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ZSL Conservation Review 2015 CONSERVATION REVIEW | 2015 | REVIEW CONSERVATION ZSL Conservation Review | 2015 CONSERVATION REVIEW | CONTENTS 3 WELCOME 4 INTRODUCTION 7 ZSL’S MISSION TARGETS 8 ZSL’S GLOBAL IMPACT 10 MONITORING THE PLANET 14 SAVING THREATENED SPECIES 18 PROTECTING HABITATS 22 ENGAGING WITH BUSINESS 24 INSPIRING THE NEXT GENERATION 26 INNOVATIVE FINANCING Funding and partners 28 WHAT YOU HELPED US ACHIEVE IN 2015 30 CONSERVATION FUNDERS 32 CONSERVATION PARTNERS 34 GOVERNANCE 2 | CONSERVATION REVIEW 2015 | zsl.org WELCOME | CONSERVATION REVIEW Welcome The President and Director General of the Zoological Society of London introduce our Conservation Review 2015. As President of the Zoological Society of The year 2015 was an extremely successful London (ZSL), I am delighted to present one at ZSL. Most notably, we were awarded the 2015 Conservation Review, highlighting our largest ever grant, for an ambitious project the truly great work we are doing here and with the government of South Sumatra and demonstrating significant progress towards partners: the South Sumatra Eco-Region Alliance. our mission targets. The partnership is tackling deforestation and A key highlight was the ZSL-led Marine peatland degradation in an important Sumatran Reserves Coalition obtaining a commitment from the UK government tiger landscape, ensuring that wildlife is conserved while still enabling to implement a third marine reserve in Ascension Island, a UK Overseas economic development. Territory (UKOT). Once all proposed reserves are in place, this will bring Another large grant received also focused on tigers, this time in Nepal the amount of fully protected ocean around the UKOTs to an impressive and across the border into India, emphasising improved protected area 1,729,000km2. This was particularly welcome in a year when theLiving management and human-tiger conflict resolution. India is also the location Blue Planet Report, compiled by ZSL scientists and WWF (the World for our new Asiatic lion conservation project, which I was honoured to Wide Fund for Nature), established that marine wildlife has declined launch at a ceremony in the Gir Forest. I signed a Memorandum of by 49% since 1970, and it was widely predicted that by 2050 there Understanding with the government of Gujarat in India, pledging ZSL’s will be more plastic debris in the oceans than fish. expertise and support to safeguard the future of these precious big cats, ZSL is also addressing this crisis in the health of our seas closer to of which there are only approximately 500 left in the wild. home. Once again we worked with Selfridges on our collaborative Our innovative Rhino Impact Investment work has seen ZSL move Project Ocean campaign. The year saw the renowned luxury retailer into the financial arena, seeking to establish large scale, sustainable taking a role in reducing the amount of plastic that ends up in our funding for rhino protection on the ground in Africa. As part of this oceans by removing all single-use plastic water bottles from its shelves. project, our field teams in Kenya are already implementing Instant Detect Further afield, we are providing fishing communities in Cameroon, – new technology that provides real-time intruder alerts for protected Mozambique and the Philippines with access to small-scale financial area managers via satellite, giving them a much-needed edge over services in order to encourage a more sustainable approach to fishing. well-financed poaching teams. We are one of the first conservation groups to adopt a principle that Technology is increasingly important for conservation, from camera-traps benefits both people and biodiversity, as well as continuing to inspire to tracking devices, and even computer gaming has also played a part this the recycling, rather than disposal, of used fishing nets through our year. Our experts worked with United for Wildlife (UFW), led by His Royal Net-Works project in partnership with Interface. Highness The Duke of Cambridge, to produce ‘We are the Rangers’, a The year also saw significant emphasis on addressing the illegal bespoke Minecraft game set in the African savannah, in which players set wildlife trade, focusing on key traded species such as tiger, elephant, out to capture poachers. With the capacity to engage millions of young rhino and scaly anteater or pangolin. We launched our first major people with wildlife conservation, audiences who may not have considered pangolin conservation initiative in Thailand, Cameroon and China, and poaching a threat to wildlife are getting involved and we are very excited continued work in Kenya to protect elephants and rhinos in particular. about its future potential. In addition, we expanded our long-standing focus on tigers with new Working again with UFW, we have developed an online course aiming projects in Nepal and Indonesia. ZSL’s emphasis on collaboration and to provide conservation training for people from all walks of life who want innovation continues to put us at the cutting edge of biodiversity to learn more or develop a career in conservation. The future of the conservation. Our solid science base and fieldwork across Africa and planet’s wildlife is in humanity’s hands, and inspiring people from all over Asia, combined with the outreach and breeding skills of our Zoos, helps the world to engage in conserving it is vital. People are key to achieving make us unique among the world’s conservation organisations. I am our mission, and every one of our employees, volunteers, members and proud to be President of this remarkable Society, and I look forward supporters have made valuable contributions during the year. I want to to the year ahead with great anticipation. extend grateful thanks to each and every one of them. Professor Sir John Beddington, FRS Ralph Armond President, Zoological Society of London Director General, Zoological Society of London zsl.org | CONSERVATION REVIEW 2015 | 3 CONSERVATION REVIEW 2015 | ACHIEVEMENTS Introduction Jonathan Baillie, Conservation Programmes Director, outlines some of ZSL’s key impacts on global wildlife conservation. Since its foundation in 1826, ZSL has played species such as tigers, cheetahs, wild dogs an important convening and collaborative and elephants. No other global conservation role, helping to drive forward the fields of organisation uses this transparent, science- zoology and, later, conservation. The based approach. Society’s creative, entrepreneurial culture has also resulted in Driving conservation a long history of discovery innovation and innovation. Both these ZSL is driving innovation in factors remain crucial in 1 six areas to rapidly increase modern conservation. million both the scale and impact ZSL is today involved people have engaged with of conservation efforts. in many joint initiatives the ‘We are the Rangers’ For each of these areas we that bring together key Minecraft game ZSL have major projects that players to address the helped develop we believe will transform the pressing issues of our time. conservation sector: One of these is United for Wildlife, a consortium of conservation organisations Building capacity at scale chaired by His Royal Highness The Duke of Working with United for Wildlife and online Cambridge, which is developing a learning specialists Avado, we are unified approach to address the building a comprehensive illegal wildlife trade. Another digital educational platform is the Marine Reserves to help train thousands Coalition, which has played of conservation leaders a fundamental role in in developing countries, establishing some of the rapidly scaling up world’s largest marine conservation response protected areas (MPAs). where it is most needed. Work on this scale simply As the digital world cannot be delivered by a evolves, additional content single institution – a joined-up such as educational gaming approach, utilising a broad range of and citizen science will transform expertise, is vital. In addition to working the conservation learning landscape. More together, the conservation movement than one million young people have already needs to be more strategic and creative. engaged with the Minecraft anti-poaching game ‘We are the Rangers’ – also a joint Strategic focus project with United for Wildlife. ZSL’s unique Evolutionarily Distinct and Initial United for Wildlife Globally Endangered (EDGE) assessment conservation learning courses can be framework identifies the most evolutionarily found at learn.unitedforwildlife.org distinct and globally endangered species on the planet. EDGE species include iconic ZSL is also working to help increase animals such as rhinos, elephants and training and qualifications in the field of pangolins – alongside less recognisable protected area management. Lawyers and species such as the Chinese giant salamander, accountants, for example, need specific pygmy sloth and Philippine eagle. When qualifications, but there is no standardised looking at landscapes, ZSL’s conservation accreditation for protected area managers. programmes tend to focus on areas that have ZSL is working with Asian and African high densities of EDGE species and are large training colleges to develop professional enough to sustainably support wide-ranging qualifications. Developing these industry 4 | CONSERVATION REVIEW 2015 | zsl.org Top, left and this image: ZSL works to conserve some of the world’s most at-risk species, including the Sumatran tiger (Panthera tigris) in Indonesia, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) in Benin and the greater one-horned rhino (Rhinoceros
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