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ZSL Annual Review 2003 The Zoological Society of London Regent’s Park London NW1 4RY Whipsnade Wild Animal Park Dunstable Bedfordshire LU6 2LF www.zsl.org Annual Review 2003 front cover: Plans were approved to develop a major new Komodo dragon ZSL MISSION: To achieve exhibit at London Zoo for opening in 2004. This picture was taken at Regent’s Park in the 1920s. and promote the ZSL this page: Plaque from the old Lion worldwide conservation House displayed on the Lion Terraces. of animals and their habitats ZSL PURSUES THIS MISSION BY: 1 KEEPING AND PRESENTING ANIMALS AT LONDON ZOO AND WHIPSNADE WILD ANIMAL PARK IN ACCORDANCE WITH BEST PRACTICE; 2 GIVING PRIORITY TO SPECIES THAT ARE THREATENED IN THE WILD; 3 INCREASING PUBLIC UNDERSTANDING OF ANIMALS AND THEIR WELFARE AND OF THE ISSUES INVOLVED IN THEIR CONSERVATION; 4 MAINTAINING AN OUTSTANDING EDUCATION AND INFORMATION PROGRAMME, PARTICULARLY FOR SCHOOLCHILDREN AND FAMILIES; 5 UNDERTAKING FIELD CONSERVATION PROGRAMMES, BOTH IN BRITAIN AND ABROAD; 6 DEVELOPING ITS ROLE AS A LEADING CENTRE FOR RESEARCH The Zoological Society of Directors 7 London AND CONSERVATION BIOLOGY AND ANIMAL WELFARE; FULFILLING ITS ROLE AS A LEARNED (Registered Charity no. 208728) Director General Dr Michael Dixon Review Editor Ian Meyrick (until 10 May 2004) Assistant Editor Diane Bratby Regent’s Park Commercial Director Brian Oldman We extend our thanks to staff, colleagues SOCIETY AND FORCE FOR ZOOLOGY AND ANIMAL CONSERVATION THROUGH PUBLICATIONS, London NW1 4RY Conservation Programmes Director and other organisations for the use of and at Dr Glyn Davies photographs in this Review. Whipsnade Wild Animal Park Finance Director Michael Bird SCIENTIFIC MEETINGS, LECTURES, THE AWARD OF PRIZES FOR OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT AND Dunstable Human Resources Director Ian Meyrick Design newlevel.co.uk Bedfordshire LU6 2LF Director of Science, Institute of Zoology Professor Georgina Mace Print Perivan London. Printed on THE PROMOTION OF CONSERVATION POLICY. Chromomat Club which is chlorine free, Zoological Director Chris West acid-free, bio-degradable and Copyright © 2004 manufactured from sustainable sources. further information All rights are reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in Director General’s Office 020 7449 6207 a retrieval system or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, Membership Department 020 7449 6261 photocopying, recording or otherwise Conservation Programmes 020 7449 6304 without prior permission of the publisher. 1 President’s foreword Fundraising Office 020 7449 6582 2 Worldwide Network Institute of Zoology 020 7449 6601 3 the zoological society of london Library 020 7449 6293 4 Review of the Year London Zoo 020 7722 3333 7 Awards & Honours Whipsnade Wild Animal Park 01582 872171 9 Conservation & Science 16 Education & Information www.zsl.org 21 The Zoos at Work 25 Fundraising & Grants 29 Library 30 Financial Information president’s foreword dfsd This is my last Foreword to a ZSL Annual sub-species of large predator – like The choices will not be easy, but I am Review, for in June I will be handing Asian lions, Sumatran and Siberian confident that exciting and rewarding over to Sir Patrick Bateson. So it is tigers and Amur leopards – in captivity times lie ahead. I am grateful for the natural that, following tradition, I use the than in the wild. Several kinds of honour the Society has done me by opportunity to look back over the ten rhinoceros are in like danger and a electing me as your President for ten years since I took over from Field massive threat hangs over our nearest years, and I wish my successor every Marshal Sir John Chapple. relatives, the great apes. It is simply good fortune. unrealistic to believe that the pressures My predecessor had steered the Society on their wild habitats will easily be through a difficult period of ‘survival’. As halted or reversed. The world’s zoos and the finances were restored and balances National Parks are more and more moved firmly into the black, we realised assuming the role of latter-day Noah’s his second goal of ‘revival’. But have we Arks – and this is placing on Societies yet entered his third stage of ‘thrival’? like ours an immense responsibility not only to keep and breed endangered Sir Martin Holdgate There are encouraging signs. Thanks in species but to allow them lives of high President part to our successful establishment of quality in settings where their beauty the case for VAT exemption our bank and fascination can be appreciated by balances are healthier than they have all who come to visit them. been for many years. The leadership of our outstanding outgoing Director If we are to do this, our work in the General, Dr Michael Dixon, and our first- field and the laboratory must merge class team of Directors, has provided the seamlessly with the animal collections Officers and Council with the sound at Regent’s Park and Whipsnade, and management that is essential if the we may need to establish more captive Society’s policies are to be implemented. breeding facilities close to the wild, as We are beginning what is bound to be a we have done for some years in Saudi long-drawn-out process of rebuilding our Arabia. Our two zoos and the wonderful two zoos as places where wonderful new aquarium that will, I hope, soon be animals live and breed in spacious and taking shape at Silvertown Quays, must natural-looking settings. Our scientific be developed as genuinely world-class research and programmes of worldwide information centres and shop-windows conservation are stronger than ever. for animal conservation. We are bound to face financial constraints, for it would But? But we have a long way to go in be easy to spend hundreds of millions virtually every department of our work, in improving our facilities, so the not least because the need is increasing judgement of priority will continue to be faster than we and other bodies like us an exacting task for our Officers, Council can respond. and Directors. One thing we can all be clear on is that we cannot accept second- I write from the perspective of an rate facilities, even if they have historic ecologist and conservationist and it is and architectural merits – if, for example, therefore with pride that I see ZSL we are prevented from developing as we gaining strengths in these areas. I urge should at Regent’s Park because of our the Society, in the years ahead, to be inheritance of listed buildings, in my even more forceful in championing the view the implication is that our main urgent need for animal conservation developments will have to go elsewhere. around the world. It is a tragic fact that there are already more of some 1 worldwide network ZSL staff worked on a large number of conservation and research projects throughout the world in 2003. Many other collaborations are in development. Americas Africa Europe Asia Australasia North America Cameroon p9 Croatia p11 Afghanistan p22 Australia USA Chad p10 Spain China French Polynesia p15 Democratic Republic of Congo p9 United Kingdom India South America Egypt p9 Indonesia p11 Ecuador p15 Equatorial Guinea Mongolia p10 Chile p11 Gabon p9 Nepal p12 Ghana p9 Philippines p13 & p21 Kenya p10 & p22 Russia/Russian Far East p12 Mauritania p10 Saudi Arabia p9 Morocco Thailand Mozambique p10 & p13 Turkey Namibia p10 & p11 Niger p10 Nigeria Seychelles South Africa p9 Uganda p23 Tanzania p11 Tunisia p10 & p23 2 the zoological society of london Patron Her Majesty The Queen Members of Council during 2003 President Patron Sir Martin Holdgate CB, MA, PhD, DSc(hc), CBiol, FIBiol Her Majesty The Queen Secretary Professor Paul H Harvey BA, MA, DPhil, DSc, FRS Treasurer Paul Rutteman CBE, BSc (Econ), FCA Sheila Anderson BSc, MIPR Richard Melville Ballerand MSM, BSc(Econ), BSc, DCouns, FRUSI* Professor Sir Patrick Bateson PhD, ScD, FRS (co-opted 7 October 2003) Professor John Beddington CMG, FRS* Professor David Bellamy OBE, BSc, PhD, CBiol, FIBiol, DSc(hc), DUniv(hc), Hon FLS* David Case† Stephen Cobb BA, DPhil† David Dixon BSc, PhD, FIBiol John Edwards MA, FLS Roger Ewbank OBE, MVSc, MRCVS, FIBiol Tony Fincham BSc, PhD* Steve Harrison† Ray Heaton CertEd, BEd, GIBiol, MSc, FRGS, FLS Professor Nigel Leader-Williams BVSc, PhD, MRCVS Professor David Macdonald MA, DPhil, FIBiol (Vice President) Timothy May BSc Azra Meadows MSc, PhD, CBiol, MIBiol, FLS Professor Paul Racey MA, PhD, DSc, FRSE, CBiol, FIBiol (Vice President)† Professor Jeremy Rayner MA, PhD† Martin Rowson MA (Vice President) Ken Sims Professor Roger Wheater OBE, CBiol, FIBiol, FRSA, FRSGS (Hon), FRZSS (Hon), FRSE† Malcolm Whitehead BSc* Harry Wilkinson OBE, MA, FCA Robert Wingate † To 17 June 2003 * From 17 June 2003 3 review of the year The year began with a great deal of but through the rest of the summer activity on the zoo sites in preparation attendances were disappointing. London for the visitor season. Increased Zoo suffered like many attractions in the commercial success has meant that ZSL capital from lower tourist numbers can begin to afford to make significant following the war in Iraq and the fear of improvements to each zoo site over terrorism and SARS. In addition, the successive winters and, over time, these extraordinarily hot weeks in August changes will dramatically change London diminished visitor numbers at both zoos Zoo and Whipsnade. During the year at significantly and these lost visits were London Zoo there were substantial not made up through the rest of the alterations to Barclay Court and the area year. As a result, paid attendances of around the main lawn, with outmoded 815,000 and 445,000 were recorded at lemur and gibbon cages being removed London Zoo and Whipsnade respectively.
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