Conservation 9 Flashcards
What is in situ conservation?
Conservation work carried out where the animals are indigenous, helping save environments in the field
What is ex with conservation?
Helping save the species and habitat away from their natural environments
Carried out in the zoo setting
Why save habitats and species?
Environmental ethics
Research
Continued life
Education
What does the zoo license act state a zoo must do?
Zoos need to demonstrate a direct, active and tangible conservation programme
What does WZACS stand for?
World zoo and aquarium conservation strategy
How would a zoo integrate conservation into all activities?
Info boards with conservation message
Education programmes
Sustainable approach
Engage visitors
How would a zoo contribute to the conservation of wild populations?
Appropriate breeding of captive populations, reintroductions and advising on these issues
Funding
Education
Training programmes
What are TAGs?
Taxon Advisory Groups
What are the roles of TAGs?
Identifies which species should be managed
Makes recommendations of which species should be incorporated
Create studbooks to micro manage individual species
What are two different European breeding programmes?
European studbooks: not intensively managed
European endangered breeding programme: intensively managed, collect info on captive populations, recommends which animals should breed and the movements
What is hybridisation?
The act of mixing different species to produce hybrids
Results in generic animals of limited conservation value
What is a liger?
Male lion and female tiger
Much bigger
What is a tiglon/tigon?
Cross between male tiger and female lion
Much smaller than normal parent species
What is reintroduction?
An attempt to establish a species in an area where it is now extinct
What is translocation?
The deliberate and premeditated movement of wild individuals/populations from one part of their range to another
