@David Matos Mendes Yes, I agree, I think that these are very regionally important places indeed and it does suprise (and frustrate) me that these institutions often don't do more to preserve the history.
Don't worry, I'll put you in touch with someone there and hopefully you can go and take a look, I'm sure they would be happy for someone taking an interest in it.
Well Jersey is a one of a kind zoo and Gerald Durrell a genius (I think you would love his books) , in my opinion the best in the world and it has certainly done an incredible amount of work to conserve Brazilian species like the tamarins and in many parts of the world too like Madagascar, Mauritius, well, literally all over the world.
But yes it could be done in Brazil for sure. I've seen something similar done at Zoomat in Mexico (excellent zoo and brilliant focus on native species) which has a little museum dedicated to its founder Dr Miguel Alvarez Del Toro who was a brilliant conservationist.
@Onychorhynchus coronatus Oh, I would be very happy for this. Thank you! Meeting Sorocaba zoo is getting each time more interesting and needed for me. When I do visit it, I think I'll probably have visited all the major zoos in the country... (except for Rio, wich is under renovation)
I've heard a bit about Durrell in the past. Even saw some posts here in zoochat talking about him. I'm definitely gonna check out more about him. Has him founded Jersey zoo? Cause I know nowadays the institution has his name. He's surely quite an awesome figure in the conservation world.
This zoo in Mexico looks interesting... it seems it has quite some cultural aspects related to it for what I could see in a fast research. Gonna check out more about this and other mexican institutions too, I hope to return to Mexico one day to go to visit some more very interesting institutions. At the moment, the only zoo in MX wich I've been to was unfortunately Cancun aquarium, in 2019.
