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EAZA News 43 – 2003 o4 July - August - September EAZA Council meets in Tallinn The 2003 EAZA Spring Council meeting was hosted by the Tallinn Zoo on Sunday 25 May 2003. Approximately thirty Council members travelled to Estonia for this meeting. Additional meetings were held on 23 and 24 May by the EAZA Executive Committee, the EAZA Membership and Ethics Committee and the EAZA Committee on Technical Support and Animal Welfare. An informal meeting of the EAZA Conservation Committee with chairman Bengt Holst and a meeting on the new Zoological Information Management System (ZIMS) project, with ISIS director Nate Flesness present, also took place in Tallinn. EAZA Chairman now Minister Miklos Persanyi was appointed as Minister of Environment and Water for Hungary on 19 May 2003 and consequently resigned from the position of chairman of EAZA. After having chaired his last EAZA Council meeting in Tallinn, Miklos Persanyi expressed his thanks to the Council for its help and support during his chairmanship of EAZA. He also mentioned that it was a great honour for him to work with EAZA zoo and aquarium colleagues as the chairman of EAZA. The new Hungarian Minister concluded by stating that he hoped to be able to work on conservation issues with zoos in the future as well. Hans-Ove Larsson thanked Miklos Persanyi for his long term support and interest in EAZA and, on behalf of Council and the EAZA membership, wished him much success, joy and happiness in his future work and life. New EAZA Chairman On 25 May, vice-chairman Hans-Ove Larsson took over as (interim) chairman of EAZA in the afternoon session of the EAZA Council meeting in Tallinn. Hans-Ove Larsson is the chairman of the Swedish Association of Zoological Parks and Aquaria (SAZA) and works for the Zoological Department of the Skansen Foundation in Stockholm. He has represented the Swedish EAZA member zoos on Council since October 1996. Council will provide EAZA with a proposal for a new chairman for the period 2003-2004 in Leipzig, as EAZA’s constitution stipulates that the AGM must appoint the new chairman of EAZA. EAZA Conference 2004 in Kolmarden EAZA Council approved the nomination put forward by Kolmarden’s Djur & Naturpark to host the EAZA Annual Conference in 2004. The meetings will be held at the zoo’s own Vildmarkshotel from 21-26 September 2004. From the EAZA Office EAZA Atlantic Rainforest Endowment Fund EAZA Conservation Committee chairman Bengt Holst signed an agreement with the Brazilian Government Institute for Environment and Natural Renewable Resources (IBAMA) to establish an EAZA Atlantic Rainforest Endowment Fund. Some 94 EAZA zoos and aquaria participated in the EAZA Rainforest i Campaign and managed to collect over € 230,000 for the conservation of the Atlantic coastal rainforest. Although some € 100,000 has been provided directly to our Brazilian colleagues for projects, the remainder of the money will be placed in the endowment fund to be able to continue supporting projects in the years to come. The endowment fund will be managed by Marcelo Marcelino, a representative of IBAMA, Claudio Padua, Denise Rambaldi, Anthony Rylands (all three Brazilian rainforest scientists) and Bengt Holst on behalf of EAZA. European Bushmeat Campaign The EU’s Petitions Committee has commissioned its report on the bushmeat trade and this is likely to be discussed at its meeting in September 2003 and will then be discussed at Plenary in the European Parliament towards the end of the year. It is important that EAZA continues to be an active player in this process that we started three years ago, and that we are part of the wider European Campaign. The support of zoos and national federations is vital in enabling us to do that. Donations totalling € 9,430 have been received from Apenheul Primate Park, Banham/Suffolk, Bristol, Chester, Colchester, Copenhagen, Dublin, Landau, Lisbon, Mulhouse and Skansen Foundation in support of EAZA’s 2003 membership of the European Bushmeat Campaign. Further donations have been pledged by the VDZ and Munster Zoo. Both will provide a generous € 2,500 for 2003 and 2004 under the condition that the annual membership fee of € 15,000 per year, will be raised by EAZA.
From the EAZA Office Additional funds are still needed and can be transferred toiEAZA’s Fortis Bank account Nr. 80 66 04 409 in Amsterdam. (Please include BIC code: FTSB-NL-2R and IBAN code: NL- 77-FTSB-0806604409). EAZA European Carnivore Campaign 2004/2005 The Council of EAZA approved the proposal to launch a new EAZA Campaign on the conservation of European carnivores – living in land and/or water – in September 2004. By timely announcing the theme of the campaign EAZA hopes to provide those members interested in participating more time for preparations. More information on the next EAZA Conservation Campaign will of course be provided to the members over the next few months. It was also decided by EAZA Council to extend the highly successful EAZA Tiger Campaign by another year. For more information please refer to the ‘Tiger Campaign’ section in this issue. New EAZA members Three EAZA members were approved by Council in Tallinn on recommendation of the EAZA Membership and Ethics Committee: Ähtäri Zoo (Full member; Finland), NiederRheinPark Plantaria (Temporary member; Germany) and Estación Experimental de Zonas Áridas, Almería (Associate member; Spain). Temporary associate member Omega Parque (Monchique, Portugal) opened on 8 June and has been provided with full membership of EAZA. More information on these new members can be found in the section ‘Welcome to EAZA’ elsewhere in this issue and on the EAZA website. Furthermore, temporary member Zoo Parc Overloon (the Netherlands) has now been approved as full member of EAZA. Termination of membership The EAZA membership of Serengeti Safaripark Hodenhagen (Germany) was terminated following the results of an inspection – in the framework of a complaints procedure – early this year. Candidate for Membership Kaliningrad Zoo (Russian Federation) and Monkey Park (Israel) were transferred from the ‘Temporary Membership’ category to the ‘Candidate for Membership’ category. Institutions in this new ‘membership’ category will be offered a range of technical assistance and consultancy, mainly provided and supervised by the EAZA Committee on Technical Support and Animal Welfare. More information on the growth of the EAZA membership since the foundation of the organisation 15 years ago, can be found in the section ‘Welcome to EAZA’ on page 10 of this issue. Last call for registration Leipzig EAZA members are urgently requested to register for Leipzig, as the deadline for early registration payment of 1 July 2003 has passed. Registration can be done via the EAZA (www.eaza.net) or the Leipzig Zoo (www.zoo-leipzig.de/conferences) websites. A second draft programme is now also available on the EAZA website. EAZA Recommendation on Romanian zoos Based on information brought to the attention of Council it was decided to once again remind EAZA members that animals should not be transferred to Romanian zoos. The current conditions for animal keeping are unfortunately still below standards in this country. The EAZA Committee on Technical Support and Animal Welfare has recently contacted Mr. Bogdan Matei to visit all 35 Romanian zoos and aquaria and to provide EAZA with an update on the status of these institutions. The information collected through EAZA’s investigation will be used to design a series of basic training workshops for Romanian zoo personnel in 2003 and 2004. Two-way radios EAZA kindly acknowledges the donation of two-way radios by Givskud Zoo, Georg von Opel Zoo Freigehege für Tierforschung (Kronberg) and Paradise Wildlife Park. These radios have in the meantime been donated to the Nikolaev and Bojnice Zoos. The EAZA Committee on Technical Support and Animal Welfare is still interested in receiving further donations as there are several zoos in Central and Eastern Europe interested in receiving ‘radios’. New EAZA Statements adopted EAZA Council adopted the two following statements, put forward by the EEP Committee, at its meeting in Tallinn, 25 May 2003: EAZA Statement on selling and trading of EEP animals “For the benefit of the future viability of EAZA/EEP populations, all transfers of EEP animals* must be arranged in full consultation with, and the agreement of, the EEP Coordinator. In order to ensure the non-commercial status of EEPs any selling of EEP animals must be avoided.” * ‘EEP animals’ are ‘Animals designated as belonging to the managed populations of those species for which there are approved EEP programmes’. EAZA News 43 – 2003 o5 July - August - September
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