Natur- und Tierpark Goldau Zoo Goldau

Last year female Bearded Vulture (Gypaetus barbatus barbatus) Donna Elvira was released into the wild, sadly she recently collided with a power cable. She sustained multiple broken bones from this and has since been returned to Tierpark Goldau, where she will now become part of the captive breeding program.

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Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (15/01/2022) Login • Instagram
 
At the start of this month 23-year old female Syrian brown bear (Ursus arctos syriacus) Maya was euthanised, her health was declining. Currently only her brother is left at the zoo.

Recently 2 Northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) hatched.

Yesterday a new male Alpine ibex (Capra ibex) was introduced to the group, he arrived with EEP recommendations from Wildnispark Zürich Langenberg.

Sources:
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (06/06/2023)
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (20/06/2023)
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (24/06/2023)
 
Will the keeping of Syrian brown bear continue? I assume a young Carpathian lynx mate will come in for the resident female in due course? How old is she?
 
Earlier this month the zoo send two Northern bald ibises (Geronticus eremita) to Zoo Zürich, they together with ibises from Zürich will be send to Spain to be released into the wild.


JurassicMax said:
Around a week ago 16-year old male Carpathian lynx (Lynx lynx carpathicus) Lucki passed away. The zoo currently has one female left.

Source:
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (18/01/2024)
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Recently a new male arrived from Zoo la Garenne.

Sources:
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (06/02/2024)
Instagram of Tierpark Goldau (11/02/2024)
 
lintworm said:
Tierpark Goldau imported 2 female Syrian browm bears from Tbilisi, Georgia. It is hoped they will breed with the remaining male

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Zoochatters All: Darn, I am so HAPPY here! For Yonker Years the entire EAZA network has downplayed the threatened status of some of our brown bear species (Pyrenean - disaster, Marsicano - no action take, Northern Scandinavia - you all need reminding how for example in Sweden the local bear subspecies has a tenuous hold thanks to a politically nature averse and a happy shooting moose hunting community is killing / significantly reducing both safe and unsafe predator species -)!

The Syrian brown bear has disappeared from a major part of its range in the Near East (not just Syria, Jordan, Palestine, even Iraq I would not hold much faith in a safe population). It may be relatively still common, if alas with a threatened status to boot in f.i. central and eastern Turkey, Iran and perhaps some of the Caucasus mountain ranges .... but going west and south it is pretty dramatic. Syrian brown bear deserve an ex situ conservation program by EAZA (having both the means and the capacity and political clout). Period!


NOTA BENE: This so much so for the current emphasis on bear rescue and functionally extinct condemnation to zoos in the EAZA region! You might - already (from previous observations) my personal position on this: Best left to in-country authorities with outside conservation funding in rehabilitation centers.
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
Zoochatters All: Darn, I am so HAPPY here! For Yonker Years the entire EAZA network has downplayed the threatened status of some of our brown bear species (Pyrenean - disaster, Marsicano - no action take, Northern Scandinavia - you all need reminding how for example in Sweden the local bear subspecies has a tenuous hold thanks to a politically nature averse and a happy shooting moose hunting community is killing / significantly reducing both safe and unsafe predator species -)!

The Syrian brown bear has disappeared from a major part of its range in the Near East (not just Syria, Jordan, Palestine, even Iraq I would not hold much faith in a safe population). It may be relatively still common, if alas with a threatened status to boot in f.i. central and eastern Turkey, Iran and perhaps some of the Caucasus mountain ranges .... but going west and south it is pretty dramatic. Syrian brown bear deserve an ex situ conservation program by EAZA (having both the means and the capacity and political clout). Period!


NOTA BENE: This so much so for the current emphasis on bear rescue and functionally extinct condemnation to zoos in the EAZA region! You might - already (from previous observations) my personal position on this: Best left to in-country authorities with outside conservation funding in rehabilitation centers.
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It's funny as I've written, a couple of weeks ago, an article (in French language) on my blog, hoping for a strenthening of the Syrian/Persian Brown Bear population in European zoos, more changes with Near Eastern / Caucasian zoos (actually the case with Tbilisi/Goldau !), and for their quick comeback in French ones (that used to keep them for decades, but completely cease that a few years ago with the departure of the last bears from Montpellier Zoo ; keep in mind that once there were these bears in the 2 main Parisian zoos, and perhaps even in the small Jardin d'Acclimatation).

The paradox of Brown Bears is that the species is LC globally, but with a lot of very threatened subpopulations (I don't talk about subspecies in most cases, the fragmentation in numerous subpopulations in our continent being the result of quite recent anthropogenic pressures, with no genetic basis for various subspecies, even if there are various bear ecotypes that reflect the diversity of the environments and climates of the countries where the bears live) especially in Europe and Middle East.
The situation of the species in zoos could mirror that, with a widespread presence in many zoos on the continent (according to Zootierliste, around 180 European zoos keep them) but little involvement of them in conservation programs ; some zoochatters having publicly disapproved here any breeding of Brown Bears in European zoos. The priority may have given in recent years to more threatened (on a global scale) tropical bears like Spectacled and Malayan ones.
The case of the rescued bears poses a supplementary problem : many recent historical events including the fall of Iron Curtain (unveiling the keeping of Brown Bears by private holders in very poor conditions, in numerous roadside zoos, hotels, restaurants, touristic resorts...), the Yugoslavian wars and recent accession to EU membership of some Eastern countries (I think mainly to Romania and Bulgaria) having raised the concerns on animal welfare, plus the outlawing of keeping of wild animals in circuses. All these events prompted the massive arrival of rescued (and most frequently non-breeding) Brown Bears within European zoos (most in the West but not only).

I may conclude that the maintaining of breeding populations of European Brown Bears would be useful for various purposes (not much the short-term reintroduction itself, but more the sensibilization to the general European public to bear conservation, as you have noticed various issues in countries like France, Italy or even Sweden), as obviously the comeback of a viable population of Syrian/Persian Brown Bears, as you should "bear" in mind.
 
@Haliaeetus, You speak from my heart!

BTW: I do personally know a few bear conservationists and they do thankfully know better....! Alas at the political \ policy level within Europe people continue to dream a dream that is not quite reality. Alas, this is particularly true of NW and SW Europe up till the central European Heartland... More easterly, it is the Syrian\Persian brown bears, the Himalayas and Tibetan plateaux ... et cetera!
 
Kifaru Bwana said:
@Haliaeetus, You speak from my heart!

BTW: I do personally know a few bear conservationists and they do thankfully know better....! Alas at the political \ policy level within Europe people continue to dream a dream that is not quite reality. Alas, this is particularly true of NW and SW Europe up till the central European Heartland... More easterly, it is the Syrian\Persian brown bears, the Himalayas and Tibetan plateaux ... et cetera!
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I deliberately missed the more Eastern threatened bear populations (as well of some American ones !), as I think that European zoos shouldn't play any significant role for their conservation ex situ ; more feasibly with the funding of conservation projects in countries like Mongolia, India, Nepal... as it is realized for other species (Przewalski's Horse, Snow Leopard, Red Panda...) and conservation areas.
 
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