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Breeding Programmes
Newquay Zoo is serious about conservation and many of the species held at the zoo are part of the European Endangered Species Programme. The Rhino symbol is added to the enclosure signs for those animals which are part of this programme. This means they are managed by a studbook keeper working within a UK or European Zoo.
EEP Breeding Programme Species
Below are three examples of species which are part of the European Endangered Species Programme.
Pied Tamarins (this photo show two babies born in August 2007 with mum), a Siberian Lynx and an young and adult Humboldt's Penguin.
For further information on EEP and ESB please visit http://www.eaza.net/EEP/3EEPtext.html
For further information on EEP and ESB please visit http://www.eaza.net/EEP/3EEPtext.html
SAVING ANIMALS FOR THE FUTURE
Conservation of endangered animals and their habitats is a massive task, which no one zoo can do by itself.
http://www.biaza.org.uk/public/pages/conservation/index.asp
Together with its partner zoos Paignton Zoo and Living Coasts, Newquay Zoo works on breeding programmes in association with many zoos across Britain and Ireland BIAZA http://www.biaza.org.uk/, Europe EAZA http://www.eaza.net/ and worldwide WAZA http://www.waza.org/ as well as its overseas project partners.
Good zoos worldwide are working together to implement the conservation, welfare, research and education goals of the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Satregy or WZACS, updated in 2005. http://www.waza.org/conservation/wzacs.php
Disaster insurance?
There are now 41,415 species on the 2007 IUCN Red List and 16,306 of them are threatened with extinction. The total number of extinct species has reached 785 and a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation.
The animal signs at Newquay Zoo mention the threat or status in the wild category - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List A more detailed description of the categories of threatened or endangered animal can be found at http://www.iucnredlist.org/info/categories_criteria2001
Animals become extinct, threatened or endangered in the wild for many reasons:
Good zoos work to create breeding programmes to safeguard an assurance population against further threats like a frozen ‘seed bank' in a botanic garden but a living, breathing and lively one!
Find out more about endangered wildlife at http://www.arkive.org/ and http://www.arkiveeducation.org/
Saving the animals for what future?
Without zoos and protection in the wild, we will see many animals, plants and habitats decline or vanish in our lifetime. The future is unpredictable. However reintroduction to the wild in the future is still a possibility although costly and difficult to do.
More information about reintroduction can be found -http://www.biaza.org.uk/public/pages/conservation/reintro.asp
http://www.iucnsscrsg.org/
http://www.biaza.org.uk/public/pages/conservation/index.asp
Together with its partner zoos Paignton Zoo and Living Coasts, Newquay Zoo works on breeding programmes in association with many zoos across Britain and Ireland BIAZA http://www.biaza.org.uk/, Europe EAZA http://www.eaza.net/ and worldwide WAZA http://www.waza.org/ as well as its overseas project partners.
Good zoos worldwide are working together to implement the conservation, welfare, research and education goals of the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Satregy or WZACS, updated in 2005. http://www.waza.org/conservation/wzacs.php
Disaster insurance?
There are now 41,415 species on the 2007 IUCN Red List and 16,306 of them are threatened with extinction. The total number of extinct species has reached 785 and a further 65 are only found in captivity or in cultivation.
The animal signs at Newquay Zoo mention the threat or status in the wild category - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IUCN_Red_List A more detailed description of the categories of threatened or endangered animal can be found at http://www.iucnredlist.org/info/categories_criteria2001
Animals become extinct, threatened or endangered in the wild for many reasons:
- Poaching or hunting for meat, fur or body parts or as pests
- Illegal wildlife trading
- Habitat loss or damage (including pollution, forestry and agriculture)
- Natural disasters and climate change
- Introduced predators or competition
Good zoos work to create breeding programmes to safeguard an assurance population against further threats like a frozen ‘seed bank' in a botanic garden but a living, breathing and lively one!
Find out more about endangered wildlife at http://www.arkive.org/ and http://www.arkiveeducation.org/
Saving the animals for what future?
Without zoos and protection in the wild, we will see many animals, plants and habitats decline or vanish in our lifetime. The future is unpredictable. However reintroduction to the wild in the future is still a possibility although costly and difficult to do.
More information about reintroduction can be found -http://www.biaza.org.uk/public/pages/conservation/reintro.asp
http://www.iucnsscrsg.org/
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