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TAG Annual Report Template TAG Annual Report Template Rodent Insecitvore Lagomorph TAG Annual Report Date: 2016 *** Please note that Annual Reports must be digitally submitted to AZA Vice President of Animal Conservation ([email protected]) and the TAG’s WCMC Liaison no later than August 1. *** Please adjust the tables as necessary to accommodate complete answers. *** This template is available in a digitized Word form at https://www.aza.org/ProgramLeaderPortal/ 1. Please provide a list of the most current TAG Steering Committee members and Advisors. Example: NAME ROLE INSTITUTION EMAIL Rebecca Bearman Chair Zoo Atlanta [email protected] Dawn Petefish Vice Chair Peoria Zoo [email protected] Kristin Smith Secretary Denver Zoo [email protected] Jessica Hoffman Treasurer Greensboro Science Center [email protected] Lori Bruckheim Steering Committee Disney Animal Kingdom [email protected] Kenton Kerns Steering Committee National Zoo [email protected] Kathy Russell Steering Committee Santa Fe Teaching Zoo [email protected] Lindsay Sears Steering Committee Omaha Zoo [email protected] Stuart Wells Steering Committee Phoenix Zoo [email protected] Linda Kunze Education Advisor Caldwell Zoo [email protected] Deborah McWilliams Nutrition Advisor [email protected] Joe Barkowski WCMC Liaison Tulsa Zoo [email protected] 2. Please list any new or revised statements or guidelines that the TAG has adopted in the past year (note that new or revised Policies, Position Statements, White Papers, and Guidelines must be approved by the AZA Board of Directors). 3. Please attach an updated, Animal Programs Summary Table (See Table 3 in the TAG Handbook, p. 47-51 for more information). Sample Animal Programs Summary Table Space Current Projected % Needed Recent 5 year Date of 5 year Current Number of GD at 100 SSP (Target Population Trend USFWS Common name Last target Population Participating years or 10 Program Population (increasing, IUCN (Genus species) PVA/B&T Population Size (N) AZA Member generations Designation size minus decreasing, or CITES Plan size Institutions ** current stable space) Brazilian Agouti Studbook Insufficient Least (Dasyprocta 12-Nov- 84 38 Yellow SSP 55.55 110-80=30 Increasing data Concern leporina) 2015 Capybara 66 total 48 Insufficient 200- (Hydrochaeris 25-Feb-11 161 Yellow SSP 200 Declining Not listed AZA Data 161=39 hydrochaeris) 12/11/2014 Not Listed Rock Hyrax ; 170- Least; Procavia Informal 144 33 NA Yellow SSP 170 Stable 144=26 Concern; capensis B&T recs Not listed 9/15 Perdido Beach There is not an AZA one, but Mouse we have a 42.42.3 Red USFWenda (Peromyscus breeding plan 3 90% 175 175-87=88 increasing (87) program ngereed polionotus with the new founder trissyllepsis) through USFWS and University of Florida as of June 28, 215 67.76.7 Porcupine, Cape (Hystrix 63 (H. (Hystrix africaeaust africaeaustra africaeaustralis 6/30/15 ralis) lis) 76.30% Yellow SSP 140 0 Stable CITES II & Hystrix 13.10.5 10 (H. cristata) (Hystrix cristata) cristata) Porcupine, North American (Erethizon dorsatum) NO CURRENT Stable COORDINATO 50 (42+8 (2011=70; Least R 17-Feb-15 39.44.9 non-AZA) 73% Yellow SSP 50.50 100-79=21 2014=66) Concern Prehensile-tailed IUCN Porcupine 100-117= 6/2/2014 117 63 80% Yellow SSP 100 Increasing Least (Coendou -17 Concern prehensilis) Squirrel, Mount Graham Red Insufficient RED Declining USFWS (Tamiasciurus 5 1 8.8 3 Data Program (2014=242) Endangered hudsonicus grahamensis) Prevost’s Not listed 56.2% squirrel 10/15/14 Least 71 32 (2014 B&T Yellow SSP 100 100-71=29 decreasing (Callosciurus B&T Plan Concern Plan) prevostii) Not Listed Shrew, Northern 4 May 2015 Tree (Tupaia (update Declining belangeri) and (2013=47;2015= MateRX) 21.20.0 21 54% Red SSP 65 65-41=24 41) Not Listed Tenrec, Lesser Madagascar Increasing Insufficient Hedgehog 4-Dec-13 64.49.4 43 Yellow SSP 125 8 (2013=86; Not listed data (Echinops 2016=117) telfairi) **Please include footnotes to indicate the document type (year) from which these data were obtained 4. Please attach an updated Animal Program Summary Table with Roles, Goals, and Essential Action items. (see Table 4 in the TAG Handbook, p. 47-51 for more information). Please provide the action steps the TAG/SSP is taking, or intends to take, in order to achieve each identified goal, and indicate an approximate timeline for these actions. Animal Program Roles, Goals and Essential Actions Table Common Name/Scientific Name RIL TAG Goals Goal #1/Essential Actions Complete RCP due Dec 1, 2015 2014-2015 Progress towards Goal #1 Completed and now in revisions due Dec 2, 2016 TAG Officers and Steering Committee Members will identify priorities for Animal Care Manuals and solicit for volunteers to complete one Animal Care Manual per year Goal #2/Essential Actions 2014-2016 in order to promote exceptional husbandry of the species under the TAG’s purview. Kenton Kerns is spearheading this project and has already determined what ACMS are Progress Toward Goal #2 in progress and we have determined which animals are priority in terms of having an ACM. Kenton is working to find champions to spearhead the creation of ACMs. TAG Officers, Steering Committee Members, and Program Leaders will collaborate Goal #3/Essential Actions 2014-2016 with the Animal Ambassador SAG to work toward creating TAG managed populations for species that have high program animal value, but low exhibit and/or conservation value. First contact has been made and species to begin with have been identified. An AA SAG/RIL TAG liaison will be identified by March 2016. Progress toward Goal #3 Lindsay North and Lori Bruckheim are spearheading this collaboration. TAG Officers and Steering Committee Members will create partnerships and facilitate communication with our international colleagues in order to share expert husbandry Goal #4/Essential Actions 2014-2016 techniques. Dialogue will begin during the joint TAG meeting in March 2016 with details and resources to be identified at that time. Rebecca Bearman and Kathy Russell are working toward creating relationships. The Joint TAG meeting was the start of relationships with TAG counterparts and several Progress toward Goal #4 species have been identified as priority species for which information needs to shared across regions. ADD NEW GOALS BELOW: Continue work on ACMs – Find champions to begin work on priority ACMs by Oct 1, Goal#1/Essential Action 2016-2017 2016 Collaboartion with AA SAG: PLs and/or species champions will be identified by Dec Goal #2/Essential Action 2016-2017 2016 for hedgehogs and one or two other soon to be identified species. Create a position statement on management euthanasia to increase sustainability of Goal #3 /Essential Action 2016-2017 rodent populations. Draft complete by Sep. 2017 Identify new steering committee members and program advisors to fill in areas where Goal #4/Essential Actions 2014-2016 expertise is lacking. Common Name/Scientific Name Brazilian Agouti / Dasyprocta leporina Animal Program Designation Yellow SSP Primary Role Representative species, mixed species potential Goal #1/Essential Actions Complete studbook and get it published in 2016. 2014-2015 Progress towards Goal #1 Completed Nov-12-15 Goal #2/Essential Actions Update IR list 2014-2015 Progress Toward Goal #2 Completed 2015 Goal #3/Essential Actions Share diet information with IR’s via e-mail 2014-2015 Progress toward Goal #3 Completed 2015 ADD NEW GOALS BELOW: Goal#1/Essential Action 2015-2016 Set-up planning meeting by end of 2016 for breeding and transfer plan to be completed in 2017. Goal #2/Essential Action 2015-2016 To help increase space for agouti, compile list of mixed species and advertise to current IR's by end of 2016. Goal #3 /Essential Action 2015-2016 Identify 2 organizations willing to import new founder agouti by 2018. Common Name/Scientific Name Capybara (Hydrochaeris hydrochaeris) Animal Program Designation Yellow SSP Primary Role Conservation action Using ZIMS software, continue to gather pedigree information in order to prepare for Goal #1/Essential Actions 2015-2016 PMC planning session in November 2016. Updated several individuals to LTF status. More research is needed for some Progress towards Goal #1 individuals. Work with WCMC and the Contraception Center to determine which temporary contraception methods, if any, are available and effective with population. This will be Goal #2/Essential Actions 2015-2016 done in the first quarter of 2017. By July of 2017, protocols will be developed and in place. Progress Toward Goal #2 Have not yet begun. Identify at least 3 new institutions that could house capybara in a mixed species setting. This will be accomplished during the next master planning session in the fall Goal #3/Essential Actions 2015-2016 of 2016. During 2017 set up transfers to get animals into these new exhibit spaces. January 2018, animals will be in all 3 selected institutions. Progress toward Goal #3 Planning session is scheduled for November 2016. ADD NEW GOALS BELOW: Goal#1/Essential Action 2016-2017 Set up transfers to get animals into new mixed species exhibit spaces. Goal #2/Essential Action 2016-2017 Get ACM published. It is currently under review with AZA Goal #3/Essential Action 2016-2017 Prepare studbook for publication. Due early 2018. Common Name/Scientific Name Rock Hyrax/ Procavia capensis Animal Program Designation Yellow SSP Primary Role Goal #1/Essential Actions Promote participation in contraceptive trials for this species 2014-2015 Progress towards Goal #1 No females are currently on reversible contraception. Several males have deslorelin implants to control aggression that are also acting as contraception. Goal #2/Essential Actions Publish nutritional research. Promote Nutritional Advisor's recommendations and 2014-2015 publish ACM. Progress Toward Goal #2 Diet recommendations will again be highlighted in husbandry resources being compiled at this time with distribution goal of Aug 2016.
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