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3/15 August 2015 Current Challenges | p 2 Non-human Animals | p 5 Biodiversity is Us – Awards | p 19 IIII WAZA 3/15 WAZA 3/15 1 Lee Contents Editorial Ehmke President’s Page Current Challenges ..............................................................2 Nonhuman Animals .............................................................5 about conservation impact cannot INTERPOL’s Stance against Wildlife Crime ........................ 9 be maintained if animal welfare WAZA Interview: Laurie Marker ........................................ 11 is not practiced and perceived to My Career: Sally R. Walker ................................................ 14 be a priority. WAZA Council Presi- Book Review ......................................................................18 dent-elect Susan Hunt has worked Announcements ................................................................18 assiduously over the past two years Biodiversity is Us – Award .................................................19 to organize and shape this new Recent Updates: .................................................................20 Strategy, with expert advice pro- WAZA Decade Project: We Need YOU! .............................20 vided by Dr. David Mellor and – once Strategy to Increase Conservation Impact: ALPZA ..........21 again – tremendous staff support by Building Bridges for Conservation .....................................23 Markus Gusset. The Unusual Story of the Rarest Crocodiles ......................24 The Studio of the Heini Hediger Award Trophy.................27 One of the most important steps WAZA Members Help Tbilisi Zoo, Georgia ....................... 28 in the development of the Welfare New Exhibit News: Strategy has been the inclusion of Rocky Coast: Polar Bears ...................................................30 opportunities for review and input Breeding Down Under: by animal welfare professionals Tree Kangaroo and Cassowary ..........................................32 from outside of the zoo community. WAZA Projects: A workshop held in Gland on 23 April Sungazers .......................................................................... 33 brought WAZA Council and staff Giant Armadillos ................................................................34 © WAZA Gerald Dick at capybara breeding farm, Uruguay. together with representatives of Siamese Crocodiles ............................................................35 some of the world’s foremost animal Red Pandas ........................................................................36 Dear WAZA members and friends! welfare organisations: the Inter- Longhorn Beetles .............................................................. 37 national Fund for Animal Welfare Bali Starlings......................................................................39 A lengthy process of negotiation and diplomacy has (IFAW); Humane Society Interna- International Studbooks ...................................................40 come to a positive end. The Japanese Association of tional – UK; VIER PFOTEN – Stiftung 70th WAZA Annual Conference ...........................................40 Zoos and Aquariums has finally decided to prohibit für Tierschutz; the Royal Society for New Members ...................................................................42 their members to acquire dolphins from drive fisheries. the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals This fundamental breakthrough was recently enforced (RSPCA); Wild Welfare; Universi- by a set of clear ‑cut measures which were conveyed to ties Federation for Animal Welfare WAZA Council and consequently led to the reinstate‑ © LE (UFAW) and World Animal Protection ment of their membership. The history of the whole Lee Ehmke. (WAP). All participants felt the posi- issue is presented in an article in which I address some tive dialogue and shared values evi- recent challenges to our community. As we approach the 70th Annual applicable format. While the 2005 dent during the workshop were very WAZA Conference to be held at Al document and its 1993 predecessor encouraging, and the final Strategy What does it mean to be a non ‑human person? Good Ain in the United Arab Emirates in have been influential in moving our contents (and more importantly, its animal welfare is our daily business, but would an October, two exciting and important community toward a deeper com- implementation) will be significantly Imprint animal as a person be treated differently? It is a initiatives of the Association are mitment to conservation impact, it enhanced by the continued engage- great pleasure to have a legal expert, James Gesualdi, nearing completion. After two years is our hope that the 2015 edition will ment of interested parties from Editor: Gerald Dick, looking into this and providing recent examples of a of intensive work, a streamlined and reach and inspire decision-makers at inside and outside the zoo/aquarium WAZA Executive Office somewhat odd approach. updated World Zoo and Aquarium a higher and even more consequen- professional community. IUCN Conservation Centre Conservation Strategy is now in tial level. Rue Mauverney 28 In a meeting which I had recently at the INTERPOL the final editing and formatting Conservation impact and good ani- CH-1196 Gland headquarters it was fascinating to hear that the police phase. Ably spearheaded by Coun- It is not by accident that in conjunc- mal welfare are core principles of the Switzerland forces are more and more getting into environmental cil member Rick Barongi and with tion with the launch of a revised zoos and aquariums represented by Phone: +41 22 999 07 90 crime persecution including wildlife crime. Being in‑ outstanding editorial direction by World Zoo and Aquarium Conser‑ WAZA. The concurrent development Fax: +41 22 999 07 91 terested in closer cooperation with the world zoo and Fiona Fisken, the support of Houston vation Strategy, WAZA will also of global strategies for approaching aquarium community, it is a pleasure to have them zoo staff and Markus Gusset of the complete and distribute an impor- these central issues is an important Layout and typesetting: [email protected] featuring their work in this edition. WAZA executive office, the Strategy tant ‘bookend’ document: the World contribution to our community, and Cover drawing: Kimio Honda (WAZA thanks for his generous donation!) is intended to guide zoos/aquariums Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare I hope both will be actively used as a Print: Agentura NP, Staré Město, Czech Republic A big thank you goes to WAZA members who have and their governing authorities to Strategy. The simultaneous release resource by members and associates. actively helped the zoo in Tiblisi, which was heavily embrace and expand the collective of these two documents under- I sincerely thank the many individu- Edition: 450 copies | © WAZA 2015 affected by floods in June. conservation mission of our institu- scores the interdependence of good als who have devoted significant tions. With generous support from welfare practice and conservation time and shared their considerable This edition of WAZA News is also available on: Thank you for your ongoing support and I hope to see the Houston Zoo, the new Conserva- as the “two sides of the coin” for all expertise to create these coordinat- www.waza.org (members’ area) many of you in Al Ain! tion Strategy document is designed progressive zoological institutions. ed and mutually-supportive strate- to be succinct and visually compel- Examples of poor animal welfare gies that set the stage nicely for the Printed on FSC paper. Gerald Dick ling, distilling and updating the are unfortunately all too widespread, work ahead. Executive Director many excellent elements of the 2005 damaging the brand and reputation WZACS in an accessible and broadly of all zoos and aquariums. Credibility ISSN: 1662-7733 2 WAZA 3/15 WAZA 3/15 3 Gerald Dick – WAZA Executive Director Current Challenges to the Zoo and Aquarium Community: Leadership – Responsibilities – Diplomacy – Animal welfare – Public perception – Activists In addition to groups that are prin- Within the framework of WAZA, lished alongside the first ever World The Taiji dolphin drive hunt restriction of live takes to only one grace period, in which they had a cipally against keeping animals in the major building blocks are the Zoo and Aquarium Animal Welfare and JAZA species (bottlenose dolphins) and final opportunity to present any new human care, mainstream political WAZA Bylaws, the Code of Eth- Strategy. These two documents will a time restriction of the take to the insights or proposals for change in discussions and headlines now often ics and Animal Welfare, the World be milestones for the organisation, Since 2004 the issue of the drive month of September only. A gentler policy. At a meeting of the JAZA address animal welfare issues in Zoo and Aquarium Conservation reflecting the needs and responsi- hunts for dolphins has been discussed way of capturing animals through board on 20 May 2015, it was decided zoos and aquariums and increasingly Strategy (WZACS) and Turning The bilities of our community in a chang- within WAZA and its relevant bodies. herding was also proposed, in order that JAZA wanted to remain an as- question the keeping of charismatic Tide – A Global Aquarium Strategy for ing world. At the International and WAZA Presidents and Committees to separate the drives for meat from sociation member of WAZA. There- megafauna in our facilities. Addition- Conservation and Sustainability. In or-