The WA Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation Inc.

Help Fight Blindness by Purchasing Merchandise

The WA Retinitis Pigmentosa Foundation have a variety of owl badges,  and torches for sale. Profits from the sale of the following items go toward Australian research to find the treatment and eventual cure for retinal blindness. Give two hoots about blindness and make a purchase today.

Snowy White Owl Badge - From the "Harry Potter" movie, "Order Of The Phoenix" comes the Snowy White Owl. Hedwig the magical owl makes a spectacular pet for Harry. Although Hedwig spends much of her time in a bird cage in Harry's room, real owls do not make good pets because they need room to take flight and hunt for their unique food. A male snowy owl like Hedwig would fly for miles to hunt lemmings and capture ducks in midair in its native arctic tundra.

Spactacled Owl Badge - The Spectacled Owl is dark brown with a yellow belly. There is a white patch on the neck and a brown belt across the chest. Their name comes from the big yellow eyes with white specs around them. They have strong beaks and feet. They are the largest of the tropical owls. The female is larger than the male. Spectacled owls can live up to 25 years. It hunts from its perch on a high branch, and then drops swiftly on any prey it has spotted.

Christmas Island Hawk Owl Badge - On Christmas Island Australia, this shy owl can be heard along the golf course road and on the fringes of the Settlement area at night, but takes a little effort to see. About the size of a common pigeon but with a barred breast, it can be found by using a good torch and pursuing its unmistakeable boo-book call. The Christmas Island Hawk-Owl is restricted to Christmas Island, a 135 square kilometre (52 square mile) Australian territory in the Indian Ocean, 360 kilometres (223.6 miles) south of Java.

Sooty Owl Badge - The Sooty Owl occupies a narrow strip on the coast of eastern fall of the Tablelands of New South Wales." (Debus 1994), "Australia - coastal south-east Australia from the Conondale Range in south-east Queensland to eastern Victoria. NE NSW - recorded from the Tweed, Brunswick, richmond, Clarence, Bellinger, Macleay, Hastings, manning and Hunter valleys." (Gilmore and Parnaby 1994).

Keyring LED Torches

These key ring torches emit a strong white light and come in 6 different colours. They are handy to help locate the keyhole at night and good to have one handy near the cupboard or draws when looking for things. A great way to support our cause to fight blindness. They come with long lasting batteries and cost $5 each.

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