conservation

With the backing of the EU, CITES has enforced a near-total ban on importing African elephants to zoos outside of Africa. According to the BBC post, they can only be exported under "exceptional circumstances" and must be approved by a member committee. Near-total ban imposed on sending wild...

This thread is about pure subspecies of common chimpanzees in zoos. Chimps are zoo staples and receive less interest than gorillas and orangutans. However, chimps may well become critically endangered soon. Zoos normally mixed chimps from different parts of Africa. Now there is a breeding...

After 10 years of conservation efforts, the Black-Tailed Godwit, one of Sweden's rarest breeding birds, is making a recovery: The Black-tailed Godwit rebounds in Sweden

In North Maluku, Indonesia, the illegal bird trade is very big. New surveys are being done to study the populations of the endangered parrot species that live there and to stop the poaching. But why is the parrot trade so big all of a sudden? Many say this may be because of advertisements on...

The Blue-eyed Ground Dove had not been sighted since 1941, until its rediscovery in 2016 when about a dozen birds were found. Unfortunately, these birds lived on private property, and the person who owned the property planned on mining for iron ore there, therefore disrupting the birds and their...

I was certainly stunned and shocked when I was researching the woma python earlier today. I vividly recall it being listed as Endangered on the IUCN website merely a week ago. I have now come to realization that it has not dropped back to Vulnerable or yet Near Threatened but ALL THE WAY to...

Conservation is one of the core reasons for the continued existence of zoos in the 21st century. It comes in many forms such as captive insurance populations, funding for foreign national parks, habitat restoration, global/local wildlife education, governmental partnerships and more. Yet while...

Kayangel Atoll may soon be the first of Palau's islands to become rat free: Incredible “Incubator Bird” to be saved by rat removal on Pacific island

Hello Everyone! My name is Tunya Chinpilas and I am a graphic student and an aspiring Zoo Designer from the UK. I am currently working on a publication about how perception, illusions and art theories can help zoo exhibit designs alter the modern-day perception of zoos. I have published the...

@pachyderm pro created this thread a while ago, about an idea for zoos in the distant future. It gave me an idea about how farming, zoos, and conservation could blend together in the future. First, let me talk about a zoo not far from where I live. This zoo partly inspired this idea. Glacier...

Hiya! I'm undertaking my MSc thesis currently and for this am running a survey about in-situ and ex-situ cat conservation. If you're 18+ and a UK resident please consider taking my survey! It'll take you about 15 minutes but you'll get to see cute pictures. Lots of people have started the...

Thought I'd start a new thread on this topic rather than hijacking TLD's cat taxonomy thread further! For the background, read posts #63, #65-67, and #93 of this thread: TLD's Photographic Guide To The New Felid Taxonomy Or read these articles: This one, on the first thorough survey of the...

With Sudan the last male Northern White Rhinoceros dead, and Vaquitas getting close to extinction, it is time we look on the positive side of wildlife news. This is a thread for POSITIVE wildlife news, so we can leave the Wildlife & Nature Conservation sub-forum happy for once. For our first...

A project to save the species: Project to save the “Rhinoceros of the Caribbean” gets gold standard

Has anyone heard news about this yet? How DNA Proved Wild Horses No Longer Exist Przewalski's Horses are not wild, but feral. What's to become of conservation for them, and zoo breeding like the San Diego Safari Park and National Zoo?

The White-Winged Flufftail is a Critically Endangered species that was previously thought to breed only in Ethiopia, and winter in various locations in Zimbabwe, South Africa and Lesotho. Recent studies however, show that this species is actually a non-migratory species, and breeds in both...

Hello, Common topic on this forum is zoo entertainment - what makes exhibits really attractive, and zoo education - how to make visitors really learn. I put a presentation with my thoughts on these. It started as a fictional exhibit design play for a German site, but I removed the fictional...

Hi everyone, So in the future I want to go into cat conservation, I always envied those you see on Nat Geo etc sitting in forests and waiting for something exiting to happen (also setting up camera traps and tracking). I would like to go down the route of working in the adventure of finding...

Finally some good news! :) During this year's migration, zero Amur Falcons were poached: From slaughter to spectacle - education inspires locals to love Amur Falcon

This is good news :): Great news for shorebirds! China to halt coastal land reclamation