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

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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.
Trip to Madagascar in 2007 Many of you have indicated to be interested in visiting the island of Madagascar, to view the amazing wildlife and wild places of the island and to meet its people. The campaign core group and several colleagues are looking into the possibility of organising a trip to Madagascar, tentatively for October 2007. While visiting some of the better known locations on the island, it is hoped to visit at least some of the recipient projects, so one can see how money raised by EAZA member institutions is being used. It is anticipated that the costs for such a trip will be between €4,500 and €5,000 per person. A ‘conservation surcharge’ going directly to the campaign will constitute 10 to 15% of the sum. Provisional figures and other details will be provided in due time. However, before developing these plans any further, EAZA needs to know how many people would be interested in taking a two-week trip to Madagascar. Please contact Lesley Dickie (lesley.dickie@zsl.org) as soon as possible if you are interested. Along mainroad Moramanga and Tamatave photo samuel furrer/zürich zoo Paintings and drawings can be sent via courier or airmail to the radio stations until September 2007. As the Malagasy postal system is not very reliable, two secure distribution channels have been selected to receive the drawings (addresses below). These headquarters will distribute the paintings and drawings to the other regional radio studios. National/governmental radio stations Radio MBS Monsieur Mahery H. Andrianasolo 39, rue Joël Rakotomalala 101 Antananarivo Madagascar For further questions and help, please contact Roger Graf (roger.graf@zoo.ch). eaza madagascar campaign Private radio stations ESSVA Monsieur Jo Monney Mioramasoandro B.P. 371 110 Antsirabe Madagascar This could be the holiday of a lifetime….and, if you are very lucky, your institution will send you! Responsible ecotourism will be an increasing foreign income generator for Madagascar, and will help bolster the protection of the new conservation areas. EAZA therefore would like its members to think about how they can arrange trips to Madagascar for their zoo visitors in 2008, potentially using their own experience in 2007. Trips could be arranged through local tour operators in the zoo’s home country and they could levy the conservation surcharge to further raise funds for the Madagascar Campaign longitudinally. By giving a talk in your zoo in late 2007 using the, no doubt, amazing images taken on the 2007 trip to Madagascar, interest in such a trip can easily be generated. Zoo visitors would thus be able to see where their conservation funds are being spent and their commitment to conservation may be increased. Lowland rainforest at Masoala National Park photo roger graf/zürich zoo photo zürich zoo eaza news 57 2007 07
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