Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Proceedings of
Training Programme
Master Planning
of Zoos
• Where is the line between informative and sensational?
• How can we promote our institutions to a broader audience so that our
educational reach can be extended?
Zoo Educational Facilities
• Zoos are building libraries & teacher resource centers to improve access to
and quality of educational materials & information
• Classrooms are being developed to reflect:
} Habitat } Biogeographic } Expedition
} Other themes that enhance learning objectives
• Zoos are using auditoriums and interactive exhibits to extend their
educational reach
• Contribution to improving the visitors’ experience and understanding handson
laboratories
} Interactive technology
} Computer simulations
} Teleconferencing centers
} Discovery rooms
} Immersion exhibits
Conservation Education Zoo Design
• Educators are essential members of exhibit development teams
• The educator’s analytical approach can help mold the volumes of information
into effective conservation messages
• Educators’ expertise:
} audience definition and assessment
} defining audiences
} selecting methods of exhibit interpretation
} careful crafting of conservation messages
WZACS emphasises the use of variety of educational techniques, facilities
and considerations, together with knowledge, creativity and inventiveness,
can make zoos highly interesting, attractive and effective places for
environmental, conservation and holistic life system education
The National Zoo Policy (1998), framed under Wildlife Protection Act
1972, stipulates that “Each Zoo should have a drawn up plan for educating
the visitors as well as others in the community.”
193