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BIAZA Conservation

BIAZA believes that the best place to conserve wildlife is in the wild and encourages its members in their efforts to support field conservation. During 2005 BIAZA members supported 335 field projects and contributed over £5 million. Members also contribute to projects through supplying husbandry and management skills, staff and equipment for habitat and species conservation and essential material for local education and awareness programmes in developing countries.


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	Field Conservation
	Reintroduction
	Breeding Programmes
	What are studbooks?
	The role of breeding programmes in conservation
	Conservation Projects

Zoos such as London (ZSL), Durrell (Jersey), Chester, Marwell, Paignton and Bristol are well known for their pioneering work in conservation. However, all members contribute to BIAZA’s conservation objectives by raising awareness and essential funds for conservation both at home and abroad and members often form partnerships with zoos and other conservation organisations, to increase their ability to conduct in-situ work. Sometimes this is done through EAZA/BIAZA campaigns.

Please check each member’s website for their activities.

Wild Spaces

	BIAZA is working with the World Land Trust and its partner organisation REGUA to create a reserve in the Atlantic rainforest of Brazil – one of the world’s great biodiversity hotspots.

The Atlantic rainforests are among the most threatened in the world due to habitat destruction and fragmentation. Because of their high levels of biodiversity and species endemism it is vital that we save what is left and restore as much lost habitat as possible.

The proposed BIAZA Reserve of 1500 ha is situated between the REGUA reserve and the Rio de Janeiro Primatology Centre, only 80 km outside the bustling city of Rio de Janeiro.

BIAZA members and the WLT are working together to raise £260,000 over 3 years to purchase the land and create the reserve.

For more information and updates on the project go here.