In Pictures: Greece’s only zoo approaches extinction
Link above is about how the zoo is coping during Greece lockdown. Owner suggests they have enough funds for just over a month.
Trying to ''eliminate the threat of extinction'', Attica Zoo has started a campaign of
selling 5000 tickets in a lower price (10 €). Other ways of supporting the zoo are by becoming ''a friend of the zoo'', buying an annual card or directly donating an amount of money of your choice to their bank account (
you can find all these ways here).
With 3 continuous months of strict lock-down and probably another 1-2 to come (that's the ''optimistic'' scenario...), Greek economy (mainly small and medium sized private businesses, like Attica Zoo) has suffered a lot and will certainly suffer more. The fact that we have one of the strictest and most ridiculously organized tax systems in Europe, plus a government that sees all of these businesses only as ''taxable land'' and ''cash sources'' makes everything much worse.... I may sound pathetic, but please, if you have the time, capability and mood during these weird days that we all live through, mind supporting Attica Zoo in one of the above ways! Even a ''meager'' donation of 0.10 €/$ is extremely valuable during these hard times! From the start, Attica Zoo was created with the intention of educating (mainly) Greek people about the animals and the environment and helping them protect it, especially when concerning Greek nature. With every passing year, the park only became better and better in these, ''upgrading'' its education value by adding more species, improving existing habitats, accommodating educational events and starting or supporting various programs (like the rehabilitation of young/injured Monk Seals in participation with
MOm, breeding of the last Greek chameleons, recording of roadkills and car-hit animals, rehabilitation of injured animals of various native species, beach cleaning, reforestations etc). Heck, this 20-years-old park has turned out being more educating and useful in these sectors than all the governments and educational systems that have passed from this country the last 60 years! As such, at the end of the day, its (almost unavoidable) ''extinction'' will certainly become another black page in the already bruised socio-cultural diary of modern Greece....
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