In 2000 EAZA started with an important activity: organising annual conservation campaigns. These campaigns increase the cooperation between EAZA, its members, and other conservation organisations through addressing a variety of issues affecting a range of species and habitats.
Whether focusing on the trade in bushmeat or the crisis situations for amphibians, the threats to the rich biodiversity of the rainforests in South America and Madagascar or such iconic animals as tigers and rhinos, EAZA's conservation campaigns have raised funds, promoted awareness and provided the impetus for key regulatory change.
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EAZA APE CAMPAIGN
September 2010 witnessed the launch of the EAZA Ape Campaign. The campaign, which will run throughout 2011, aims to make a significant and lasting contribution to the survival of apes and their habitats.
Almost all of the apes - gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, orangutans and gibbons - are either Endagered or Critically Endangered, facing threats from hunting and trade, habitat destruction, and the spread of disease.
The EAZA Ape Campaign will raise awareness of the plight of the apes and will use funds raised to create an EAZA Ape Conservation Fund, providing grants to in situ ape conservation projects.
Find out more at www.apecampaign.org.
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2008 YEAR OF THE FROG CAMPAIGN
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Amphibians are an important component of the global ecosystem, as indicators of environmental health and contributors to human health. They watched the dinosaurs come and go, but today almost half of them are themselves threatened with extinction.
The global conservation community has formulated a response in the Amphibian Conservation Action Plan. Amphibian Ark: select species that would otherwise go extinct will be maintained in captivity until they can be secured in the wild. Without immediate captive management as a stopgap component of an integrated conservation effort, hundreds of species would become extinct.
Shepreth Wildlife Park donated £500 to Amphibian Ark. This money was raised by donating a percentage of funds from our 'Bug Parties'.
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