The pandemic is keeping people away from zoos — making it difficult to pay for animal care and science programs
In addition to national support schemes, EAZA is advocating for zookeepers to be recognized as essential workers. “It’s not just the animals in our care that we want to look after, it’s also the broad range of conservation work that zoos are involved in,” Griffith said.and breeding programs in Europe, ranging from elephants, giraffes and rhinos, to spiders and snakes. But almost all of them are on hold because of the bloc's coronavirus lockdown.
Travel restrictions are complicating the management of animal populations. Usually when an animal reaches reproductive age, it's moved to another zoo for breeding. “For some species there is the possibility to move gametes around … but the tricky thing is that transfer of animal products across borders is potentially limited now,” Griffith said.
The Beauval Zoo is celebrating its 40th anniversary and had planned to dedicate €2 million to conservation projects, Bairrão Ruivo said. But that's now in question as the zoo estimates it has already lostin revenue since the start of the year. He added that “2020 is a disastrous year economically speaking and it will have consequences on the years to come.”
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