EAZA News 57-12 - European Association of Zoos and Aquaria

eaza news 57
2007
06
photo nick garbutt
eaza madagascar campaign
Remember to register!
Painting and drawing for Madagascar
Roger Graf, Zürich Zoo, Switzerland
With the Madagascar Campaign launch in Madrid still in mind (October 2006), several
EAZA members have already started organising their campaign activities. Examples
of these activities can be found on the following pages, as well as on the ‘Campaign’
section of the EAZA website. Please also forward your institution’s stories and pictures
on the campaign to the EAZA Executive Office (martijn.los@eaza.net).
EAZA would like to thank the 70 EAZA member institutions that have already registered for campaign participation. Please
remember to register for the campaign as soon as possible if your institution is also planning to participate. Registration
details can be found in the Madagascar Campaign Info Pack. A registration form can also be downloaded from the EAZA
website member area. Please join the campaign and help conserve Madagascar; ‘Arovako i Madagasikara’!
photo samuel furrer/zürich zoo
Do you need other images?
Hopefully you are enjoying and making full use of
the images provided on the CD-ROM accompanying
the Campaign Info Pack. However, the campaign core
group supports any wishes for a specific image or
group of images that has not been supplied already.
For example, the core group is currently sourcing
reef images of Madagascar as requested by aquarium
colleagues. If you need a particular image to create
exciting graphics for the campaign in your institution,
please contact Roger Graf (roger.graf@zoo.ch) or
Lesley Dickie (lesley.dickie@zsl.org) and they will
try to find them for you!
As part of the EAZA Madagascar Campaign 2006/7, your institution can participate in a painting and drawing activity. Ask school children and
other groups of visitors to paint or draw Malagasy animals and plants. If present, Malagasy animals or plants within your institution can serve as
models. By participating in this activity, you are offering your visitors an enjoyable event and at the same time hopefully contribute to making the
Malagasy people proud of their nature and motivate them to protect their environment.
All paintings and drawings collected will be distributed to school children in Madagascar with the help of 49 Malagasy radio stations. These radio
stations will report on the EAZA Madagascar Campaign and invite local people to draw pictures in return. A Swiss company has donated 2,400
boxes of crayons for them to use. Their drawings will be brought to the radio stations until September 2007, from where they will be sent to
Europe and subsequently distributed to the participating institutions to exhibit them.
The paintings and drawings should be made on paper and should not be bigger than A3. The finished artworks should be bundled together for
sending and labelled with the address of the school or group sending them and the age of the participants. Special format postcards to add to the
bundles of drawings have been prepared, with text in English, German, Dutch, French, Spanish and Italian. These can be printed from the EAZA
Education DVD which was distributed to the EAZA membership in November 2006.