EAZA Conservation Campaigns

In 2000 EAZA started with an important activity: organising annual conservation campaigns. These campaigns increase the cooperation between EAZA and important conservation organisations. Conservation organisations have been involved in financing parts of the different campaigns but have also helped in the preparation and running of the campaigns. Other conservation organisations were funded with money that was collected during the EAZA campaigns.

Ten Years of Campaigning

September 2000 saw the launch of the first ever EAZA conservation campaign, the Bushmeat Campaign. Next September EAZA will come full circle with the launch of another campaign focusing on apes, but this time looking at a wider range of issues and covering all of the apes. More information about the EAZA Ape Campaign will be published later in the year. For the moment the European Carnivore Campaign is in full swing, having been extended until September 2010 and all EAZA members are strongly encouraged to get involved. 

Throughout 2010, the International Year of Biodiversity, EAZA's quarterly magazine Zooquaria presents a series of articles looking back at ten years of conservation campaigns and giving an update on the current status of each campaign. Issue 68 looked at the Bushmeat and Rainforest Campaigns, with the others to be covered in subsequent issues.

Join the Campaigns!

EAZA promotes and facilitates participation in its annual conservation campaigns by providing its membership with campaign information packages and via dedicated campaign websites. Resoruces provided include background information and guidelines on the specific campaign, as well as photographs and other media which may be used by EAZA member institutions to prepare exhibitions and activities during the campaign year. The fact that 2010 is the International Year of Biodiversity offers the perfect reason to get involved this year.