CELEBRATE
THE
WORLD HIROLA DAY
12TH AUGUST
HOW CAN I HELP?
2019 World Hirola Day
Celebrate with us.
In collaboration with local and international partners, we initiated the world’s first Hirola Day to be marked on the 12th of August every year. This date coincides with the world’s elephant’s day in an effort to connect the two species and also with the translocation of hirola into the predator proof sanctuary in 2012. HCP has agreed to sponsor this event annually in collaboration with local conservation groups.
Adopt-An-Acre
Help improve habitat for hirola.
You can be part of our habitat restoration project by restoring an acre for hirola antelope. A recent analysis of historical satellite imagery across the hirola’s native range revealed that there was a nearly 300% increase in tree cover in the last 27 years. The increase in tree cover poses one of the greatest threats to survival of hirola through food limitation and predation risk. The Hirola Conservation Programme has initiated long-term rangelands restoration project in an effort to counter this threat.
With every acre you adopt, your donation will be used in the manual removal of trees, buying of native grass seedlings and fertilizer and reseeding of the acre. To restore an acre costs $50 USD and with each donation, you will receive a personalized deed with your name or you can make the donation in someone else’s name. You can adopt-an-acre here.
Change Your Facebook Cover
Use any of our photos.
You can support our noble cause by swapping your facebook and twitter profile pics with any of the hirola pics below.
Share A Photo
Create awareness.
You can share your favourite hirola pics using the hashtag #WorldHirolaDay every year from the 1st of August. We will then select the best and post it using our facebook and twitter accounts acknowledging the source. You can tag us on this posts. Our twitter account is @hirola_program and facebook account is Hirola Conservation Program.
Donate
How to help?
The Hirola conservation programme relies on public support to keep its operations running. Help us realize our vision of documenting the struggles of the world's most endangered antelope. The Hirola conservation programme is a non-profit organization, so your contribution will be tax deductible to the fullest extent allowable by U.S. law and Kenyan laws. One hundred percent of your donation will support hirola conservation directly because we do not charge a fee or deduct any administrative expenses. Please donate and save the hirola antelope from extinction through here.
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#WorldHirolaDay
We established and celebrated the world's first hirola day on 12th Aug 2015. This date coincides with the world's elephant day in an effort to connect the two species. On 12th August 2018, we held the 4th anniversary of this annual event in Garissa County, Kenya where our team in partnership with the local communities made this event a success!
About Hirola
Hirola is arguably the world's most endangered antelope with a current population of 300-500 individuals. A combination of habitat degradation, competition with livestock, and disease are responsible for historic declines with degradation and predation combining to suppress contemporary populations. Their extinction would mark the first loss of an entire mammalian genus since the Tasmanian tiger's global disappearance in 1936.
