Kristin Bauer van Straten (Pamela Sywnford de Beaufort) is kicking her personal mission to both help stop ivory poaching and raise awareness for the issue into high gear! Today via her Facebook page, the actress announced that she will be speaking at an event this coming Saturday June 23rd hosted by International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW).
The event entitled A Celebration of Elephants will feature completion of an elephant themed mural and a speech by Kristin who is also on the host committee for the event along with Joely Fisher, Amber Valletta, Perry Reeves, and Melora Hardin.
Set to take place in Los Angeles, the event will be held at Nola’s from 3-5PM in collaboration with Kent Twitchell, The Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles, ART SHARE and LADAD Space.
June 23,2012
Nola’s
734 East 3rd Street
Los Angeles, CA
3-5PM
In addition to the event, Kristin has begun shooting a documentary with IFAW that concerns ivory poaching as of yesterday. The actress has stated in several recent interviews that she plans to take the a film crew to Africa later this year. We asked Kristin in our own interview earlier this year about an issue that was important to her and it was:
“Elephants. We are working with IFAW as Ivory poaching is on a massive upsurge due to the Chinese demand. It is heart breaking for me and for Abri’s family. We intend to go there on hiatus and see if we can bring much needed attention to the solutions, before it’s too late. 100 elephants are losing their lives every day for …nothing.”
To learn more about elephants and ivory poaching, please attend this Saturday’s event or visit IFAW’s website.
Sources: Facebook.com- “Saturday’s Info”
Facebook.com-”Off to Film…”
Image Credit: Angela Weiss, Getty Images
