Ring a Bell for Biodiversity
2010 is International Year of Biodiversity. On Wednesday 22nd September the General Assembly of the UN will be meeting to discuss global biodiversity loss for the first time ever. On Tuesday 21st September the ringing of the MEMO fossil bell will form part of a reception to be held at Central Park Zoo in anticipation of this meeting. This reception will be hosted by the CBD (Convention on Biological Diversity) and the Wildlife Conservation Society.
We will be ringing bells across the world on 22nd September 2010, to wake up the world to the extinction crisis. All 193 countries to have ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (part of the UN) have been asked to join in the ringing of bells.
BE PART OF THIS POTENT GLOBAL SYMBOL AND JOIN US ON 22ND SEPTEMBER
You are invited to make a pledge to ring your bell by finding us on Facebook. Alternatively, email us your pledge at info at memoproject.org.
You can ring any bell, large or small, and if you can’t get to a bell then shake a pebble in a saucepan!
Record your bell-ring, together with a few brief words about its purpose and your location, and upload it onto our YouTube channel.
But don’t just make a noise. Help us to build an extraordinary international monument to extinct species, and to develop a wide-ranging conservation programme that will engage school children across the world. Donate today to help MEMO become a reality.
Hear U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki Moon’s call to the world here.
