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A new breed of animal at the Virginia Zoo has an amazing story to tell. It begins along the shores of Africa where the animals start out as flip-flops.Save on Christian Louboutin Pump! All the Sales, All in One Place.

A Kenyan company called Ocean Sole got creative and started a unique recycling effort that involves recovering flip-flops that wash up along the beaches and cause a disaster for the ecosystem.

"About 400 people work the waterways and beaches to collect the items, and, then, there's about 100 artisans that actually carve and create the animals," said Greg Bockheim, Executive Director at Virginia Zoo.

The flip-flops get cleaned, cut, and compressed, and then shaped into colorful animals. What was a hazard for sea life now creates jobs and sustainability.Find a great selection of christian louboutin boots deals ! Click on any of the links below.

"It's absolutely a remarkable conservation, water preservation, wildlife cleanup effort," Bockheim told 13News Now.

He discovered the company while he was traveling in Africa and decided to order the animals for the gift shop at the zoo.There are numerous diversified high heels at christian louboutin shoes for sale. Proceeds will help fund the new animal wellness campus.

"It's an amazing new site that will open in the zoo next spring, but it was a $4-million-dollar construction project," Bockheim explained. "We're in the tail end raising just like the last 5% of that 4 million dollars."

Bockheim added people at the zoo have talked with Ocean Sole about a project that would involve people in Hampton Roads bringing their flip-flops to the zoo. Staff members would mail the shoes to the studio where a marquee animal for the zoo could be created then used for further fundraising.

Three words young Orange resident Will Parish used to describe his experience walking 96 kilometres along the Kokoda Track in Papua New Guinea earlier this month.

Mr Parish said the Kokoda Track, the scene of one of Australia’s poignant World War II memories, was an eye-opening experience and one he rated among his best achievements.

“The whole experience was very rewarding. I was amazed to see what the soldiers had to carry along the trail. We carried 15 kilograms on a backpack and it was exhausting - I could only imagine how difficult it would have been for them,” he said.

“I’m very glad I got the opportunity to experience it. It’s right up there as one of my best accomplishments and it’s something I’ll never forget.”

The opportunity to participate in the Kokoda walk came about after he was encouraged to participate as part of the Duke of Edinburgh Award, a program which identifies the state’s young leaders.

Award organisers recognised Mr Parish for his leadership qualities and asked him to be a mentor for 20 young indigenous people who took on the track as part of the Halo Foundation.

“They [Duke of Edinburgh organisers] were impressed with my leadership skills and asked me to participate as a mentor for the Halo Foundation, which gives disadvantaged indigenous kids the chance to turn their life around,” he said.

When asked to pinpoint a highlight of the walk, Mr Parish said that was difficult because each day was better than the next.

“Each day threw up a lot of different challenges on the walk. They were all different,” he said.Shop cheap christian louboutin shoes,pumps,wedding shoes,sandals with low price in our discount christian louboutin sandals Store online.

“But the thing that gave me the most satisfaction was seeing all the local kids in the small villages. The smiles on their faces when you said hello and gave them gifts, it really touched us all.”

It took Mr Parish and his team more than nine days to complete the 96 kilometre single-file foot thoroughfare trek. And just to prove how hard it was, five people from his team dropped out after the first day.

“I had been training really hard for the past year preparing me for the walk but it was even harder than I expected,” he said.

“Every time you looked up there was another hill, followed by another hill. It really was difficult, but thanks to my personal trainer Del Byron I was well prepared and got there in the end.”

Mr Parish said he enjoyed the experience so much, he’d love to do it again one day. Until then, he said he’d treasure the memories and lifelong friends made during the experience. All kinds of replica designer handbags in our online store sells at Wholesale price, welcome to buy top quality replica handbags in our online store!!!


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