Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection

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Zoological Society for Species and Population
Protection (ZGAP)
founding 1982
Seat Munich
main emphasis international species protection
Action space worldwide
Website www.zgap.org

The Zoological Society for Species and Population Protection e. V. ( ZGAP ) is a non-governmental organization (NGO) for species protection. As a national NGO, it is a member of the IUCN , an associated member of the World Zoo and Aquarium Association ( WAZA ), an associated member of the European Association of Zoos and Aquariums ( EAZA ) and a member of the Alliance for Zero Extinction ( AZE ). Her main focus of work is the protection of wild animals of highly threatened, but little-known and media-marketed animal species. Since 2016, the ZGAP has named the zoo animal of the year every year to draw attention to acutely endangered species. The funds collected flow into selected conservation projects for the respective species.

History and tasks

The giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani) is the heraldic animal of the ZGAP.
Board of the ZGAP (2015) with the ZGAP logo. From left to right: Jens-Ove Heckel (chairman), Sven Hammer (second chairman), Florian Brandes (secretary), René Wüst (treasurer), Folko Kullmann (second chairman).
Prince Alfred Hirsch

The ZGAP was founded in 1982 by a small group of conservationists around Roland Wirth with the aim of protecting species of animals that are little known to the public in Munich. The giant sable antelope ( Hippotragus niger variani ) was selected as the heraldic animal in 1983 and an emblem was designed by the illustrator Helmut Diller (1911–1984), who was a member of the ZGAP.

One of the first species to which the ZGAP drew attention was the Prince Alfred deer Rusa alfredi, which was about to become extinct in 1984 . The “Red List” did not recognize the species. The deer species was simply "forgotten." (ZGAP) Until 1983, the species endemic to the Visayas Islands was only classified as a subspecies Cervus unicolor alfredi of the Sambar , the IUCN Red Lists at that time only named animal species, not subspecies. The ZGAP researched the Prinz-Alfred-Hirsch, contacted experts and participated organizationally and financially in a rescue program in which various zoos in Europe, Australia and the USA are also involved. In 1990 a conservation breeding project began in close cooperation with the Philippine government. Today (2015) over 110 animals live in the breeding stock of the species.

The ZGAP initially expanded its activities in the Philippines considerably. She helped initiate a project to research the cat-sized bark climbers (Phloeomys spp., Crateromys spp.). The protective measures for deer and crateromys and new activities for flying foxes ( Pteropus spp. U. A.), The Visayan warty pig ( Sus cebifrons ), the red-vented cockatoo ( Cacatua haematuropygia ), hornbill species ( Penelopides spp. , Aceros spp. ), Gallicolumba ( Gallicolumba spp. ), Philippine eagle owls ( Bubo philippensis ) and sailing lizards ( Hydrosaurus spp.) Will be continued in the long term.

The ZGAP subsequently also operates and promotes activities as described for the Philippines in other countries, such as Vietnam , where the company carried out and co-financed a search for endangered primates in close cooperation with the International Union for Conservation of Nature ( IUCN ). In the meantime, a breeding and rescue center (EPRC) for primates confiscated from illegal keeping has been set up in the Cuc-Phuong National Park . European zookeepers also work here under often difficult conditions in training and instructing Vietnamese employees to care for the valuable animals. This is the first time in the world that panda langur and the Hatinh langur ( Trachypithecus hatinhensis ), which has already been believed to have been extinct, have been bred . The ZGAP-Mitteilungen also reported several times about the legendary spiral horn antelope .

Projects of initially smaller scope for the rescue of the Tonkin golden monkey ( Rhinopithecus avunculus ) in the Na Hang conservation area and for the Cat Ba langur ( Trachypithecus poliocephalus ) were started in 1998 and 2000 and are also being carried out on a long-term basis. Since 1998 the company has been running a project for the conservation of the Bushman hare ( Bunolagus monticularis ). Projects to protect the Pemba flying fox ( Pteropus voeltzkowi ) on the Tanzanian island of Pemba as well as the most endangered representatives of their species, the Sichuan bush quail ( Arborophila rufipectus ) in China and the Ethiopian wolf ( Canis simensis ) in Ethiopia, are co-financed and supported.

The initiative of the ZGAP to record the population of threatened ungulates even in politically unstable regions in the Horn of Africa and thus to create basic data for future protection concepts, received high international recognition. Observations on the Dibatag ( Ammodorcas clarkei ), an endemic antelope species in the Ogaden, SE Ethiopia, and on the Beira antelope ( Dorcatragus megalotis ) in Djibouti have been collected in various surveys since 1997. Measures to protect the last 200 Somalia or Swaynes hartebeest ( Alcelaphus swaynei ) in a refuge of just a few square kilometers in central Ethiopia are in progress. In cooperation with the Allwetterzoo Münster , the ZGAP created the "International Center for Turtle Protection" - a worldwide unique station for the conservation of critically endangered Asian turtle species.

Projects for two more of the twenty-five most endangered primates (sub) species: black- headed lion tamarin ( Leontopithecus caissara ) and white- naped tamarin ( Cercocebus lunulatus ) are also funded by the ZGAP.

Resulting from the project group parrots Funds for Endangered Parrots founded ZGAP supported protections for species such as the citron-crested cockatoo ( Cacatua s. Citrinocristata ), the Red-tailed parrot ( Amazona brasiliensis ), the yellow-eared parrot ( Ognorhynchus icterotis ), the red-and-blue lory ( Eos histrio ) u. a.

A protection program by the Katala Foundation , including for the red-tailed cockatoo , on the island of Palawan , has not only been financially supported by the ZGAP since 1998. The world's largest red-tailed cockatoo population was threatened in 2013 by a planned coal-fired power plant that would have disrupted the animals' flight path. The ZGAP organized the German-language protest against the power plant.

The supervision and monitoring of all these activities is entirely voluntary, as is the half-yearly publication of the magazine.

The two chairmen of the society as well as other members are elected to various specialist groups of the IUCN species protection commission . In this way, the coordination of species protection projects of the ZGAP with those of other nature conservation organizations and an effective use of financial resources is guaranteed.

Strunden Parrot Foundation (SPS)

In 1998 Hans Strunden established the Strunden Parrot Foundation (SPS) within the ZGAP. The foundation's assets initially amounted to DM 200,000 and were finally topped up with 50% of his inheritance through regular donations. In 2013, the foundation's assets amounted to € 465,463. The Strunden Foundation supports conservation projects for parrots. The funds are earmarked for individual projects by a board of trustees to which Thomas Arndt , Marcellus Bürkle, Walter Schulz (trustee), Roland Wirth and René Wüst belong. Funding has been given to projects for the Salvadoran white-eared parakeet , the red -tailed cockatoo on the island of Palawan , the El-Oro parakeet in Ecuador , the yellow-cheeked cockatoo , the diademed lory on the Talaud Islands and the red-headed amazon in Brazil. Strunden still worked actively in the foundation at the age of 82.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c History of the ZGAP on www.zgap.de ( Memento of the original from April 25, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zgap.de
  2. ↑ Roland Wirth: Our symbol: The giant sable antelope (Hippotragus niger variani). In: ZGAP Nachrichten No. 1 1983, p. 2.
  3. ↑ https://apiv3.iucnredlist.org/api/v3/taxonredirect/4273
  4. ↑ Grubb, C./CP Groves: Notes on the taxonomy of the deer (Mammalia: Cervidae) of the Philippines. In: Zoologischer Anzeiger; 1983, 210 (1-2): 119-144.
  5. ^ R. Schweigert: Some notes on Crateromys heaneyi Gonzales and Kennedy, 1996 (Rodentia: Muridae) of Panay, Philippines. In: Journal of Mammals. 63 (1998) 121-123 (with thanks to the ZGAP) online
  6. ^ Russell A. Mittermeier, Cláudio Valladares-Pádua, Anthony B. Rylands, Ardith A. Eudey, Thomas M. Butynski, Jörg U. Ganzhorn, Rebecca Kormos, John M. Aguiar, and Sally Walker: Primates in Peril: The World's 25 Most Endangered Primates, 2004-2006. In: Primate Conservation,: 1-28. on-line
  7. ↑ http://www.zgap.de ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zgap.de
  8. ↑ Widmann, Indira Lacerna, Peter Widmann, Sabine Schoppe, Deborah van den Beukel and Merlin Espeso: Conservation Studies on Palawan Biodiversity: A compilation of researches Conducted in cooperation with or initiated by Katala Foundation Inc .. Katala Foundation, Inc. Puerto Princesa City , Palawan, Philippines. 2008 (with thanks to ZGAP).
  9. ^ Coal instead of cockatoos. In: Die Rheinpfalz from March 16, 2013.
  10. ↑ ZGAP-Mitteilungen (online) ( Memento of the original from April 3, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zgap.de
  11. ↑ a b Walter Schulz: Assets for parrot protection - the legacy of Dr. Hans Strunden. In: Parrots May 2013, p. 151.
  12. ↑ parrots. Trade journal on keeping, breeding and freeing parrots and parakeets ( Memento of the original from September 24, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (PDF) January 2008. Retrieved February 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papageien.de
  13. ↑ René Wüst: Project visit to the Red Cockatoo on Palawan. In: Parrots August 2012
  14. ↑ Protection success for the El-Oro-Parakeet BNA President calls for a reduction in bureaucracy for bird and reptile keepers ( memento of the original from February 15, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on papageien.de. Retrieved February 15, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.papageien.de
  15. ↑ Strunden Parrot Foundation ( Memento of the original from November 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the ZGAP homepage , accessed on February 13, 2015. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zgap.de