Research in zoos
Zoos provide a wide range of opportunities to study non-domestic species outside their home range. Such studies are important as many of these species are threatened with extinction in their natural habitat.
Click here to read the EAZA Research Strategy (2008).
- Russian version (pdf)
Click here to read Chapter 10 Knowledge and Research of the
World Zoo Conservation Strategy (WZCS; 1993).
Click here for the World Zoo and Aquarium Conservation Strategy
- WZACS (2005).
Click here for the BIAZA Research Guidelines
- Russian version (pdf)
Download the EAZA Research Committee Newsletter:
9th Issue, September 2004
8th Issue, March 2002
Download the dissertation of:
Genetic management of small animal populations in zoos and wildlife
reserves - The use of genome models in estimation of genetic
variation and the effects of social structures" (Princée, 1998).