Want to sponsor zoo animals?

August 16,2015 - 10:21 AM

A Korean tourist poses for a photo with a Brahminy Kite Hawk or "Banog" on her head while celebrating Valentines Day with her friends in the Cebu City Zoo last February.

A Korean tourist poses for a photo with a Brahminy Kite Hawk or “Banog” on her head while celebrating Valentines Day with her friends in the Cebu City Zoo last February.

The Cebu City Zoo is inviting  private companies to adopt or sponsor a zoo  animal in order to help cover  the cost for their care.

Cebu City Zoo Manager Giovanni Romarate said the program covers the care and feeding of  23 species of  wildlife.

“We will take care of the animals,” he said.

The sponsor will get to learn about the diet and attributes of  animals, both  domestic and wildlife.

For example, Romarate said  many people don’t know that  only a few species of snakes are venomous.

Once people know more about the animals, d they won’t kill them indiscriminately but want to  protect them instead.

“If we see them, we kill them because we see them as dangerous but they are part of the ecosystem.

Rats are more dangerous than snakes because of the sickness they bring like leptospirosis,”  Romarate said.

Once an  animal species becomes  extinct, there will be an imbalance in the  ecosystem.

Through the adopt-an-animal program,  Romarate said companies can help promote wildlife and fulfill their “corporate  social responsibility.”

Romarate said the management hopes that with this program, the zoo management won’t have to repeatedly ask for for funding from the city government.

He said the  city government has to prioritize its funds for  infrastructure, health care and other social services of  Cebu Citys growing population../Palompon Institute of Technology Intern Jay-Ileen Engalla

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