MADRID, June 21 (Xinhua) -- Spain's eastern city of Valencia celebrates World Giraffe Day on Wednesday with a new baby giraffe that was born less than a month ago and several activities to raise awareness on giraffes' preservation.
BIOPARC Valencia has seen the birth of several giraffes, which makes it an important place for preservation. The baby giraffe is a Nubian sub-specie, typical from the areas of northern Uganda and center west of Kenya.
Nowadays there are fewer than 2,000 specimens of this sub-specie in the world.
Pepa Crespo, Communication Director at BIOPARC, explained that workers are "breeding the baby giraffe with feeding bottles, the team is devoted to breed her so that survives".
Crespo explained that the mom refused the baby after having bred previously others, that is why the team are eagerly taking care of the new baby giraffe so that can survive.
BIOPARC has organized several activities that will be carried out during five days to raise awareness about the situation of giraffes so that more people get involved in the preservation.
"Education is very important because everyone of us can contribute to preserving the planet's biodiversity and emblematic species such as the giraffe from home making the right decisions on consumption, for example," Crespo said.
BIOPARC will donate one euro of each entrance ticket and 10 percent of the sales of products related to giraffes to projects working on the preservation of giraffes. Visitors can also donate money to these projects during these five days.
In 1980 there were around 155,000 giraffes and 35 years later there are less than 100,00 giraffes.
