Master Planning of Zoos - Central Zoo Authority

Technical Session V
The crisis management plan should have
• Crisis management protocol
• Crisis management plan/cell with personnel and budgetary allocation
• Crisis management infrastructure
• Mock drill plans
• Provisions of specialized training for facing such crisis by a special group
• Network with the national /state or other such contingency plans
Reducing losses in case of a crisis
• Strengthening building dodes
• Design enclosures which are damage proof
• Establish standards of maintenance that detects vulnerability
• Establish relocation plan and facilities for livestock
• Build flood channels, firebreaks etc. to minimize impacts
Key elements of crisis management
• Identification, frequency, intensity and probability of such events
• Documentation of probable impacts, zones and areas and database of impacts
and responses and their results for future reference
• Post crisis investigation to collect additional data for crisis and revise existing
plan
• Expect and lookout for new potential crisis for which you may not have a
response - terrorism, bird flu.
Key requirements in crisis/disaster management plan
• Prior assessment of risks
• Preventive measures planned and implemented
• Preparedness in terms of crisis
• Emergency responses
• Other resource mobilization plan
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