The day of 14 July 1960 Dr Jane Goodall, the world famous primatologist specialising in chimpanzees, stepped into what is now Gombe Stream National Park, in Tanzania, for the very first time to study this species in their natural habitat. This is why all the organisations working in chimpanzee conservation selected this date to celebrate World Chimpanzee Day, joining forces to cry out in favour of conserving our primate cousins, our closest relatives in the animal kingdom, and to alert people on the problems they are facing and that threaten their survival in the jungle.
To celebrate this very special day, we have brought together the organisations working on chimpanzee conservation in our home to jointly issue a stronger and unified message.
We encourage everybody who wants to share this day with us at the Zoo and to participate in all the activities we have organised! For a world in which we can all live together! Come and collect your souvenir badge! Come and collect your souvenir badge!
Programme for World Chimpanzee Day at the Barcelona Zoo:
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Starting at 10.00 am
Tents and diverse activities with SOS Primates (all day), the Spanish Jane Goodall Institute, the Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary and the Mona Foundation (morning).
Lady with the Umbrella Square
10.30 am to 1.30 pm and 3.00 to 4.30 pm
The Zoo educators present our chimpanzees to visitors and explain their status in nature and how we can help them. Ongoing family activity in sessions of approximately 20 minutes. In front of their exhibit.
11.00
Presentation of the exhibition ‘Jane Goodall Institute: Protecting the Chimpanzees’ on the scientific career of Dr Goodall.
120th anniversary classroom in the Aviary (open until 24 September).
11.30
Round table with representatives from all the organisations present at the Zoo so that each one of us can explain the work we are doing.
120th anniversary classroom in the Aviary. Approximate length of 1 hour.
12.00 (Lady with the Umbrella square), 1.30 (Lady with the Umbrella square) and 4.30 (Zoo Farm)
In collaboration with SOS Primates, we have prepared a very special activity for the youngest kids!: Our entertainer Quim will read us the letters that Mussa and Tibé wrote each other, two chimpanzees that live respectively at the Lwiro Primate Rehabilitation Sanctuary (Congo) and at the Barcelona Zoo.
We hope that World Chimpanzee Day will be marked on your planner every year as an important meeting for all lovers of nature and animals and that it will help us to feel more united to these wonderful primates so close to us.