15.06.2010
FZS Statement on the Proposed Serengeti Commercial Road
(June 2010) According to articles in the local press and a statement from the Communications Officer of Tanzania National Parks, the Tanzanian Government is planning to build a commercial road cutting directly through the Serengeti wilderness, which completely bisects the path of the world famous annual wildebeest and zebra migration comprised of nearly 2 million animals. These wilderness areas are a critical habitat for endangered species like rhinos and wild dogs and with many sound reasons the Serengeti National Park Management Plan allows no commercial roads at all in this area.
25.05.2010
Translocation of five Black Rhinos to Zambia
On Wednesday 26 May 2010, five endangered black rhinos are to be translocated to North Luangwa National Park (NLNP) in Zambia from South Africa. This will complete a founder population of 25 black rhinos. This is the first successful return of black rhinos to a country from where they were previously poached to extinction.
21.05.2010
Black Rhinos Return to Serengeti
Today – Friday, 21 May 2010 – marks the launch of one of the largest Black Rhino translocations. Six Eastern Black Rhinos from South Africa will arrive in Serengeti National Park (Tanzania). This event commences a two to three year-long operation whereby a total of 32 Eastern Black Rhinos will be brought back to the territory of their ancestors: the Serengeti-Mara Ecosystem. The Eastern Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis michaeli) is the most endangered of the three remaining subspecies of Black Rhino, with around 700 remaining in the wild, and less than 70 of these in Tanzania. This reintroduction will bolster the transnational Serengeti-Mara population, making it the largest free-ranging population of Eastern Black Rhino.
13.10.2009
Frankfurt Zoological Society & Hart Howerton are Recognized for Green Initiative at Economic Development Conference
Acknowledging the San Francisco office of Hart Howerton Ltd. and the Germany-based Frankfurt Zoological Society (FZS) for an exceptional sustainable development program, the International Economic Development Council (IEDC) recognized the team with an honourable award at IEDC's Annual Conference, which took place in Reno, Nevada, October 4-7. Competing in the category of Sustainable and Green Development by organizations serving areas with populations exceeding 200,000, Hart Howerton and FZS made a notable impression with The Serengeti, Tanzania: A Business Plan and Sustainable Tourism Model for the Number One World Heritage Site.
19.05.2009
Asia Pulp & Paper/Sinar Mas Group Set to Destroy Orangutan Reintroduction Site, Critical Tiger Forest
19 May 2009, Jambi, INDONESIA – A massive logging operation planned by one of the world’s largest paper companies will destroy the forest home of 100 great apes that are part of the only successful reintroduction program for Sumatran orangutans, conservationists have learned.
11.11.2008
Ethiopian Wolf in Danger: Rabies Barrier to save rare Species
A team of Oxford University and Ethiopian conservationists are battling to save the world’s rarest wolf from a rabies outbreak by creating a ‘barrier’ of vaccinated wolf packs. FZS-expert Dr Karen Laurenson has been collaborating with the Oxford scientists both technically and in FZS's Ethiopian conservation projects and has been integrally involved in designing this vaccination campaign. Frankfurt Zoological Society now has launched an appeal to raise funds for the current vaccination campaign.
26.10.2006
New FZS census finds a 98% decline in the Hippopotamus population of the Virunga National Park, DRC
A census carried out on the 23 October 2006 revealed that there were only 629 hippos left in the Virunga National Park, DRC. In the late 60’s and early 70’s there were around 30,000 hippos living in the park. The aerial census carried out by the Frankfurt Zoological Society with funding from the US Fish and Wildlife Service, shows that this population has now crashed by 98%.
12.10.2006
A wolf at bay: targeted vaccinations protect endangered species during rabies epidemic
In tomorrows edition of the scientific journal Nature (12. October) British scientists, amongst them the FZSVeterinarian Dr. Karen Laurenson, report that they were able to control an outbreak of rabies amongst the endangered Ethiopian wolf through a targeted reactive vaccination programme.