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The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation raises funds and campaigns for conservation and animal welfare in the UK and worldwide.

Who are we

Established in 2000 by Wildlife Artist Pollyanna Pickering and her daughter Anna-Louise the Foundation is a small but effective non-profit organisation which campaigns internationally to prevent the exploitation of wildlife and raises funds to support animal welfare and conservation projects worldwide.

What we do:

British Wildlife
The Foundation continues in its original aim to help British wildlife in need, and builds pens and aviaries, provides equipment and medical supplies for sanctuaries and wildlife hospitals throughout the UK. The foundation has paid for the construction of a New hospital unit at the Cedar Wildlife Sanctuary provided construction materials for new pens and purchased mobile aviaries at Secret world wildlife hospital, helped replace pens and cages damaged by vandals at Leicester Wildlife Hospital, provided incubators and runs for hedgehog hospitals and built artificial badger setts and tunnels at a sanctuary in Northumberland to assist in the rehabilitation and re-release of injured and orphaned badger cubs, among many other projects.

International Rescue and Conservation
The Foundation’s scope soon widened to raise funds for the protection and rescue of wildlife worldwide as well as emergency disaster relief. Funds have been raised to help protect Rhinos in Africa, Wolves in Ethiopia, orphaned polar bears in the arctic, and build a tiger orphanage in Nepal. We have helped to fund construction of enclosures at Born Free’s big cat sanctuaries in South Africa and Ethiopia. Equipment has been purchased for project tiger rangers working in India, and many smaller grants have been made to wildlife and environmental projects. Through our exclusive adoption programmes, we support a wild cheetah relocation programme in South Africa, and the care of Giant Pandas in China. The Foundation never forgets the individual animal – we have helped fund the rescue of lions from a Romanian Zoo and their subsequent transfer to the Born Free sanctuary in South Africa. ‘Polly Bear’ is an Asiatic Moonbear previously used in the unspeakably cruel bile bear trade in Vietnam. The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation funded the rescue of Polly Bear, and continues to pay for his care at the Animals Asia sanctuary. The Foundation also works to protect the natural habitat and the environment, supporting selected conservation projects from the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan to the rainforests of Belize.

Education and Campaigning
The Foundation campaigns actively for animal welfare internationally. Petitions and letter writing campaigns have been organised to help improve the welfare of animals in China, India, Canada and the UK. We have provided materials for project tiger rangers in India for their programme of talks in local schools, provided materials for schools in Namibia, Kenya and the Galapagos islands and sponsored students in a school for the children of San Bushmen in Namibia. . The Foundation partnered with the Cheetah Conservation fund to provide an education programme for farmers to help prevent wildlife conflict, and also funded training for nine bear carers at the Animals Asia bear sanctuary at Nanning in China. Pollyanna was pleased to be able to use her high profile in the world of Wildlife Art to speak about conservation issues during her popular talks and lectures and in the media. Anna-Louise continues to give talks about their expeditions, and about the work of the Foundation.

Fundraising

Funds are raised through exhibitions of Pollyanna’s work, an annual prize draw, Anna-Louise’s talks, donations, and one off special events. The Pollyanna Pickering Foundation has donated over £250,000 to conservation and animal welfare projects worldwide.

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How you can help the foundation

Join the Foundation, befriend our beautiful moonbear Polly or make a donation in our secure online Foundation shop

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