Siendo uno de los objetivos principales de nuestra institución, la conservación de la biodiversidad, parte del trabajo realizado por nuestro departamento de Educación Ambiental, el cual trabaja con comunidades locales y regionales para acercar la conservación a todos los públicos a través de diferentes estrategias. De manera simultánea, se realizan acciones de conservación de biodiversidad tanto ex-situ como in-situ de la mano de organizaciones nacionales e internacionales como comunidades académicas, autoridades ambientales, entre otros.
Actualmente, trabajamos en la conservación de especies nativas y endémicas como el Paujil de pico azul (Crax alberti), Cóndor de los Andes (Vultur gryphus), Tití gris (Saguinus leucopus), Guacamaya verde limón (Ara ambiguus), y Mono aullador rojo (Alouatta seniculus); siendo estos dos últimos programas de iniciativa propia de la institución y los tres primeros programas nacionales en conjunto con Asociación Colombiana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios ACOPAZOA.
El Parque de la Conservación alberga en sus instalaciones diversas especies de animales, entre aves, mamíferos, reptiles, anfibios e invertebrados. Cuenta con animales nativos de Colombia y también especies que habitan en África, Oceanía y Asia. La gran mayoría de animales silvestres llegan al Parque como consecuencia del tráfico ilegal de especies, problemática aguda en Colombia que amenaza la gran biodiversidad del país. Otros han sido remitidos al Parque después de su incautación a circos y a espectáculos itinerantes.
Las autoridades ambientales competentes se encargan de procesar y controlar a estos actores ilegales y decidir el destino de los animales incautados. El Parque de la Conservación se encarga de brindarles a los animales que no pueden ser liberados una buena calidad de vida, dándoles positivas respuestas a todas sus necesidades de salud y bienestar.
Invertebrates are all animals that do not have a spine or internal skeleton (bones). Instead of the internal skeletal support that characterizes vertebrates, invertebrates have a variety of adaptations such as shells, shells and hard exoskeletons that allow them to maintain form and sustain themselves in the terrestrial environment.
Amphibians are animals that, as the name implies, live part of their lives in the water, either as tadpoles or juveniles, and another on earth, such as frogs, toads, salamanders and cecilias. The body temperature of amphibians changes from environmental temperature, so they are called ectotherm, badly called "cold-blooded animals". The Santa Fe Zoo collection features several species of "dart or poisonous frogs", tropical animals considered - in the wild - to be the most toxic in the world, due to the defense chemicals they secrete by the skin. Poisonous frogs have been little studied and some species are threatened..
Reptiles are ectothermal animals, misnamed "cold blood." They are characterized by flakes and reproducing by means of hard-shelled eggs. The group includes turtles, snakes, lizards and crocodiles. The Santa Fe Zoo houses the following species:
Strange as it may seem, birds and reptiles are closely related. Both on the legs of birds and on the skin of reptiles there are scales and, each other, lay eggs with hard shells. Taxonomy specialists (the science responsible for studying the classification of living beings) have concluded that birds and reptiles belong to a large group that descended from a common ancestor. However, birds differ from reptiles by their feathers and because unlike these, they regulate their body temperature regardless of the external environment, being called endotherms or poorly called "hot blood". At the Santa Fe Zoo, approximately 69 different species of birds live, making it the animal group with the most species in the Zoo. This is to be expected if Colombia is considered to rank second in the world in terms of bird diversity. The group of birds housed in the Zoo are included.
Mammals are endothermal animals (badly called "hot blood") characterized by having hair and feeding their offspring milk produced by the female mammary glands. The Santa Fe Zoo houses a wide variety of native and exotic mammals that arrive at its premises from illegal traffic, exchanges with other zoos and sometimes births that occurred within the park.
