One of the great privileges of working for SPANA is the truly wonderful countries and places where we work.
Imagine being involved in Petra in Jordan, and becoming familiar, even blasé, with the fabulous sites and structures of the ‘Rose-red city’. We live in a world of hype, where words like ‘fantastic’, ‘incredible’, ‘genius’, ‘unbelievable’ are trotted out daily to describe everything from a bowl of cornflakes to a pop- band that rises like a Phoenix for its fifteen minutes of fame before disappearing forever again.
But surely there can be almost no-one who walks down that stunning 300 foot deep cleft in the mountain, and sees the sunlit Treasury building – ( a hundred million tourist photos of it) , fill the zig-zag slit ahead.- and not have their breath taken away.
But we are here because of the animals.
We hope that with education and a bit of energy and enthusiasm, we might be able to change the attitudes of the local people.
Monday, 17 May 2010
The 'Red Rose City'
One of the great privileges of working for SPANA is the truly wonderful countries and places where we work.
Wednesday, 5 May 2010
Emergency
‘Cancer’ is a word that still strikes fear into us humans – even though there have been huge advances in surgical and medicinal treatments. It’s encouraging to know that this is also true in the veterinary world.
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