AMNEVILLE ZOO

“Open in 1986, the Amneville Zoo (north-eastern France) is independent and privately owned. Over the years, it has become one of the most beautiful zoos in Europe, covering 17 hectares, with 2000 animals from five continents belonging to 360 different species. Recent installations (including a vivarium, an African plain, and enclosures for polar bears, seals, orang-utans, birds of prey, penguins, and gorillas) are impressive in both their size and quality. Several educational animations are available, also three big playful and educational shows (free-flying birds of prey, seals, parrots). The Amneville Zoo has a large annual budget (€420.000 in 2011) to support more than twenty site-specific conservation programs throughout the world”.


 

“WHY DO WE SUPPORT AWELY?”

“In order to be efficient over the long term, a preservation program must consider the needs of the local people, who are often extremely poor, and who live very closely with the animals. In this respect, Awely is a unique organisation: offering educational and consciousness-raising programmes, directly connecting local groups to conservation programmes.

Further, Awely helps to resolve human-wildlife conflicts with projects to reduce poaching by proposing constructive sustainable alternatives. These are among the reasons motivating our commitment to Awely since its very creation.”