Remembering Great Apes is the third book in the Remembering Wildlife series and by covering gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos and orangutans, is our most ambitious yet. Once again many of the world’s top wildlife photographers, from Tim Laman to Brent Stirton, Art Wolfe to Frans Lanting, have already answered our call to donate images and the book will feature more than 70 stunning photographs.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Fundraising update and new Kickstarter beginning tomorrow!
about 5 years ago
– Thu, Mar 04, 2021 at 11:52:09 PM
Hello everyone, it has been a while since we’ve communicated with our supporters here on our progress since Remembering Great Apes was published, so we wanted to send you a quick update to say that the series has now raised over $1 MILLION USD for conservation projects to date! I know many of you are serial supporters (THANK YOU) so sorry if you see this message from me multiple times today but I wanted to let all past supporters know this news, thank you for all your previous support and also to let you know that we have a new Kickstarter for the 6th book in the series starting tomorrow.
Over the course of the past five years we've managed to translate every £1 someone like you supported us with on Kickstarter, into an eventual donation worth £1.30. We've supported 49 projects in 23 countries . You can read more about many of them and other previous donations on our website here which we will be updating again soon, as the current page has become too full! We've also put a video together here about the story of the series over the past five years, which you might enjoy watching.
The 6th book in the Remembering Wildlife series will be on African Wild Dogs. The wild dog is one of the world’s most endangered mammals but also far less known than other species that we’ve featured in the series so far, such as cheetah and lions. They face just as many threats however, from habitat loss to disease and of course conflict with humans. We believe they deserve their story to be told just as much as the other animals we’ve highlighted so far but as ever, we need help to get their book made. We are therefore be launching a Kickstarter campaign to fund this year's book tomorrow (Friday 5th March) at around 9am UK time. If you’d like to sign up for an alert once we go live, click here.
Remembering African Wild Dogs, cover image by Neil Aldridge
As with all of our previous books, this project is only made possible by the generous donation of images for the book by over 70 of the world's best wildlife photographers, working together under the banner of 'Wildlife Photographers United'. Contributors this year include Marsel van Oosten, Jonathan and Angela Scott, Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting, Greg du Toit, Charlie Hamilton James and many more.
Rewards will be as wonderful and as tempting as in previous years, from safaris to camera gear, bespoke jewellery to original artworks...and of course the books themselves. We hope many of you will want to add this to your collection of our books, because of course, none of us want to just remember them in picture books.
With gratitude,
Margot Raggett (founder) & the Remembering Wildlife team "Team Wildlife"
One week until the Remembering Cheetahs Kickstarter goes live!
about 6 years ago
– Sat, Mar 07, 2020 at 02:02:57 AM
REMEMBERING CHEETAHS KICKSTARTER LAUNCHES ONE WEEK TODAY!
Remembering Cheetahs, cover image by Donal Boyd
For everyone who supported Remembering Great Apes, you might be interested to know the next campaign, for what will be the 5th book in the Remembering Wildlife series, Remembering Cheetahs, will go live next Friday 13th March, 2020 at 9am London time. As in previous years, as well as the books themselves, we'll have plenty of goodies from jewellery to prints, camera gear to safaris, up for grabs, so be sure to make a note to check back then! And in the meantime, we can confirm that our latest fundraising total from the series now stands at £615,000 / $800,000 USD, all thanks to the support you showed us on Kickstarter!
THANK YOU!!!!
Remembering Lions Kickstarter is now live!
about 7 years ago
– Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 01:44:23 PM
We're thrilled to report that the Kickstarter for Remembering Lions went live at 9am today and is already close to raising £50,000 in less than three hours. A totally overwhelming response for which we are immeasurably grateful!
Please click here to pledge for your copy and help us raise vital funds for lion conservation!
Remembering Lions Kickstarter now Friday 22nd Feb 09.00GMT
about 7 years ago
– Fri, Feb 15, 2019 at 01:58:05 AM
URGENT UPDATE - REVISED DATE FOR KICKSTARTER NOW 22ND FEB
We are deeply frustrated to say that our Kickstarter for Remembering Lions has had to be moved back one week and will now start at 09.00 GMT on Friday 22nd February instead of today. We have been ready for days but unfortunately Kickstarter are "experiencing a surge in demand" for campaigns and are unable to cope with the number of approvals currently! They therefore cannot guarantee approval until early next week and rather than mess everyone around with uncertainty, we've decided to move it back exactly one week to ensure the same thing doesn't happen again. To everyone logging on today in anticipation of supporting us we thank you, you can only imagine how frustrating this has been for us trying to deal with Kickstarter customer service to no avail 😔. Please please do come back next week and help us bounce back from this set back to make Remembering Lions our biggest book yet, we cannot do it without you 🙏
Remembering Lions Kickstarter goes live on Friday!
about 7 years ago
– Wed, Feb 13, 2019 at 01:41:54 PM
Remembering Lions Kickstarter goes live on Friday!
Following our last update on January 1st that the next book in the Remembering Wildlife series will be Remembering Lions, we are excited to let you know that the kickstarter for that will go live this Friday (15th February) at 09.00 GMT. We'll post a link to that here once it is live. Once again we'll have limited edition jewellery, books, prints, safaris all on offer on a first come, first served basis, so if you want to grab some bargains before they are all snapped up, best make sure you arrive as close to 09.00 GMT as you can!
Remembering Lions cover, image by Federico Veronesi
Since announcing that lions would be the subject of the next book, we've been overwhelmed by the interest shown from photographers wanting to contribute their work which is amazing. We'll release an initial list of contributors on Friday's Kickstarter (including Marsel van Oosten, Art Wolfe, Frans Lanting and Steve Winter) but there will be more names to come. There is also a competition for further places which will run during April.
Lastly, here's a reminder of why we are pursuing this series and why we hope so much that you will choose to support us again. We use Kickstarter to give us the funds raised here to make the books, hire the exhibition space, print an exhibition and everything else associated with launching the new book. Once launched in October 100% of all profits are then donated to conservation projects supporting the species featured in each book. To date across the first three books we've now been able to donate £460,000/$600,000 USD including the following donations from the past six months.
In addition we have £60,000 sitting in Born Free's bank account ready for distribution to great ape projects we've now agreed with them, including £26,000 to Orangutan Foundation UK - Program Indonesia - all of which Born Free will distribute in their new financial year (after April).
That's over £160,000/$205,000 USD so far this year thanks to the amazing generosity of our Kickstarter supporters, contributing photographers and to all of the volunteers, helpers, everyone who bought a book, print or safari, anyone who donated items such as paintings, jewellery, safari/lodge/camp stays. And that's on top of another £300,000 we've distributed since our first book published in September 2016.
Truly it has been and is on-going a massive team effort, so thank you to EVERYONE who has supported us so far and we hope you will choose to continue this amazing journey with us! Together, we are making a difference.
