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WAZA News 4/12 November 4/12 2012 IUCN World Conservation Congress | p 2 Biodiversity in Asia | p 7 Collection Planning | p 15 Marketing Conference See page 32 Change of date and venue © Jonathan Woodward; http://jonathanwoodwardstudio.com Woodward; Jonathan © WAZA news 4/12 Gerald Dick Contents Editorial IUCN World Dear WAZA members and friends! Conservation Congress ............. 2 A Nature Love Story................. 5 We have just concluded the 67th Annual Biodiversity Conservation Conference in Melbourne, Australia. in Asia ..................................... 7 This meeting was a big success and the IUCN Reintroduction focus on “fighting extinction” covered Guidelines ............................. 14 a wide array of topics, ranging from Animal Collection Planning ..... 15 conservation, education to collection WAZA Interview: sustainability and population manage- Bruce Rideout ........................ 18 ment. The keynote presenters under- Book Reviews ........................ 20 lined the important role of zoos and Announcements .....................21 aquariums and the responsibility of IUCN Red List, our community in the interaction with logo and scale .........................23 about 700 million visitors to zoo and Update: aquarium facilities worldwide. Many International Studbooks ..........23 positive examples and success stories World Environment Day ......... 24 were presented and the important link WAZA Training Grant 2011 to the decade on biodiversity under- Reports ................................. 26 lined by many speakers. Fruitful discus- WAZA Projects sions took place on the cooperation Dugong Emergency between associations, animal welfare Protection Project ..................27 and global species management plans. Pantanal Giant Armadillo Welfare and population management Project .................................. 28 as well as associated strategic develop- Red Panda Conservation: ments have been identified as focus Project Punde Kundo ............. 29 of work for the next year. Finally, two © WAZA Niassa Lion Project .................31 resolutions, one on endorsing the new Gerald Dick and glassfrog at Highgrove. New Members ....................... 33 IUCN reintroduction guidelines and one New Member Applications ...... 38 on CO2 compensation while highlight- As this jubilee year for WAZA is draw- ing ocean acidification were adopted. ing to a close soon, I wish to thank all I wish to thank Zoos Victoria for having members for their ongoing support and been a wonderful host and for provid- all the best for 2013, ing insight in the activities of fighting extinction. At the end of our confer- Gerald Dick ence, Zoos Victoria celebrated the 150th WAZA Executive Director anniversary – congratulations and best wishes for the future! Imprint Edition: 550 copies © WAZA 2012 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 Printed on FSC paper. Layout and typesetting: [email protected] Print: Agentura NP, Staré Město, Czech Republic ISSN: 1662-7733 WAZA news 4/12 1 Jörg Junhold The President’s Page Prior to this event WAZA Council Connected to this topic is WAZA‘s and several Committee Chairs had own Decade on Biodiversity project an additional meeting in August at which aims to equippe our mem- Zoo Leipzig to discuss and work on bers with communication tools that the improvement of our Committee will help them to raise their visitors structures. An external facilitator awareness about the importance of of the Helmholtz Centre for Envi- biodiversity. We are very grateful for ronmental Research assisted us in a proposed generous grant of the focusing on problems and solutions Swiss MAVA Foundation, which we for a more efficient work. The results hope will be approved later this year. of this workshop were discussed in This would enable us to develop and Melbourne during the WAZA Coun- distribute different video films, mobile © WAZA cil meeting and further steps were apps and other services on a much Jörg Junhold at Healesville Sanctuary, Zoos Victoria. taken to re-organize the structure of broader scale within the next three our Committees and their tasks. This years. A group of 32 zoos is taking process is ongoing and I am confident part in this process and guarantees These are the last weeks of our 77th that in the end we will see a more for a good usability and that the view WAZA Anniversary which has been efficienct work and an adjustment of of different cultures is incorporated. a busy and successful year. The 67th Committee tasks to external condi- Pre and post visitor surveys are an Annual Conference in Melbourne tions which have changed a lot over integral part of this communication has been an inspiring meeting with the last ten years. approach to ensure that all measures colleagues and friends, interesting are as efficient as possible. speakers and lively discussions for In the beginning of September the example on improving the sustain- IUCN World Conservation Congress, Another field of improvement ability of animal collections through the largest and most important becomes more and more visible Global Species Management Plans. conservation meeting, took place in with the migration of hundreds of Further more it was decided to set up Jeju, Korea. Dr Gerald Dick and I as zoos to the new ISIS software ZIMS. a Global Strategy on Animal Welfare, well as several WAZA member zoos Prior to the Annual Conference of the a document of similar importance as took part in many workshops and European Association of Zoos and the World Zoo and Aquarium Con- meetings. In conjunction with the Aquaria (EAZA) in Innsbruck/Austria servation Strategy. These valuable Executive Office three special events in September ISIS used the chance to results show what such a meeting were scheduled to present the world facilitate the 2nd ISIS user conference should be all about! My sincere wide zoo community and its work. which I had the honour to open with thanks goes to all of the staff of Zoos The focus was on the question how a keynote address. Zoo Leipzig was Victoria who have done a tremendous zoos can improve public awareness one of the test zoos for the develop- job to host our conference and make about the UN Decade on Biodiver- ment of ZIMS and my impression is us feel honoured and welcome! sity 2011–2020 and which special that the problems of the first release potentials they can contribute to of this new software have been over- biodiversity conservation. Thanks to come by now. The latest version is a great collaboration of the par- easy to use and much faster and more …Global Strategy ticipating actors we were able to use reliable for the daily routines. I am this international gathering for our convinced that we need this cutting on Animal Welfare, communication purposes in a very edge software in order to manage the beneficial manner. A summary report data of millions of individuals and that a document of of the knowledge café is included in our breeding programmes will benefit this edition of WAZA News. a lot from the decision to create an similar importance online based platform for this most important purpose. I even think that as the World Zoo ZIMS will promote the possibility to manage ex situ and in situ populations and Aquarium of some species as metapopulations and through this generate a new level Conservation of sustainable management. Strategy… I like to wish all of you a successful and peaceful end of 2012 and a good start into the next year! 2 WAZA news 4/12 Julia Marton-Lefèvre – IUCN Director General World Conservation Congress Highlights The 2012 IUCN World Conservation World Conservation Forum: IUCN Members’ Assembly: Congress was held from 6–15 Sep- Debating the future of con- Environmental democracy tember on Jeju Island, Republic of servation in action Korea, generously hosted by the Ministry of Environment of the Re- A total of 581 events were held dur- The Members’ Assembly, IUCN’s public of Korea and the Jeju Special ing the five-day World Conservation unique global environmental parlia- Self-Governing Province. Some Forum. The five World Leaders’ Dia- ment bringing together governments 10,000 people from over 160 coun- logues on the themes of nature+ cli- and non-governmental organizations, tries participated in various parts of mate, nature+ food, nature+ develop- approved the new IUCN Programme the Jeju Congress. ment, nature+ people & governance, for 2013–2016. The Programme builds and nature+ life were a highlight of upon IUCN’s niche as the world’s au- The Congress slogan was Nature+, the Forum, generating significant thority on biodiversity conservation, capturing the fundamental impor- participation from audiences in Jeju nature-based solutions and related tance of nature and its inherent link and online. environmental governance. to every aspect of our lives. The Forum underlined the crisis fac- The key issues on the agenda were: ing the natural world through new WAZA supported • Nature+ climate reports on threatened species and Motions • Nature+ food ecosystems. New knowledge prod- • Nature+ development ucts presented included the IUCN • Framework for setting priorities • Nature+ people & governance Red List of Ecosystems, the IUCN for the conservation of threat- • Nature+ life Green List of Protected Areas, and ened species the Protected Planet Report. The Congress included a World Con- • Precautionary
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