(CN) Charity group helps to design gorilla habitat (Shanghai Zoo)

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Charity group helps to design gorilla habitat

10/20/2006

City News

 

Shanghai Roots and Shoots, the local branch of an international non-governmental

organization, is asking the public for helping to design a new habitat for

gorillas at the Shanghai Zoo.

 

The organization's famed founder Jane Goodall will visit the zoo today during a

three-day trip to the city to promote a new book. Goodall, who famously spent

decades living with chimpanzees in Africa, said she set up R & S to raise public

awareness about the problems facing animals and the environment.

 

The zoo, which already has one gorilla hall, will set up a new larger habitat

for three gorillas, which will be sent to the city from the Rotterdam Zoo in the

Netherlands.

 

Roots and Shoots hopes to offer the zoo help designing the habitat with the

assistance of volunteer architects. It is currently collecting ideas from the

public for the gorilla hall, and the best ones will be included in the final

design.

 

" My job is to help people understand that every single one of us can make a

difference in every single day to change the world, " Goodall, 72, said during a

speech at the opening of the 2006 Shanghai R & S summit yesterday.

 

Shanghai R & S teamed up with the Shanghai Yellow Pages to launch a charity

program yesterday. They will sell discount cards for restaurants and shops in

the city for 200 yuan (US$25), with the proceeds going to three non-profit

organizations - R & S, Shanghai LifeLine and The Mercy Fund.

 

http://www.shanghai.gov.cn/shanghai/node8059/City_news/userobject22ai23061.html

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Roots & Shoots, Shanghai

 

http://www.jgi-shanghai.org/index.php?lang=en

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flickr photos of Shanghai Roots and Shoots Program activities

 

http://www.flickr.com/photos/kafka4prez/sets/72157594148015958/