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- IguaZOO Official Blog -; General information and updates of my zoo
Topic Started: Aug 16 2013, 12:05 AM (4,181 Views)
Ignacio
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- IguaZOO Official Blog -



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- HISTORY OF THE PARK -

My wife Carolina and i were truly surprise when we open the envelope. Her father, to whom she hadn't spoken for years, had die. But that wasn't the full surprise, because acording to the lawyer that sent us the letter, he had left her daughter all his fortune (and it was a big one). Maybe he was trying to find some last hope for redemption through this generous act or maybe she was the only relative he had left, but whatever the case was, after a few weeks of burocracy and paperwork we found our self with a lot of money (like a six zeros cipher kind of number ). She had never have so much money for herself (at least not since she run away from home to marry me 10 years ago) so she was hesitant about what to do with it. I told her she should think about it conscientiously, and don't take rushed decisions. So i proposed to her to take a trip to her favorite place in the country: the Iguazú Falls.

After a few days there, we went to Posadas, a nearby city, and it was about that time when we first heard about this place. A local man told us the story of Harold Braun, a german inmigrant that came to Argentina after the WW1, to start over here with his wife Anna. Mr. Braun was a naturalist and passionate about wildlife, and so was his wife. So they decided to build their home in a land they bought just next to the jungle. Her wife, like Carolina now, was very wealthy. As the year passed by, they began to be concerned about the rising ilegal hunting that was taking place in the missionary jungle. Harold, during his walks through the forest, began to find animals wounded by the hunters. He finally told his wife about it and they decided to build a refugie for the poor creatures. So they bought this enourmous land and build what at first was the Braun's Rehabilitacion and Rescue Center for Wounded Animals (RRCWA). Their little enterprise began to growth really fast, and by the time both of them died, the Center had become a big and important place, where animals from all around the country were taken to be heal and to offer them protection. Their children inherited the place, and they continue with their parents hard work. But when they die as well, their own children couldn't take care of it anymore, so they just sold the Center to a very corrupt man, that stoled all the funds the Center had and abandoned it (and all the animals that lived there) to its fate. Some of the staff member stay, to take care of the animals, but the debts began to accumulate and the Center felt in disgraced.

Caro and i felt really touched by the story, so we asked the old man for directions, so we could go have a look for ourselves. The place was just a few miles away from the city, so we rented a car and went there. What we found was really heartbreaking. There were only three staff members left and a couple of volunteers, all of them working for free there, doing what they could to keep the animals healthy. But without any resources at all the conditions of the animals and their enclosures were deplorable.

After seeing that horrible scenario, Caro already knew what to do with her new money. We bought the Center. We paid the debts. We take care of the animals... and we rebuild the place. We kept the staff that was already here, we start paying the volunteers for their hard work during all this years, and we hired more people to work here.

So after six years of hard work, and an extreme make over, we transformed the ruins of the Center into the Zoo that is today.

IguaZOO only featured Southamerican and (a few) Central American animals. Our main objective is to contribute with the conservation of endangered species of the region (there for our Breedings and Reintroduction to the Wild Programs) and to educate people about the local fauna.





- GENERAL INFORMATION -

Year of foundation: 2007
Opening date: March 22, 2013
Location: Outside Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
Owned by: Braun's Wildlife Conservation Society (BWCS)
Size: 100 acres (with plans on expanding)
Number of animal species: undetermined for the moment





- SECTIONS OF THE PARK -




Section one:
SOUTHAMERICAN WETLANDS
(GRAN PANTANAL)


Opening date: March 22, 2013

- Map overview -


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IguaZOO Map One - Species List
Water BirdsAves del PantanalMammalsPantanal Reptilarium
James's Flamingo
Blacknecked Swan
White-cheecked pinetail
Muscovy duck (in Marsh deer exhibit)
Jabiru
Scarlet Ibis
Ruff-necked Ibis
Roseatte Spoonbil
Hyacinth Macaw
Southern Screamer (in Capybara exhibit)
Capybara
Marsh Deer
Brazilian Giant Otter
White-nosed Coati
Yacare Caiman
Northern Caiman Lizard





Section two:

SOUTHAMERICAN OPEN LANDS

Opening date: August - , 2013

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IguaZOO Map Two - Species List
Aves del Pantanal (cont)Las PampasSoutheamerican ScrublandsPatagonian SteppesCerrado Savanah
Solitary Crowned EagleVinaceous Amazon
Greater Rhea (also in Patagonian Steppes)
Pampa's Deer
Pampa's Cat
Pampa's Fox
Collared Peccary
Nacunda Nighthawk
Greater Rhea (also in Pampa's area)
Guanaco
Patagonian Mara
Upland Goose
Ashy headed Goose
Black Necked Swan
Maned Wolf
Giant Anteater
Giant Armadillo
Nine Banded Armadillo
Southern Long - Nosed Armadillo





Section three:

JUNGLE ADVENTURES - REALM OF THE JAGUAR


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION





JUNGLE ADVENTURES - MONKEY ISLAND


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION





Section four:

RIVER WONDERS


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION





Section five:

COLORFUL FEATHERS


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION





Section six:

PATAGONIAN FORESTS & ANDEAN TRAILS


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION





Section seven:

CARIBBEAN TRAVELS


Opening date: Undetermined

- Map overview -

UNDER CONSTRUCTION
Edited by Ignacio, Aug 23 2013, 01:50 PM.
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Actually if you can do the lang files that would be awesome Hudson! :D

When you are online send me a PM and i'll send you the cat.
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I might be able to fix some stuff. I can definitely do the lang and Zoopedia files, if Hudson can't and I might be able to do the baby skin probable, but that is only a maybe. I normally work with objects.
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Well you can do the zoopedia if you want. I don't know what is the problem with the babies skins... there wasn't a UV for the babies in the original model since they are just miniture versions of their parents. So i don't know why they are turning out white (and why they stay white when they grow up). I'm going to sleep now but i'll send you the file to both of you tomorrow morning. Thanks for the help! :)
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