The TCU Rhino Run - a great family event!

[Randy Wyman]

On Tuesday, January 5, 2016 3:11 PM, Katherine Fogelberg <kfoge...@gmail.com> wrote:

Can you distribute to ranch view gang, please?  Thanks!

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From: "Fogelberg, Katherine" <Katherine...@unthsc.edu>
Date: January 5, 2016 at 1:49:58 PM CST
To: "kfoge...@gmail.com" <kfoge...@gmail.com>
Subject: Fwd: The TCU Rhino Run - a great family event!

 

THE TCU RHINO RUN

March 20^th, 2016

 

The Institute for Environmental Studies (IES) and the College of Science & Engineering (CSE) are pleased to announce the first TCU Rhino Run, a 5K run/walk along with a kids 1K run/walk on Sunday, March 20^th at 8:30 a.m. The race starts and ends in Frog Alley in front of the Amon G. Carter Stadium, and will be professionally timed by Domore Racing out of Austin, Texas. Category winners will receive unique, hand-made medals from South Africa and all kids will get a Rhino Force bracelet!

 

To register, please go to either:

 

http://www.rhino.tcu.edu/rhinorun.html

https://runsignup.com/Race/TX/FortWorth/TheTCURhinoRun

 

Registration is $25 for the first 40 registrants and $30 after that ($35 on race day).

 

The Rhino Run is one of the institute’s major fund-raising events and we would be honored to have you participate. As many of you know, TCU has teamed up with Dr. Will Fowlds, renowned South African wildlife veterinarian and rhino conservationist, to help save the rhino and ensure its long-term survival. We are helping on several fronts, from organizing reduction demand campaigns and raising public awareness, to supporting protection and rescue initiatives on the ground, where poached rhinos can be rehabilitated and eventually function again in wild habitats.

 

The rhinoceros is one of the most charismatic megafauna we have left in the wild. Once abundant throughout Africa and Asia, rhinos are now being poached to the brink of extinction. The crisis is most prevalent in South Africa, home to over 80% of all rhinos worldwide. The killing spree began in 2008 and is now a major crisis. In 2014 alone, a staggering 1,215 rhinos were killed by poachers, a rate of over three per day. Conservationists estimate that if mortality rates continue they will exceed net population growth rates by 2016. Simply put, this means rhinos could go extinct in the very near future.

 

Thank you for your support in helping TCU play an important role in the conservation of this important species.

 

 

 

 

Dr. Mike Slattery

Professor, School of Geology, Energy, and the Environment

Director: Institute for Environmental Studies

PO Box 298830

Texas Christian University

Fort Worth, TX 76129

Email: m.sla...@tcu.edu

www.environment.tcu.edu

Tel: 817.257.7506

Fax: 817.257.7789