Antwerp dying Every day nine Belgians to colon cancer. A simple test can, however, much misery can be prevented. A special exhibition in the Antwerp Zoo asks there now. Jewellery designer Danielle Goffa and dr. Luc Colemont of Stop colon Cancer, beat the hands together. Goffa based on the form of animal excrement for her creations.
did you Know that the wombat square shit running? Or that the giraffe only small droppings produces? Two of the nineteen animals that “model” were for the collection of which the Zoerselse juweelartieste Danielle Goffa (67) put together. For one gem, one necklace, she took her inspiration from by the Gent An De Kimpe, who nine years ago was told that they have colon cancer in the worst stage. They looked death in the eyes, but recovered wonderfully. “Once I was too embarrassed to with my complaints to a doctor, now I give without hesitation lectures,” says the mother of three daughters. “But the fear of relapse: that never goes away.”
For Danielle Goffa began the adventure during a edelstenenreis to Africa and Asia. “One night I saw in the desert a carpet of desiccated droppings of camels. I am immediately photographs begin to create. Later when I was in Sri Lanka, the dung of elephants had seen, I knew that I was artistic to work.”
Crusade against cancer
Goffa went to Luc Colemont, the doctor who for years, a crusade against colon cancer. “He asked me whether I twenty sets could make. And as I also came from the Antwerp Zoo. Because I had their help is needed to the necessary materials to come.”
of course, That was no problem. “Manure is for us like gold,” says zoo director Linda Van Elsacker. “It is a passport for the animals: what they eat, for their health, whether or not they are pregnant. There you do not always need a microscope to pick up. You can a lot of with the naked eye to see. The firmness, the color and the smell tell us a lot.”
Gorillas: gardeners of the forest
So are the gorillas – a very important group in the Antwerp Zoo, in nature, actually the ‘gardeners’ of the forest. They eat fruits and swallow large seeds. Research shows that seeds from gorillamest better germs than when they are just the fruit fall to the ground. Because gorillas like to open places to sleep and their gevoeg do, they play a key role in the recovery of the jungle. (read more under photo)