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Zoos Victoria Annual Report 07-08 Melbourne Zoo ZOOS VICTORIA ANNUAL REPORT 07-08 MELBOURNE ZOO HEALESVILLE SANCTUARY WERRIBEE OPEN RANGE ZOO CONTENTS ‘Zoos Victoria is first and foremost a conservation organisation and we will deliver the best possible conservation outcomes by changing the way people think and feel about wildlife and the natural environment and inspiring them to take positive action. Our zoos are not just about the animals – they are about people and the journey towards conservation action.’ Zoos Victoria Board, August 2008 02 Message from the Chairman Andrew Fairley 04 Message from the CEO John Wills 06 Our vision 08 Highlights 10 Melbourne Zoo 12 Healesville Sanctuary 14 Werribee Open Range Zoo 16 The human touch 18 Engaging communities 20 Sustainability 22 Conservation programs 24 Map 26 Research 28 Zoos Victoria Foundation 30 Board biographies 32 Foundation partners and supporters 34 Publications list 36 Organisational chart 38 Financial snapshot 40 Corporate governance and other disclosure 42 Nature and range of services 46 Disclosure index ANDREW FAIRLEY ‘Zoos Victoria provides the ultimate form of sustainable tourism.’ Our operations fulfill outstanding COMMITMENT to conservation commercial outcomes and all As an organisation committed to conservation, Zoos Victoria pursues campuses seek to minimize their significant and ambitious goals. These PARTNERSHIPS of important capital works. Zoos Victoria projects were delivered, including the Kubu Finally, I wish to thank my fellow Directors on carbon footprint with environmental include endangered species breeding We work collaboratively with a number of also continues to enjoy significant support River Hippo Reserve and Lions on the Edge the Zoos Victoria Board. I particularly want to integrity. In addition we seek to add programs and campaigns to raise awareness organisations to ensure optimal outcomes. from important corporate partners. Wildlife at Werribee, the Trail of the Elephants and thank Dione Gilmour and Associate Professor Our three-year partnership with Melbourne Connect, established through our partnership the Orang-utan Sanctuary at Melbourne Zoo, Andrew Vizard who departed during the year, value to the lives of the people with about threatened species. We seek to inspire people to take protective action for animals Water was completed in June 2008. The with the RACV, enters its third year. and the Australian Wildlife Health Centre for the contributions that they made during whom we work in local communities. and their habitats. Melbourne Water Discovery Trail shows In 2008, the Animal Welfare Peer Review at Healesville. their tenure. I also wish to thank Robert Kirby visitors how recycled water is used who resigned as Deputy Chairman. In accordance with Financial Management Our fund-raising arm, the Zoos Victoria Committee was established as a Committee Our new CEO John Wills joined us in May. throughout Melbourne Zoo and reinforces the Act 1994, I am pleased to present the Report Foundation, aligns individual, foundation of the Board. The Committee includes John brings a wealth of experience in The Board welcomes Dr Irene Irvine (Deputy importance of maintaining healthy waterways. of Operations for the Zoological Parks and corporate dollars with critical on-site community members, an independent commercial life as well as the public sector. Chair), Dr Kimberley Dripps, Mary Gillett and Gardens Board for the year ending projects that save wildlife, both nationally and At Werribee Open Range Zoo our Water Veterinarian and the RSPCA, and provides We welcome him warmly. and Professor Kenneth Hinchcliff as new 30 June 2008. internationally. As part of our commitment Smart Garden, funded by the Department an important review mechanism for any I wish to extend my thanks to the Senior members of the Board. They join JoAnne to sustainability, two of our properties were of Sustainability and Environment, shows animal welfare issue at our campuses. Executive Team and all of the staff at Zoos Stephenson, Gaye Hamilton, Pru Sanderson and Nick Whitby, and are already making accredited by Ecotourism Australia, with visitors the aesthetic and water-saving OUR PEOPLE Victoria, to the Friends of the Zoos for their Healesville Sanctuary achieving advanced possibilities of planting a water smart garden an important contribution to the governance Andrew Fairley, Chairman I would like to note the Board’s thanks contribution, and to all of the visitors who in their own homes. and strategic direction of Zoos Victoria. Zoological Parks and Gardens Board certification. to Laura Mumaw for her eight years’ come to our great properties to see the work 4-September- 2008 The State Government has continued to service as CEO of Zoos Victoria. Under that we are doing and achieve an appreciation demonstrate its ongoing commitment to her leadership, exceptional capital works of how humans are able to live more Zoos Victoria, through the generous funding harmoniously with the natural world. [2/3] ZOOS VICTORIA ANNUAL REPORT 2007/2008 JOHN WILLS ‘It is a great pleasure to be invited to play a leading role in designing Zoos Victoria’s future.’ Exciting events across our three SPECIAL DELIVERIES distinctive properties – Healesville To start with some much-anticipated arrivals – the Orang-utan Sanctuary at Melbourne Sanctuary, Melbourne Zoo and Zoo welcomed the birth of a Siamang Gibbon, The birth of two Platypus at Healesville Our conservation partnership with Fauna and on 6 April 2008 and nine birds were released the high Australian dollar. Visitors joined us Werribee Open Range Zoo – have Botak, in November. Siamangs and Orang- Sanctuary in February was a world first Flora International in Sumatra is delivering at Tonimbuk on 12 April 2008. Three of the for special concerts, slumber safaris, and captured the hearts of our staff, utans both inhabit the fast-disappearing ‘second generation’ birth, with Healesville- conservation outcomes through a range of birds produced at Healesville this year will behind-the-scenes tours. Our shared passion visitors, and supporters this year. forests of Sumatra, where Zoos Victoria born father Barak and Taronga Zoo-born skills transfer programs. Here in Melbourne, be incorporated into the 2008/2009 captive for wildlife brings us all together to learn, supports a vitally important habitat protection mother Binarri the first zoo-born Platypus we welcomed four of the project’s elephant breeding population. celebrate, and be inspired. The passion for animal welfare project. In May, Asian Elephant Dokkoon ever to produce young. staff, who stayed a month at Melbourne This year Healesville Sanctuary contributed to I thank our caring and hardworking staff and habitat protection both in was confirmed pregnant after a successful At Werribee Open Range Zoo, baby Zoo as part of the ongoing keeper exchange the success of the Tasmanian Devil Insurance under the leadership of the three Zoo and outside of the zoos is simply artificial insemination program led by the Hippopotamus Lotus was born in March in program. In Sumatra, Zoo staff have initiated program. By breeding wild caught Tasmanian Directors Jenny Gray (Werribee), Matt Vincent world-renowned Berlin Institute for Zoo a teacher-training program to assist in outstanding and while these pages a specially excavated birthing pond in the Devils, this regional ARAZPA program aims (Melbourne) and John Gibbons (Healesville), and Wildlife Research. award-winning Kubu River Hippos exhibit, community environmental education to secure the genetic diversity of the current and the other members of our Executive can only contain a fraction of our At the other end of the size scale, hundreds inspired by the Okavango Delta in Botswana. initiatives and also provided the project wild population in captivity. In the event of the Team. I also thank the many Friends of the achievements, we hope you enjoy of eggs were laid in the successful Lord team with training in basic English and predicted extinction in the wild, descendants Zoos volunteers who help create a rewarding Education across BORDERS reading about our year. Howe Island Stick Insect breeding program. data collection. of animals housed and bred at Healesville experience for visitors and give so much back Australian school students have connected Melbourne Zoo’s invertebrate experts are BacK to nature Sanctuary may be used to repopulate to the community. managing the program in cooperation with with their counterparts in Zimbabwe to Tasmania. The dedication of the keeping staff protect African wildlife through a project The Helmeted Honeyeater breeding season Our three zoos will continue to extend their the NSW Department of Environment and was very successful this past year with 16 to this program paid off with the first pouch leadership in best practice animal care, Climate Change. The long-term goal is established at Werribee Open Range Zoo. young born helping to ensure the future of The Ungana project works with schools birds produced at Healesville Sanctuary. conservation and education. I look forward reintroduction of these extremely rare insects Taronga Zoo produced two birds and these Tasmanian Devils. to working with all of you to create a strong to their native habitat, when an eradication in villages near wildlife release sites in were transferred to Healesville. A total of 15 Connecting WITH WILDLIFE future for Zoos Victoria. program removes the rats and feral predators Zimbabwe, and is producing successful outcomes despite the challenges of life Helmeted Honeyeaters were released to the Over
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