Zoo Animals Breeding Programmes Most Prone to Suffer from Eventual Movement Hurdles due to BREXIT

[Nikola Chavkosk]

Due to eventual import/export (movement) hurdles that can eventually arise due to Brexit, some zoo animals, whose big parts of their populations are held by the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, may face difficulties in participating in European breeding programmes. Such zoo animals, that in Europe, in big part are held by the island country of the UK, are:

-Black rhinoceros - 41% of the European population are in the UK (36 animals from a total of 87 in Europe, are in the UK) (Dvur Kralove, 16 animals) (I am more afraid for the black rhino);

-African bush elephant (UK is the second largest holder in Europe, after Germany; Third: Spain)
-Asian elephant (again, the UK is the second largest holder in Europe, after Germany; Third: the Netherlands)

-Eastern bongo (13 UK holders, and 35 in the rest of Europe)
-Negros warty pig

-Sumatran tiger (16 UK holders, 42 in the rest of Europe)
-Asiatic lion (10 UK, 31 in the rest of Europe)
-Fossa (8 UK holders, 18 in the rest of Europe)

-Silvery gibbon
-Crested black macaque
-Black and gold howler monkey (41% of European holders are UK) (14 UK holders; 22 in the rest of Europe)
-Golden lion tamarin
-Golden headed lion tamarin
-Goeldi's marmoset
-Red bellied lemur
-Red fronted lemur
-Pygmy slow loris (9 UK holders, 20 in the rest of Europe)

-Black-faced kangaroo (10 UK holders, 8 in the rest of Europe)

All these zoo animals are zoo animals strongly associated with the UK.
What other zoo animals you can think of, that in big part are held in the UK? What birds will be such a case?

I think the UK is not particularly rich on zoo reptile species (or at least in venomous snakes), when compared to Germany+Czech Republic+Netherlands+Austria, or am I wrong?

However, animals that are most commonly involved in bans in the international movement are the artiodactilids, elephants and the birds, due to veterinary reasons (e.g. foot and mouth disease, rinderpest des petits small ruminants, Bluetongue, avian influenza, New Castle disease, etc.).

 

[DDcorvus]

Ungulates are the most challenging to import into the EU so will potentially suffer the most. It will depend a lot on how the UK leaves the EU, will they make an agreement on veterinary legislation or not. In the first case there might be no impact at all in the second it might make the movements of Ungulates between the UK and the EU nearly impossible. The other breeding programmes will, in case of no agreement, more challenging but not impossible.

But it all depend on the UK which relation they want to do with the EU? And I can tell you that the people working on this topic do not even have an answer yet so no one at Zoochat will be helpful on this topic.