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Campaign Mission 1: Raising Awareness |
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| With 134 EAZA collections (24 in the UK) taking part in the campaign with an additional 15 zoos and aquariums in the UK participating, the messages were exposed to a large number of visitors. Although it is difficult to assess the impact of the Shellshock campaign many zoo and aquarium visitors have been reached. In addition, activities were not confined to zoos and aquaria, participants taking their activities outside the zoos and aquariums to larger audiences. |
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| Chester Zoo won the EAZA Shellshock Education Award for their original school and public education programme. The programme is based on the story of the Yunnan box turtle cuora yunnanensis, which was thought to be extinct but recently rediscovered. The cartoon-style programme introduces the turtle and tortoise crisis in a fascinating and teachable way using a true-life story. |
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Shelly, the Yunnan Box Turtle won the EAZA Shellshock Education Award for Chester Zoo. |
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| Bristol Zoo won the 2006 BIAZA Best Education Award: Public and General Visitor for their campaign education project – Stick Your Neck Out For Tortlepins and Chester Zoo won a commendation for this award with a slightly different campaign education activity – Turtles Can’t Fly |
Children playing Slippers and Sliders at Bristol Zoo whilst sticking their necks out for Tortlepins |
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Campaign Mission 2: Turtle Arks |
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| The aim of this target was bring more species and specimens in to the safety of the Turtle Ark – special captive populations that are set-up in zoos, aquaria and private collections around the world to prevent their extinction. |
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| All Shellshock participants were requested to complete the ‘Shellshock Reservist Form’ to indicate their willingness to create space for endangered turtle and tortoise species. The response was limited but several zoos did decide to start keeping turtles or tortoises during the campaign, often focussing on reptiles for the first time. These animals serve as an important educational purpose to spread the message of turtle and tortoise conservation. |
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| For some of those that already had important species in their collections a number of important hatchlings were welcomed during the campaign: Indotestudo elongate, Orlitia borniensis (Randers, Arnhem), Heosemys grandis (Fuengirola), Heosemys spinosa (Jersey), Chelodina mccordi (Rotterdam, Münster), Testudo kleinmanni (Antwerpen), Carretochelys insculpta (Rotterdam) and Pyxis planicauda. Some of these were offspring from animals originating from the ‘Hong Kong turtle seizure’ (EAZA News 38 and 46) that were saved by EAZA member collections. |
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Cuc Phuong turtle enclosure. Photo: Doug Hendrie |
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Campaign Mission 3: Support in situ conservation |
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| A staggering total of €372, 093 was raised – more than double the target! UK zoos and aquariums contributed 45% of this total. |
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| Bronze (>€2,000) |
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Paradise Wildlife Park |
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London Zoo |
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Marwell Zoo |
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Newquay Zoo |
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Paignton Zoo |
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Twycross Zoo |
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Something Different (Commercial Associate) |
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Blair Drummond Safari Park (non EAZA member) |
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| Silver (>€5,000) |
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Linton Zoo |
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Woburn Safari Park |
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| Gold (>€10,000) |
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Blackpool Zoo |
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Dublin Zoo |
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Releasing Batagur baska in Cambodia. WCS project recipient of €6,803. Photo: Doug Hendrie |
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| Platinum (>€20,000) |
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Chester Zoo |
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Colchester Zoo |
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Edinburgh Zoo |
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| Newquay Zoo was awarded the Shellshock Fundraising Award for doing a sponsored 100 mile walk from Paignton to Newquay by zoo staff. The award was given not only for the effort put in to it by the staff but also for taking the Shellshock campaign out of the zoo and in to the southwest of England |
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| Taken from Shellshock: Campaign Results. EAZA Executive Office, Nov 2006. |
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