Conservation
Zoo Atlanta is an active participant in the AZA Species Survival Plan. Cooperative involvement in Species Survival Plans helps to ensure the health, genetic diversity and demographic sustainability of future animal generations.
The Zoo currently contributes to the following individual Species Survival Plans:
- Aruba Island rattlesnake
- Bali mynah
- Black rhino
- Bongo
- Burmese star tortoise
- Clouded leopard
- Elephant
- Giant panda
- Gorilla
- Golden lion tamarin
- Guenon
- Komodo dragon
- Kori bustard
- Lemur
- Lion
- Orangutan
- Otter
- Radiated tortoise
- Red panda
- Sumatran tiger
Zoo Atlanta also participates in several international conservation initiatives, among them the Asian Turtle Crisis and Global Amphibian Decline. Staff members from Zoo Atlanta and the Atlanta Botanical Garden were among the first to respond to the global amphibian extinction crisis by establishing captive assurance colonies of Panamanian frogs threatened by the spread of chytrid fungus. (Chytrid is the cause of the infectious amphibian disease chytridiomycosis.)
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Famous quotes containing the word conservation:
“A country grows in history not only because of the heroism of its troops on the field of battle, it grows also when it turns to justice and to right for the conservation of its interests.”
—Aristide Briand (1862–1932)
“The putting into force of laws which shall secure the conservation of our resources, as far as they may be within the jurisdiction of the Federal Government, including the more important work of saving and restoring our forests and the great improvement of waterways, are all proper government functions which must involve large expenditure if properly performed.”
—William Howard Taft (1857–1930)