How to get on an elephant … and other useful tips One – Have a very cooperative elephant to raise her leg Two – Place your right hand over her ear Three – Hoist yourself up and pretend you’re getting on a very massive horse! Elephants are simply amazing creatures, gentle giants who are also intelligent and [...]

Over the years, as editor of Adore Animals Magazine I’ve published a number of stories on elephants (some are now on this site). For me, they’ve always held a particular attraction, so for month of June, I’m heading overseas to hang with the elephants in Laos and Thailand.  This is a personal trip – no official Foundation business – although I [...]

Kids go mad for her, so if Bindi Irwin’s new series of books sell like the Harry Potter series, then kids will be spruiking animals and their welfare as they did wizards and their magic. (And wouldn’t that be magic!) Without having read the first book of the series, released today (June 1)  or without the opinion (to [...]

It’s official! The Adore Animals Foundation is now a registered charity in Australia. While we’ve always been a non-profit organisation, we also are now a recognised charity. We are wrapped with this endorsement – a recognition that all our volunteered work is paying off. And while as yet, we still don’t have Tax Deductibility status (there’s [...]

A friend just told me about a conversation she overheard – a pregnant woman was saying how she had to ‘get rid of her dog’ because they were having a baby. Unfortunately, this is a situation we’ve heard again and again. This is particularly sad, not only obviously for the dog, but for the baby as well, who [...]

Easter is nearly here and along with it, the tradition of giving chocolate Easter eggs. This year, Darrell Lea has stepped up their campaign to help the Bilby and not only have they funded a website for kids – check it out here – they’re also donating a small percentage of every chocolate Bilby sold to the Save [...]

Following the year anniversary of Black Saturday, the Adore Animals Foundation has identified four potential projects in the bushfire area we are committed to supporting. Funds from the book have already gone to Animal Aid to help with hands-on bushfire animal recovery and now we’re working towards finalising these projects, which will all be funded by the sale of our [...]

A few years ago, I was fortunate enough to attend the Chengdu Panda Research Centre in Sichuan, China. In fact, I went every day while in Chengdu, so fascinating were these Giant Pandas and their distant relatives the Red Panda, who are also at the centre. From the Giant Panda’s methodical stripping of leaves – one panda stripped [...]

Hope from the Kinglake Fires The Kinglake fires were just one of several Black Saturday bushfires on February 7, 2009. The Kinglake region was one of the worst hit, not just in human loss, but also from the destruction of hundreds and thousands of hectares of animal habitat. The fate of several endangered and vulnerable [...]

Animals never cease to amaze me. And one of the finest examples is the Bumblebee. Their systems of hive organisation and individual rank and role seem highly evolved for such a small creature. Add in the facts that bees can fly at speeds of more than 45 kilometres an hour, carry 90 per cent of [...]