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A child predator that was required to COFIB for treatment. Picture Credit Scores, EWN
The Balearic regional organisation for the security and well-being of wild animals has actually simply commemorated twenty years helpful to protect the islands ´ animals.
The Consortium for the Healing of Animal in the Balearic Islands (COFIB) commemorated its 20 th birthday celebration over the weekend break with a variety of occasions created to highlight the important job the team executes and elevate understanding of the “value [of] the preservation and security of nature in the Balearic island chain”. *
Joan Simonet is the Regional Priest of Farming, Fisheries and the Natural surroundings and went to the events at COFIB ´ s Animal Healing Centre, which lies near the centre of the island in Santa Eugènia. Saturday ´ s timetable consisted of helpful talks, training workshops and audiovisual forecasts revealing several of the job that COFIB is associated with, in addition to stands devoted per of the various divisions that comprise the consortium. In addition to this, in order to offer site visitors a more detailed peek at the important job being done, there were excursions of the wild animals centre, and live launches of wild animals.
COFIB was initially established in 2004 through partnership in between the Regional Ministry of Farming, Fisheries and the Natural Surroundings and Natura Parc, with the major goal being the “treatment and healing of hurt wild animals, ecological education and learning and research study, reproducing in bondage of jeopardized varieties, assistance for preservation strategies, collection of run away unique animals and administration and control of intrusive varieties”. *
Throughout the last twenty years, COFIB has actually often tended to virtually 80,000 pets, including 70,000 wild animals and 10,000 exotics, with 27,000 of those taken care of having actually been effectively gone back to the wild.
Considering that COFIB very first started its job, 40,000 schoolchildren have actually checked out the centre for academic talks and experiences.
* Govern de les Illes Balears, 27/09/2024
