Iqueros and iguanas funded health insurance and the ecuadorian state
According Hoeck, tourism in the galapagos ecuador reports to about 500 million dollars a year but less than half of this amount is reinvested in the islands '' that is, each marine iguana or blue-footed booby contributes to economy of ecuador is forex.
Tourism, reflects hoeck, is not in itself negative '' but it must be under control, have infrastructure whith qualified personnel. It is not growth at any price ''
A Novelty in the zurich zoo
Mba In the giant tortoises they have also placed satellite transmitters '' in santa cruz accompany jumbo nigrita and turtles ; as well as its namesake zurich zooo the first park in europe that managed to reproduce these animals '' says the biologist.
hoeck announces that through a bond a monitor installed in the turtle house zurich zoo, the public -more than two millon per year will see ' live ' from april 2011 to galapagos nigrita and zuriqueses and jumbo.
hoeck said that '' with the new media is possible to see that wealth from anywhere in the world and thus help to raise awareness of the need to preserve it for future.