Zoos and Aquariums Essential to Species Survival
Silver Spring, MD (Vocus/PRWEB ) June 17, 2009 -- Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) accepted zoos are leaders in albatross attention apprenticeship and science, and allure the accessible to bless and abutment elephants by visiting them this summer.
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Experiencing an albatross close-up is a affective experience Elephants are as admirable as their populations are fragile, and there's no bigger abode to affix with them and accept what is accepting done to advice them than at an AZA-accredited zoo. "Experiencing an albatross close-up is a affective experience," said AZA President and CEO Jim Maddy. "Elephants are as admirable as their populations are fragile, and there's no bigger abode to affix with them and accept what is accepting done to advice them than at an AZA-accredited zoo."
Status Of Elephants In The Wild
In the wild, elephants are in trouble. Elephant populations in Africa and Asia are beneath astringent blackmail from human-elephant battle (HEC), acute poaching, disease, and affecting accident of habitat.
Elephas Maximus - Over the endure 25 years, the citizenry of Asian elephants is estimated to accept beneath by 50 percent or more, advancement their endangered cachet according to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature (ICUN). There are now an estimated 45,000 Asian elephants in 14 countries.
Loxodonta Africana - African albatross populations are reportedly on the acceleration in contempo years, but are still brittle accepting declined by 25 percent over the endure 25 years. Conservation and apprenticeship efforts are acute to advance albatross populations and habitats. There are now an estimated 470,000 to 690,000.
Elephants in Zoos are Thriving
Today, 269 elephants abide in 77 AZA-accredited zoos. About one bisected are Asian elephants and bisected are African elephants. They are cared for circadian by able zookeepers and veterinarians who address their lives to these arresting animals.
AZA-accredited accessories launched the Species Survival Plan Program in 1981 as a accommodating citizenry administration and attention affairs for called at-risk species. The African and Asian Elephant Species Survival Plan (SSP) provides a absolute attention action that spans veterinary research, accessible education, and acreage attention projects. Its mission is to advance a able approaching for African and Asian albatross populations through zoo attention programs.
The AZA Standards for Elephant Management and Care set requirements for asylum design, nutrition, reproduction, enrichment, and veterinary affliction to ensure high-quality zoo habitats for elephants. These binding standards, adopted in 2003, are alive and the North American albatross citizenry is thriving.
With the advice of elephants in AZA-accredited zoos, elephants about the apple are benefitting from veterinary advancements. Because of accurate analysis in zoos, artificial formation is now accepting accomplished in Asia; contraceptive drugs and techniques are accessible as an addition to culling; and tuberculosis tests and drugs are cautiously implemented worldwide. Similarly, the abstraction of pheromones and ancestry behavior was aboriginal articular and advised in zoos.
Zoos Conservation Efforts
AZA-accredited zoos play an important role in furthering albatross attention on a common basis. In accession to acknowledging the albatross Species Survival Plan, 10 examples of these basic programs include:
- The Tarangire Elephant Tracking Project in Tanzania. This activity advance African elephants in the Tarangire National Forest by agency of all-around accession systems to map their clearing patterns. This will aid in drafting acreage use proposals to assure the elephants' migration, agriculture and calving areas. The affairs aswell supports the college apprenticeship of built-in Tanzanians who ambition to allot their alum plan to attention studies.
- Human Elephant Conflict in Tamil Nadu, India. Human Elephant Conflict (HEC) is a ample and growing blackmail to elephants as their accustomed abode continues to abate in size. This activity will abode a applicable administration action for albatross affluence with appropriate accent on aisle administration in adjustment to anticipate HEC.
- Uda Walawe National Park, Sri Lanka. The purpose of the activity is to abstraction Asian albatross amusing behavior and citizenry dynamics in the Uda Walawe National Park. Elephants in the esplanade are threatened by development alfresco of the esplanade and abstracts will ultimately advice in the authoritative of wildlife administration decisions that abate human-elephant battle and accommodate alternating development strategies to advice sustain the albatross citizenry in Sri Lanka.
- Sumatra Elephant Conservation Response Units, Indonesia. This advancing activity by the Conservation Response Unit (CRU) in Sumatra will investigate human-elephant interactions in adjustment to advance bounded acumen by utilizing already alone bound elephants and their mahouts (handlers) for absolute acreage based attention interventions for agrarian elephants. The capital objectives are: 1) mitigating human-elephant conflict; 2) abbreviation wildlife abomination through backwoods convoying and monitoring; 3) adopting acquaintance a allotment of locals of the accent of attention elephants and their habitat; 4) establishing community-based ecotourism to ensure abiding CRU banking sustainability.
- Disease Investigation in Assam, India. Disease is a accustomed blackmail to both agrarian and managed elephants, and this activity aims to abstraction the prevalence of ache amidst agrarian populations in the Assam arena to advance strategies for their aegis from diseases. The activity hopes to aftermath abject band abstracts on communicable and non-infectious diseases to anticipate approaching cases amidst agrarian albatross populations.
- The Waterways and Dura Recovery Project, Western Uganda. Poaching has devastated the region's albatross population, and this activity aims to actualize bigger ecology and administration in the across by stationing rangers in key locations to anticipate added loss. Additionally, the activity aims to animate elephants to use the adequate aisle to repopulate the region.
- Capacity architecture by the Northern Rangelands Trust (NRT), Kenya. The role of the NRT is to advance the accommodation and ability of its basic association conservancies in biodiversity conservation, accustomed ability administration and accustomed assets based enterprises. These efforts aim to advice both elephants and bodies in the Northern Kenya region.
- Investigating African albatross articulate advice which has led to the analysis of two new vocalizations that had never been appear for elephants in the agrarian or in zoological settings. The abiding ambition of the albatross delivery activity is to advance and apparatus articulate advice technology in the agrarian to advice with attention and administration efforts.
- Conducting analysis on Endotheliotropic Elephant Herpesvirus (EEHV). The collaborative abstraction aims to analyze the causes of the ache in zoos and in the agrarian in an accomplishment to ultimately anticipate approaching EEHV fatalities, as able-bodied as acquisition the cachet of EEHV in alone elephants, their abeyant for added transmission, and analyze predisposing factors that accomplish specific elephants added affected to the disease.
- Supporting the development of The National Elephant Center (TNEC) in adjustment to enhance the adeptness to abound and administer zoo albatross populations in North America and to actualize a acceptable approaching for elephants through analysis and attention efforts by zoo albatross affliction experts.
Your Visit Makes a Difference
Elephants in AZA-accredited zoos advice brainwash visitors, accomplish affecting connections, and change behaviors that absolutely appulse albatross conservation. In a Harris Interactive poll, 95 percent of Americans said that seeing elephants in zoos helps humans acknowledge them more. That aforementioned poll begin that 86 percent of respondents accept that visiting zoos encourages humans to accord time and/or money to albatross conservation.
Zoos consistently accommodate conservation-oriented educational encounters to brainwash the accessible about the attention cachet of elephants in the wild. Many aswell action developed apprenticeship classes to focus on the plight of elephants and the attention efforts currently underway, with a allocation of allotment funds traveling anon to abide in-situ plan to advice elephant.
By visiting elephants in accepted zoos, humans advice accomplish accessible the acreage conservation, research, abode restoration, abridgement of human-elephant conflicts and community-based initiatives all-important to assure agrarian populations. AZA-accredited zoos accommodate the majority of allotment for the International Elephant Foundation, acknowledging albatross attention projects worldwide. http://www.aza.org/Newsroom/PR_2008IEF/index.html
Connecting with Elephants
There is no acting for abutting with an albatross up close. You can accept a different acquaintance with an albatross at these AZA-accredited zoos:
Africam Safari Park
Puebla, Mexico
Albuquerque Bio Park
Albuquerque, NM
Audubon Zoo
New Orleans, LA
BREC's Baton Rouge Zoo
Baton Rouge, LA
Bronx Zoo
Bronx, NY
Buffalo Zoo
Buffalo, NY
Busch Gardens Tampa Bay
Tampa, FL
Buttonwood Park Zoo
New Bedford, MA
Caldwell Zoo
Tyler, TX
Calgary Zoo
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
Cameron Park Zoo
Waco, TX
Central Florida Zoo
Sanford, FL
Cheyenne Mountain Zoo
Colorado Springs, CO
Chicago Zoological Society - Brookfield Zoo
Chicago, IL
Cincinnati Zoo
Cincinnati, OH
Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
Cleveland, OH
Columbus Zoo & Aquarium
Columbus, OH
Dallas Zoo
Dallas, TX
Denver Zoo
Denver, CO
Dickerson Park Zoo
Springfield, MO
Disney's Animal Kingdom
Lake Buena Vista, FL
El Paso Zoo
El Paso, TX
Fort Worth Zoo
Fort Worth, TX
Fresno Chaffee Zoo
Fresno, CA
Granby Zoo
Granby, Quebec, Canada
Greenville Zoo
Greenville, SC
Honolulu Zoo
Honolulu, HI
Houston Zoo
Houston, TX
Indianapolis Zoo
Indianapolis, IN
Jackson Zoo
Jackson, MS
Jacksonville Zoo & Gardens
Jacksonville, FL
Kansas City Zoo
Kansas City, MO
Knoxville Zoo
Knoxville, TN
Lee Richardson Zoo
Garden City, KS
Lion Country Safari
Loxahatchee, FL
Little Rock Zoo
Little Rock, AR
Los Angeles Zoo
Los Angeles, CA
Louisville Zoo
Louisville, KY
Memphis Zoo
Memphis, TN
Miami Metrozoo
Miami, FL
Milwaukee County Zoo
Milwaukee, WI
Montgomery Zoo
Montgomery, AL
Nashville Zoo
Nashville, TN
Niabi Zoo
Coal Valley, IL
North Carolina Zoo
Asheboro, NC
Oakland Zoo
Oakland, CA
Oklahoma City Zoo
Oklahoma City, OK
Omaha's Henry Doorly Zoo
Omaha, NE
Oregon Zoo
Portland, OR
Philadelphia Zoo
Philadelphia, PA
Phoenix Zoo
Phoenix, AZ
Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium
Pittsburgh, PA
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium
Tacoma, WA
Reid Park Zoo
Tucson, AZ
Riverbanks Zoo
Columbia, SC
Roger Williams Park Zoo
Providence, RI
Rosamond Gifford Zoo
Syracuse, NY
Saint Louis Zoo
Saint Louis, MO
San Antonio Zoo
San Antonio, TX
San Diego Zoo
San Diego, CA
San Diego Zoo's Wild Animal Park
Escondido, CA
Santa Barbara Zoo
Santa Barbara, CA
Sedgwick County Zoo
Wichita, KS
Seneca Park Zoo
Rochester, NY
Six Flags Discovery Kingdom
Vallejo, CA
Smithsonian National Zoo
Washington, D.C.
Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo
Tampa, FL
Maryland Zoo in Baltimore
Baltimore, MD
Toledo Zoo
Toledo, OH
Topeka Zoo
Topeka, KS
Toronto Zoo
Scarborough, Ontario, Canada
Tulsa Zoo & Living Museum
Tulsa, OK
Utah's Hogle Zoo
Salt Lake City, UT
Virginia Zoo
Norfolk, VA
Wildlife Safari Inc,
Winston, OR
Woodland Park Zoo
Seattle, WA
Zoo Atlanta
Atlanta, GA
Visit any of these AZA-accredited zoos today to apprentice added about elephants, how the zoo is accidental to attention and what you can do to help. www.aza.org/FindZooAquarium
About AZA
Founded in 1924, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums is a nonprofit alignment committed to the advance of zoos and aquariums in the areas of conservation, education, science, and recreation. Look for the AZA logo whenever you appointment a zoo or aquarium as your affirmation that you are acknowledging a ability committed to accouterment accomplished affliction for animals, a abundant acquaintance for you, and a bigger approaching for all active things. The AZA is a baton in all-around wildlife conservation, and your hotlink to allowance animals in their built-in habitats. To apprentice more, appointment www.aza.org.
Contact:
Steve Feldman, AZA, 301.562.0777 ext.252
Jackie Marks, AZA. 301.562.0777 ext. 236
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