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1
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What is in situ conservation?

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Conservation work carried out where the animals are indigenous, helping save environments in the field

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What is ex with conservation?

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Helping save the species and habitat away from their natural environments
Carried out in the zoo setting

3
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Why save habitats and species?

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Environmental ethics
Research
Continued life
Education

4
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What does the zoo license act state a zoo must do?

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Zoos need to demonstrate a direct, active and tangible conservation programme

5
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What does WZACS stand for?

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World zoo and aquarium conservation strategy

6
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How would a zoo integrate conservation into all activities?

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Info boards with conservation message
Education programmes
Sustainable approach
Engage visitors

7
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How would a zoo contribute to the conservation of wild populations?

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Appropriate breeding of captive populations, reintroductions and advising on these issues

Funding
Education
Training programmes

8
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What are TAGs?

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Taxon Advisory Groups

9
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What are the roles of TAGs?

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Identifies which species should be managed
Makes recommendations of which species should be incorporated
Create studbooks to micro manage individual species

10
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What are two different European breeding programmes?

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European studbooks: not intensively managed
European endangered breeding programme: intensively managed, collect info on captive populations, recommends which animals should breed and the movements

11
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What is hybridisation?

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The act of mixing different species to produce hybrids

Results in generic animals of limited conservation value

12
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What is a liger?

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Male lion and female tiger

Much bigger

13
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What is a tiglon/tigon?

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Cross between male tiger and female lion

Much smaller than normal parent species

14
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What is reintroduction?

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An attempt to establish a species in an area where it is now extinct

15
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What is translocation?

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The deliberate and premeditated movement of wild individuals/populations from one part of their range to another

16
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What is reinforcement/supplementation?

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Addition of individuals to an existing population of conspecifics

17
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What are important criteria for released animals?

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Only healthy animals should be released
Must have high fitness
Should not be confident in the presence of humans

18
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What is an example of a successful reintroduction?

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The oryx back to North Africa

19
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What is proyecto titi?

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Started in 1985 in Colombia

First community based projects where local people were pivotal in the saving of the tamarins

20
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How can zoos help in overall conservation?

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Raise funds to contribute to in situ projects
Educate local people
Educating the general public in how they can contribute to their environment