth and hunger.
TRACIE - Tiger
A female Tigress
approximately 2 years old was in a poorly run down breeding
facility. Abandoned, sickly and starving. Tracie had been
declawed earlier in her life and it was a "botched job" to boot.
Part of her claw was left in and re-grew in two different places
actually forcing its way out of her skin in two separate areas
of her upper leg.
JAX - Bengal Tiger
Jax was
"disposable" at the age of 3 months! Used as a photo-cat, many
people lined up to have their photos taken with a baby tiger,
never giving any thought to his life after that. Posing with
people for money, he had out-lived his "usefulness" by the age
of 3 months. The alternative for many of these cats as there are
not many places for them to go is death. Placed at Noah's, he
now resides in a spacious enclosure with all of his toys.
For
information on tours or how to sponsor an animal:
www.noahslostark.org
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