Zoo News Digest 7th May 2019 (ZooNews 1022)
Photo by Ventura Wildlife Park
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Dear Colleague,
So the Barcelona City Council have made their decision. This is terrible news and the ignorant Animal Rights Anarchists must be frothing at the mouth in glee. It is all ignorance in the end. I am surprised that representations by EAZA, WAZA, AZA and countless others were not taken into consideration. I can change my mind on any subject when presented with facts. The AR's are blinkered though. I see this every day but they can't see past their own crazy agenda. They won't read, they wont even try to understand.
I was asked in an email last week if my statement "good zoos will not gain the credibility of their critics until they condemn the bad zoos wherever they are." was ever remarked upon by anyone in the zoo community. Well the simple answer is 'no'. Until such time that that good zoos do start to do so the bad zoos will flourish and every bad zoo will give ammunition to the AR's. WE, the good zoos are very much responsible for the success of the AR's. The associations need to take a good hard look at some of their members and take action. Thing is I know exactly why they don't...but then they do too.
I really believe that 'Gay' Penguin stories are well past their sell by date. I won't be including them any more.
I was highly amused by the story of the bear which escaped in Great Plains Zoo but reported as "the bear was "not where they wanted it to be." Now that was a very clever choice of words. Other papers appear to have stuck with it too. I suppose in theory you could stick with such a phrase until an animal left the zoo boundary...or does this lead to a debate on when is an escape an escape? No harm done.
Check out the first link this week. I was delighted to find it. I was a member of the AAZK for a long time. I left more than twenty years of journals at the WMZ when I left. I really couldn't carry them and a multitude of other journals when I hit the road. This online treasure trove is a mega resource for any zoo person doing research.
It makes a nice story but I don't think any lion rescued from an Albanian Zoo will ever be released to the wild. Dream on.
A vertical zoo for Manila? What is that exactly? We have one in Bangkok called Pata Zoo. Not a good idea.
"good zoos will not gain the credibility of their critics until they condemn the bad zoos wherever they are." Peter Dickinson
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ZooNews Digest has over 110,300+ Followers on Facebook( and over 110,400 likes) and has a weekly reach often exceeding over 350,000 people? That ZooNews Digest has subscribers in over 900 Zoos in 155+ countries? That the subscriber list for the mail out reads like a 'Zoos Who's Who?'
If you are a subscriber to the email version then you probably knew this already. You would also know that ZooNews Digest pre-dates any of the others. It was there before FaceBook. It was there shortly after the internet became popular and was a 'Blog' before the word had been invented. ZooNews Digest reaches zoo people.
I remain committed to the work of GOOD zoos,
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Open Access to the Animal Keepers’ Forum via the Biodiversity Heritage Library (BHL)
The
Three E’s
Through my time training animals, I’ve always
found it very interesting to see how our energy can effect our animals. Using
our energy with a variety of animals and observing their responses is an
interesting way to keep the animals engaged without any other reinforcement
strategies. Challenging oneself to go further than just simple food
reinforcements, gives me the drive and mindset to see how far one can go by
using Energy, Excitement, and Enthusiasm.
https://zoospensefull.com/2019/05/06/the-three-es-2/
Barcelona’s
push for an “animalist” zoo signals end of a 127-year era
Animal welfare groups hail move phasing out
most breeding programs, but conservation experts say initiative shows little
understanding of how these centers help endangered species
ZOO MOVE: New bylaws for breeding at risk animals at centre in Spain
NO animals that cannot be returned to the wild will be bred at Barcelona zoo.
The city council approved a motion modifying animal protection bylaws with the backing of the BComu, PdeCat and ERC parties despite opposition from Ciudadanos, the PSC socialists and the Partido Popular.
The 2.000 animals belonging to 300 species that currently live in the zoo which opened 127 years ago will be transferred to animal sanctuaries or remain there until they die natural deaths.
Negros
Forest Park: A forest in the heart of the city
ALMOST all of us have a penchant for different
animals which are vital to our lives and to our ecosystem.
They are after all part of God's valuable
creations next to human beings.
Negros Forest Park formerly Negros Forest and
Ecological Foundation Inc. (NFEFI) is now managed by Talarak Foundation which
started in 2017.
The park was established in 1986. It channels
its efforts into the reforestation of forests, the rescue and captive breeding
of endangered species, the creation of wildlife reserves, forest community
organization, conservation education, alternative livelihood and sustainable
projects
The international meeting of collectors of zoo literature and memorabilia will be held on the first weekend of September 2019 at the Tiergarten Nürnberg (Germany). Zoohistorica 2019 will be the thirtieth since the first meeting in 1990 in Hanover Zoo!
A draft program of the meeting is included in this circular. The Sunday visit is now confirmed at Tiergarten Straubing, while the Friday evening program will also include a guided tour through the site of the former Tiergarten Nürnberg am Dutzendteich, open from 1912 to 1939.
Reserve now the 6th, 7th and 8th September 2019 in your planner! Registrations are opened at the following web link: https://goo.gl/forms/CXEQcPZrciOAPigv2. Thanks in advance to register as soon as possible. The registration fee is 35 € per person, which includes visits to the Tiergarten Nürnberg and Tiergarten Straubing and the Saturday evening meal (excluding drinks). Payment can be made directly on site on Saturday morning in cash. The city of Nuremberg has many hotels; all information is available in six languages at https://tourismus.nuernberg.de/.
All information related to Zoohistorica 2019 is also available online atwww.zoohistorica.org. Don’t hesitate to contact me at jonaslivet@zoohistorica.org if you have any question.
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Koala Industry Ranking - Part 1
The koala industry ranking rates the koala
industry as a whole, meaning both, the captivity and the conservation sector,
compared to other industries who have evolved over time, including finding and
sourcing the best people for the job.
The koala industry hasn’t had the mentality to
compete with other industry. Instead, “It’s our way or the highway!” The koala
industry does not have a culture of starting small and partnering with other
industries. It does not support other industries before supporting itself,
Maltreated
lions rescued from Albanian zoo head to Dutch sanctuary
Zhaku, Lenci and Bobby, three lions whose
miserable plight in a private Albanian zoo stirred uproar and led the Albanian
government to order their rescue, began their journey to a Dutch big cat centre
on Tuesday, from where they will hopefully be returned to the wild.
Pictures of a malnourished Lenci, with an
infected, reddened and half-closed eye, which appeared in a British newspaper
last October, piled pressure on the Albanian government to rescue the wild
animals.
Erap’s
team eyes dev’t of Manila Zoo
The team Legacy led by reelectionist Manila
Mayor Joseph “Erap” Estrada is eyeing the conversion of the Manila Zoo into a
grand botanical garden and a world’s first vertical animal park.
Under its proposed urban renewal vision dubbed
as “Sulong Maynila” city plan, four hectares of the zoo will house beautiful
plants and flowers.
Meanwhile, the first vertical zoo in the world
will rise on the remaining one hectare.
Orcas
Galore: An Interview with Hazel McBride, Author of 'I Still Believe'
Scottish-born killer whale trainer, and author
opened up about her marine mammal career experience: Loro Parque, killer
whales, and conservation.
Great
Plains Zoo tranquilizes bear after a 'Code 1' situation
A bear at the Great Plains Zoo in Sioux Falls
was tranquilized on Tuesday after the bear was not in its intended area.
Zoo president Elizabeth A. Whealy said the zoo
underwent a "Code 1" the bear was "not where they wanted it to
be."
The bear, which was identified in a tweet from
the zoo as a brown bear cub named Juneau, was still in containment and never
left, Whealy said. The bear was tranquilized and moved back to the place where
the zoo wanted it, she said.
Banking
on Success
When Dobby the reticulated giraffe was born in
2017, he faced life-threatening health issues. He wasn’t nursing enough, so he
wasn’t getting vital antibodies, which put him at a high risk for infection and
possibly death. But a plasma transfusion, with plasma from a Cheyenne Mountain
Zoo giraffe, saved Dobby’s life. That
same year, another plasma transfusion, with plasma from a Columbus Zoo okapi,
saved our baby okapi Forest. Dobby’s and Forest’s stories are just a few of the
successes that can be attributed to plasma and blood banking. And in the last
few years, our veterinary medicine team has spent more time banking plasma and
blood from the animals in our care, so that we can help the animals at our zoo
and other institutions around the country.
Journal of Threatened Species
Volume 11 No6 2019
VIProfile:
Lisa New
Lisa New, President and CEO of Zoo Knoxville,
didn’t aspire to the head job there.
“My goal was to be a field researcher in
primatology--more of an academic and science role,” she said. “The zoo was a
pit stop that became a life goal.”
New, a Knoxville native and graduate of Carter
High School, earned a B.S. in Zoology and an M.S. in Ethology, the study of
animal behavior, from the University of Tennessee. In October 1990, while in
graduate school, she took a job at the zoo as a Research Assistant/Curator.
“As part of my job, in the midst of entering
data, writing and conducting scientific literature searches, I had to take care
of two infant chimps,” she said. “The problem of how to integrate them back
into their own social group was the basis for my thesis. As I worked through my
thesis, my network grew, and I started moving away from the academic world to
applied science. I never aspired to this business role; I wanted to work with
wildlife.”
Wellington
Zoo plays matchmaker to their Sumatran Tigers – LISTEN
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After more than 50 years working in private, commercial and National zoos in the capacity of keeper, head keeper and curator Peter Dickinson started to travel. He sold house and all his possessions and hit the road. He has traveled extensively in Turkey, Southern India and much of South East Asia before settling in Thailand. In his travels he has visited well over 200 zoos and many more before 'hitting the road' and writes about these in his blog http://zoonewsdigest.blogspot.com/Hubpages http://hubpages.com/profile/Peter+Dickinson
Peter earns his living as an independent international zoo consultant, critic and writer. Until recently working as Curator of Penguins in Ski Dubai. United Arab Emirates. He describes himself as an itinerant zoo keeper, one time zoo inspector, a dreamer, a traveler, an introvert, a people watcher, a lover, a storyteller, a thinker, a cosmopolitan, a writer, a hedonist, an explorer, a pantheist, a gastronome, sometime fool, a good friend to some and a pain in the butt to others.
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