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Výročná správa 2011 The Annual Report English summary

SUMMARY
NUMBER OF ANIMAL SPECIES (on 1.1.2012): the Eurasian Spoonbill from our breeding. We
414 NUMBER OF ANIMAL: 2268 also sent a female of the Carpathian Lynx within
In 2011, the zoological department registered the ESB, as recommended by the coordinator.
and provided care for 84 species of mammals Another EEP programme we joined is related
which means 447 specimens, 150 species of to the Persian Fallow Deer. We also brought the
birds (602 individuals), 55 species of reptiles Thorold´s Deer and a second male of the Golden
(447 specimens), 15 species of amphibians Takin.
(59 individuals), 91 species of fish (667) and
one species of cartilaginous fish (2). In 2011, INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION
we joined 2 new EEP programmes (European AND RESEARCH
breeding programmes): Asiatic Lion and Persian The most significant successes include the
Fallow Deer, 3 new ESB programmes (European classifi cation of ZOO Bojnice among 80 best
Studbooks): Golden Takin, Thorold´s deer, Red zoos in Europe, by the book of A. Sheridan “What
Kangaroo and a special programme of Jersey Zoos Can Do - Europe's Leading Zoological
Zoo for Bernier´s Teal. Number of species Gardens 2010-2020", which mentions 80 zoos in
in European breeding programmes EEP: 26. 21 European countries according to a rating list
Number of species in European and world published recently (International Zoo News).
studbooks (ESB and ISB): 32 The section head was elected a member of
TAG for the Hartmann´s Mountain Zebra. 3 zoo
TRANSPORTS, MAINTAINING OF THE GENE employees took part in the world conference
POOL AND TRADING WITH ANIMALS WAZA in Prague. Two employees represented
As it had been recommended by the EEP our zoo at the European conference EAZA in
coordinator, we sent a female of the Bongo Montpellier, France. The section head presented
Antelope born in our zoo to the Spanish Zoo a common project of ZOO Bojnice and ZOO
Jerez la Frontera. The recommended exchange Landau dealing with the Tora Hartebeest at
of breeding stalions of Hartmann´s Mountain the Symposium on antelope conservation held
Zebra was maded with ZOO Munich. We at the Zoological Society in London. Three of
completed pairs of Chiloe Wideon, Rosy-billed our employees participated in the national
Pochard and Edward´s pheasant. The collection conference on Research and conservation of
was enriched by the endangered Madagascar mammals in Slovakia. We started cooperation
Teal (property of the Malagasy government). with University of South Bohemia in České
Within the cooperation with ZOO Ostrava, we Budějovice, Univ. Leiden, Netherlands, Univ.
sent 9 animals of the Indian Star Tortoise. To Oslo, Czech University of Life Sciences in
support the breeding of the Andean Condor, Prague, Institute of Vertebrate Biology in
we sent our female and one Southern Crested Brno, University in Sofia and foundation Green
Caracara to ZOO Ostrava. We also provided the Balkans and Antelope Specialist Group at IUCN
ZOO of Ústí nad Labem with a male from our (UK). A link-up with the German conservation
breeding of the Guereza. Red Kangaroos (1.1), organisation ZGAP (Zoologische Geselschaft
brought from ZOO Bratislava, became a new ESB für Arten und Populationsschütz e.V.) was of
species of our zoo. One of the most significant confirmed by publishing of a paper written by
imports of this year was a male of the Golden section head in the spring of 2011.
Takin from ZOO Liberec – this made us the fourth
zoo in the world having this subspecies (apart Listárka červenooká (Agalychnis callidryas)
from Asia). We joined a new EEP for the Asiatic
Lion. To support the rescue of the Golden Eagle,
we sent our female to ZOO Ostrava. Within the ZOOLOGICAL DEPARTMENT,
exchange with ZOO Prague, they got a male of CONSULTING, REHABILITATION CENTRE
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