The delegate of Environment and Sustainability, Becerra Africa, attended the presentation of the Campaign 'On the Apes', organized by European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA), which joins the Zoobotanical de Jerez. In the present text have also been the director of the Zoo, José María Aguilar, and the vet Luis Flores, who has been for three months in the Republic of the Congo to participate in a program of survival of the apes and their habitats.
The original presentation, in which all those present wore black shirts with the slogan 'For the survival of the apes and their habitat "chimpanzees and masks, took place in the Plaza del Tigre, decorated by students of the Workshop School 'Nature Trail', trainees ephemeral architecture of the Escuela de Artes de Jerez and FSG.
The delegate for the Environment, Africa Becerra, stressed that "the Zoobotanical de Jerez is showing once again his enormous involvement and continuing concern for endangered species, actively collaborating with such campaigns of the EAZA an organization to which we belong and which is home to more than 300 member institutions in 35 countries. "
"Our Zoo witness every day that endorses the goals of education, research and conservation that are common to all members of institutions such as EAZA. It is our duty as administration not only to love and preserve animals and plants, living beings with whom we share this planet, but to actively involve citizens in all actions and activities undertaken to achieve the main objective to preserve and pass a living planet where there are no more endangered species. "
The Campaign seeks to raise awareness of citizens about the dramatic situation facing the great apes and gibbons, threatened by poaching, deforestation and disease. As the vet explained Zoobotanical, Luis Flores, "is not only to preserve these species, but retain their natural habitats as they represent a very important part of the planet's biodiversity and, therefore, our own potential development. "
The campaign, which is taking place in European cities and countries belonging to the EAZA, will last until next September. During the same are to be represented in the book 'Letters From the Mist' Studio Theatre on the figure of Dian Fossey and the representation of a story about life of the small Zoo chimpanzee, 'Lulu', a demonstration through the streets of downtown with the participation of various groups, and Luis Flores conference about his experience in the Rehabilitation Center of Lwiro primates in the Congo.
This campaign not only aims to raise awareness EAZA citizens about this problem but raise funds. In this sense, the Zoobotanical will be sold in a souvenir shop dolls 'Congolinas', whose proceeds will go towards one side to the Primate Rehabilitation Centre and, secondly, for the Disabled Center existing in the Congo and who runs a English nun.
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