Conservation Projects
Anna Francis

Conservation

This archive contains just a few of the 600+ projects supported by BIAZA members every year. Many of these projects are BIAZA annual award winners and commendations.

For additional examples of the crucial conservation work undertaken by our zoos and aquariums, see our Top Ten Campaign series of reports, below. Each of these reports focuses on a different taxa, highlighting those threatened species which are benefitting from the efforts of our members.

Restoring the glutinous snail to Britain
Restoring the glutinous snail to Britain The glutinous snail (Myxas glutinosa) is considered Europe’s rarest freshwater snail, extinct in England and now surviving in just one lake in Wales. Thanks to the expertise and work of ecologist Ian Hughes and BIAZA partner Lifeforms Art, we at BIAZA have recently worked to ... Find out More
Reforesting Borneo: Partnerships and Collaboration
Reforesting Borneo: Partnerships and Collaboration   The Kinabatangan floodplain of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo is a biodiversity hotspot, harbouring a remarkable diversity and abundance of wildlife, such as the Bornean orang-utan, Bornean elephant, clouded leopard, as well as a wide array of birdlife. Following intense exploitation, the ... Find out More
Redefining a snail’s pace: reintroduction and rapid recovery of two Critically Endangered land snails from Bermuda
Redefining a snail’s pace: reintroduction and rapid recovery of two Critically Endangered land snails from Bermuda   The genus Poecilozonites forms an endemic radiation of land snails unique to Bermuda. Of the 12 species known from the fossil record, 2 were known to have survived into the late 20th century, with one of these, P. bermudensis, believed to have become extinct in the 1990s. The main drivers ... Find out More
PICA (Pallas’s cat International Conservation Alliance)
PICA (Pallas’s cat International Conservation Alliance) The Pallas’s cat, or manul, is a small and elusive cat that occurs throughout the mountain steppes and grasslands of Central Asia. Despite its wide distribution, much of which is shared with its more famous cousin the snow leopard, the Pallas’s cat is rarely seen, poorly known and has ... Find out More

 

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