WILD CAMEL PROTECTION FOUNDATION Head Office, School Farm, Benenden, Kent, TN17 4EU England Tel: 44 (0) 1580 241132 Email: harecamel@aol.com www.wildcamels.com Hon. Life Patron: Dr. Jane Goodall D.B.E. Patrons: The Marchioness of Bute, Damon de Laszlo, Lulu Lytle, Jane McMorland Hunter of Hafton, Professor David Munro, The Dowager Marchioness of Reading, Lady Grant, Peter Hall, […]
19th June – Camel Day in Warwickshire
Joseph and Rebecca Fossett of Joseph’s Amazing Camels www.jacamels.co.uk have kindly offered to host a camel day in June to raise funds for the wild camel. Their generous support for this now Annual Wild Camel Event is much appreciated. There will be camel racing, camel polo, the ever-popular pig racing and numerous side shows. Please put […]
Illegal Miners Invade Reserve
Recent information just received by the Wild Camel Protection Foundation indicates illegal mining pressures in the Great Gobi Specially Protected Area ‚ÄòA‚Äô in Mongolia, the natural habitat of the critically endangered wild Bactrian camel, are extremely serious and out of control. The wild camel, which acts as an ‚Äòumbrella‚Äô species in this remote and pristine […]
May Newsletter
Trustees and Patrons Jasper Evans, a Founding Trustee of WCPF, was born in Kenya and lived there all his life and at one time kept over 250 Dromedary camels on Ol Maisor his Laikipia ranch in northern Kenya. He was a man of great charm and someone who had a prodigious amount of practical and […]
Startling Wild Camel Genetic News
Dr Pamela Burger and Katja Silbermayr from the Institute of Animal Breeding and Genetics, University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna, Austria have undertaken genetic and DNA research on the wild Bactrian camel This was organised by Dr Chris Walzer, formerly the director of Salzburg Zoo, who is now the Zoo and Wildlife Veterinarian at the Research […]
