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THE HERITAGE OF FALCONRY TRUST
PRESS RELEASE
Release date: 14 July 2004 For Immediate Use Falconry Community launches Heritage TrustAt a meeting of prominent falconers at Avebury on June 10th, a new charitable Trust was formed to safeguard valuable cultural artefacts and documents from falconry, and its role in conservation. There will also be an internet resource accessible all over the world. Roger Upton, a falconer and historian, said ‘Falconry has an incredibly rich and diverse place in our culture, as it does for many other nations. With the increasing popularity of the sport it is essential to make this available to future generations.’ The Trust is now being registered as a charity by Mrs Jemima Parry-Jones, MBE, and will not be affiliated to any existing organisations. Start-up funding of £1000 has already been raised and a Board of Trustees is being appointed. The Trust aims to preserve physical artefacts, records, artwork and photographs relating to the heritage of falconry, and its contributions to raptor biology, captive breeding, and conservation. It will provide information, in electronic form as a web-based archive, cataloguing the falconry artefacts and records both in the collection and also items still in private ownership. This will be an information resource available world-wide.
It also plans to establish a physical archive at a suitable location providing public access to the material.
It is hoped that funding will come from individual sponsorship and legacies, and grants from both the UK and the EU, and from sales of use of images available on the website. The Trust will have full links with the North American Archives so that the electronic catalogue would eventually become a global resource for falconry. Other countries could also participate by cataloguing their own material in the central electronic catalogue, via a central regulator.
The public launch of the Trust will be at the Falconers’ Fair in May 2005. Contact: Dr Nick Fox Tel/fax: 01267 233864 Email
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