€5,000 raised at Cheetah Run 2025 at Fota Wildlife Park to go to Red Panda Network.
Eagle Athletic Club donated a cheque for €5,000 to Fota Wildlife Park from the annual Cheetah Run, which raises funds yearly for Fota Wildlife Park, a conservation charity organisation.
Pictured: Karen Bevan and Ruairi Egan, Eagle Athletic Club Race Directors with Aileen Tennant (centre) Director of Fota Wildlife Park
Aileen Tennant, Director of Fota Wildlife Park, said “We’re absolutely thrilled and humbled by the great fundraising done by the Eagle AC committee, race organisers and supporters year after year to deliver on this fantastic community event. We would like to say a huge thank you to all involved. We’re delighted to announce that the €5,000 raised this year will be donated directly to the Red Panda Network. The Red Panda Network works closely with local communities in safeguarding this endangered species and its forest habitat in Nepal.”
Monies raised and donated to Fota Wildlife Park by Eagle AC from Cheetah Runs in previous years have been used to support the Park’s conservation programmes projects, such as the natterjack toad and the corncrake and last year the funds raised went directly to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation.
Fota Wildlife Park is a non-profit organisation that reinvests any surpluses into capital projects and infrastructural and customer experience improvements, such as flood defences, building state-of-the-art habitats for its animals and all-weather viewing areas for visitors.
Fota Wildlife Park also financially supports and donates vital resources to conservation projects in Ireland and abroad such as the Breeding Waders EIP Project for the dunlin and curlew, and further afield, the Madagascan Pochard Project and the Sumatran tiger conservation in Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra– to name a few.
