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Jordi Sabater Pi Gives Out Fourth Annual Snowflake Grant Award

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 03.12.2008

Jordi Sabater Pi Gives Out Fourth Annual Snowflake Grant Award

On Monday, 24 November, the fourth annual Snowflake grant was given out by Jordi Sabater Pi, director of the –located at PCB– and its honorary chairman. The event, which was held at the Barcelona Zoo on the fifth anniversary of the death of Snowflake the gorilla, was hosted by Ignasi Cardelús, representing the zoo's Institutional Relations Department; Laura Agüera, the zoo's Executive Director; and María Teresa Abelló, primate keeper at the zoo. The grant recipient was María Gran Vega, of the Complutense University of Madrid, for her study of wildlife on Bioko Island (Equatorial Guinea). The aim of the Snowflake grant, which is worth 9,000 euros, is to foster primate research projects.


The event was also auspicious in that Jordi Sabater Pi gave to the Sabater Pi Collection his slides of the first snapshots taken of Snowflake in October 1966 in Equatorial Guinea, before the gorilla was transported to the Barcelona Zoo.

Given the extraordinary nature of the slides, the Resource Centre for Learning and Research (CRAI) at the University of Barcelona will prepare digital versions of them as well as of other valuable documents in the Sabater Pi Collection, such as field notebooks and photographs of the Fang tribes of Equatorial Guinea taken in the fifties and sixties.