Events

A Associação de Zoológicos e Aquários do Brasil (AZAB), convida seus associados e outras instituições zoológicas e aquários a promover em duas redes sociais e através de campanhas de Educação Ambiental e Comunicação, seus trabalhos de cooperação econômica ou em conservação de espécies nativas.

The City of Sorocaba held the “Bloco dos Bichos” (Wildlife Carnival Block) on Saturday (March 1st), at the Sorocaba Zoo and Sorocaba Historical Museum, aimed at children aged 3 to 10, to celebrate World Wildlife Day (March 3rd).

With music and fun and educational activities, the Bloco dos Bichos was held by the Secretariat of the Environment, Protection and Animal Welfare (Sema) and the Secretariat of Culture (Secult), and was attended by around 60 children.

The aim was to publicize the date, encourage participation in cultural activities and draw people's attention to the need to conserve wild animals, leading them to reflect on their relationship with nature and the environment in which they live.

Children participated in a workshop on making carnival masks, themed around endangered Brazilian wild animals, such as the maned wolf, the jaguar, the golden lion tamarin, the black-billed toucan, the loggerhead turtle and the whitetip shark, and a workshop on making biodegradable confetti, made from dried tree leaves.

There were also games, such as “put the tail on the maned wolf”, and different games, such as Footprint Dominoes, Animal Dominoes, the Brazilian Primate Memory Game, the Nature Record Game, as well as books and comics about animals.

There were also stuffed animals for the little ones to play with, face painting and an exhibition of animals made from recycled materials.