CROCLIST: Indian Gharial

[Henry Astley]

--- Colin Stevenson <coleosuchus at hotmail.com> wrote:
 
> Also, we will have a CafePress site, so we are
> hoping you all buy yourselves and any reptile fans
> you know some gharial stuff for Christmas! ;) It's
> the only place you will be able to buy genuine
> gharial t-shirts etc, and every penny we make will
> go to gharial conservation. We will be keeping the
> prices as low as possible. 
> Once the website is up and running, I'll let you
> know, and please please please have a look and help
> us start raising some funds for the gharial. 
> And of course remember that the Tomistoma Task Force
> is still going strong. To date, the TTF has been a
> very successful unit, resulting in surveys,
> research, as well as helping zoos with captive
> animals. The TTF website (www.tomistoma.org) has
> lots of info including survey reports etc on
> Tomistoma, as well as the TTF fund raising shop.So
> for Christmas this year, you will have the choice of
> Chinese alligator, Tomistoma, and gharial
> merchandise on CafePress! Caps, mugs, t
> shirts....sounds ideal to me!

Actually, I just stumbled across the resurrected
website of a fantastic nature / paleobiology artist,
Carl Buell, which includes an excellent picture of a
Gharial and a Tomistoma side-by-side.

Main site: http://olduvaigeorge.com/
Gavial pic:
http://static.flickr.com/36/93871183_28e3835b7e_o.jpg

Perhaps you could ask him about using this pic on
shirts and such items to raise funds for these
species?  Hell, even if you paid him a small royalty
on each shirt/mug/whatever, the excellent artwork
would probably boost sales enough to make it a net
gain.

Henry


 
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