Representatives of Bosque la Primavera joined together with activists from several animal-rescue organizations to liberate deer, raccoons, a lynx and other wild creatures on Monday, March 5, the day before the 32nd anniversary of a federal decree designating the Primavera Forest a Protected Area. The following day, a photo exhibit on the beauty of the forest and its creatures was launched at the Guadalajara Palacio Municipal and the Bosque’s birthday was crowned by a panel discussion on “The Past, Present and Future of the Primavera Forest” at the Guadalajara City Museum.
Buddhists consider the release of captive animals one of the best ways for human beings to gain merit in this life and if this is true, the heavens were surely smiling upon the crowd of animal lovers who, on Monday, crossed the Río Salado and made their way along a rough, dusty track until they reached the very heart of the sprawling oak and pine forest, which lies just west of Guadalajara.
Rangers, veterinarians, animal rescue experts and journalists rode in a caravan of jeeps and trucks, which also carried specially designed cages and crates holding a grey fox, an iguana, a lynx, numerous turtles and snakes, two zenzontle birds, four raccoons and two of ten white-tailed deer, all of which are being released into the wild to celebrate the forest’s anniversary.
Upon reaching a point eight kilometers from the forest’s edge, in a remote area dominated by bizarrely shaped rhyolite rocks and dotted with lumps of shiny black obsidian, the procession came to a halt for the first release, that of a white-tailed deer (Odocoileus virginianus).
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