ZSL London Zoo ZSL London Zoo News 2024

Status
Not open for further replies.
For anyone else who may be a ZSL Fellow, have you had your voting details for the AGM vote due in by Fri 25th? Yet again, when ZSL are looking at governance changes, I haven’t had mine, or any notice of the vote! The cynic in me always wonders if this is deliberate.
 
polarbear said:
‘Zoo Town’ sounds like a place where children go and role play. I can’t remember the name of the very successful role play attraction in London, where children can be a range of roles - fire/police/paramedic/nurse/post/retail, etc. - but sounds like one of the copy cat versions of this around now.
Click to expand...

Was about to type a version of the above comment - you beat me to it @polarbear !

The roleplay attraction is called Kidzania... To note is that the zoo already does a small-scale version of this with a model lion that children can 'treat' as zoo vets, always very popular when I have seen it happening.
 
  • Like
Reactions: JVM
polarbear said:
For anyone else who may be a ZSL Fellow, have you had your voting details for the AGM vote due in by Fri 25th? Yet again, when ZSL are looking at governance changes, I haven’t had mine, or any notice of the vote! The cynic in me always wonders if this is deliberate.
Click to expand...
I received the voting details for this year's AGM in plenty of time, more than a month ago, on 20th September to be precise. However I have noticed such official ZSL e-mails are often filtered out automatically by my spam filter, so it's worth checking your spam folder, if you've still not recovered the instructions.
 
Tim May said:
I received the voting details for this year's AGM in plenty of time, more than a month ago, on 20th September to be precise. However I have noticed such official ZSL e-mails are often filtered out automatically by my spam filter, so it's worth checking your spam folder, if you've still not recovered the instructions.
Click to expand...

Cheers for the reply Tim. Nope, nothing in my junk folder. Waiting for ZSL to phone me back to sort out.
 
Incase anyone else can, I went to the zoo yesterday, and they are selling some of the signs from the old reptile house, I managed to get the rhinoceros snake. Off the top of my head they had some turtles, Sidewinder, Western Diamondback Rattlesnake, Aquatic Caecelian and the lake pátzcuaro salamander. They are ranging from £50 to £150 based on status in the wild.
 
A couple of London specific pieces with some nice pictures in the Autumn 2024 issue of Wildabout from ZSL

In the picture with the young gorilla

IMG_4291.jpeg

And two pages on the recently arrived

IMG_4292.jpeg lion cubs

IMG_4293.jpeg
 

Attachments

  • IMG_4291.jpeg
    IMG_4291.jpeg
    179 KB · Views: 76
  • IMG_4292.jpeg
    IMG_4292.jpeg
    140.1 KB · Views: 76
  • IMG_4293.jpeg
    IMG_4293.jpeg
    149.6 KB · Views: 76
Some news about London Zoo's involvement with a new conservation project led by the Freshwater Habitats Trust that aims to save Britain's native medicinal leeches.
The project involves breeding leeches in captivity for reintroduction to the wild and also monitoring the four remaining wild populations with eDNA. Since taking on the leeches, ZSL London have successfully bred forty of them.

More information is included in the link below:
Medicinal Leech breeding success could save species from extinction | Biaza
 
Pertinax said:
I was interested that they were allowing them free-flight sessions, as against being in an actual bird show (?) More modern/improved approach to parrot-keepig perhaps but they may have to reconsider it after this. Hope they get them back.
Click to expand...

Whipsnade also free flies the birds outside the shows, including outside zoo hours (according to the talks and also seeing the flight outside the show areas on a couple of occasions) so I guess it's practice across ZSL. As you say, good to see a variety of flying practice going on and stops any flying display getting boring for the birds. They have found a couple of birds go missing, but then that can happen in training, they have had them back and is the hazard of doing it, but I'd think the gain outweighs the risk.
 
Personally I do not consider the 'gain outweighs the risk' especially with an endangered species
and the release of a non-native species is a formal offence under both the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and the Zoo Licencing Act
and if the latter was being enforced consistently, should lead to the potential loss of a licence.
 
ZooNews2024 said:
Personally I do not consider the 'gain outweighs the risk' especially with an endangered species
and the release of a non-native species is a formal offence under both the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and the Zoo Licencing Act
and if the latter was being enforced consistently, should lead to the potential loss of a licence.
Click to expand...
Sorry but there is no dislike button and this is really all this nonsense deserves, it is not a release clearly
 
pipaluk said:
Sorry but there is no dislike button and this is really all this nonsense deserves, it is not a release clearly
Click to expand...
My main thought was...
many of the birds, though not all, in falconry are non-natives. But even so, allowance of free flight is an integral part of their welfare.
There are occasional escapees, but this doesn't detract from that.
And I think the same is mostly true for what ZSL is doing with macaws. This is a case of an 'occasional escapee' and little more in my eyes. Most days of the year there are no reports of such escapes.
Beats taking out their flight feathers and putting them on a stick.
 
ZooNews2024 said:
Personally I do not consider the 'gain outweighs the risk' especially with an endangered species
and the release of a non-native species is a formal offence under both the Wildlife and Countryside Act, and the Zoo Licencing Act
and if the latter was being enforced consistently, should lead to the potential loss of a licence.
Click to expand...
What utter nonsense!!
 
pipaluk said:
Sorry but there is no dislike button and this is really all this nonsense deserves, it is not a release clearly
Click to expand...
A release and an escape are both treated EXACTLY the same - there is no legal difference between the two. Intention does not come into it.
It is your reply which is 'utter nonsense'.
 
dillotest0 said:
My main thought was...
many of the birds, though not all, in falconry are non-natives. But even so, allowance of free flight is an integral part of their welfare.
There are occasional escapees, but this doesn't detract from that.
And I think the same is mostly true for what ZSL is doing with macaws. This is a case of an 'occasional escapee' and little more in my eyes. Most days of the year there are no reports of such escapes.
Beats taking out their flight feathers and putting them on a stick.
Click to expand...
'Allowance of free flight' is NOT the only alternative to 'taking out their flight feathers and putting them on a stick' - this is ridiculous exaggeration.
'Keeping birds in aviaries is cruel and inhumane - birds should be allowed free flight' is a common public statement given by often low-rent birds-of-prey exhibitors, when the reality is that their birds are kept very confined even tied up for the major part of their lives, and then starved into coming back to the fist. This might be dressed up as 'keeping them at a flying weight' - but the whole thing is an excuse for what is purely a circus act, which should have been outlawed along with the badger baiting and dancing bears, also popular during and post mediaeval times.
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top