May 2/13 2013 The WAZA Decade Project | p 2 Sexual Coral Reproduction | p 7 WAZA Annual Report 2012 | insert – The Lost Chambers. | © Pio De Rose The Lost – Atlantis The Palm Atlantis WAZA news 2/13 Gerald Dick Contents Editorial Dear WAZA members and friends! WAZA Biodiversity Decade Project ...........................2 This edition of WAZA News is a very Aquaria, the Blue Glass special one. With the support of WAZA’s Landscape ...................................3 aquarium committee chair and past International Aquarium president, Dr Mark Penning and Paul Congress .....................................4 Boyle of AZA, we have designed a focus Review of Japanese on aquariums and water related issues. Aquariums ..................................5 As the interest was overwhelmingly Sexual Coral Reproduction great some of the submitted articles & Reef Conservation ...................7 have to be postponed for publishing Unity, Strength & Synergy .........9 in a later edition of the WAZA News. WAZA Interview: Nicely coinciding with this focus are Dennis Ethier ............................ 12 some decisions which were taken at this Impact year’s CITES CoP16 and are related to of Superstorm Sandy ................ 14 listings of shark species. My Career: David Kimmel ......... 17 With this edition of WAZA News we are Whale Sharks ............................19 also starting a series about the WAZA Book Reviews ...........................22 Decade project, which has taken off the Announcements ....................... 23 ground enormously well. Throughout Tarpons, Ladyfishes the year you will be informed about the & Bonefishes .............................24 developments until the planned launch Highlights during the WAZA marketing conference of CITES CoP 16 ........................25 in May 2014. © WAZA CITES in Action: UWEC ............. 27 Included here is also a generous offer for Gerald Dick and whale shark at aqua planet, Jeju. Update: our members by the Journal of Zoo and International Studbooks .......... 27 Wildlife Medicine: free online access to strategy workshop – the first milestone WAZA projects the Journal, please see the details about for getting clarity on basics on a global Sumatra Tiger Trust ..................28 how to get access! scale. As always we were also happy to Bristol Community Also included in this edition is the WAZA welcome the CBSG Strategic Commit- Plant Collection ........................29 Annual Report 2012, summarizing tee in Gland. Humboldt Penguins ..................30 the major issues of last year, activities, With a warm welcome to our new Lesser White-fronted Goose ..... 31 successes and the financial situation. members and a big thank you to the New Member Applications ....... 34 When editing this edition of the WAZA executive office staff team for the excel- News, the executive office was busy in lent work. preparing the midyear meetings, includ- ing not only the Council meeting here Gerald Dick in Gland, but also the animal welfare WAZA Executive Director Imprint Edition: 550 copies © WAZA 2013 Editor: Gerald Dick, WAZA Executive Office IUCN Conservation Centre This edition of WAZA News Rue Mauverney 28 is also available on CH-1196 Gland www.waza.org (members’ area). Switzerland phone: +41 22 999 07 90 Founding Member fax: +41 22 999 07 91 Printed on FSC paper. Layout and typesetting: [email protected] Print: Agentura NP, Staré Město, Czech Republic ISSN: 1662-7733 WAZA news 2/13 1 Jörg Junhold The President’s Page Next to the new Global Strategy for Animal Welfare that we start to de- velop this year we also want to have a deeper look into the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Strategy (WZACS). Ten years after the last re- vision we will have a workshop held at Houston Zoo, Texas in May to define the potential for an update. Of course during the last decade new issues came up which are not yet included in the WZACS. Here, I am thinking about global challenges, such as cli- mate change which will influence our work and further the sustainability of our animal populations. © WAZA One of my next travels will bring me Jörg Junhold at clouded leopard breeding center, Kao Keow Zoo, Thailand. to the 24th Conference and Annual General Meeting of the African Asso- ciation of Zoos and Aquaria (PAAZ- Although we experience a hard and The 16th CITES Conference of the Par- AB) kindly hosted by the Two Oceans longlasting winter in Germany and ties took place in Bangkok in March Aquarium in Cape Town, South other parts of Europe I like to wish all and WAZA was well represented by Africa. I am glad to visit our African our members in the Northern hemi- Dr Gerald Dick, Kris Vehrs from AZA colleagues again and meet the new sphere a successful and thrilling start and myself. In general the conference Executive Director of PAAZAB, Dr into the new season! saw some important developments Stephen van der Spuy. As mentioned to add threatened species to the list before my own Zoo Leipzig has long The first months of the new year of protected species, for example lasting relations to Addis Ababa Lion were already filled with meetings and five shark species and manta rays. Zoo in Ethiopia and this is why I am conferences. Concerning the requirements that personally interested in seeing and zoos have to follow during animal discussing the progress that is hap- In February Dr. Gerald Dick and I used transports the „CITES Guidelines for pening on the African continent. Dr the chance to meet the new elected the Non-Air Transport of Live Wild van der Spuy is especially pushing IUCN President, Mr Zhang Xinsheng Animals and Plants” were adopted the critical role that PAAZAB plays in from China during his visit at the after four years of preparation. Al- guiding and assisting member zoos IUCN Headquarters in Gland. He is though, zoos as institutions are every to improve animal care standards as coming from an NGO background day touched by CITES regulations well as guiding them to embrace the and has a broad network of contacts they will only play a small role in the WZACS strategy. I strongly like to for his work. During the intensive dis- overall bureaucratic system behind support this issue as it is so crucial for cussions with him we tried to find out that. But we still need to lobby for the our public appearance and I believe how to better integrate WAZA’s work improvement of regulations for our that the upcoming conference will be and goals into the international con- animal exchanges. It is sometimes a step towards reaching this goal. servation community. Another topic hard to understand that one player was how WAZA can convince more for conservation is impacting a sec- Chinese zoos to raise their standards ond one in this way and this is why and to become members. I hope that we need to speak up strongly for our I may have the chance to visit China needs. For sure, we should not step this year to support this issue. The back but even increase our WAZA meeting with Mr. Xinsheng took place presence at CITES Conferences – it is in a very open and friendly atmos- worth the effort! phere and we are looking forward to a fruitful future cooperation with him. 2 WAZA news 2/13 Tiago Pinto-Pereira – WAZA Executive Office WAZA Biodiversity Decade Project During its 66th Annual conference Therefore, together with a selection versity and its threats by conveying WAZA members unanimously of more than 30 zoos and aquariums stimulating and positive messages endorsed the UN Decade on Biodiver- in six different regions of the world about the importance of individual sity and supported both the Aichi Bio- the project was further developed. contributions towards biodiversity diversity targets and a WAZA global These project team members were conservation, and how to act on an project supporting both the Decade selected to represent the WAZA everyday basis to contribute to biodi- and the Aichi targets. Besides the membership in all its diversity to versity conservation through a reduc- species conservation target 12, the ensure the output of the project tion in individual footprint. The aim Aichi target most relevant to the work meets the needs and is adapted is to contribute significantly to Aichi of WAZA and its members is target 1 to the requirements of the WAZA target 1. which states: “By 2020, at the latest, membership in its entirety. A modu- people are aware of the values of bio- lar set of awareness raising tools are Currently the project is advancing diversity and the steps they can take being developed as a recognisable nicely and on schedule. Indeed the to conserve and use it sustainably.” framework, but adaptable to regional, visuals, in their English format, have After a workshop, convened together cultural and individual institutional been approved by the members of with CBSG and a survey amongst situations. These tools will then be the project team as well as the ac- IZE members, the project was finally made available to the whole WAZA companying text and basic formats designed and subsequently external membership. to be adapted to local requirements funding secured. and specificities. In addition the script These tools are part of a consistent for the longest of the videos was also WAZA, in support of its members, and logical ensemble and will include approved with certain comments with their experience in awareness films of different lengths, a mobile provided which have been incorpo- raising and interaction with the public, phone / tablet application, a social rated. The director for the movie will are well positioned to help educate media campaign and visuals. The cen- be scoping the sites for the filming and involve the public about the need tral objective of the project is to make and present the result of his research to protect biodiversity during the sure the public understands biodi- before we give the go ahead to film.