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 Phyllis Frazier
AFC
Wildlife, Endangered Species, and Conservation |
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| 2009 - Present: Red Fox Print Benefits Endangered Saharan Wildlife. |
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You may be wondering, "Just what does the Red Fox have to do with the Fennec Fox?"
(Other than they are both foxes...)
Well, the answer begins with a bigger question that I ask myself all the time...
"What does wildlife conservation look like?"
More specifically, "What does it look like to make a contribution toward the conservation of wildlife?"
And while I do not claim to have THE answer (there is no limit), I can offer ONE. One answer, with relevance to my life and my own work.
I realized that if I could, through funds raised from my artwork, find something that I could make manifest in tangible form which would help a conservation biologist do their work, then I could, in a small but very real and objectified measure, realize my own goal of seeing that my work had a positive and concrete impact on wildlife conservation.
And so, after much personal research, I aligned my efforts with those of the St. Louis Zoo.
It is through their work with the Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) that conservation biologists are gathering data on little-known Saharan species, like the Fennec Fox, in order to establish a reserve and balanced management plan with local people to protect them.
To support this effort, 10% of the proceeds from sales of my Red Fox print are donated to SCF to purchase camera traps — one of several items needed to gather the necessary data on these desert species.
Proudly, as of the end of 2009, enough funds have been raised from sales of my Red Fox print, that a camera trap has been purchased for SCF, thereby bringing them one step closer to gathering the photographic data they need to accomplish their goal of protecting the Fennec Fox —and other desert species found nowhere else but the Sahara — from possible extinction.
And so we come full circle, to arrive at our answer to learn just what it is that the Red Fox is doing to help his cousin, the Fennec...
For more information about the Fennec Fox and the Sahara Conservation Fund, please visit: http://pfrazier.com/conservation_philosophy.html
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