![]() ![]() ZGAP Yellow Breasted Capuchin Project: Annually we help fund an ongoing project that is monitoring the current population and aids the funding of local Brazilian university students and government agencies to become conservationists of this charismatic species. Wildcats Conservation Alliance: (formerly 21 st Century Tiger), providing support for grass roots projects working with all sub-species of tigers. At DZC our in-situ support has been achieved in several ways, including awareness raising, direct funding, fundraising, research and education.ĬONSERVATION & RESEARCH PROJECTS SUPPORTED (In 2017 & 2018 unless noted) It is important that breeding projects are linked to programmes in the wild and that zoos also support in-situ conservation. Managing such schemes requires accurate record keeping which allows studbook keepers (species co-ordinators) to make breeding and movement recommendations.ĭZC is constantly involved in research projects linked to universities, colleges and other academic institutions. Sumatran tiger ( Panthera tigris sumatrae) : DZC’s first pair of Sumatran tigers arrived in 1994/5 and by 2006 had produced eight cubs which have helped found breeding groups across Europe and the UK.īreeding programmes are carefully managed to ensure populations remain long-term viable. Now found only in the Gir Forest, India, its population numbers just 200. We have kept this sub-species since 1995 and five cubs born at DZC are now at collections across Europe where they have helped found more breeding groups. Since then there have been 183 hatchings and 45 birds have been sent to found or join breeding groups at 10 other UK sites.Īsiatic lion ( Panthera leo persicus) : This species once roamed from Southern Europe to Japan. DZC has one of the largest parent reared groups in the UK, started via a breeding programme in 1991. Humboldt penguin ( Spheniscus humboldti): Housed at DZC since its opening in 1937, but is now one of the rarest species of penguin and listed as vulnerable to extinction by the World Conservation Union due to depletion of food stocks and climate changes. They remember our amazing animals, medieval castle and quirky Tectons but know little of the vital behind-the-scenes conservation projects that put DZC on the world stage. ![]() ![]() Millions of people have visited Dudley Zoo since it opened in 1937. ![]()
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