1. In March 2017, Rodriguez launched a crowdfunding campaign with a U.S. based company called GoFundMe, to attempt to help the animals in Indonesia, including but not limited to the Sun Bears at Bandung Zoo, who had been reported by several international news outlets, as being starved by the zoo owners.
2. April 2017, CEE4Life, an Australia based non‐profit, contacted Rodriguez and requested the money Rodriguez had raised. CEE4Life claimed to be working in partnership with the Bandung Zoo in Indonesia. Rodriguez offered to meet with CEE4Life, once in arrived in Indonesia.
3. During initial conversations, Sybelle Foxcroft of CEE4Life vehemently defended the zoo claiming that the animals were loved and cared for.
4. Rodriguez discovered the Foxcroft began contacting her GoFundMe donors through social media and asking them to pull their support.
5. Sybelle Foxcroft of CEE4Life and various CEE4Life volunteers, began commenting on Rodriguez's fundraising campaign and Poh's petition, stating that it was based on lies. Despite this, CEE4Life still wanted the funds Rodriguez had raised.
6. After the unprofessional actions by CEE4Life, Rodriguez was no longer interested in working with CEE4Life and sought to offer assistance directly to the zoo, outside of CEE4Life's involvement.
7. Rodriguez made arrangements, with the assistance of an Indonesia‐based NGO, to meet with the Minister of the Environment in Bandung to ask permission to assist the animals at Bandung Zoo.
