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Green and black poison dart frog Supplement - 2016 Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Living Coasts & Newquay Zoo Supplement - 2016 Index Summary Accounts 4 Figures At a Glance 6 Paignton Zoo Inventory 7 Living Coasts Inventory 21 Newquay Zoo Inventory 25 Scientific Research Projects, Publications and Presentations 35 Awards and Achievements 43 Our Zoo in Numbers 45 Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust Paignton Zoo Environmental Park, Living Coasts & Newquay Zoo Bornean orang utan Paignton Zoo Inventory Pileated gibbon Paignton Zoo Inventory 1st January 2016 - 31st December 2016 Identification IUCN Status Arrivals Births Did not Other Departures Status Identification IUCN Status Arrivals Births Did not Other Departures Status Status 1/1/16 survive deaths 31/12/16 Status 1/1/16 survive deaths 31/12/16 >30 days >30 days after birth after birth MFU MFU MAMMALIA Callimiconidae Goeldi’s monkey Callimico goeldii VU 5 2 1 2 MONOTREMATA Tachyglossidae Callitrichidae Short-beaked echidna Tachyglossus aculeatus LC 1 1 Pygmy marmoset Callithrix pygmaea LC 5 4 1 DIPROTODONTIA Golden lion tamarin Leontopithecus rosalia EN 3 1 1 1 1 Macropodidae Pied tamarin Saguinus bicolor CR 7 3 3 3 4 Western grey Macropus fuliginosus LC 9 2 1 3 3 Cotton-topped Saguinus oedipus CR 3 3 kangaroo ocydromus tamarin AFROSORICIDA Emperor tamarin Saguinus imperator LC 3 2 1 subgrisescens Tenrecidae Cebidae Lesser hedgehog Echinops telfairi LC 8 4 4 tenrec Squirrel monkey Saimiri sciureus LC 5 5 Giant (tail-less) Tenrec ecaudatus LC 2 2 1 1 White-faced saki Pithecia pithecia LC 4 1 1 2 tenrec monkey CHIROPTERA Black howler monkey Alouatta caraya NT 2 2 1 1 2 Pteropodidae Brown spider monkey Ateles hybridus CR 4 1 3 Rodrigues fruit bat Pteropus rodricensis CR 10 3 7 Brown spider monkey Ateles spp. -
In Our Hands: the British and UKOT Species That Large Charitable Zoos & Aquariums Are Holding Back from Extinction (AICHI Target 12)
In our hands: The British and UKOT species that Large Charitable Zoos & Aquariums are holding back from extinction (AICHI target 12) We are: Clifton & West of England Zoological Society (Bristol Zoo, Wild Places) est. 1835 Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (Jersey Zoo) est. 1963 East Midland Zoological Society (Twycross Zoo) est. 1963 Marwell Wildlife (Marwell Zoo) est. 1972 North of England Zoological Society (Chester Zoo) est. 1931 Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (Edinburgh Zoo, Highland Wildlife Park) est. 1913 The Deep est. 2002 Wild Planet Trust (Paignton Zoo, Living Coasts, Newquay Zoo) est. 1923 Zoological Society of London (ZSL London Zoo, ZSL Whipsnade Zoo) est. 1826 1. Wildcat 2. Great sundew 3. Mountain chicken 4. Red-billed chough 5. Large heath butterfly 6. Bermuda skink 7. Corncrake 8. Strapwort 9. Sand lizard 10. Llangollen whitebeam 11. White-clawed crayfish 12. Agile frog 13. Field cricket 14. Greater Bermuda snail 15. Pine hoverfly 16. Hazel dormouse 17. Maiden pink 18. Chagos brain coral 19. European eel 2 Executive Summary: There are at least 76 species native to the UK, Crown Dependencies, and British Overseas Territories which Large Charitable Zoos & Aquariums are restoring. Of these: There are 20 animal species in the UK & Crown Dependencies which would face significant declines or extinction on a global, national, or local scale without the action of our Zoos. There are a further 9 animal species in the British Overseas Territories which would face significant declines or extinction without the action of our Zoos. These species are all listed as threatened on the IUCN Red List. There are at least 19 UK animal species where the expertise of our Zoological Institutions is being used to assist with species recovery. -
Zoo-Based Research
Student and voluntary research placement 2020-2021 Zoo-based research The Wild Planet Trust owns three zoos: Paignton Zoo, Livings Coasts & Newquay Zoo. The Field Conservation and Research department is responsible for co-ordinating the research conducted at our zoos. We mainly concentrate on applied research, aiming to enhance knowledge and understanding that will lead directly to better practice in all aspects of zoo operations. Placements students will be carrying out research at any of our three zoo sites. Research themes include behavioural management, breeding and parenting behaviours, human-animal interactions and nutrition. Zoo-based studies may require collection of a variety of data including behaviour, vocalisations, personality assessment, food intake and faecal sampling. Research involves working closely with other departments in the zoo, particularly the animal, veterinary, education and garden departments. PAST PROJECTS Several students have achieved awards, including best speaker at the Annual BIAZA Research Symposium. Past projects include: Extinct in the wild? Investigating breeding behaviours and chick rearing in the critically endangered Edwards’s pheasant in captivity. The effects of feeding schedules on Sumatran tiger behaviour and dry matter digestibility. The effect of artificial UVB on primate behaviour. POTENTIAL PROJECTS Research topics may include monitoring the behaviour of bird species, as a model for in situ conservation efforts and investigating the efficacy of breeding management for primate species which are part of European captive breeding programmes. A key area for development is monitoring the impact of our future zoo-site developments. We also conduct regular observations on the behaviour of our Hamadryas baboon troop, to help support management decisions and monitor breeding. -
Fair Haven Borough's
FAIR HAVEN BOROUGH’S - CORONA VIRUS- FREE ONLINE VIDEO STREAM ACTIVITY RESOURCE Please enjoy this list of various online –video based- activities to enjoy while at home All options are free of cost Do you know of a FREE, online video activity that members of our community may be interested in? Please send an email to [email protected] with the link and brief description Blink Fitness Blink Fitness is hosting Facebook Live sessions weekdays at 8 a.m. ET. The fitness chain will host virtual workouts, give tips to stay motivated and answer fitness questions from the comments. Orangetheory Orangetheory is sharing a new 30-minute workout video each day, featuring some of its most popular coaches from around the world. The workouts don't require any special equipment, but may feature everyday household items. Peloton For the next 90 days, Peloton is offering its app to new users for free. Even if you don't have the bike, the app has yoga, meditation, strength, stretching, bodyweight cardio and strength training exercises. According to the company, all you need is a mat to get started. Gold's Gym Gold's Gym is offering a variety of digital workouts for free through the end of May. Its app offers over 600 audio and video workouts. Planet Fitness Planet Fitness is live streaming "Work-Ins" at 7 p.m. ET every day on Facebook. The company said its trainers, and occasionally surprise celebrity guests, will lead the 20-minute workouts, which are free for everyone. 305 Fitness 305 Fitness is offering cardio dance live streams twice a day on YouTube. -
Devon Crayfish Ark Project Officer Brief For
Invitation to Tender: Devon Crayfish Ark Project Officer Contract title: Devon Crayfish Ark Project Officer Contract start: 9th March 2020 Contract finish: 30th November 2020 Brief for potential contractors Background The white-clawed crayfish is the only species of crayfish native to the UK; it has declined dramatically throughout much of its range since the 1970s. This decline is largely due to introductions of invasive non-native crayfish species and associated pathogens, primarily ‘crayfish plague’, a fungal pathogen, carried by the invasive American signal crayfish, which is fatal to white-clawed crayfish within days of exposure. Habitat degradation, pollution and changes to water quality have also contributed to the species' decline. In Devon, white-clawed crayfish are restricted to just two native crayfish populations on the Rivers Creedy/Yeo and Culm. Non-native signal crayfish are present on both river systems and therefore both white-clawed populations are threatened with extinction within 5-10 years without intervention. The Devon Crayfish Ark Project is a collaboration between the Wild Planet Trust (based at Paignton Zoo), Environment Agency, Nicky Green Associates, the Blackdown Hills AONB (focussing on the River Culm) and Bristol Zoological Gardens. The aim of the project is to safeguard white-clawed crayfish populations in Devon through the establishment of ark sites. This follows a highly successful community based project in the River Culm catchment. See https://blackdownhillsaonb.org.uk/project/culm-community-crayfish/ The group are producing the Devon Crayfish Action Plan which outlines the actions required to safeguard Devon’s crayfish populations (draft available on request). Work has already started on some elements of the Action Plan, including surveys and initial ark site investigations in the Culm catchment and the setting up of a white-clawed crayfish hatchery at Paignton Zoo. -
Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve
Slapton Ley National Nature Reserve Management Plan 2020 - 2030 1 Contents Contents ........................................................................................................................................... 2 Figures .............................................................................................................................................. 4 PLAN SUMMARY ............................................................................................................................... 5 Aims ........................................................................................................................................... 5 Vision ......................................................................................................................................... 5 A. GENERAL INFORMATION .......................................................................................................... 6 1. Legislation & policy/compliance ........................................................................................... 6 1.1. Relevant authorities ....................................................................................................... 6 1.2. Designations ................................................................................................................... 6 1.3. Tenure ............................................................................................................................ 7 1.4. Policies .......................................................................................................................... -
Statement in Support of Sustainable Palm Oil the Conservation
Statement in support of Sustainable Palm Oil The conservation organisations listed below are committed to driving the palm oil industry in the right direction, and support a move to sustainable palm oil and not a blanket boycott. Palm oil produced according to the standards set by the Roundtable on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) or Palm Oil Innovation Group (POIG), as of 2018, is required to be deforestation-free. Manufacturers, retailers and traders all over the world have made bold commitments to removing deforestation from their supply chains - some are making swifter progress than others towards meeting these commitments. There are no quick fixes, but the following actions will go a long way to cleaning up the palm oil industry: ● Palm oil producers must stop converting forests, peatlands and other sensitive natural habitats to oil palm plantations. Instead, they should increase yields on existing plantations, and any expansion should be restricted to degraded land that is not classified as High Conservation Value or High Carbon Stock. They also need to be transparent about their production methods and avoid labour, land and human rights violations. ● Companies manufacturing or selling products made with palm oil and its derivatives need to investigate their suppliers and only source palm oil from responsible growers, ensuring their supply chain is traceable, and communicating honestly with their customers about their progress on their journey to using solely sustainable palm oil. ● We expect the RSPO and its members to adhere to the criteria and take action when there is evidence of non-compliance. ● Consumers can support retailers and manufacturers which are committed to removing deforestation from their products, join social media campaigns to drive the industry in the right direction, and support conservation organisations who are working to break the link between palm oil and deforestation. -
2019 Annual Report FINAL.Pdf
IUCN SSC CONSERVATION PLANNING SPECIALIST GROUP ANNUAL REPORT 2019 F S O T E L N B E A T T F R O M T H E C H A I R 2 N 2 0 1 9 A T A G L A N C E 4 O 6 S P E C I E S H I G H L I G H T S C 10 N E W I N I T I A T I V E 12 S P O N S O R S & D O N O R S 16 A B O U T C P S G 20 F I N A N C I A L I N F O R M A T I O N OUR MISSION CPSG saves threatened species by increasing the effectiveness of conservation efforts worldwide. CPSG PAGE | 02 All that CPSG accomplished in 2019—travel to 28 countries, Letter from the Chair planning for 372 species, collaborations with over 60 PERSEVERANCE partners—looks even more remarkable through the lens of IN A PANDEMIC the COVID-19 pandemic we are currently experiencing. But CPSG is nothing if not Looking back on the past resilient. 40 years of year, a line from a Joni experience planning futures for Mitchell song keeps running threatened species has taught through my mind, “Don't it us that conservation works, always seem to go, that you when guided by effective don't know what you've got planning. A recent study (Lees till it's gone.” et al., in prep) comparing the rate of species declines before Never could we have and after CPSG intervention imagined a scenario such as illustrates the powerful role of the one we are living today. -
BIAZA Field Conservation & Native Species Conference
BIAZA Field Conservation & Native Species Conference 29th – 31st January 2020 - Preliminary Programme DAY 1: NATIVE SPECIES 8.30- 9.00 Registration / tea & coffee 9.00 – 9.10 Welcome & housekeeping 9.10 – 9.20 Introduction to Chester Zoo Session 1 : Invited Speakers 9.20 – 10.00 Plenary : Rewilding Britain Alastair Driver – Director of Rewilding Britain 10.00 – 10.30 Keynote: State of Nature Report 2019 Daniel Hayhow – RSPB 10.00 – 11.00 Manchester Mosses Project Jo Kennedy – Lancashire Wildlife Trust 11.00 – 11.30 Tea & coffee break Session 2 : Rewilding Your Zoo 11.30 – 11.50 Local Environmental Centres for Zoos and Rewilding Tom Hunt - ALERC 11.50 – 12.00 Grab That Gap Launch BIAZA 12.00 – 12.30 How Four Million People were Engaged by Wildflowers and Fungi Philip Turvil – Royal Botanic Gardens Kew 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch 13.30 – 15.00 Practical Workshop (TBC) 15.00 – 15.20 Tea & coffee break Session 3 : Rewilding & Reintroduction 15.30 – 16.00 Moving martens : Native species recovery in the Forest of Dean Cat McNicol – Gloucester Wildlife Trust 16.00 – 16.15 Successful captive breeding of a critically endangered native invertebrate; the pine hoverfly Helen Taylor – RZSS 16.15 – 16.30 The return of red-billed choughs to Jersey: lessons learnt Elizabeth Corry - Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust 16.30 -16.45 Do bats go to the zoo? Bat community detection and habitat use at the Knowsley Estate Naomi Davies – Knowsley Safari 16.45 – 17.00 Habitat and foodplant research for the Barberry Carpet Moth Will Millard – John Innes Centre & Drayton -
Zoo-Based Research
Student and voluntary research placement 2021-2022 Zoo-based research The Wild Planet Trust owns two zoos: Paignton Zoo & Newquay Zoo. The Trust’s Conservation directorate is responsible for co-ordinating the research conducted at our zoos. We mainly concentrate on applied research, aiming to enhance knowledge and understanding that will lead directly to better practice in all aspects of zoo operations. Placements students will be carrying out research at either of our zoo sites. Research themes include behavioural management, breeding and parenting behaviours, human-animal interactions and nutrition. Zoo-based studies may require collection of a variety of data including behaviour, vocalisations, personality assessment, food intake and faecal sampling. Research involves working closely with other departments in the zoo, particularly the animal, veterinary, education and garden departments. PAST PROJECTS Several students have achieved awards, including best speaker at the Annual BIAZA Research Symposium. Past projects include: Extinct in the wild? Investigating breeding behaviours and chick rearing in the critically endangered Edwards’s pheasant in captivity. The effects of feeding schedules on Sumatran tiger behaviour and dry matter digestibility. The effect of artificial UVB on primate behaviour. POTENTIAL PROJECTS Research topics may include monitoring the behaviour of bird species, as a model for in situ conservation efforts and investigating the efficacy of breeding management for primate species which are part of European captive breeding programmes. A key area for development is monitoring the impact of our future zoo-site developments. We also conduct regular observations on the behaviour of our Hamadryas baboon troop, to help support management decisions and monitor breeding. -
Covid-19 Updates from the BIAZA Office
Covid-19 updates from the BIAZA Office BIAZA Office staff are working from home until further notice. If you need to contact a member of staff, please do so via their email address (which you can find here: https://biaza.org.uk/biaza- office) or via [email protected]. If you have an urgent concern you can contact Nicky (07593580591) COVID-19 Member Update – 10/05/21 Dear Members, There are a number of significant updates, in particular with relation to our members in England. Animal Welfare Strategy This week we are expecting significant announcements from the Government regarding animal welfare and, to a lesser extent, conservation. Today BIAZA met with Lord Goldsmith, the zoos minister, and many other leading animal welfare organisations to discuss the new strategy. Over the weekend, Born Free and a coalition of 50 organisations published their own thoughts on what the strategy should look like which can be read here. Some of the Government’s plans to recognise animal sentience have also been trailed in the media. BIAZA has fed into the announcements on a number of specific points and we will endeavour to share our thoughts with you when we are able to. 17 May confirmed for indoor areas in England In welcome news, the UK Government has confirmed that from the 17 of May indoor visitor attractions can open including aquariums, tropical houses and indoor areas within zoos and safari parks. BIAZA would like to remind members of its guidance for operating during the pandemic. We are also hoping to support reopening with a coordinated social media push on 14 May, get in touch for more details. -
Financial Statements and Council of Association Report 22
Cover: Thao Whipping Frogs Eleanor Stobbart Paignton Zoo 20 20ANNUAL REPORT With the effects of the pandemic having wide-reaching impact through the BIAZA community, Fordingbridge have assisted wherever possible. Last April, we launched our “Home Learning Page”; a free tool specifically for BIAZA members to promote their Education and Zoo-To-You marketing opportunities to a country of children learning from home. We promoted this through our social media channels, company website and directly through our network of the thousands of schools we work with for canopy installations across the UK. We did this to drive engagement for your organisations and assist in your fundraising efforts. We would hope that many of these virtual-learners and teachers have now become physical visitors upon reopening. Fordingbridge can also help drive revenue; using our in-house design team to manufacture and install canopies for covered dining/viewing areas to negate ‘rainy day’ ticket slumps, and create statement, sustainable buildings to enhance animal welfare and visitor experience. Like you, we are passionate about what we do, striving to exceed client expectations and deliver beyond the brief. We would love to work in partnership with your attraction to provide an exciting addition for your visitors throughout the year. E: [email protected] . T: 01243 554455 . W: www.fordingbridge.co.uk Regent’s Park, London, NW1 4RY Email: [email protected] Join us on Facebook Follow us on Sponsored by Fordingbridge www.biaza.org.uk www.facebook.com/biazaofficial Twitter @BIAZA The British & Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums is a charitable company limited by guarantee and registered in England and Wales number 6789783.