Recent News

Well, the egg festival in St Antonin is to go ahead as usual over the Easter weekend of 2009. The event will be bigger than ever and it is planned to have a new range of events alongside the core exhibition of the giant eggs. One other development is that it looks as though the egg festival is to go international. I am currently in discussion with the Zoo in Zurich, Switzerland to undertake an egg festival there in October 2009. The purpose of this event is somewhat different from the St Antonin event in that the eggs will be smaller (about 36 cm) high and represent the size of the eggs layed by the Elephant Bird of Madagascar (now extinct). The Zoo in Zurich has a very large biosphere that is dedicated to the flaura and fauna of Madagascar and this event will hopefully highlight the problems associated with the destruction of the rainforests and the mass extictions that are taking place across the globe. I will soon be setting up another site dedicated to this project so keep looking. I would be very grateful for any contacts about Madagascar and of course the Elephant Bird.