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Zoological Parks Authority ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Overview Executive Summary Highlights continued • Began a pilot mobile outreach program in the metropolitan area to develop awareness and appreciation of our wildlife and promote key conservation messages. • Launched a free Perth Zoo iPhone App featuring a graphical map of the Zoo, GPS tracking and access to the latest Zoo videos, photographs and conservation information. Visitors can use the App to set reminders for on-site activities including guided walks and keeper talks. • Recorded a 7% increase in visits to the Perth Zoo website, up from 490,680 in 2010‐11 to 525,393 visits in 2011‐12. • Continued to grow and develop its social media channels as an avenue to promote the Zoo’s conservation and recreational activities to the online community with substantial growth in Facebook page fans and Twitter followers. Perth Zoo’s YouTube channel has had 175,040 views since it began in October 2009. • Produced and released the 2012 Perth Zoo Conservation Calendar featuring conservation messages and images of the Zoo’s native and exotic species. The sale of the calendar, sponsored by Water Corporation, The Sunday Times newspaper and IGA, raised over $85,000 for Wildlife Conservation Action. • Produced and distributed 48,300 copies of the official Perth Zoo News Paws quarterly magazine featuring informative conservation stories and images. Service 2: Wildlife Management, Medicine and Research The conservation of wildlife will be optimised by effective species management, high standards of animal welfare and animal husbandry, captive breeding, support for wildlife conservation, breeding for re-introduction and provision of research opportunities. In 2011‐12, Perth Zoo: • Continued successful breeding programs for threatened native and exotic species. Significant births included two Sumatran Orangutans (critically endangered), a Whitecheeked Gibbon (critically endangered), two Nepalese Red Panda (endangered), a litter of seven African Painted Dogs (endangered), Rothschild’s Giraffe (endangered), a litter of four Asian Small-clawed Otters (the first otters born at the Zoo for 18 years), eight Perenties, three Bilbies (a first for the Zoo), a Short-beaked Echidna and a Ghost Bat. • Released a Perth Zoo born male Sumatran Orangutan into a protected rainforest at Bukit Tigapuluh in Sumatra as part of Otter pup a reintroduction program and ongoing international efforts to re-establish a population of this most threatened species in the wild. • Provided six Bush Stone Curlews bred at Perth Zoo for release into Wadderin Sanctuary in the central Wheatbelt area to help boost this species’ numbers and assist with the re-establishment of the region’s native wildlife diversity. The release program is a first for this species in WA. 10
Zoological Parks Authority ANNUAL REPORT 2012 Overview Executive Summary Highlights continued • Bred 88 Dibblers, 36 Western Swamp Tortoises and a record 19 Numbats – one of the most successful breeding seasons for the Zoo’s breed-for-release program for threatened native species. • Provided 83 Dibblers for release into Waychinicup National Park near Albany. Thirteen Numbats were also provided to the Australian Wildlife Conservancy’s Scotia Sanctuary in western New South Wales for release as part of the Numbat species recovery program. • Provided 31 critically endangered White‐bellied Frogs for release into the south-west of the State. The frogs were successfully reared at the Zoo from wild collected egg nests. • Successfully bred White-bellied Frogs at the Zoo for the first time – a major achievement for the program. • Became the first Zoo to successfully breed the vulnerable Sunset Frog and provided 250 late-stage Sunset tadpoles and 31 adult Sunset Frogs for release near Walpole in the south west of the State. • Raised $305,874 under the Zoo’s community fundraising program, Wildlife Conservation Action, to support the conservation of threatened species in the wild. This brings the total raised to more than $1.4 million since the program began in June 2007. • Distributed over $250,000 of Wildlife Conservation Action funds raised in 2010‐11 to various conservation projects supporting threatened species including Western Ground Parrott, Javan Gibbon, Sumatran Rhino, Tree Kangaroos, Sun Bears and Sumatran Orangutan. • Provided conservation-based veterinary education programs, treated injured and confiscated wildlife and provided a preventative health care program for the Zoo’s animals. The Zoo’s veterinary team averaged 21 clinical cases a day. • Assessed and treated 190 injured and sick wild Black Cockatoos as part of an ongoing rehabilitation program for these threatened birds. The number of wild cockatoos being brought into the Zoo for treatment is increasing each year (up from 155 and 144 in the previous two years). • Conducted 23 research projects including 12 PhD projects (three completed in the reporting period), one Masters project, three Honours projects, four Post-Doctoral collaborations, one staff research project and one Third Year project. The projects reflect the continued focus on higher level studies (MSc, PHD and Post-Doctoral research) where there is a greater likelihood of significant outcomes from the research. 11 Nepalese Red Panda cub health check • Produced 20 scientific communications including refereed papers, book chapters, major articles and conference presentations (produced by Zoo staff and students and collaboratively with external researchers).
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