In 2022, the decision was made to take pookilas from dwindling wild populations under human care in order to start a conservation breeding programme. By 2023, the work is already bearing fruit.
Published on sandiegouniontribune.com the 16.02.2023. | By: Nadine Lamberski & Lisa Peterson
Anti zoo activists preferred seeing elephants dead to in a zoo. The experts of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance had to fight this small minority to be allowed to save the elephants.
Thanks to zoos, aquariums, and dolphinariums keeping dolphins and other whales, in 2020 and 2021, a lot of research was carried out that would otherwise have been impossible.
Published on sciencedirect.com in March of 2023. | By: Sarah L. Spooner, Susan L. Walker, Simon Dowell & Andrew Moss
Zoos and aquariums are built on a number of pillars according to the classical model. This approach is outdated, at least according to the authors of the publication.
Published on sat1nrw.de the 28.02.2023. | By: Henrik Nawratek
Marcel Stawinoga, communications manager at Dortmund Zoo, is in charge of an association that fights for the preservation of slow lorises. The article features their work.
Published on azpbs.org the 06.02.2023. | By: Sarah Min Heller
In parts of its area of distribution, populations of the narrow-headed garter snake are decreasing significantly. Phoenix Zoo wants to help these populations.
Published on web.de the 24.02.2023. | By: Larissa Schwedes
Donal Smith from the Zoological Society of London (ZSL) and other conservationist colleagues have published an acclaimed study about animals extinct in the wild. However, positive examples still raise hope.