Kari Bagnall Live Guest Chat

ARZone is pleased to announce this week’s Live Guest Chat.

Kari Bagnall is founder and director of Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, a non-profit organization offering a safe haven for monkeys in need of permanent sanctuary care.

Kari was working as a Court Appointed Special Advocate for abused and neglected children when a ‘pet’ monkey named Samantha was place in her care in 1993. Soon after Samantha came into Kari’s life, more monkeys followed and Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary was born.

Kari was introduced to a vegetarian lifestyle nearly 40 years ago when she moved into a yoga ashram in Phoenix. Today, vegetarian communal living is a part of the Jungle Friends experience for interns and volunteers from around the world.

Jungle Friends is home to over 100 new-world monkeys. Most were cast off from the exotic pet trade, others were retired from laboratory research and some were confiscated by the authorities.

As part of the sanctuary culture, people are encouraged to adopt a vegan lifestyle, to have compassion for all of the Earth's remarkable inhabitants, and to join in the hope that these individual acts of kindness across species will one day reach the 'critical mass' needed to transform the world.

Kari welcomes this occasion to engage ARZone members on a range of topics, from Jungle Friends, to her philosophies in general.

This is an event for which questions must be submitted to ARZone prior to Midnight GMT, Wednesday 16 February via email to Carolyn@ARZone.net.

ARZone is supportive of education, critical thinking, rational discourse, and aims to provoke intelligent dialogue about issues that most concern members of the animal advocacy movement.

ARZone does not endorse or promote the views of its guests and forum participants, ARZone does endorse and promote creative education efforts.

CHAT TIMES:
2:00pm           Sat 12th          Pacific Time
3:00pm           Sat 12th          Mountain Time
4:00pm           Sat 12th          Central Time
5:00pm           Sat 12th.         Eastern Time
10:00pm         Sat 12th          UK Time
8:00am           Sun 13th         Australian Eastern Standard Time

To find your time for this chat, please use this conversion site, or feel free to ask Carolyn or Jason for help:
http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/converter.html