{"id":122896,"date":"2021-02-11T15:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-02-11T14:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/?p=122896"},"modified":"2025-12-19T11:25:24","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T10:25:24","slug":"friends-and-relatives-of-rsm-student-nathan-to-raise-funds-for-blijdorp-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.erasmusmagazine.nl\/en\/2021\/02\/11\/friends-and-relatives-of-rsm-student-nathan-to-raise-funds-for-blijdorp-zoo\/","title":{"rendered":"Friends and relatives of RSM student Nathan to raise funds for Blijdorp Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Friends and relatives of Nathan Starmans, who passed away in November, have established a campaign designed to raise funds for Rotterdam zoo Diergaarde Blijdorp. They are doing so because Nathan had \u2018a huge passion\u2019 for animals, and because the zoo is suffering heavy losses due to the pandemic. \u201cWithout a zoo, Rotterdam would no longer be Nathan\u2019s Rotterdam.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Nathan Starmans studied International Business Administration at Erasmus University and was a member of both the Skadi rowing club and the RSC\/RVSV student society. \u201cNathan was a very athletic guy and ascended Mont Ventoux [a mountain in southern France, famous for being included in the Tour de France cycling race \u2013 ed.] by bike twice. His parents came up with a plan to do that again this summer, with friends, in his honour. They thought they might raise some money for a charity that way,\u201d said the initiator of the campaign, Nathan\u2019s friend Anne Philipse.<\/p>\n

The charity they came up with was Diergaarde Blijdorp, which is incurring heavy losses due to the pandemic. Nathan grew up in Rotterdam suburb Schiebroek-Hillegersberg and used to regularly visit the zoo. He was very passionate about animals. \u201cYou name a type of animal, and he had one as a pet at one stage, ranging from fish and birds to leopard geckos. Nathan bred his own fish, too. He would buy special types of guppies in special colours, given to children, and would then sell them to others,\u201d says Oscar Galjaard, a friend of Nathan\u2019s since secondary school.<\/p>\n

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