Organisers Supporters European Union Investing European Regional in your future Development Fund Partners Sponsors See and save! Best attractions Table of Contents Programme 7 Team 12 and free public Practical Information 13 Map of Tallinn 14 transport! About Estonia 16 Presentations Illegal Wildlife Trade 18 Conservation Efforts in the Baltic Region 24 Freshwater Conservation 27 Connecting to Conservation 30 Conservation Reintroductions 33 Investing in Conservation 36 Posters 43 Marketplace 46 Only with Conservation Movies 47 Delegates 48 E-tickets now available tallinncard.ee We are honoured to welcome Programme you to the EAZA Conservation TUESDAY 22 MAY Tallinn Zoo, Environmental Education Centre 14.00 Registration Forum 2018 in Tallinn, Estonia. 18.00 – 21.00 Icebreaker This conservation event filling three long Nordic spring days is devoted to several topical conservation issues like wildlife trade, freshwater conservation, connecting people to conservation, reintroductions, and investing in conservation. I am WEDNESDAY 23 MAY Tallinn Zoo, Environmental Education Centre confident that each delegate will gain something new, something enlightening, something helpful to our mission to pre- 08.15 – 08.45 Welcome coffee & tea serve life in different forms. On our side, we have tried to make this event not only rich in new ideas and learning, but also easy-going and fun. 08.45 – 10.20 OPENING With the Conservation Forum the EAZA Conservation Committee strives to create a meaningful platform where the zoo Tiit Maran | Director Tallinn Zoo (Estonia) and aquarium community as well as the field conservation community can gather and exchange experiences and build Myfanwy Griffith | Executive director European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (Netherlands) bridges between the two worlds. This Conservation Forum was fully booked months in advance. It is sad that many will- Bryan Carroll | Director Bristol Zoo Gardens (UK) and outgoing chair of the EAZA Conservation ing to participate are missing this occasion, but it is not entirely impossible. For the first time in the history of conservation Committee forums, the event is streamed on the internet. Everyone can join the forum via EAZA webpage or check back later at a more convenient time. The online broadcast as well as many other elements of the forum have been made possible by OPENING KEYNOTE – COMBATTING UNSUSTAINABLE AND ILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE generous financial support from the European Regional Development Fund via Enterprise Estonia. Jorge Rodriguez Romero | EU Wildlife Trade policy, Directorate General for the Environment, Estonia is a country of wilderness with many forests and bogs, and innumerable islands. We have countless quiet corners European Commission for long walks and contemplations. Therefore, it is not surprising to find a number of pioneering thinkers and biologists in Estonian history. I only mention here Jakob von Uexküll, who coined the concept “Umwelt”, the understanding that each 10.20 – 10.50 Coffee & tea break species perceives the world differently. 10.50 – 12.00 MINI-SEMINAR– IILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE – Estonia is also proud of its many species rare in Europe like wolves, bears, lynx, beavers, flying squirrels, and European mink. Springtime adds memorable opportunities of watching birds migrate along our coast. After the forum, many of FINDING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS you will take time for wildlife tours, and these will surely grant you unforgettable memories and a desire to return to this Facilitator Carl Traeholt | Southeast Asia Programme Director | Copenhagen Zoo (Denmark) nature-rich periphery of Europe. Sam Ferreira | South African Parks (SanParks) working with the economics of poaching in Africa Brendan Moyle | Professor at Massey University (New Zealand); the economy of illegal wildlife trade in China and Asia Pelham Jones | Chairman for the Private Rhino Owners Association (PROA) (South Africa) Tiit Maran Rosie Cooney | United Nations Secretary-General Science Advisory Board and Chair of the IUCN Sustainable Use and Livelihood Specialist Group (Australia) Director Richard Thomas | Global Communications Coordinator at TRAFFIC - The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Tallinn Zoo Network (UK) 12.00 – 13.00 Lunch 6 7 13.00 – 14.25 Continued: MINI-SEMINAR– IILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE – THURSDAY 24 MAY Tallinn Zoo, Environmental Education Centre FINDING SUSTAINABLE SOLUTIONS 08.15 – 08.45 Welcome coffee & tea Facilitator Carl Traeholt | Southeast Asia Programme Director | Copenhagen Zoo (Denmark) 08.45 – 11.00 CONSERVATION EFFORTS IN THE BALTIC REGION 14.25 – 14.55 Coffee & tea break Session chair Tiit Maran | Tallinn Zoo (Estonia) 14.55 – 16.10 CASE STORIES - IILLEGAL WILDLIFE TRADE KEYNOTE - HALTING THE DECLINE OF AMPHIBIANS AT THEIR NORTHERN RANGE Session chair Eric Bairrão Ruivo | ZooParc de Beauval (France) and incoming chair EAZA EDGE – A CHALLENGE FOR NATURE CONSERVATION Conservation Committee Riinu Rannap | Research fellow in conservation biology, University of Tartu (Estonia) The EAZA Conservation Campaign: Silent Forest - Progress and Aims Bringing back rare Lithuanian species: European pond turtle and Hermit beetle Simon Brusland | Heidelberg Zoo (Germany) Dalia Bastytė | Lithuanian Fund for Nature (Lithuania) Wildlife trade for zoo and collectors, a new threat for Iranian local and native species Population trends and abundance of Baltic seal species: indicator- based approach of Iman Memarian | Tehran Zoo and Pardisan Wildlife Rehabilitation Center (Iran) protection and management of populations Conserving Owston’s Civet - Indochina’s most threatened carnivore Ivar Jüssi | ProMare (Estonia) Daniel Willcox | Save Vietnam’s Wildlife (Vietnam) Conservation and management of large carnivores in Estonia Project Anoulak: Biodiversity conservation in the Annamite Mountains of Laos Peep Männil | Estonian Environment Agency (Estonia) Camille Coudrat | Project Anoulak (Lao People’s Democratic Republic) 11.00 – 11.30 Coffee & tea break 16.10 – 16.25 Short coffee & tea break 11.30 – 12.30 FRESHWATER CONSERVATION 16.25 – 17.30 CONSERVATION MOVIES Session chair Brian Zimmerman Zoological Society of London (UK) and EAZA Conservation Committee member Securing livelihoods, saving snow leopards: KEYNOTE: THE FRESHWATER (FISH) BIODIVERSITY CRISIS – WHERE ARE WE AND Snow Leopard Trust’s Livestock Insurance Program Matt Fiechter | Snow Leopard Trust (Sweden) WHAT CAN ZOOS AND AQUARIA DO? Engaging the world’s zoos to save the Saola (Pseudoryx nghetinhensis) Jörg Freyhof | Coordinator IUCN SSC Freshwater Fish Red List Authority | Chair for North Africa, Bill Robichaud | IUCN SSC Saola Working Group (US) Europe and the Middle East IUCN SSC/WI Freshwater Fish Specialist Group 2017: Year of the Golden Lion Tamarin 12.30 – 13.30 Lunch James Dietz | Save the Golden Lion Tamarin (Brasil) 13.30 – 14.45 Continued: FRESHWATER CONSERVATION 19.00 – 21.00 SOCIAL PROGRAMME: WALKING TOUR OF TALLINN CITY Session chair Brian Zimmerman Zoological Society of London (UK) and EAZA Conservation Committee member The lake sturgeon as a bioindicator of environmental health | Jeff Wyatt| Seneca Park Zoo (US) Working Together - a new fund for freshwater fish | Gemma Goodman | Synchronicity Earth (UK) Fish – Net Greece: saving the Corfu killifish | Brian Zimmerman on behalf of Elini Kalogianni Hellenic Centre for Marine Research - Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Inland Waters (Greece) 8 9 14.45 – 16.00 CONNECTING TO CONSERVATION 10.30 – 11.00 Coffee & tea break Session chair Sarah Thomas 11.00 – 12.30 DISCUSSION REWILDING | Facilitator Andrew Terry Zoological Society London (UK) and EAZA Conservation Committee member Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (UK) and EAZA Conservation Committee member Conservation through action & education: “Touch the heart” KEYNOTE - REWILDING: A FUTURE DIRECTION FOR ZOO CONSERVATION? Wilton Nsimango | Painted Dog Conservation (Zimbabwe) Paul Jepson | | Member supervisory board Rewilding Europe (UK) Followed by Q&A Mitigating threats to the Critically Endangered Javan slow loris by outreach and education Anna Nekaris | Little Fireface Project (UK) 12.30 – 13.15 Lunch (please note 45 minutes) Save our Scavengers: a community engagement approach to protect Botswana’s vultures 13.15 – 14.20 INVESTING IN CONSERVATION - EU Funding opportunities | Session chair Erin Stotz | Denver Zoological Foundation (US) Radosław Ratajszczak Wroclaw Zoo (Poland) and EAZA Conservation Committee member Update from the Asian Species Action Plan | Sonja Luz | Wildlife Reserves Singapore (Singapore) LIFE Programme - EU’s financial instrument supporting environmental, nature conservation 16.00 – 16.15 Short coffee & tea break and climate action projects throughout the EU | Anita Fassio | LIFE Unit, Executive Agency for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (EASME), European Commission (Belgium) 16.15 – 18.00 SOCIAL PROGRAMME: TALLINN ZOO VISIT (Tours available) LIFE: Implementation conservation activities in Europe | Claudia Gili| Acquario di Genova (Italy) LIFE: Case example - Wild forest reindeer returns to its historical range - soft releases as the 17.15 – 18.45 CONSERVATION FORUM POSTER SESSION (Meet & Greet poster authors first step | Milla Niemi | Wildlife Service Finland (Finland) (17.30 – 18.15) / CONSERVATION FORUM MARKETPLACE LIFE: Case example - Northern Bald Ibis: Reintroduction of a migratory bird species in Europe 17.45 – 18.45 CONSERVATION MOVIES Johannes Fritz | Waldrappteam, LIFE+ Northern Bald Ibis (Austria) Durrell’s Underhogs | Andrew Terry on behalf of Daniel