Zoos’ mis­sion The mis­sion of mod­ern zoo­log­i­cal gar­dens (zoos) is, or should be, focussed on main­tain­ing global bio­di­ver­sity — pre­vent extinc­tion of endan­gered species — using var­i­ous instru­ments. Con­ser­va­tion of wild fauna and flora is one of them. This is done via efforts with their ani­mal col­lec­tions and endan­gered species breed­ing pro­grammes, and ulti­mately return­ing cap­tive bred indi­vid­u­als into the wild. Addi­tion­ally, is being applied by financ­ing and exe­cut­ing con­ser­va­tion efforts in the…

I would like to con­grat­u­late Pan­thera and Save the Tiger Fund with their swift response to my request (see my blog of 29.05.2011). They joined forces in their activ­i­ties which focus on tiger con­ser­va­tion. When you read their argu­ments in the press release of 7 July 2011, there is only one thing I can say: I could not have said it any bet­ter. And per­son­ally I think this should be rewarded. There­fore, in addi­tion to my own dona­tion I would like to call upon any­one who sup­ports the idea of tiger…