Excerpt: The zoo, renovated through a public-private partnership led by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, sees its mission as raising awareness of wildlife and nature. Monia Panchèvre, the zoo\’s straight-talking French director, believes the facility can contribute to Mali\’s development. \”If you protect the environment, perhaps it will bring tourists and help the country develop,\” she says, during a tour of the zoo.
Panchèvre, who admits to being more at ease with animals than humans, has an ambitious aim. \”Our goal is to sensitise people to the importance of preserving wildlife,\” she says, \”and then in collaboration with the competent Malian authorities implement programmes to reintroduce certain species, such as the addax and oryx, but it will be years.\”
More West Africa’s newest zoo reopens its doors in Mali capital | Mark Tran | Global development | theguardian.com.
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Ismailimail 
preservation of the wild life has always been an important and long term issue in the sense that until about 40/50 years age killing -and the practice is still prevelent in some parts of the world illegally-was considered sport-this project will provide a safe place for the wild animals to live safely and also increase a public awareness that wild life is as important as the human life if not more,such an initiative should be increased more and more globolally.
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