Save the nauga!

[petros]

Since the 50's harvesting of the nauga has taken it's toll on the Botswanan nauga which are now limited to a small area of the Chobe National Park.

The naugahydes are used mainly for tacky restaraunt booths, chairs, purses, wallets, clothing and automobile interiors.

Whether arriving by air or road, the first glimpse of the river – deep and dazzling in the sandy terrain – is always breathtaking. It appears as a swathe of brilliant, peacock blue ribbon, winding its way through the tiny town of Kasane, and ensuing wilderness – the Chobe National Park.

Undoubtedly one of Africa’s most beautiful rivers, the Chobe supports a diversity and concentration of wildlife unparalled anywhere else in the country and is home to the last few wild naugas.

With your help we can save the nauga through conservation and habitat preservation.

Please send contributions (cash only) to:

Save the Nauga,
POB 97 STN MAIN
Regina Saskatchewan
S4P-2Z5



A CanCon original by Pete

The ultra rare purple nauga...

 

[Spade]

The nauga can hide, but it prefers to hole up.

 

[Locutus]

It ain't twisting the tongue the same so I care not.


Red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather, red leather, yellow leather.

 

[SLM]

It ain't twisting the tongue the same so I care not.

Sometimes twisting the tongue helps.

Just, as the saying goes, saying.

 

[petros]

Donate today to prevent Google from being evil and harming the nauga like they did that poor donkey.

 

[petros]

bump

 

[Spade]

Changing the subject...
Whatever happened to the oilcloth tablecloth? Covering up the tar sands?

 

[petros]

Are you going to sign up for Nauga Walk?

 

[relic]

Yeah, I really miss good ol' durable, versatile oilcloth, and kerosene lamps, and phones you had to crank...........sigh

 

[Goober]

How many of these endangered little critters went into low expense furniture.
Shameful I say.

 

[Spade]

Where I lived on the Prairies, we often called kerosene lamps, coal-oil lamps. Loved the light; loved the moths and spiders, loved the logs and mud chinking, loved the cream separator, loved the churn, loved winnowing cranberries, chucking bison skulls, and lying in prairie wool! Hated the roosters! Those were the days!

 

[SLM]

How many of these endangered little critters went into low expense furniture.
Shameful I say.

I like the vase. What? Oh, yeah, shame about the nauga.

 

[Spade]

The nauga represented crass capitalism, the unenduring, and the retreat from the real, the natural, the authentic.

 

[Dexter Sinister]

Yeah, I really miss good ol' durable, versatile oilcloth, and kerosene lamps, and phones you had to crank...........sigh

You chose your screen name wisely.

 

[taxslave]

Where I lived on the Prairies, we often called kerosene lamps, coal-oil lamps. Loved the light; loved the moths and spiders, loved the logs and mud chinking, loved the cream separator, loved the churn, loved winnowing cranberries, chucking bison skulls, and lying in prairie wool! Hated the roosters! Those were the days!

No prairie oysters?

 

[Goober]

The nauga represented crass capitalism, the unenduring, and the retreat from the real, the natural, the authentic.

Nothing like real leather.

 

[SLM]

Nothing like real leather.

Easy on the wallet, although they make lousy wallets. Ironic. Lol.

 

[Goober]

Well we are walking them into extinction.

 

[shadowshiv]

Sometimes twisting the tongue helps.

Just, as the saying goes, saying.

You're quite fond of tongue twisters, aren't you?

 

[SLM]

You're quite fond of tongue twisters, aren't you?

What red blooded woman isn't?????