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Endangered Species arrive in good shape

Spoon-billed Sandpipers are incredibly endangered and this shipment came in from Russia where they had been in quarantine to come to the UK as part of a captive breeding program for the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust.

We're always proud to help endangered species into the country and these birds are very very rare. They came arrived in their own specially made crate and were treated as VIPs as they came to Heathrow, were vet checked and then we cleared them through customs so that they could continue their journey to the WWT's headquarters at Slimbridge.

Links:
Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust article: http://www.wwt.org.uk/news/all-news/2011/11/news/from-russia-with-love-spoon-billed-sandpipers-arrive-in-the-uk/
BBC news article:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15692417
Further BBC article:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3271733.stm
The Spoon-billed Sandpiper project:
http://sbsproject.wordpress.com/

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Love films? Love dogs? You'll love this, especially if you could go to the preview!!!

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Hi everybody - the hit Australian film Red Dog is in cinemas 24th Feb but we?re able to offer Battersea supporters a chance to win tickets to see the film early at a preview of one of the year's most anticipated doggy films...

The preview will take place this Monday, the 20th of February, at Vue West End Cinema, 3 Cranbourn Street, Leicester Square, London WC2H 7AL. You'll need to be able to arrive at 6pm for a 6:30 showing. We have five pairs of tickets to give away

To enter, just email your name and contact telephone number to stephen.leach@organic-marketing.co.uk with the subject line as Battersea Red Dog.

Closing date is midnight on Sunday 19th February and winners will be notifiedby lunchtime on Monday.

Find out all the terms and conditions at http://www.battersea.org.uk/about_us/whats_new/win_an_exclusive.html where you can also see a trailer of the movie...

Good luck and paws crossed...

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