Indonesian Conservation Management Practices & the Australian ...

The Australian Context12Threats• Funding support not consistent.• Disagreement within the industry on why it should support conservation, or how conservationis defined.• A sector of the zoo industry taking the view that conservation is not relevant to itspurpose and operations.• Criticism from the animal rights movement about zoos generally, which may underminethe capacity of zoos to support conservation.• Community views that zoos do not have a role in wildlife conservation.