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开 本: 16开纸 张: 铜版纸包 装: 平装是否套装: 否国际标准书号ISBN: 9780521618588
Modern zoos and aquaria are playing an increasingly active and
important role in protecting and managing global biodiversity. Many
zoos include wildlife conservation in their mission and have
started changing the focus of their institutions in order to
increase even further the benefits of their activities for in situ
wildlife conservation. With these developments, the following
searching questions are now being asked: What is the true role of
zoos in conservation? How can they contribute more significantly to
global conservation efforts? What are the unique attributes of zoos
that can be applied in the conservation landscape? And should zoos
be doing more? In parallel with this voluntary movement, legal
requirements for zoos to support conservation in the wild are also
becoming more stringent. This 2007 book defines a conservation
vision for zoos and aquaria that will be of interest to those
working in zoos, alongside practitioners and researchers in
conservation.
Acknowledgements
Foreword Achim Steiner
Part I. Zoos Entering the Twenty-First Century:
1. Introduction: is there a conservation role for zoos in a natural
world under fire? Chris D. West and Lesley A. Dickie
2. Entering the 21st century William Conway
3. How do national and international regulations and policies
influence the role of zoos and aquaria in conservation? Bengt Holst
and Lesley A. Dickie
Part II. The Challenge of Changing Behaviour:
4. Conservation education in zoos: an emphasis on behavioral change
Eleanor Sterling, Jimin Lee and Tom Wood
5. Inspiration for conservation: moving audiences to care John A.
Gwynne
6. Attitudes and attitude change among zoo visitors Richard P.
Reading and Brian J. Miller
7. The animal rights-conservation debate: can zoos and aquariums
play a role? Michael Hutchins
8. Creating a culture of conservation: a case study of a backyard
approach Beth Stevens, Jackie Ogden and Kim R. Sams
9. Message received? Quantifying the impact of informal
conservation education on adults visiting UK zoos Andrew Balmford,
Nigel Leader-Williams, Georgina M. Mace, Andrea Manica, Olivia
Walter, Chris West and Alexandra Zimmermann
Part III. Establishing Connections Between Zoos and the Wild:
10. Animal ambassadors: an analysis of the effectiveness and
conservation impact of ex-situ breeding efforts Anne Baker
11. Re-introductions from zoos: a conservation guiding light or a
shooting star? Mark R. Stanley Price and John E. Fa
12. Research by zoos Dan Wharton
13. Conservation medicine John C. M. Lewis
14. The Masoala rainforest: a model partnership in support of in
situ conservation in Madagascar Matthew Hatchwell and Alex
Rübel
15. In situ and ex situ conservation: blurring the boundaries
between zoos and the wild Lesley A. Dickie, Jeffrey P. Bonner and
Chris D. West
16. Beyond the ark: conservation biologists’ views of the
achievements of zoos in conservation Nigel Leader-Williams, Andrew
P. Balmford, Matthew Linke, Georgina M. Mace, Robert J. Smith,
Miranda Stevenson, Olivia Walter, Chris D. West and Alexander
Zimmermann
Part IV. Direct Involvement of Zoos in in situ Conservation:
17. Zoo-based fundraising for in situ wildlife conservation Sarah
Christie
18. The Madagascar Fauna Group: what zoo cooperation can do for
conservation Lee Durrell, David E. Anderson, Andrea S. Katz, Dean
Gibson, Charles R. Welch, Eva L. Sargent and Ingrid Porton
19. Zoo coalitions for conservation David A. Field and Lesley A.
Dickie
20. The conservation mission in the wild: zoos as conservation NGOs
Alexandra Zimmermann and Roger Wilkinson
21. Measuring conservation success: assessing zoos’ contribution
Georgina M. Mace, Andrew Balmford, Nigel Leader-Williams, Andrea
Manica, Olivia Walter, Chris D. West and Alexandra Zimmermann
22. The future of zoos Matthew Hatchwell, Alex Rübel, Lesley A.
Dickie, Chris D. West and Alexandra Zimmermann
Bibliographic resource: zoos and conservation Scott Wilson and
Alexandra Zimmermann.
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