Wiesbaden - As the world's leading trade fair for the pet industry, Interzoo 2024 (7-10 May 2024) attracts exhibitors from all over the world. The registration status eleven months before the start of the fair is proof of the worldwide interest from the pet industry: a large part of the space on offer has already been booked, reports the organiser Wirtschaftsgemeinschaft Zoologischer Fachbetriebe GmbH (WZF).
Press information from the pet industry: (Translated with DeepL)
The German company OASE, headquartered in Hörstel, Tecklenburg, Germany, will receive the marketing prize with the widest reach in the German-speaking world at the award ceremony on 9 June in Berlin: the renowned German Brand Award in Gold as "Excellent Brand" in the category "Tools & Gardening". OASE, the market leader for inspiring living environments with water, is being honoured for its successful brand relaunch, which reflects the consistent further development of the brand.
The market leader staged inspiring aquariums, demonstrating the potential of its full aquaristic range. Within the framework of the world's leading trade fair Interzoo, OASE presented its complete range of aquaristic products for the first time. Visitors were able to experience innovative new products and existing solutions for living spaces designed with water in inspiring applications. The design and technology competence of the market leader OASE was thus impressively experienced at the level of the product and its use.
ZZF welcomes regulation of the online pet trade
A new project by Thilo Schwarz, the person responsible for such large-scale facilities in the Kölle Zoo Group. The XXL aquarium floated over the roof of the former City Centre into the future Fürth shopping world. The good piece weighed about 6.5 tons and has a capacity of 21 cubic metres. Later, about 70 fish will swim in it. See more in the video :-)
Minister Julia Klöckner (CDU) announces a time limit for a trade permit / ZZF warns: Time limit destroys pet trade / Animal welfare-friendly animal mediation endangered. Read more in the article.
Jack Randall, a respected ichthyologist and coral specialist who discovered and named more fish species than anyone in history, died on 26 April at his home in Kaneohe, Hawaii.
Due to the corona crisis, the International Coral Reef Symposium (ICRS) will not take place this summer. The new date in Bremen is 18-23 July 2021. The dynamic spread of the virus, the protection of participants and travel restrictions have led to this decision.
The oceans are warming up, the effects of the weather phenomenon El Niño are leading to large-scale coral bleaching. - and thus to an outrageous coral die-off! While humanity reacts only hesitantly and cannot or will not agree on any international, sustainable and concerted activities - nature, for its part, is now making attempts to react to the damage to marine life.
On 28.12.2017, the shock came for aquarists and the entire industry. From now on it is forbidden to collect, buy or sell live stones and corals from Fiji.
Tobias Friedrich approached us with the request to present his high-quality calendar with motifs that could be of interest to our hobby. Of course we were happy to oblige. This is now the fourth time.
West Hawaii's fisheries management is a unique example for the industry and is presented in detail in the video. It proves that environmentally sustainable removals are not a threat. The video is in English and can be found in the article.
Pure passion: researchers have observed corals kissing and fighting live in the reef. This was made possible by a new underwater microscope with a resolution of up to 2.2 micrometres. The events in coral reefs have never before been observed in such detail.
A very interesting article on rebuilding destroyed reef sections after construction work in the Maldives. Thank you Cornelia and Sandra for this :-)
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