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Private Donations, please

Yokohama Zoological Gardens named ZOORASIA starts to collect private donations for rare animals feeding among citizens from next year.

The plan is named as "Animal Parent". Due to the decrease of visitors and financial difficulty of Yokohama City, the zoological garden intends to raise around 50mio yen per year. ZOORASIA selects approx. 10 rare animals such as Okapi, Indian Lion which are popular among people for collecting the feeding money. The minimum amount of donation is 10,000 per lot. The donators will be carved their names on plate in ZOORASIA. Moreover, some benefit like discount of entrance fee will be provided with them.

Donation like "foster children" is not popular in Japan still now. Off coures, we are accustomed to fund-raise with petty cash like "AKAIHANE"(red feather). The big difference between donations and fund-raise with petty cash is that the donator's name is disclosed or not.

I am not sure if this attempt will bear fruit or not. However, I think the approaches by ZOORASIA(*) should be protected in any way and wish all the best for the animals in ZOORASIA.

(*)ZOORASIA raises especially precious animals in danger of disappearing. 68kinds and 400animals are in there, like Okapi, Indian Lion, and Golden Snub-nosed Monkey. It has reproduction center and research facility of rare animals.