CELEBRATE WORLD ANIMAL DAY AT SUNWAY LAGOON
To coincide with the special day, Sunway Lagoon’s Wildlife
Park – an interactive and educational zoo featuring more than 140
species-specific exhibits of exotic animals and a diverse range of birds, fish,
reptiles and mammals from around the world – held a special campaign to urge you
to do your part to create a more sustainable world.
In recent
years, the Wildlife Park at Sunway Lagoon has stepped up efforts towards being
more sustainable. Among these, Sunway Lagoon announced its support towards two
of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) set by the United Nations. The SDG
programme contains a total of 17 goals which the United Nations aims to achieve
by the year 2030. It is a universal call to action, in a bid to end poverty,
protect the planet and to ensure that all people can enjoy the diverse richness
which Mother Nature exudes.
Out of the 17 goals, Sunway
Lagoon’s Wildlife Park has, without equivocation, committed towards supporting
two of these goals. These include Responsible Consumption and Production (Goal
#12), aimed at ensuring sustainable consumption and production patterns and
Life on Land (Goal #15), which aims to protect, restore and promote sustainable
use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat
desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity
loss.
“For World
Animal Day this year, we wanted to create an experience where people of all
ages can enjoy the Wildlife Park, while learning more about how they can play a
role in protecting our environment. All this ties in with our commitment to be
more responsible and sustainable, yet presenting a unique and exciting
opportunity for the public to enjoy, especially the younger ones, because they
are the future of our planet, and will take on the baton towards environmental
conservation,” said Sean Choo, General Manager of Sunway Lagoon.
The World
Animal Day celebrations at Sunway Lagoon’s Wildlife Park also took on an
exciting yet heartwarming turn this year, when the park announced its latest
project of adopting a few river terrapins from Turtle Conservation Society of
Malaysia as a support towards the conservation works for these freshwater
turtle in the country.
“The aim of the
society is to bring about the recovery of depleted wild populations of turtles,
with particular reference to freshwater turtles. With the same goal in mind, we
are extremely honoured to have the opportunity to work with Sunway Lagoon on this
project,” said Dr Chen Pelf Nyok, co-founder of Turtle Conservation Society of
Malaysia.
Paradoxically, Sunway
Lagoon will also be constructing a pygmy goat enclosure at Pet Village that is
made out of Ecobricks. The theme park targets to produce approximately 1000
Ecobricks, made using mineral water bottles collected from the recycle bins in
the park. Each Ecobrick contains about 200g of non-recyclable plastic waste.
With that amount of Ecobricks, the project aims to save approximately 200kg of
non-recyclable plastics trash from the landfill. The theme park aims to
construct and launch the enclosure by World Earth Day next year.
Guests were specially
invited to Sunway Lagoon Wildlife Park’s World Animal Day event to enjoy a host
of activities and initiatives specially curated to mark this meaningful
celebration. These included an Ecobrick making workshop, a take home garden
workshop, meet & greet with Bani the Wildlife Park ambassador, a display by
the Department of Wildlife and National Parks (PERHILITAN), and Save the Earth
Pledge wall, where visitors can mark their pledge towards reducing single-use
plastics.
For more information, call
603 5639 0000, visit www.sunwaylagoon.com or connect to www.facebook.com/SunwayLagoonMalaysia.