Williamstown North students ask RFC to help stop tiger mascot's extinction (HBL)

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Williamstown North students ask Richmond Football Club to help stop tiger mascot’s extinction

Fiona O’Doherty
Hobsons Bay Leader
November 23, 2015


WILLIAMSTOWN North Primary School students are urging Richmond Football Club to consider the fate of its club mascot — the tiger.

The Save the Tiger Fund estimates there are about 3200 tigers left in the wild, down from an estimated 100,000 just a century ago.

The school students recently wrote to the football club urging it to contribute $1 from each of an estimated 50,000 club memberships renewals to the fund, through Melbourne Zoo.

Students are also collecting old mobile phones for donation to the zoo’s program to protect wild gorillas.

Students Ava and Stella have guided the campaign including holding a striped T-shirt day to help raise money for the fund.

“Tigers are such beautiful animals and they need help before there are less numbers in the wild,” said Ava.

Stella said the football club could have an extinct animal as its mascot.

“It would be quite said,” she said.

But club spokeswoman Jamiee Damon said the club was not able to support the school’s initiative due to its commitment to preferred charity partner, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation.

“As much as we would love to, it is impossible to support every community initiative that approaches us,” she said

“The club wishes the students the best of luck with their project.”

She said the club had 51,212 members for 2016.

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/leader/west/williamstown-north-students-ask-richmond-football-club-to-help-stop-tiger-mascots-extinction/news-story/7927eacbfe4589602cce9e0b5d7b62b4

[Stalin]

haha

good luck with that

But club spokeswoman Jamiee Damon said the club was not able to support the school’s initiative due to its commitment to preferred charity partner, The Alannah and Madeline Foundation.

“As much as we would love to, it is impossible to support every community initiative that approaches us,” she said

Ms Henriette Rothschild in fine form 

[Owl]

rather save tigers than humans, no shortage of humans.  Yeah that's right I just said that

[Diocletian]

Glad to have you onboard the nihilism train hooter! 

[Penelope]

as long as we driven by a capitalist system that feeds of growth and therefore population growth that wont happen

[dwaino]

rather save tigers than humans, no shortage of humans.  Yeah that's right I just said that

+1. Animals are awesome.

[yandb]

Just another animal charity industry feeding the fat cats that hang off them tugging at the heartstrings of naïve people.

[Stalin]

Just another animal charity industry feeding the fat cats that hang off them tugging at the heartstrings of naïve people.

those grade five bastard children

[Owl]

LOL

[🏅Dooks]

rather save tigers than humans, no shortage of humans.  Yeah that's right I just said that

+1. Animals are awesome.

-2

I assume you two are prepared to walk the talk and be first two volunteers into the tiger cage?

[Petey]

rather save tigers than humans, no shortage of humans.  Yeah that's right I just said that

+1. Animals are awesome.

-2

I assume you two are prepared to walk the talk and be first two volunteers into the tiger cage?

Don't make threats

[Stalin]

Hopefully Martin says he will kill a tiger

Maybe te club will then support the righteous cause?

It's a life lesson;

[the claw]

rather save tigers than humans, no shortage of humans.  Yeah that's right I just said that

Me too owlski me too.

[Beans]

as long as we driven by a capitalist system that feeds of growth and therefore population growth that wont happen

Yeah the capitalist system thats given us computers and the internet. 

[Stalin]

And made the tigers extinct