March Business Networking Meeting at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, Folkestone, Kent.

February 15, 2010

[ March 10, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Come to Port Lympne Wild Animal Park for this meeting of the Aspinall Business Club in conjunction with Counterpoint Networking and hear the beautiful voice of Anna Stone. An opportunity to do some business networking in the beautiful surroundings of the Port Lympne Mansion, Kent.

Timing: 6-9pm

Food will be supplied.

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Aspinall Business Club Meeting January 2010

January 18, 2010

At this meeting at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park, hosted in conjunction with Counterpoint Networking in Hythe, we had a talk from Phil Ridges one of the leading experts in gorilla husbandry. His talk was very informative, in fact it was so interesting and compelling that he spoke for long enough to miss his [...]

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Halting the ivory trade in Congo

January 3, 2010

TAF initiated a wildlife law enforcement project called ‘PALF’ in Congo a little over a year ago. The project was created in response to a lack of enforcement of national wildlife laws that was providing no real deterrent to stem the trafficking of wildlife. Since the project began, TAF has been implicated in the capture [...]

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Baby Gorilla 1st Birthday Party at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

December 28, 2009

Baby Western Lowland Gorilla Louna celebrated his 1st birthday at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park in Kent today with a specially-made organic cake.

Baby Louna on FouFou’s at Louna’s 1st Birthday Party

It was a double celebration for Louna, his family and the park as the baby gorilla was only recently re-introduced to his family after spending [...]

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Keeper Blog: Visiting the Congo by Amos Courage

December 21, 2009

Amos Courage is Overseas Director for The Aspinall Foundation.
In May I travelled to Congo with a group of visitors that included my mother Sally Aspinall and Chairman of the Aspinall Foundation James Osborne.
We started the trip by seeing the youngest group of five orphan gorillas, who are still being looked after by carers in [...]

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Make a Difference this Christmas – Saving Gorillas PrePay Maestro Card

December 14, 2009

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Reintegration of Howletts Gorillas in Gabon

December 14, 2009

The three gorillas that arrived in Gabon from Howletts in July 2008 are all doing well. Kouki and Oudiki are now completely at home in the forest and even Tiya is climbing and playing. We were worried that she might have been damaged at birth because she was so late in walking, but it seems [...]

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Monkey Meeting Dec 09

December 4, 2009

We had a great networking meeting with Counterpoint Networking this week where our networkers got to feed the De Brazza’s and Colobus monkeys. Most people were very surprised to find that they were actually hand feeding the monkeys in their enclosure – some people thought they’d just be throwing food over the fence!
For a full [...]

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Port Lympne Hootenanny raised £5,500.00 for Scottish Wild Cats

November 9, 2009
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We had a report from one of our members, Gordon Haining M.N.A.T.
Member of the National Association of Toastmasters after the Hootenannie at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park on Saturday 7th November. Gordon kindly donated his time as a Toastmaster to help at the event. Before the report, here is a little bit of [...]

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January Aspinall Business Club at Port Lympne Wild Animal Park

November 9, 2009
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[ January 13, 2010; 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] Come to Port Lympne Wild Animal Park for this meeting. We will have a talk by one of the world’s leading gorilla experts, Phil Ridges on the husbandry of the lowland gorilla followed by a finger buffet where members can network.

Buffet and cash bar.

Investment: £10.00 by pre-booking below or on the door (or £5 for holders [...]

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