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Japan Tsunami Disaster | P2 Insight from Prince Albert II of Monaco: Save the Bluefin Tuna | P5 Year of the Bat | P15 May 2/11 2011 Japan Tsunami Disaster | p2 Insight from Prince Albert II of Monaco: Save the Bluefin Tuna | p5 Year of the Bat | p15 Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares). | © Monterey Bay Aquarium / Randy Wilder WAZA news 2/11 Gerald Dick Contents Editorial Tsunami, Thanks to Donors ...... 2 Save the BluefinTuna ............... 5 Seaworld’s ART of Marine Animal Research .......6 Aqua City and International Aquarium Symposium .............. 7 Arabian Oryx ...........................9 Desert Antelopes at Al Ain ...... 10 Book Reviews ........................ 10 Announcements .................... 12 Year of the Bat ....................... 15 Update International Studbooks ......... 18 © Meyer Etienne de Kock / WAZA Workshop: Gerald Dick and cheetah at Al Bustan Zoological Centre. Population Management ........ 18 Dear WAZA Members! WAZA Projects Rodent Conservation ............. 19 I wish to thank all of you who have agreed to contribute, he also is in sup- Zambia Red Caps ................... 20 contributed to help our colleagues in port of the Monaco Aquarium to join Programa SADA .....................21 Japan after the horrible earthquake WAZA. A second focus is on the Middle Red Panda Conservation .........22 and tsunami and all the consequences. East, a region where we are hoping White-footed Tamarin .............23 Many members have decided to direct- to get new members soon, well in ad- Attwater’s Prairie Chicken ...... 24 ly send their financial contributions to vance of our Annual Conference in 2015 Giant Anteater ....................... 25 JAZA while others and many individual in Al Ain. Last but not least, the WAZA GiraffeConservation .............. 26 donors chose the option to channel branded projects number passed the Recent Updates ......................27 funds through WAZA. Up to now 200 threshold and we are introducing New Member Applications ...... 29 WAZA received more than 50,000 $US eight of the latest projects. which were transferred to JAZA in In May all voting members will receive order to help the affected institutions a mail ballot for the 2011 Council elec- immediately and in an unbureaucratic tions, please make use of your demo- way. In those difficult days it is hoped cratic rights and send back the ballots that the funds contribute to relieve in time. the distress. This edition of the NEWS has a focus Gerald Dick on marine species and it is a great WAZA Executive Director honour that Prince Albert II of Monaco 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 2/11 1 Mark Penning The President’s Page © Ryszard Topola Mark Penning at Colombo, Council meeting. As I write, the members of the WAZA The activities pursued by the Execu- with WAZA. We hope that he will Council are travelling to Switzerland tive Office and WAZA Committees continue to work with us in the years for the mid­‑year meeting of Council, are in line with the outcomes of the ahead, and we wish CBSG well as it the first to be held at the new WAZA WAZA Vision and Corporate Strategy seeks to find an able replacement. Executive Office at the IUCN head- Planning Workshop that was held in quarters in Gland. The move to Gland January 2009 at the Bristol Zoological Finally, we applaud the issuing of has certainly given WAZA a far higher Gardens, and the WAZA Corporate a directive by the Chinese govern- profile in the world of conservation Strategy which was launched the ment ministry responsible for the NGO’s, and opened up a host of new previous year in St. Louis. The WAZA management of zoos, banning opportunities. Corporate Strategy suggests a stra- potentially abusive animal perfor- tegic review every three years, and mances like bears on bicycles, tigers The Council meeting will take place the Council will be devoting a full day and lions jumping through hoops of against the backdrop of devastation to a strategic workshop immediately fire, and elephants made to perform caused by earthquakes and tsunamis after the Council meeting. head stands. This has come about that have affected members of WAZA thanks to the work of the Chinese and JAZA. The Fukushima Aquarium Several important meetings are Association of Zoological Gardens was one of those hardest hit, and life linked to the meeting of WAZA Coun- (CAZG), and we extend our sup- support systems have been all but de- cil to make best use of the gathering port and encouragement to them stroyed by the surging waters. We are of several key individuals. The ISIS in promoting compliance with this relieved to hear that Mr. Yoshitaka Board of Trustees will meet, and directive. It is certainly a positive step Abe and his team managed to get out welcome Paula Brock, chief financial for animal welfare in that country and safely, and we sincerely hope that officer of the Zoological Society of the region. they will be able to salvage some- San Diego (ZSSD) as Treasurer of the thing of what was a very reputable ISIS Board. Lena Lindén has stepped aquarium. Abe­‑san and his team are down as treasurer, but will remain on famous for their research work on the ISIS Board to help with the transi- …contributed to the old Fourlegs, the Coelacanth, and tion. The CBSG will also meet, and we hope they are able to resume news is that Dr. Bob Lacy has decided Japan emergency these important studies soon. Other to begin the process of finding the institutions affected include Sendai next chair of the CBSG – Bob believes relief fund – we are Marinpia Matsushima Aquarium, Sen- that he can serve conservation and dai Yagiyama Zoo, Akita Omoriyama the work of CBSG most effectively if most grateful for Zoo, Morioka Zoo, Asamushi Aquari- he devotes his energy to specific pro- um and Hitachi Kamine Zoo. We wish jects in the future. Bob has been a tre- your assistance… them all well. I must extend a sincere mendous asset to the CBSG, and has thank you to all those who responded built up a strong working relationship to the call for help and contributed to the emergency relief fund – we are most grateful for your assistance. 2 WAZA news 2/11 Shigeyuki Yamamoto – JAZA Chair Donate to Tsunami Thanks for Donating in Support of Affected Japanese Institutions! 見舞金のお願い 14 out of our 156 member institutions Facilities Damaged experienced damages due to the mas- (as of March 14, 2011) sive earthquake and resulting tsunami on March 11, 2011. The worst damage Zoos Aquariums occurred at the institutions that are located on the coast of Tohoku area, • Akita Omoriyama Zoo (Akita, • Chitose Salmon Museum (Chitose, the region that has become the center Akita) | There was no damage on Hokkaido) | They got damage on of attention on most international enclosures. They have the difficulty a part of their facilities. A part of news programs due to the nuclear for its lifeline including blackout. It fishes died. crisis. The Aquamarine Fukushima is difficult for them to get the feed. • Aomori Prefectural Asamushi and Marinepia Matsushima Aquarium • Morioka Zoological Park (Morioka, Aquarium (Aomori, Aomori) | They experienced critical damage which Iwate) | There was no damage temporally got blackout. includes structural, electrical, and on enclosures and animals. The • Oga Aquarium GAO (Ojika, Akita) | environmental damages. electricity is cut off. Also they are They are under blackout. without water. It is difficult to them • Marinepia Matsushima Aquarium Due to the inability to distribute to get the fuel and feed. (Miyagi, Miyagi) | The first floor resources including food, water, • Yagiyama Zoological Park (Sendai, of their building was flooded by electricity, and other basic necessities, Miyagi) | There is no damage on tsunami and the machine room the zoo and aquariums have suffered animals. They need to fix a part of and electric room were submerged greatly in their ability to acquire the buildings and parking lot. They have completely. This caused huge dam- proper commodities for the ani- the difficulty for its lifeline. It is dif- age. All of the staff and animals mals. JAZA, in cooperation with our ficult for them to get the food. are fine. They have in ‑house power member institutions, has already • Nasu Animal Kingdom (Nasu, generation. been cooperating in supplying as Tochigi) | They got the damage on • Aquamarine Fukushima (Iwaki, many resources as possible to those its hot spring facility. They need to Fukushima) | There were no human members affected. close temporally, but there is no casualties including staff, volunteers, damage at zoo. visitors who were there when tsu- JAZA has received urgent transfer • Kiryugaoka Zoo (Kiryu, Gunma) | nami came. The tsunami made their permission under the Act for Conser- They got the cracks and damage on facility flooded in first floor, and un- vation of Endangered Species of Wild the street inside of zoo. The glasses derground installation and electric Flauna and Flora of all live species of office building were broken. system was damaged. There was including the walrus (Odobenus ros- • Hitachi City Kamine Zoo (Hitachi, massive damage on animals. The marus), Steller sea lion (Eumetopias Ibaraki) | They are under blackout animals alive were already trans- jubatus), Eurasian otter (Lutra lutra), without water and temporally ferred to other institutions including Common murre (Uria aalge), and closed. There was no damage on its Ueno zoo (Tokyo) and Kamogawa the tufted puffinFratercula ( cirrhata) facilities and animals. They don’t Sea World (Kamogawa, Chiba).
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