Speaking to MTM Jim said, “I have a team of 10 people who need meals, over - night hospitality, and two hired vehicles that need your support. Please pledge through www.mtmnawards.co.uk Ivory Belongs Merchandising also available: T-Shirts / Polo Shirts / Safari Jackets / Wrist bands / Tea Mugs Plus an Ivory Belongs to Elephants Documentary DVD that gives an insight of Jim’s previous 12 walks, his inspiration and the way forward. To Elephants All available on www.mtmawards.co.uk This is also a way to support Jim’s efforts in walking for elephants. Please visit for sponsorship, updates & route: www.mtmawards.co.uk Also please visit Jim Nyamu Honorary Warden & 2016 Eco- Warrior Awards Holder: www.elephantcenter.org Join Jim at The MTM Evening on Decmeber 17th at The Bristol Marriott, City Centre. Tickets to the Glittering Gala Evening are available on this site and on +447807802325/+1454800128 The Great London to Bristol Ivory Belongs To Elephants Walk 2017 THE ELEPHANTS IVORY BELONGS TO ELEPHANTS Our most iconic African species are being pushed towards extinction – killed by poachers to supply an illegal trade worth up to 15 billion pounds a year – On the front line of this war are Africa’s elephants slaughtered for MTM AWARDS CHOSEN PROJECT 2017 their Ivory – despite a ban on the international ivory trade the killing is only getting worse – 30,000 are shot We help create awareness of various projects and charities. every year and if that continues they could be gone from the wild within 25 years – we might lose these wise & At the inaugural MTM Awards in 2012, our chosen charity was ‘Help for heroes’. emotionally intelligent animals. In 2016 we opted to go International and supported Ivory Belongs To Elephants in Nairobi Kenya and Al-Muqtadir Association of Mombasa County Kenya. We intend to create awareness of the plight of the Elephants through the awards campaign and accord a Our project for 2017 is Ivory Belongs To Elephants, a project headed by Jim Justus Nyamu a renowned platform to one of the many campaigners of the cause to join the South West community at the awards to seek conservationist in Africa. awareness of the senseless killings of elephants in Africa and continued trading of Ivory despite a worldwide ban. WHO IS JIM JUSTUS NYAMU We have invited Jim Justus Nyamu founder and Director of Elephant Neighbors Center, www.elephantcenter.org Jim Nyamu is the founder and the Executive Director for Elephant Neighbors Center. ENC is a local NGO that to join MTM at the Glittering Gala Evening to further highlight the fast disappearance of elephants in the wild focuses on enhancing the capacity of communities living with wildlife to promote inter- linkages between due to poaching and a continuous market for ivory in Europe and other western states. He will speak on the species and their habitats. Kenya’s Elephant man and his team completed the latest edition of 617 km from Ivory trade and its effects on the dwindling Elephant population. Nairobi to Marsabit Walk for Elephants on May 9th, 2017. THE GREAT LONDON TO BRISTOL IVORY BELONGS TO ELEPHANT WALK 2017 The Nairobi-Marsabit Walk which took slightly over a month to complete after kicking off on April 8th, 2017 WALKING TO SAVE ELEPHANTS traversed across nine Kenya counties(google to understand locations & inhabitants) including Nairobi, Kiambu, #StepWithJim in the United Kingdom Murang’a, Nyeri, Laikipia, Meru, Isiolo, Samburu and ended in Marsabit. Jim and his team overcame all the odds The Great London Elephants Walk this December 2017 in the UK starts from Kensington London to Council to create awareness on the plight of the African Elephant completing a total of 10,457km since he started House College Green Bristol. walking for elephants in 2013. “We have so much to do before the walk start that includes planning, fundraising, media interviews. I, however, ask for the support that includes networks in the UK to highlight this plight”. The walk will take 11 days with overnight stopovers. Jim’s route for this Great Walk begins in the Borough Please join and support Jim and his team for the Great London to Bristol Ivory Belongs To Elephants Walk this of Chelsea & Kensington London on Sunday 3rd December with overnight stopovers in Windsor, Reading, December by sponsoring the walk and walking with Jim & the Ivory team at different stops. During the walk Jim Newbury, Swindon, Cirencester, Cheltenham, Gloucester, Stroud, Chippenham, Bath, Yate, through Bradley Stoke will make stops at various towns and village centres where he will address people on the importance of wildlife onto Gloucester Road to finish at Council House College Green Bristol city centre on Monday 12th December. conservation and environment. This walk is a continuation of Ivory Belongs To Elephants campaign that started in 2013; Jim has now walked Follow Ivory Belongs To Elephants Walk on the official Facebook page The Great London to Bristol Ivory Belongs 10,457km in the USA and across East Africa (Kenya- Tanzania- Uganda) and plans to walk 380km in Uganda in To Elephants Walk for regular updates and clips of the awareness walk route in good time to allow well-wishers August/September 2017 (http://elephantcenter.org/who-is-jim-justus-nyamu/. to organize themselves in joining us. This walk aims at raising awareness on the plight of our elephants and collect views from communities in the UK. The rationale behind this walk is to raise awareness of the plight of African elephants. According to the African elephant Elephants database, South Africa region has the highest elephants population as of 2013 at 278,520.This population has declined from the 297, 718 figure of 2007 and expected to drop if poaching is not contained. The recent survey shows that African elephants are declining at an alarming rate and there is a need to create regional, national and International awareness. https://www.iucn.org/news/species/201609/poaching-behind-worst-african-elephant-losses-25-years-–-iucn-report. Based on population estimates and elephant trade information systems from a wide range of sources, shows a population decline from 2008 Namibia, Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe respectfully down listed their elephant population from Appendix I to II and now enjoy trade on ivory and on live elephants. This is one of the reasons why Jim has decided to walk in United States, Europe and Asian countries so as to take this awareness campaign to international communities around the world. The London to Bristol Walk is the second international walk he has undertaken, and this is only the beginning as we hope to partner Jim and carry the message across all countries that still engage in Ivory trade. 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