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With your support, Remembering Leopards will be a beautiful coffee table book, full of images donated by many of the world’s top wildlife photographers, and will be published on Monday 9th October 2023.
The book will be 180 pages this year (up from 160 last year and 144 in previous years) and cover all nine sub-species of leopard plus snow leopards and clouded leopards too. It will feature stunning images from more then 80 of the world’s finest wildlife photographers including Frans Lanting, Art Wolfe, Greg du Toit, Marsel van Oosten and Jonathan & Angela Scott. This year the RRP when the book goes on sale will be £49.50 (our first price increase in eight years) but we are holding our Kickstarter prices of £40 for one book or 3 for £100 again.
This will hopefully be the eighth book in the Remembering Wildlife series which was created by British wildlife photographer Margot Raggett after she was moved to take action upon seeing a poached elephant in Kenya. We are seeking funding via Kickstarter to make the production of the book possible.
Margot’s mission is once again, through images donated by many of the world’s top wildlife photographers, to raise awareness of the threats facing a species and then through sales of the books, raise funds to protect them. Her first seven books, Remembering Elephants, Remembering Rhinos, Remembering Great Apes, Remembering Lions , Remembering Cheetahs, Remembering African Wild Dogs and Remembering Bears were all funded through Kickstarter campaigns (Elephants, Rhinos, Apes, Lions, Cheetahs, African Wild Dogs, Bears) and were highly acclaimed, with more than 35,000 copies now having been sold globally. All monies raised via Kickstarter are used to fund the production and printing of the books, as well as, if enough is raised, to pay for launch events and exhibitions.
Please note that no money raised on Kickstarter will be donated to charity but once the books are eventually launched, all profits from the sale of those books at that stage are then donated to projects protecting the featured species. The series has now, so far, raised more than £1m GBP / $1.3 million USD between them for conservation using this model and that is all thanks to Kickstarter! Read more about some of the 63 projects we’ve supported in 27 countries here and watch a short video about our first five years here.
We have been overwhelmed by the support our simple idea for these books has had. Ask the best wildlife photographers to donate their most beautiful work on a species, make and sell books to raise awareness and funds and create a collectible series – it really seems to have struck a cord with animal lovers, photographers and conservationists everywhere. And not only that, but it has also caught the imagination of presidents and celebrities across the world, who have also shown us incredible support across the Remembering Wildlife series.
As of April 17th, this project has raised $188,000 of their $24,845 goal. This project has 13 days left to raise as much as it can. For a pledge of $50, you will get one book. For a pledge of $125, you will get three books. To learn more and to pledge money, go to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/margotraggett/remembering-leopards?
