The specimens cared for at the Wild Animal Research Center (CIASI) of the ITAIPU Environmental Center celebrated, as is customary, Mother’s Day and Independence Day. The activity consisted of a thematic enrichment, with food decorated according to the occasion. This practice is part of the Environmental Enrichment Program, in this thematic case, developed by the aforementioned agency.
The decorations and details were prepared by interns and officials of the CIASI Animal Welfare Team, they consisted of pennants and rosettes with the national colors for the jaguar (Panthera onca) and paper flowers with seeds for the gua’a kaninde species. (Ara arauna).
On this occasion, the chosen species represent the Guarani claw that characterizes us as Paraguayans. The “jaguarete”, following the spelling of the Tupi Guaraní language, means: jaguar “fierce” and eté “true”, this according to the Panthera onca Management Plan document in Paraguay.
The other species that was honored is the gua’a kaninde, an emblematic bird for ITAIPU, since, through the Canindeyú Project, reproduction efforts are being made to return them to the wild in places where they are now extinct, but where they originally inhabited.
At CIASI, 3 individuals of this bird were born in the last reproductive period (2021), so it is significant for the Entity to honor the gua’a mothers who give the opportunity to perpetuate the species with the care and attention they gave to their pigeons.
The purpose of the Environmental Enrichment Program, carried out by CIASI, is to improve the quality of life of the specimens that are part of the collection of the ITAIPU Environmental Center, Right Bank. In addition, this type of practice seeks to stimulate the animals in the collection both physically and mentally, through activities and settings that allow them to develop behaviors similar to those of wildlife.
Social Communication Consulting – Press Division – ITAIPU Binacional
