Loro Parque will give away 2,000 daily tickets (30,000 in total) to the inhabitants of Puerto de la Cruz.
This is one of the actions that Loro Parque carries out for its 50th anniversary. It is a “gesture of gratitude to the community of the municipality for its great support throughout this half century.”
ULL and Loro Parque Fundación highlight the value of Canary species
The University of La Laguna and the Loro Parque Fundación are currently leading the International Meeting on Critically Endangered Species of the Canary Islands, in which renowned scientists and experts from different countries participate, as well as technicians from the Government of the Canary Islands, the Cabildo de Tenerife and various municipalities of Canarias, and which closes today.
Promoted from the project of the Center for the Survival of Species of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN), two scientific-technical workshops are held on the conservation of critically endangered terrestrial snails and mollusks (gastropods) of the Canary Islands with the support of the Sustainable Santa Cruz Foundation, the Santa Cruz de Tenerife City Council and the Department of Ecological Transition of the Government of the Canary Islands.
The conferences, which are held in the Faculty of Sciences, Biology Section of the ULL, allow the situation of the six species of Tenerife that the IUCN experts in invertebrates sampled to be evaluated last February. The program has included a field trip to two areas, the laurisilva forest in Las Mercedes and the coastal xerothermic shrub vegetation in eastern Santa Cruz.
Today Thursday will be the public presentation of the Paleobiological Collection of Terrestrial Gastropods of the Paleontology Area of the University of La Laguna by Mario Jesús Aponte Navarro and Elena Cadavic Melero. Next, a round table with Pedro Millán (director of the Santa
Cruz Sostenible), Dr. Javier Almunia Portolés (Director of Loro Parque Fundación), Dr. Carolina Castillo (Professor at ULL) and Dr. Arnoldo Santos (Former Director of La Orotava Botanical Garden). Then, closing ceremony with the participation of the vice-rector for Quality of Innovation and the deans of the Faculties of Sciences and Social Sciences of the ULL.
