Cleland Wildlife Park in SA recently got them, i have also seen them in them wild at Yookamurra Sanctuary in Sa
perth definitely has them. in a lovely little exhibit in the walkabout section where they sort of free-range. perth zoo's participation in the breeding program for the numbat helped push this species back from the brink of extinction, and they are still being released across south-west western austrlia by the zoo.
I'm not sure how Cleland have them, but most of there animals live in huge walkthrough paddocks, but i dont think they would risk it with numbats and lotsa hawks
i just found on the 2006 taronga annual report, 6 wombats were just sent to a german zoo i will find a quote
export of six Common Wombats to Duisburg Zoo, Germany in October to enhance the European wombat population and their breeding program, sorry from western plains, not taronga
there have been lots of wombats sent to germany in the past, plus to japan. zoo boy, have you seen western plains koala breeding facility set up to breed export animals? its pretty schmick
Yep, 3 pairs of wombats arrived in Europe last year and have been distributed between Planckendael (sub-park of Antwerp Zoo, Belgium) and the two german zoo's of Duisburg and Hannover. This was the first import of wombats since i would guess, the 19...70's? and the only import of native australian fauna i've seen since i've started following zoo's in Europe...
the last would have been the tassie devels to denmark, other wise, thats what i thought no more to EU zoos that i am aware of
Melbourne Zoo sent little penguins to Bristol in 2004, and I think a shipment of glossy ibis went to Europe last year.
Do the strict regulations also apply on birds? Köln Zoo also holds little penguins and i thought they where the only zoo in europe that does so, but i could be wrong... Burger's Zoo in the Netherlands has received some australian cormoran's in i think 2006 (else 05). I would imagine the rules for exporting those are less strict, but i could be wrong.
The rules apply to the export of all Australian wildlife, including birds. Ambassador Agreements (discussed elsewhere in this thread) apply primarily to echidnas, wombats, koalas, Tasmanian devils and a couple of the other most sought-after mammals.
gossy ibis... glossy ibis have a an almost worldwide distribution. now i have no idea how many subspecies are represented, if any, but its interesting that melbourne zoo exported the species to europe when there are birds living naturally in the southern part of that continent.
Not at all Ben, many of them have been exported from our zoos to zoos in other regions over the years. You aren't getting confused with the import of birds, are you?
no not at all, I think i am thinking of to private bird keepers, but even then they could be released into the general public, like the Nicobar Pigeons here, they came from taronga, to adelaide then went to gorge who sold them
sorry ben, i don't get it. what does private individuals in australia keeping an exotic species have to do with the export of native australian birds?
