Tigers and Cricket - January 2010

21st January 2010

Notes from the 'outfield' - Paul Goldstein writes about the recent Tigers and Cricket trip to India ...

In a month or so it is the Chinese Year of the Tiger (God help them) so this January my India safari is more poignant than normal. On April 25th I am 'running' the London Marathon in a nine feet high Bengal Tiger costume so accompanied by my 'costumier'  I lead seventeen wildlife fans, on board a Jet Airways flight at Heathrow . It's the fifth of my special annual charity departures and one that turns out to be perhaps the most eventful.

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Worth More Alive -  London Marathon 

Sitting in a grey SW12 this morning it is hard to comprehend what a pilgrimage this safari is. Stressful, yes, arduous, oh yes, exhausting, definitely. Worth it, what do you think. It matters and it will start mattering more each day in the lead up the the Marathon on April 25th.  Tigers can survive, not just on breakfast cereal boxes or beer bottles but in parks like Bandhavgarh. It would be easy though for them to follow the plight of the Pandas that live in zoos and ghastly 'holding facilities' in China but not properly in the wild any more. It is tipping point right now ..... don't let it happen.

If you feel strongly about this please visit the attached Just Giving site and donate and then watch out for the idiot running on the 25th April.

Exodus Event  - "Worth More Alive" Bengal Tiger lecture on 22nd April '10 in London

Paul and award winning journalist and author Chris Haslam will be doing a special 'Worth More Alive ' Bengal Tiger lecture together on the 22nd of April, three days before the race, book your place.