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Lian van Enckevort-Stappers KLV member since 2010
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Once a week, Lian van Enckevort (Animal Sciences 2012) is a Wildlife Foundation volunteer at Dierenrijk, the family zoo in Nuenen. She gives visitors to the zoo a guided tour of five species of animals, picking different ones every time. Lian tells her audience all about the animals, and the children are allowed to help feed them. Her favourites are the elephants – she can talk about them for ages – and the active little meerkats and coypus. Children’s parties get to join her in the kitchen where the feed is prepared. She uses skulls to show them the difference between herbivores and carnivores. ‘It is so nice to see children getting enthusiastic.’ She also trains new volunteers. ‘Something to do with several different species of animals, human-animal relations and education: that is the kind of work I would like.’
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