The EAZA Annual Congress is the main meeting place for professionals in the zoo world. Over five days, there are multiple sessions, some more general and some more specific. They share experiences and knowledge and plan and develop joint initiatives that affect our work for the rest of the year. At these conferences, the focus is on the development of
56 years ago, a courageous, enthusiastic, and visionary woman, Dian Fossey, founded the Karisoke Research Centre in Rwanda, where she lived with gorillas for nearly 20 years. In her honour, September 24 is commemorated as World Gorilla Day with the aim of continuing her legacy of raising awareness of the importance of protecting and promoting the conservation of gorillas. Fossey
With their flamboyant beaks, colourful plumage, shrill calls and unusual behaviour, hornbills are one of the most charismatic groups of birds in the tropics. But their peculiarities have not prevented most of these species from being threatened with extinction. Among them is the smallest hornbill in the Philippines: the Visayan hornbill, also known as the Philippine tarictic hornbill. This species
In the early eighties, the jungles of Indonesia were home to more than 300,000 orangutans. Nowadays, the destruction and degradation of their natural habitat has meant that this figure does not exceed 130,000. A number that includes the three species of this primate that inhabit the planet: Borneon, Sumatran and Tapanuli. Every year, International Orangutan Day is celebrated on August