Tracosa Provide Safe Travel for Imani the Monkey
Tracosa Aduanas, WFN Members in Spain, recently escorted Imani the Monkey from Spain to her new home in Italy.
Marco A. Garcia, Managing Director of Tracosa told us, "Imani is a female white-crowned mangabey (Cercocebus atys lunulatus), one of an endangered species of monkey that originates from Africa, although she was born in Bioparc Valencia (Spain). Here is a photo of her, she is on the right.
Today, Imani will be travelling with TRACOSA from Bioparc Valencia to her new home at Zoo Bioparco in Rome (Italy). She will fly from Valencia Manises Airport to Rome Fiumicino Airport.
She will not be travelling alone, however. Our aim is to make Imani feel comfortable and to take care of her and provide her with anything she needs during the journey. So she will be accompanied all the way by a caregiver, a professional with long experience in looking after animals that have to travel.
The two will make a break in their journey and will spend the night at Zurich Kloten Airport, where a special room has been prepared for Imani: a kind of VIP area for live animals, where she will be fed and where she can feel relaxed, warm and protected.
BIOPARC Valencia (link http://www.bioparcvalencia.es) is an immersion-designed wildlife park which recreates authentic habitats for its exhibits and gives visitors the sense of being in the animals' natural environments. Buildings and barriers are hidden. Instead, ponds, streams, vegetation and rocks are used to separate visitors from the animals, reproducing eco-systems and incorporating multi-species enclosures. Sights and sounds from nature are also reproduced. This allows visitors to enjoy a unique experience, very similar to watching the same animals in the wild. TRACOSA team in Valencia is highly delighted and proud to be working with Bioparc and playing our part in this splendid and important project.
We know it must be hard for Bioparc Valencia to say goodbye to Imani, but we are absolutely sure that she will be very well looked after and much loved in Rome. TRACOSA feels great satisfaction in helping to bring the experience and knowledge of animal diversity to Italian people and, most especially, to all the kids."
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