Meru National Park and Joy Adamson raised Elsa the Lioness made famous in the best selling book and award winning movie "Born Free". Elsa the Lioness is buried in this park and part of Joy's ashes were scattered on her gravesite. Between the years 2000 and 2005, the Kenya Wildlife Service, helped by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW), restored Meru National Park from near ruin to one of the most promising tourist destinations in Eastern Africa, solving the parks poaching problem. IFAW donated $1.25 million to this major restoration project, and with this money aided in improving the basic infrastructure and
The Joy of Text BBC ultimately received more than 500,000 texts over the course of the evening, breaking a record and becoming the biggest ever mass text exercise. A selection of the received text messages were compiled into an accompanying tie-in book, also titled "The Joy of Text". The book was edited by Doug Young, who had previously edited the compilation book "100 Recipes in No Time At All". "The Joy of Text" was published by Transworld Publishers, and was released on 1 July 2001. The Joy of Text The Joy of Text was a themed night of television programmes centred on text messaging,