European Association of Zoos and Aquaria

EAZA Tiger Campaign 2002/4

Campaign efforts - ARAZPA Wildlife Conservation Fund

Inspired by the EAZA Tiger Campaign, ARAZPA copied the EAZA Campaign Info Pack and encouraged their member zoos to participate.

The aims of the ARAZPA Project Tiger Campaign were:

to raise awareness of the threats to tigers
to raise funds for wild tiger conservation
to raise awareness of the role of Australasian zoos in tiger conservation

The ARAZPA Tiger Campaign was formally launched at the region's Carnivore Taxon Advisory Group meeting in October 2003. Information packages and resource materials were distributed to all ARAZPA zoos holding tigers and to any others interested in assisting the campaign.

ARAZPA member zoos are committed to raising awareness of the threats faced by tigers in the wild and to raising funds to support in situ conservation.

Funds that were raised by the ARAZPA Project Tiger Campaign are used to support tiger projects in Sumatra through 21^st Century Tiger.

A coordinated captive programme has been in place for Sumatran tigers in the Australasian region since 1991 and continues to be coordinated locally by David Pepper-Edwards of Sydney's Taronga Zoo. A cooperative agreement, established in 2000, brought management of the ASMP and EEP tiger populations together under the direction of Sarah Christie (Zoological Society of London and 21st Century Tiger). This inter-regional agreement, the first of its kind, has strengthened coordinated management of the species in captivity and has already resulted in a number of transfers of benefit to the programme's goals.