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- [PRESSWIRE] Sofia, Bulgaria – February 13, 2024 — Smart Poultry World, the international exhibition and conference, focused on accelerating the digital transformation of poultry farming, will take place on 10 th and 11 th September 2024 in Sofia, Bulgaria.
- [PRESSWIRE] LUBBOCK, TX — April 19, 2022 – NemaLife Inc., a DEA-registered and innovation-driven techbio company, has partnered with the research group led by Professor David E. Olson at the University of California, Davis to characterize the in vivo effects of several of their novel psychoplastogens.
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- The film aims at raising awareness about the serious consequences that underwater noise can produce on marine wildlife…
- [PRESSWIRE] Rolle, Switzerland – April 14th 2021 — Environmentally conscious latte lovers will be able to make climate-friendly coffees at home, as a revolutionary new premium milk is made available to consumers.
- [PRESSWIRE] Rolle, Switzerland – April 14th 2021 — Cows are creating the world’s first cattle-generated carbon credits thanks to Mootral’s breakthrough natural feed supplement, Mootral Ruminant. The cattle feed supplement is proven to cut the amount of methane they release by up to 38%, while increasing yield naturally and enabling production of climate-friendly milk and beef.
- The zoo in Puerto de la Cruz took this day as an opportunity to make an emotional video in which its employees tell how they experienced this year…
- Lear’s macaw is one of the ten species that the Foundation has managed to save from imminent extinction thanks to the funding of ‘in situ’ and ‘ex-situ’ conservation projects…
- [PRESSWIRE] Budapest – 09 February, 2021 — In Hungary, there are lots of stray animals on the streets and many of them cannot be saved by animal rights activists, because almost all of them operates a full house.
- Despite having to close its doors for the first time in its history, which was nine months ago, the Park is celebrating its 48th anniversary after a year of important achievements and challenges…
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – 23 November, 2020 — Loro Parque and Siam Park once again reinforce their leadership in tourism and environmental sustainability, the fight against climate change and the defence of biodiversity. In the case of Loro Parque, this is a certificate that the Park has received for the twelfth consecutive year, “Biosphere Certified – Animal Embassy”, as granted by the Institute of Responsible Tourism (RTI), linked to UNESCO. For its part, Siam Park was not left behind and has been awarded an innovative “Biosphere Certified – Parks” accreditation, for the fourth consecutive year, by the aforementioned international organisation.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz, June 26, 2020. This Wednesday 24th June, Loro Parque commemorated the 10th anniversary of the rescue of the orca Morgan. Taking advantage of this occasion, the Park uploaded an emotional documentary to its social networks in which it tells its story of overcoming and survival, as well as a report in which the protagonists of the rescue tell their experience. In addition, it wanted to draw attention to the serious consequences that underwater noise has on the lives of cetaceans, this being a possible cause of the deafness that Morgan suffers.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – March 30, 2020 — Wolfgang Kiessling, founder and president of the Loro Parque Company, has recently received the Champion of Conservation award from the American Humane organization (USA) in recognition of his leadership in projects for the conservation of species.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – March 19, 2020 — In the midst of the health crisis caused by COVID-19, Loro Parque has welcomed a newborn ring-tailed lemur, strengthening its position as an authentic Animal Embassy. Although the Park remains closed, a new family member was presented in a video shared through its social networks, where news posts are published daily to inform its followers of everything that happens in its facilities.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – January 29, 2020 — Loro Parque has welcomed the birth of two jaguar cubs that were born in December during their 47th anniversary celebrations. The Panthera onca specimens are with their mother, Naya, adapting to their new home where they can already be observed together.
- [PRESSWIRE] Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain – December 23, 2019 — This year, as part of the celebration of its 25th anniversary, Loro Parque Foundation has managed to add to its list of species saved from extinction the Grey-Breasted Parakeet (Pyrrhura griseipectus), native to Brazil. With this success, The Foundation celebrates that it has already prevented the disappearance of 10 species of parrots thanks to its longstanding involvement with in and ex situ protection and conservation projects.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de la Cruz – 13 November, 2019 — Scientists from the Max-Planck-Institute for Ornithology, based at the Max-Planck Comparative Cognition Research station in the Loro Parque, Tenerife, found that four species of parrots did not show any negative reaction to their partner receiving a better pay-off than themselves from a human experimenter in exchange for tokens. Unlike most tested primate species so far, who so to speak “freak out” if their partner gets a better reward, the parrots reacted neither to their partner receiving something better for the same effort (i.e. to an unequal food distribution), nor to having to work harder for the same reward (thus to unequal effort).
- [PRESSWIRE] SPAIN – 21 October, 2019 — The headquarters of the Presidency of the Government of the Canary Islands this Friday, October 18, hosted the presentation of the prestigious Gorilla 2018 Award to Steve Heapy, CEO of Jet2.com and Jet2holidays. The award celebrates its sixteenth anniversary this year and highlights environmental responsibility, taking into account strategies and actions to conserve biodiversity and the sustainable use of resources.
- [PRESSWIRE] Spain – 19 July, 2019 — It is sad but true: nowadays, our World is facing the strongest environmental crisis ever, and its effects are causing the sixth major extinction of the planet Earth. More than 7,700,000,000 human beings are exhausting the World’s natural resources, extinguishing species, changing the climate, polluting the oceans, and expelling animals from their natural habitats.
- [PRESSWIRE] KNOXVILLE, Tenn., March 13, 2019 — PetSafe® brand, an industry leader in innovative pet product solutions, is launching 22 new products at the Global Pet Expo in Orlando, Florida, March 20–22, 2019.
- [PRESSWIRE] Tenerife – 25 February, 2019 — The six specimens of Lear’s Macaw (Anodorhynchus leari) born in the Loro Parque Foundation’s facilities and moved last August to Brazil for their reinsertion in nature have already managed to adapt to the harsh conditions of their habitat in the Caatinga and are now flying free in the wild. The parrot is one of the most important projects of the Foundation, which has managed to move its category on the Red List of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) from ‘critically endangered’ to ‘endangered’.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – 03 January, 2019 — This week, Loro Parque Fundación has signed several collaboration agreements and contracts with research teams from the two Canarian universities and the NGOs Elasmocan and AVANFUER, to start the CanBio project, a research programme financed jointly by Loro Parque and the Canary Islands Government.
- [PRESSWRE] Tenerife, Spain – 18 January, 2019 — The population of these endangered birds in the wild has multiplied and reached record numbers thanks to the financial support of the Foundation and the key intervention of the Vatican
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – December 5th, 2018 — The Loro Parque Foundation recently held the annual meeting of its Advisory Committee, which has decided how to distribute the $1,000,000 that the Foundation dedicates each year to nature conservation projects carried out in the five continents. The meeting took place in Puerto de La Cruz, the city where both the non-profit organisation and its main sponsor, Loro Parque, are based.
- [PRESSWIRE] Tenerife, Spain – 12 October, 2018 — A resounding success: that is the summary of the IX Parrot Congress organised by the Loro Parque Foundation and held last week in Tenerife, where 850 congress participants of 47 different nationalities met. The experience, unique in the world, counted on the participation of the most recognised experts in the field worldwide.
- [PRESSWIRE] La Paz, Bolivia – 10 October, 2018 — What may well be the world’s ugliest family of frogs is facing extinction before some of them even have a name for their species – due to a deadly fungus, climate change and pollution.
- [PRESSWIRE] Puerto de La Cruz – 02 October, 2018 — The great hall of the Auditorio de Tenerife bore witness yesterday afternoon, Wednesday September 26, to the presentation of the prestigious Gorilla Award 2017 to Rosemary Low, a passionate defender of parrots who has dedicated her life to these birds through breeding and conservation.
- [PRESSWIRE] Tenerife – 24 September, 2018 — Loro Parque has good news to share: the orca Morgan that was rescued after being found near dead near the coast of the Wadden Sea in the Netherlands and that forms part of our group of orcas, gave birth to her first calf this morning, which finds itself in a perfect state of health. From the very first moment, Morgan demonstrated to be an exemplary mother attending to her newborn, which is swimming next to its mother in the installations of the ‘OrcaOcean’.
- [PRESSWIRE] Las Palmas de Gran Canaria – 28 August, 2018 — Loro Parque has once again been recognised as the BEST ZOO IN THE WORLD. This accomplishment has come for the second consecutive year, according to the highly reputable travel website TripAdvisor, as it was revealed in their annual Travellers’ Choice 2018 awards. Once again, the independent evaluations of the major web platform’s users who have visited the facilities have confirmed that there is no better park than this one on the planet.