Ring a Bell for Biodiversity
2010 is International Year of Biodiversity. We will be ringing bells across the world on 22nd May, International Day of Biodiversity, to wake up the world to the extinction crisis. All 193 countries to have ratified the Convention on Biological Diversity (part of the UN) have been asked to join in the ringing of bells.
BE PART OF THIS POTENT GLOBAL SYMBOL AND JOIN US ON 22ND MAY
You are invited to make a pledge to ring your bell by finding us on Facebook. Alternatively, email us your pledge at info at memoproject.org.
You can ring any bell, large or small, and if you can’t get to a bell then shake a pebble in a saucepan!
Record your bell-ring, together with a few brief words about its purpose and your location, and upload it onto our YouTube channel.
But don’t just make a noise. Help us to build an extraordinary international monument to extinct species, and to develop a wide-ranging conservation programme that will engage school children across the world. Donate today to help MEMO become a reality.
Meanwhile we will be making a start on carving the roach stone mould of the big bell at Royal Manor School on Portland on the 22nd May. This will be cast in the same casing as Great Paul at St. Paul’s, and will have a 10 foot diameter.
Hear U.N. General Secretary Ban Ki Moon’s call to the world here.
