NEWS
November 26, 2010 Trip to Timor-Leste a Success We covered a lot of ground on our visit to Timor-Leste in November. We looked at potential sites and provided His Excellency with our views about the best places to host this conservation project. We also met many of the business people and community leaders on our [...]
PROJECT
The East Timor National Zoo project has kicked off and is now in Phase 0 – Planning & Preparation. We met with the Honourable President Jose Ramos-Horta of Timor-Leste on October 5th, 2010 in Brussels. In discussing the project, there was agreement around the table that there is a desire to proceed. We provided the [...]
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We Need Your Support Timor-Leste is a developing nation and has limited funds to invest in this inspiring and beneficial program. Any amount of help you can offer will make a difference to the causes we are advancing: conservation and human empowerment. We will keep a transparent an open display of our uses of your [...]
ABOUT
History The concept for the East Timor Zoo began in April of 2009 during a business program in Bali with a group of international entrepreneurs committed to bringing positive social change through business leadership. Gabriel Flores was participating on the programme and travelling with his partner Marcel McKinley, a zookeeper at the ZSL London Zoo. Whilst on the programme, we met an inspiring and enterprising couple, Toni & Gaylene Favaro, that had been successful in their business in Australia and had moved to Timor-Leste (East Timor is the informal name) to make a difference in the new & developing country. Because of the leadership role they serve in the business community, they work closely with the government to fulfill on its vision for the future. Marcel is passionate about animals and works for the ZSL London Zoo. Originally from Hungary, Marcel had planned to start a new zoo in his home country that focused on conservation and educated the public by displaying wildlife...
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Journal – 17 Nov 2010 – Day 1 in Timor-Leste
Our Merpati flight to Dili has been cancelled! The announcement over the intercom in Denpasar Airport in Bali is explaining the cancellation of the flight. It is all a bit chaotic – even the Merpati staff are a little confused as to what to do. Eventually the staff organise for us to be bussed to a local hotel for the night and then back to the airport the tomorrow morning to catch our flight to Dili. To Merpati’s credit, they treat us very well. The accommodation at...
