EAZA Population Management Manual: Standards, procedures and guidelines for population management within EAZA EAZA Population Management Manual: Standards, procedures and guidelines for population management within EAZA European Association of Zoos and Aquaria Amsterdam April 2019 (2.1) Last update: November 2020 Contents Abbreviations and acronyms .......................................................................................................................................... 1 Introduction ....................................................................................................................................................................... 4 1 Background .................................................................................................................................................................... 5 1.1 Foundations and concepts of (EAZA) Ex situ Population Management ...................................................... 5 1.1.1 Management of small populations ...................................................................................................... 7 1.2 Outline of EAZA’s Population Management structure ....................................................................................8 1.3 EAZA Organisational Structure for Population Management .................................................................... 10 2 Regional Collection Management and EAZA Taxon Advisory Groups (TAGs) ................................................ 14 2.1 TAG working procedures ..................................................................................................................................... 14 2.1.1 General TAG principles................................................................................................................................ 14 Structure and role of a TAG ............................................................................................................................ 14 Responsibilities of the TAG ............................................................................................................................. 16 The tasks of a TAG (Vice) Chair(s) ................................................................................................................ 18 The tasks of the other TAG members ........................................................................................................... 22 TAG evaluations .................................................................................................................................................. 22 2.1.2 Initiation and establishment of a new TAG ........................................................................................... 25 TAG Establishment ............................................................................................................................................. 25 Changing TAG Chairs and adding Vice chairs ............................................................................................ 25 Changing and adding TAG members ............................................................................................................. 26 2.2 Regional Collection Planning ............................................................................................................................. 26 2.2.1 Ex situ conservation priorities and Regional Collection Planning ................................................... 26 2.2.2 EAZA’s Regional Collection Planning process ....................................................................................... 27 2.3 EAZA Best Practice Guidelines ........................................................................................................................... 37 2.3.1 Process, status and publication ................................................................................................................ 37 2.4 Procedures to approve new/changes to TAGs ............................................................................................... 39 2.4.1 Changes to, and establishing new, TAG .................................................................................................. 40 2.4.2 Decision making procedure ....................................................................................................................... 41 2.4.3 EEP, ESB and TAG roles and GDPR compliance .................................................................................... 41 2.5 Procedures to approve new/changes to EEPs ............................................................................................... 42 2.5.1 Changes to, and approving new, EEPs ..................................................................................................... 43 2.5.2 Changes to ESB’s .......................................................................................................................................... 45 2.5.3 Decision making procedure ....................................................................................................................... 46 3 Working procedures for EEPs and ESBs................................................................................................................. 47 3.1 Initiation and establishment of an EEP ........................................................................................................... 47 3.2 Management of the EAZA Ex situ Programme after establishment ........................................................ 49 3.3 Handing and taking over an existing EEP or ESB .......................................................................................... 52 3.4 EAZA Members and EEP Participation ............................................................................................................. 52 3.4.1 Full Members ................................................................................................................................................. 52 3.4.2 Associate Members ...................................................................................................................................... 53 3.4.3 Temporary Members .................................................................................................................................... 54 Go to Contents 3.4.4 Candidate for Membership ........................................................................................................................ 54 3.5 EEP participation consequences for zoos leaving EAZA Membership ..................................................... 55 3.6 Non-EAZA Members and EEP Participation .................................................................................................... 56 3.6.1 General non-EAZA EEP participation philosophy and procedure ..................................................... 56 3.6.2 Non-EAZA EEP participation: EAZA region .............................................................................................. 59 3.6.3 Non-EAZA EEP participation: other regions ........................................................................................... 61 3.6.4 EEP participation and MoU partners ....................................................................................................... 62 3.6.5 Procedure for sending EEP animals outside of programme .............................................................. 62 3.6.6 Forwarding non-EAZA EEP participation requests ............................................................................... 63 3.6.7 Non-EAZA EEP participation fee ................................................................................................................ 65 3.7 ESB participation ................................................................................................................................................... 66 3.8 Rules of joint population management ........................................................................................................... 66 3.8.1 Rules of joint population management in EEP’s ................................................................................... 66 3.8.2 Rules of joint population management in ESB’s .................................................................................. 68 3.9 The EEP Species Committee ............................................................................................................................... 69 3.9.1 Number of Species Committee Members .............................................................................................. 70 3.9.2 Elections .......................................................................................................................................................... 70 3.9.3 Geographic representation ........................................................................................................................ 70 3.9.4 Advisors ........................................................................................................................................................... 71 3.9.5 Terms of membership and re-election ................................................................................................... 71 3.9.6 Meetings, agendas and minutes ............................................................................................................... 71 3.9.7 Voting and conflicts 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