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Colchester raises over UK£20,000 for EAZA Shellshock Campaign
Press release, 30 September 2005Colchester Zoo’s Shellshock Campaign has now officially ended, with fantastic results. The total amount raised was £21,588.87 (+/- €33,000) and 12,355 supporting signatures were collected. In January 2005 Colchester Zoo donated £2,000 (+/- €3,000) of its funds to a turtle conservation project in Sri Lanka after the devastating effects of the boxing day Tsunami. The funds Colchester Zoo has raised for the campaign will help support vital turtle and tortoise conservation projects all over the world.
Colchester Zoo ran a full programme of activities during the last year for the campaign. Through special events, formal and informal education, Colchester Zoo highlighted the plight of turtles and tortoises to many thousands of children and adults both in the zoo and out in the community. The zoo’s education department was recently recognised for its excellent work when it was awarded the Shellshock Award for Education by EAZA (European Association of Zoos and Aquaria).
Colchester Zoo is delighted with the success of the campaign. Over the coming months all the money raised from zoos in Europe will be distributed to 14 priority conservation projects all over the world from Cambodia to Mexico.
Alex Burr, Business Development Director at Colchester Zoo said “We are delighted with the success of this campaign and would like to thank all the visitors who have supported it over the past year; without them it wouldn’t have been possible to make such an important contribution to turtle and tortoise conservation.”
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