Zoo nod to animal swap -- Thailand to give 10 animals & a bird for a rhino

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Dear All,

please find a response from Sherry Grant below on the above issue.

May I request my colleagues in Indonesia, Thailand and here in India

to get in touch with Sherry asap.

Thanks,

 

Azam

 

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from Sherry Grant <SherryGrant

to AZAM SIDDIQUI <azam24x7

 

date Mar 22, 2007 1:12 AM

subject RE: Zoo nod to animal swap -- Thailand to give 10 animals

& a bird for a rhino

 

To All,

Though I am located in Indonesia and I know of the huge problems

facing the

orangutans both form smuggling, poaching and habitat loss, I have

not heard

about this Zoo exchange. Is there anything we can do to help from

Bali,

Indonesia.

 

Warmest,

 

Sherry Grant

Humane Society International

Asia Director

 

 

aapn , " azam24x7 " <azam24x7 wrote:

>

> Link:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1070320/asp/guwahati/story_7538075.asp

>

> Zoo nod to animal swap- Thailand to give 10 animals & a bird for a

rhino

>

> A STAFF REPORTER

>

> March 19: After a gap of three long years, the Central Zoo

Authority

> (CZA) has given its nod to the first-ever animal exchange plan of

the

> Assam state zoo with a foreign counterpart — the Thailand

Zoological

> Park Organisation.

>

> The plan was mooted in 2004 after two officials of the state zoo

> visited Dusit and Khekhow zoos in Thailand and discussed the idea

of

> animal exchange. The two had visited Thailand to attend a training

> programme. The Thailand Zoological Park Organisation had also

> presented a draft memorandum to the officials.

>

> " The CZA has given the green signal after examining the proposal

from

> both sides, " said its member secretary B.R. Sharma, who was in the

> city to attend a two-day meeting on initiating conservation

breeding

> in endemic endangered species in the region.

>

> The meeting ended yesterday.

>

> He said many issues had to be considered before giving the

clearance

> to an animal exchange plan, especially when it is with a foreign

zoo,

> and hence the process took so much time.

>

> Under the animal exchange plan, the state zoo will hand over a male

> rhino and receive two clouded leopards, five orang-utans, one

> stump-tailed macaque and three binturongs.

>

> The only hitch was over giving away a rhino, since it is the state

> animal, but the zoo finally agreed to do so after considering all

> related issues, said an official of the zoo.

>

> At the meeting, the CZA also gave the state zoo the responsibility

to

> initiate conservation breeding of golden langur, serow and sun

bear.

>

> Officials from the various zoos across the region were present at

the

> meeting, which discussed various issues related to conservation

> breeding. They also suggested tips to improve the state zoo.

>

> Since the state zoo does not have a sun bear, the Central Zoo

> Authority has agreed to help it procure one from another zoo.

>