Every project has wider implications for conservation

We promote in-range conservation & a new purpose for old zoos

We believe that Conservation needs all the help it can get and that zoos, for example, could do more. Convinced by our own evaluation results, we encourage zoos to expend their conservation effort and resources within the natural range of the species they want to save, sometimes by finding a new conservation purpose for old, in-range zoos.

Through our Zoo Counterpart Initiative, supported by The Rufford Foundation, current projects include the black-maned lions of Addis Ababa; the chimpanzees of DR Congo.

We encourage sectors to work together

We believe that, by working together, different conservation sectors can find innovative solutions. We are facilitating a dialogue between botanic gardens and zoos with the model project of preserving critically endangered copper tolerant plants (lost to mining in Zambia and DR Congo) inside a zoo!

From such dialogue it is possible that new solutions may surface, such as the concept of BioParks. 

We look for new solutions for conservation ... 

We are facilitating a dialogue between an international conservation NGO and a regional zoo association to consider ways to recover the Saiga migration on the Ustyurt Plateau, Eurasia. First we encourage both sectors to listen to each other, then we provoke "what if" scenarios.

Drawing on our own evaluation results, there is a high incidence of success when a project works with nature, so we are looking for ways to recover the migration, based on vested interest in a sustainable harvest, strongly underscored with local tradition.  

... or re-evaluate old ones

Some zoos provide just the right environment to attract birds, bats, beetles and other wildlife to roost, nest or hibernate within the safety of its grounds. Military storks fly to and from their burgeoning nests in Bangkok Zoo while those in cages fail to breed. Could the critically endangered Java hawk eagle find a nesting site within the secure perimeter of a Safari Park, a palace grounds, or a prison?

Then we systematically evaluate the results and add them to our participative database, the Workshop, accessible to all.

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