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WAZA News 3/11 August 3/11 2011 Lion Genetics | p 2 Sharks at Risk | p 7 Strategic Marketing | p 21 ) in Botswana. | © Cyril Requillart Cyril ) in Botswana. | © Panthera leo Panthera African lion ( WAZA news 3/11 Gerald Dick Contents Editorial African Lion Genetics ............... 2 Dear WAZA Members! Northern Rockhopper Penguins .............. 5 WAZA has embarked on a major mem- Sharks at Risk! ......................... 7 bership acquisition initiative with the French Association of Zoos .......8 support of Houston Zoo and Minnesota Romanian Zoos........................9 Zoological Garden, my sincere thanks © WAZA WAZA Interview: go to Rick Barongi and Lee Ehmke for Gerald Dick mimicking the condor’s flight. Shane Good ........................... 10 their support in realising the first image My Career: brochure for potential new members I also hope that you like the new Jeffrey McNeely ..................... 12 and people interested more generally feature stories in this edition, being the Book Reviews ........................ 15 in WAZA. The editorial burden was “WAZA interview” and “My Career” – Announcements .....................17 taken over by Carole Lecointre, our new which we hope to continue in future. WAZA Marketing Survey ........ 20 marketing staff member. Having this Another major marketing related activ- Marketing publication at hand (also available as ity took place in June, Granby, Canada. in Action: Granby ....................21 download from waza.org/get involved) The 7th Zoo and Aquarium Marketing Update it should be easier to answer questions Conference was a big success and International Studbooks ..........22 like “What is the benefit of becoming marks a milestone for future intensi- 200th WAZA-branded Project ....23 a member?” Please find a copy of this fied joint activities and cooperation. WAZA Projects brochure with this issue of WAZA News A more detailed report is included in Kinabatangan Orang-utan ...... 24 and assist to acquire new members. this edition of the WAZA News. At the Elephants for Africa................ 25 In order to be able to accomplish Prague 66th WAZA Annual Conference Chaparri Conservation ............ 26 what is defined in the WAZA strategy we will have the opportunity to discuss Black Rhino Conservation towards 2020, we need more funds the involvement of our international and Tourism............................27 and support of the zoo and aquarium community in the UN led “Decade on Houston Toad Recovery .......... 28 community. I wish to thank all of you Biodiversity”, a 10 years’ programme Recent Updates ..................... 29 for your ongoing support! to support biodiversity conserva- New Member Applications ...... 30 Also with this issue you will find the tion and related public awareness, latest edition of the WAZA Magazine, this bearing a big potential for joint focusing on the results of zoo-based activities, increased visibility and population sustainability assessments conservation impact. This overarching globally and in three major regions. long-term theme embraces all WAZA This is also meant to be a preparatory members and can help magnifying the publication for the Prague Annual different and wonderful work which all Conference, themed “Partnering for members are doing and contributing. Sustainable Zoos and Aquariums”. Looking forward to meeting you Markus Gusset of the WAZA Executive in Prague! Office has collected numerous contributions and edited this Gerald Dick important publication. WAZA Executive Director Imprint Edition: 550 copies © WAZA 2011 Editor: Gerald Dick, WAZA Executive Office IUCN Conservation Centre This edition of WAZA News Rue Mauverney 28 is also available on CH-1196 Gland www.waza.org (members’ area). Switzerland phone: +41 22 999 07 90 Founding Member fax: +41 22 999 07 91 WAZA is a registered interest representative with Layout and typesetting: the European Commission, [email protected] ID number 30556573017-18. Print: Agentura NP, Staré Město, Printed on FSC paper. Czech Republic ISSN: 1662-7733 WAZA news 3/11 1 Mark Penning The President’s Page © PAAZAB Mark Penning receiving the PAAZAB Award for outstanding service to the zoo and aquarium committee, from left to right: Andrew Eriksen (previous Chairman of PAAZAB), Mark Penning and Dave Morgan. Our sincere thanks go to colleagues that WAZA would be better served if At the time of writing, the Zoo Mar- and friends around the world who the WAZA Code of Ethics was more keting conference is taking place in generously contributed to the relief explicit, and it currently provides no Granby, Canada, and a Symposium fund following the earthquake and guidance on best practice in animal on the History of Zoos was held tsunami in Japan. We are confident welfare, nor on what is actually con- last month in Chester in the United that our JAZA colleagues have utilized sidered ‘ethical’ or ‘unethical’ in our Kingdom. Many thanks to all of the the funds effectively to support the af- field of expertise. Whilst this is very participants as well as the organizers fected institutions, evacuate animals likely to open the proverbial can of of those events – we look forward to where necessary and ensure a steady worms, the Council feels strongly that seeing the proceedings. Finally, I can supply of feeds and other essential WAZA has always endeavoured to feel my term as President of WAZA items. The rate of repair or re-instate- represent the very best of the global coming to an end, and will be hand- ment of critical infrastructure is quite zoo and aquarium community, and ing over the reins to my colleague extraordinary, and it is clear that the a sound ethical framework is a critical and friend, Dr. Jörg Junhold, immedi- Japanese government is intent on ingredient for success. ately after the conference in Prague. restoring a sense of normality. Even It has been a pleasure and privilege Mr. Abe’s Aquarium Fukushima, which The Council also seeks to further to serve WAZA in this capacity, and is just 55km south of the atomic develop the role of the Regional Asso- I thank all those with whom I have power plant, is planning to open to ciation representatives on the WAZA been in regular contact over the last the general public in the near future! Council, in order to better represent two years, particularly Dr. Gerald Once again, our thanks go to all who the interests of the regions and to Dick and the very effective team at contributed towards the relief fund – build on the relationships between the WAZA office. It has been a tre- JAZA has also expressed its collec- them. Several of our respected mendous experience, and I thank the tive gratitude to the global zoo and Regional Associations have placed members for your support. I wish Jörg aquarium community on numerous emphasis of late on the sustainability and the new WAZA Council all the occasions, and will deliver a presenta- of their managed populations – main- very best for the future. tion on the relief effort at the WAZA taining both demographic stability Conference in Prague later this year. and gene diversity have long been considered a critical part of coopera- The activities pursued by the WAZA tively managed programmes in zoos Committees and Executive Office and aquariums, and we need some are in line with the WAZA Corporate creative solutions to some complex Strategy, and a full day strategic issues we face. In Prague, we will hold workshop was held in Switzerland im- a workshop on Sustainable Collec- mediately after the mid-year meeting tions, in which we will discuss the of Council to review the strategy. One issues affecting the viability of these of the key conclusions reached was populations. It promises to generate that WAZA’s existing ethical frame- some lively discussion. work needs a critical review. It is felt 2 WAZA news 3/11 Laura Bertola, Klaas Vrieling and Hans de Iongh – CML1 & IBL2, Leiden University Conservation Genetics of the African Lion Recently a consortium of research- shaped the current genetic make up. Our data show that, from a genetics ers has published their findings on Thereby it provides a rational basis for point of view, there is a remarkable genetic research on lions, which prioritising populations for conserva- difference between lions from West revealed a remarkable difference tion effort, given the fact that it is and Central Africa and lions from East between lions in West and Central aimed to minimize the loss of genetic and southern Africa. These data also Africa and lions in East and southern diversity and preserve genetically show an unexpected close relation- Africa in the Journal of Biogeopgra- distinct lineages. ship between lions from West and phy (Bertola et al, 2011). A pattern is Central Africa and lions from the described that deviates from current In the history of lion conservation, Asiatic subspecies. Morphological taxonomy, which illustrates the value there was not much concern for and ecological data also suggest that of genetic data when working in the the status of the African lion until lions from West and Central Africa are field of species conservation. recently. This is also reflected by the different from the other African lions: lack of an international studbook individuals tend to be smaller, live in A basic principle in conservation for the African lion. For the Asiatic smaller prides and prefer smaller prey biology is that we should aim to subspecies, an international studbook than lions in East and southern Africa. conserve species as dynamic entities was set up in 1971, in combination The bellyfold, which is very charac- that are able to cope with environ- with regional conservation breed- teristic for Asiatic lions is also present mental change. This implies that it is ing programs operated by AZA and in an exceptionally high frequency in essential that the maximum of the EAZA. The subspecies of the Afri- lions in West and Central Africa. genetic diversity within a species is can lion, was long considered to be conserved, thereby preserving the abundant and wide-ranging with no In addition to the described relation- evolutionary potential of the species.
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