Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Planned Breeding Programmes
in Zoos and Their Role in
Ex-situ Conservation
Bernard Harrison
Principal Partner
Bernard Harrison & Friends Ltd.
Singapore
Proceedings of
Training Programme
Outline
• Integrating conservation
• In situ conservation • Ex situ conservation
• Small population management
• Focusing on exhibit themes
• The usual outcome of small populations is extinction
• Extinction as a zoo exhibit • Living fossils
Why have planned breeding programmes?
Master Planning
of Zoos
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