2025

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $728 CAD was donated in April of 2026. As always, the donation is directed to the elephant research team.  This year donations will be supporting the development of a set of short online courses that could help reduce risk and improve the outcomes of human wildlife conflict for both people and the wildlife.  Throughout her career, GRI Conservation Behaviour Advisor, Lisa Olivier, has always focused on elephant behaviour, safety and how we interpret what animals are telling us.   In her words, 'many incidents come down to people not understanding behaviour or how to respond safely'.  The courses will pull years of practical, experienced based knowledge into a framework that is approachable, repeatable and adaptable across different teams, landscapes and species.

2024

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $1710.09 CAD was donated in March of 2023. As always, the donation is directed to the elephant research team.  This year the proceeds will used for an entirely different reason because monkeys need love and help too.  In addition to their successful and inspirational elephant orphan project, GRI also has an equally inspiring project helping to rescue, rehabilitate and release primates that required video monitoring equipment, which we were happy to help with.

2023

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $2400 CAD was donated in April, 2024. As always, the donation is directed to the elephant research team.  This year the proceeds consisted of cash donations together with portable hard drives to assist with ongoing monitoring of the orphans at both the release facility and the nursery.

We were pleased to once again have the opportunity to visit the nursery in May, 2024, this time at their newly established location in Lusaka National Park.  As always, we were blown away by the amazing work this team does and the care, love and dedication they put into ensuring these stunning little creatures have a second chance.

2022

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $1710 CAD was donated in March of 2023. As always, the donation is directed to the elephant research team.  This year the proceeds will used for the purchase of new video equipment, which is vital for the ongoing monitoring of the orphans.

2021

A welcome return of the Vancouver Christmas Market, our main source of income, resulted in year more like every year prior to 2020, and as such, we have exceeded previous year's donations by a small amount.

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $1055.53 USD was donated in June of 2022.  This year the donation will be used by the research department to purchase removable camouflage netting that will be part of a visitor impact study that will monitor the impact of visitor density and behaviour on orphan behaviour and boma space use.  

2020

The COVID-19 pandemic led to the absence of  in person markets in 2020 and as a result, had a catastrophic influence on our sales.  We are forever grateful to those who did find us, and thanks to them, managed to at least make a small donation to both organizations we support.

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $135.00 ($102.03USD) was raised and has been donated and will be used towards the purchase of research equipment for the Kafue Release Facility

2019

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $1037.00 was raised and has been donated to the research department of GRI where the donation will go to pay for the export and analysis of dung samples from a translocation study of two young calves, Mkaliva and Kasewe, from the nursury outside Lusaka to the release facility at Kafue National Park.                       

Sea Legacy:$155.00 was raised through 10% of the proceeds from the sale of our Little Ndaba Manzi Seapod Collection.

2018

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $725.00 (donated Feb 13, 2019)  Donations were in the form of a video recording and media storage package for the research department to assist with vital data collection and behavioural observations at the Kafue Release Facility. 

AERU - African Elephant Research Unit:  ZAR1200.00 (120.00 CAD) Donation presented to Matriarch Sally while spending time with the research team on my annual visit in in January, 2019.

2017

GRI Elephant Orphan Project: $716.00 (donated as of Feb, 2018)  Donations will contribute to the purchase of formula for milk dependent orphans.  Donation was made to David Shepard Foundation in UK, at which point it was forwarded onto GRI.

African Elephant Research Unit:  $75.00 (donated on behalf of the grade 2 classes at St. John's School in Vancouver.  Donations contributed directly towards AERU's elephant enrichment program.  

2016

GRI Elephant Orphan Project:  $400.00

Gibson's Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre :  $65.00

The Animal Project:  Donation of 100 scooby wire keychains to an inspirational group of girls at St. John's School, Vancouver who raised $609.50 at a school fundraiser, which they donated to WWF to aid endangered species.