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Madagascar activities at Cologne Zoo
Exhibition
Cologne zoo has a lemur house with three habitats represented: Masoala with red-ruffed lemurs, Ranomafana with bamboo lemurs and Sahamalaza with blue-eyed black lemurs. Together with AEECL Cologne Zoo is already involved in the conservation of the blue-eyed black lemur in Sahamalaza. Therefore we support project 8 'Community based natural resources management in Sahamalaza' also during the EAZA Madagascar Campaign.
In the lemur- or Madagascar-house an exhibition about Madagascar, its extraordinary fauna and flora, its threats and the conservation activities has been created. The panels are presented on baobab silhouettes, the characteristic tree of Madagascar. Satellite panels in the aquarium and at the bird's exhibit complete the Madagascar exhibition.
A group of employers of the car enterprise Ford participates in a 'Corporate Citizenship - Community Involvement' every year. They are released from their work to support a community project for several days. This year the group will build up a 'Madagascar épicerie' that draws attention to the Madagascar exhibition and the every day life at Madagascar.
Madagascar days
Madagascar days are organised on 15 April, 3 June and 15 and 16 September 2007. During Madagascar days several activities are organised. Volunteers run different info stands, e.g. with live Malagasy insects, Malagasy plants, face painting and Malagasy stories and fairy tales. A volunteer has designed a book about a red-ruffed Lemur from Cologne Zoo that leaves to Madagascar. On his journey the lemur tells about life in the zoo, the flight to Madagascar and the new situation in Madagascar. The book is offered for sale and €2 for each book is donated to the campaign.
Furthermore a fair trade company offers products and crafts of Madagascar such as car models made of cans, jewels of zebu horn, vanilla products etc. At Madagascar day on 3 June, a children flea market takes place at the zoo. The charges for the tables are offered to the campaign. A group of pupils from a secondary school near Cologne presents a school partnership with a primary school at Andalamengoke at south Madagascar. They developed solar based car models, radio stations and cooking facilities and transfer hardware and ideas to Madagascar (www.power-to-madagascar.de).
Madagascar ambassadors
Volunteers developed an outreach programme for school classes and kindergarten groups. With a variety of materials and some living insects they are visiting schools and kindergartens and present Madagascar's unique variety of plants and animals it's problems and our possibilities to help.
Boy Scouts go Madagascar
The catholic boy scouts of St. George this year meet in Cologne with the subject 'We save the world!'. About 60 of them are spending two days at Cologne Zoo. The first day they inform themselves about Madagascar. The next day they will run awareness activities; together with zoo volunteers they will provide information at stands in the zoo, but also in Cologne city.
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