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ZSL Conservation Review 2014 CONSERVATION REVIEW 2014 OUR VISION: OUR MISSION: A world where animals To achieve and promote the are valued, and their worldwide conservation of conservation assured animals and their habitats CONSERVATION REVIEW / WHERE WE WORK Welcome The President and Director General of the Zoological Society of London look back on some of 2014’s conservation highlights. As President of the Zoological Society of London Last year, ZSL led the way in a number of conservation (ZSL), my role is to ensure that the Society is initiatives, showing impressive advancements in a constantly striving to be at the forefront of the number of our key areas of specialism. The release of worldwide conservation of animals and their the Living Planet Index, compiled by our Indicators habitats. I would like to take this opportunity to and Assessments Unit, highlighted the status and thank my predecessor, Sir Patrick Bateson, for leaving trends of the world’s species and ecosystems, while our the Society in such a marvellous position for me. conservation technology team has been creating and The remit of ZSL is vast, spanning everything from developing deploying technology that, among other things, essentially creates an new conservation technology to breeding rare species on the verge alarm system for protected areas of animal habitat. of extinction. ZSL is an organisation with ambitious goals; the bar The United for Wildlife partnership continued to ourish. At the is high when it comes to what we want to achieve. However, my beginning of the year, ZSL welcomed The Duke of Cambridge to a observations over the past year show that ZSL is up to the task. symposium focused on global illegal wildlife trade, which highlighted ZSL’s work has clear goals in monitoring species and ecosystems, the critical threat faced by so many species worldwide. reversing the decline of threatened species, restoring ecosystems, ZSL is committed to working with industry to protect biodiversity. making the private sector more sustainable and changing attitudes We have been collaborating closely with stakeholders in the palm oil and behaviour. industry to promote best practice and transparency; many magnicent I would like to thank each and every employee in Conservation species and their habitats are threatened by deforestation, but our Programmes, the Institute of Zoology and across the zoos, both Sustainable Palm Oil Transparency Toolkit aims to tackle the palm oil public-facing and behind the scenes, for driving our mission forward problem head-on and make real inroads towards better practices in its to address these goals. harvest and usage. Another example is our Net-WorksTM project, in which I have thoroughly enjoyed being President of the Society for old shing nets are collected by communities and recycled into ooring this past year, and am tremendously excited for the year ahead. by carpet manufacturer Interface – reducing pollution, beneting local This annual Conservation Review highlights just a few of the key people and creating an amazing recycled product. Projects such as these achievements in 2014 – if 2015 is anything like as successful, show ZSL’s true sustainable credentials. I will be very pleased indeed. The past year has laid an excellent foundation for the coming months. As we enter 2015, I am proud to reect on what we have recently achieved, and look forward to seeing the work ZSL does worldwide become increasingly impactful. Sir John Beddington Ralph Armond President, Zoological Society of London Director General, Zoological Society of London CONSERVATION REVIEW 2014 3 CONSERVATION REVIEW / WHERE WE WORK 1 Our hub countries ZSL’s work is truly international in scope. Each dot on the map represents one of our conservation projects, while our key hubs of activity are detailed below. UNITED KINGDOM CAMEROON KENYA SAUDI ARABIA INDIA NEPAL 1. UNITED KINGDOM and empowering communities 4. SAUDI ARABIA conserve Asiatic lions. We are Every year, ZSL’s UK & Europe team to ght wildlife crime. Following ZSL has run the King Khalid strengthening security and spends three days traversing the a tip-o, ecoguards from the Wildlife Research Centre (KKWRC) monitoring in the Gir Forest, Greater Thames Estuary by plane, Dja Biosphere Reserve, supported in Saudi Arabia for almost 30 years. encouraging communities to boat and foot to count its harbour by ZSL, discovered and seized We manage the world’s largest support lion conservation and and grey seals. In 2014, grey 39 forest elephant tusks hidden collection of Arabian ungulates facilitating ‘lion hotlines’ to reduce seal numbers increased and the in a truck and a notorious ivory and have successfully reintroduced human-wildlife conict. harbour seal population remained tracker was arrested. gazelles into three protected areas. stable – great news, given Scottish KKWRC’s research and monitoring 6. NEPAL seal numbers have suered a 3. KENYA programme continues to make By working near Suklaphanta devastating decline of up to 90%. Giraes are in decline across Africa. exciting discoveries – including the Wildlife Reserve to improve Half of the 80,000 or so remaining rst conrmed record of a sand cat livestock management, veterinary 2. CAMEROON are found in Kenya, where ZSL in Uruq Bani Ma’arid since 1998. services and fodder resources, we Elephants in Cameroon’s forests has begun monitoring girae hope to help improve the health face an unprecedented onslaught distribution, numbers and threats 5. INDIA of the grassland ecosystem. This from poachers. ZSL’s work includes throughout the Tsavo ecosystem, ZSL is working with the Gujarat will benet wildlife such as swamp supporting law enforcement, using SMART law-enforcement Forest Department and the deer and rhinos, and the people monitoring elephant populations monitoring and camera trapping. Wildlife Institute of India to who use the natural resources. 4 CONSERVATION REVIEW 2014 9 10 6 4 7 5 8 12 2 3 11 BANGLADESH THAILAND MONGOLIA CHINA INDONESIA PHILIPPINES 7. BANGLADESH works closely with local villagers population of 23-25 individuals in 12. PHILIPPINES ZSL’s Bangladesh programme to investigate ways to reduce it. the Bawangling National Reserve Freshwater eels are traded on aims to secure the unique in Hainan, China, by quantifying both national and international Sunderbans ecosystem. This tidal 9. MONGOLIA habitat suitability, strengthening scales, with demand originating mangrove forest is both a haven In 2014, ZSL led a team of population-monitoring mainly in East Asia. The Philippines for wildlife such as tigers and river 52 scientists, rangers, National techniques and collaborating is an important source of eels dolphins, and a source of natural University of Mongolia students with local stakeholders. and, despite a ban, illegal trade of resources and coastal protection and herders across the Mongolian juveniles continues in the region. for local communities. range of the Gobi Desert in a 11. INDONESIA ‘Eels – a agship species for large-scale survey of the critically Supported by Disney’s Worldwide freshwater conservation in the 8. THAILAND endangered Bactrian camel. Conservation Fund, ZSL’s Philippines’ is a ZSL-led project ZSL is working with protected conservation education project in focusing on eel conservation and area rangers in Salakpra Wildlife 10. CHINA schools around Berbak National management, operating at both Sanctuary to camera trap The critically endangered Hainan Park created Indonesia’s rst tiger- a local and an international level. Asian elephants and map their gibbon (Nomascus hainanus) focused conservation teaching ZSL’s oce in Aparri, in Cagayan distribution. Crop raiding by is one of the world’s rarest and modules, as well as a comic strip, province, has a team carrying elephants is a source of conict most threatened primates. ZSL is a blog – and even a ‘Talking Tigers’ out habitat, sheries and with people, so our team also working to save the last surviving radio show. socio-economic surveys. CONSERVATION REVIEW 2014 5 Introduction Professor Jonathan Baillie, Conservation Programmes Director, reviews ZSL’s achievements in 2014 and explains how they are helping our mission. In 2014, the Living Planet Index Habitat destruction and degradation due to released, to considerable global the agricultural sector are among the greatest media interest, the news that the drivers of biodiversity loss, and reducing this sector’s world’s vertebrates (mammals, birds, negative impacts on species and ecosystems reptiles, amphibians and sh) had should be a top conservation priority. In 2014, ZSL declined by more than 50% since launched an exciting new initiative to promote best 1970. It is clear from this statistic practice and transparency in a key industry: palm oil. that current eorts to address threats to our planet’s Information is provided online to investors and the species and ecosystems are woefully inadequate; if the public on the extent to which these companies are global conservation response does not dramatically upholding their biodiversity commitments. The public improve, we will witness a major extinction crisis. Such can also look at the actual palm oil concessions on the a response must come from all sectors of society, but ground using an online map, and monitor company organisations such as the Zoological Society of London proximity to protected areas and incidents of forest have a leadership role to play in raising the bar for loss and burning. It is a new era of transparency, conservation – and last year, we focused on doing so. and an approach that could be rolled out to all In early 2014, ZSL hosted the United for Wildlife production and extractive industries, with major symposium, a high-prole international meeting benets for biodiversity. focused on the illegal wildlife trade. At the same time, Additional funding is also a critical element in scaling the United for Wildlife partners, with The Duke of up the conservation response. ZSL has been working Cambridge, committed to addressing this trade on a with the United for Wildlife partners and Social Finance, scale never seen before in the conservation movement.
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