CLICK HERE FOR THE LATEST EAZA UPDATE ON UKRAINIAN ZOOS: Presentation from Volodymyr Topchy at the EAZA Annual Conference (from 2h04min on the video; 28 September)

EAZA is coordinating the collection of relief funds for our colleagues in Ukrainian zoos.  If you would like to donate to help efforts to care for animals and maintain please use the QR code or link below.  Any help you can provide would be received with gratitude.  EAZA commits to full transparency on the collection and distribution of funds for Ukraine:  100% of your donation will go to help Ukrainian zoos.

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Payment link: https://useplink.com/payment/0QGQi3DTKejUifIrdVzHx

With the link you can choose an amount and donate via iDeal, Bancontact, credit card or PayPal. Please add ‘Ukraine – name of your institution/your name’ in the description box so we can acknowledge your donation.

Donations

Funds raised will be used to assist Ukrainian zoos to continue to provide food and care to animals in conditions of relative welfare and safety, as well as providing support for care staff and management at the zoos.  We have direct contact with Mykolayiv Zoo, Kharkiv Zoo and Kyiv Zoo, and indirect contact with other zoos via the Ukrainian Zoo Association and the contacts of our Members.  Funds are being allocated on the basis of need according to the requests we receive from zoos, and are distributed to recipients through channels subject to reasonable due diligence.  A full report on the fund and its use of donations to support Ukrainian zoos will be issued in due course.

On behalf of the recipients of your donations, EAZA would like to thank you all for your extraordinary generosity. 

A special thanks to the 168 EAZA Members and other institutions worldwide (list updated on 6 December 2022):

Individual donations

Please click here for an overview of the 11,302 individuals who donated since the opening of the emergency fund until 6 December 2022. We update this overview once a month. 

Funding Protocols

The Ukraine Zoos Emergency Fund will be administered according to a strict protocol with a comprehensive list of claimable items.  To understand better how the money collected by the fund will be spent, please see the Protocol document and Claims List below.

Fund Protocol

Claims List

Updates

Thanks to your immense generosity, the EAZA Ukraine Zoos Emergency Fund has raised € 1,797,631! (updated on 5 January 2023)

As the war in Ukraine continues, we are keeping regular contacts with our three Candidates for Membership, as well as with other zoos and aquariums in need.

To this date, more than € 900,000 – sometimes in several payments, directly or via the Association of Zoos of Ukraine (AZU, previously UAZA) – has been allocated to the following institutions: Animal exhibition EkZoterra, Askania Nova Reserve, Berdyansk Zoo Safari, Bion Terrarium Center, BioPark Odesa, Cherkasy Zoo, Ecopark Kovalivka, Feldman Ecopark, Home Zoo Center Vasylivka, Kharkiv Zoo, Kyiv Zoo, Limpopo Zoo, Lutsk Zoo, Mena Zoo, Mykolaiv Zoo, Odesa State Zoo, Oscar Dolphinarium network, Pheasant breeding center "Golden Pheasant", Podilsky Zoo, Rivne Zoo, Safari Park on the Arabat Arrow, Vinnica Zoo, Zofia Polczynska Wytwornia Pasz/Vinccia Zoo, Zolotoj Fazan, Zoo XII Months and ZooMir (Bilytske).

Additionally, we are aware that colleagues at Panda Foundation of Warsaw, Łódź Zoo, Berlin Zoo and Tierpark, Prague, Wrocław, Košice, Gdansk, Tallinn Zoos and other EAZA Members have also arranged trucks that delivered supplies to, at least: XII months, Bilytske, Cherkasy, Feldman Ecopark, Kharkiv, Limpopo, Lutsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa Biopark and Odesa State Zoo, Poltava, Rivne, Vinnytsia Zoos.

Given the war is likely to continue for an unpredictable amount of time, EAZA’s help is still focusing on covering the most immediate needs, as per phase 1 of the funding protocol. Thank you for your continued support!

You can read all of our past published updates by clicking on the dates below:

• 1 March 2022; 10 March; 18 March; 24 March (on Facebook or on LinkedIn); 30 March; 12 April; 22 April; 3 June; 28 September (video update)

We want to acknowledge the extraordinary work done by teams from Łódź, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Berlin, Prague and Košice Zoos, who have done most of the supply work so far!

Money from the EAZA Fund will also be used to combine with these efforts.