The European Association of Zoos and Aquariums (EAZA), which was born after the European Endangered Species Programme, celebrates its 30th anniversary this month, and, in this sense, 925 specialists from almost all over the world come to the Algarve, for, as the support and coordination of the Zoomarine, to join in its 30th annual congress.
The works will take place at the congress center of the NAU Salgados Palace Hotel, between September 27th and October 1st, and will have participants and international experts from 70 to 80 countries, from more than 400 entities, distributed by different and complementary areas such as Rehabilitation , Reproduction and Genetics, Veterinary Medicine, Nature Conservation, Natural Sciences, Environmental Education, zoological management, legislation, regulatory bodies, et cetera.
The 29th will also be marked by the official visit to Zoomarine, in which congressmen will have the opportunity to visit the backstage of the park, meet national experts, study conservation, science and education projects and glimpse many of the specimens that are involved in the special programs of reproduction of EAZA – the EEP and the ESB.
To celebrate the fact that it is the first time that the EAZA annual congress takes place in Portugal, also on the 29th of September the congressmen will participate in an action to return a rehabilitated bird, in a joint action between Zoomarine and RIAS (Centro de Recovery and Investigation of Wild Animals, from Olhão), the entity that was elected as the recipient of the amount collected during the Silent Auction, which will take place that same night.
Finally, on that day, delegates will be able to witness the planting of a rare Oak-de-Monchique, a species of tree critically endangered in Portugal (it is estimated that there are less than 300 specimens), thus formally starting the Botanical Garden. Zoomarine – an added and sustained step in the Nature Conservation mission of the oceanographic educational entertainment park founded in 1991.
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