Zoo Inventory for North America (American Zootierliste)?

One way to mend this issue would to let people know if certain zoos haven't been updated in over a year or more. For example with the list for:
Red Ruffed Lemur - Obscure small town zoo (hasn't been updated in a year and 6 months)

 

This is still disregarding that American facilities are not as willing to be open about their stocklists. The fact has been mentioned multiple times now by several knowledgeable members, and should be considered carefully before jumping in to such a project. There have been issues more than once on here with leaked transfers or bts species. It is something that should be given serious consideration before jumping in to such a project.

 

Zoos have made it pretty clear that they don't want something like this to exist. Should we really be trying to anger them by making one anyway?

 

As long as the database included only species publicly known to be kept (i.e. on exhibit, mentioned on their website, ect.) I can't imagine this theoretical database running into any issues.

 

would ambassador animals count?

 

Yes. The public knows about their existence.

 

I heard that you had made an American zoo database, what's it's name?

 

I never made one.

 

oh

 

For some reason unbeknownst to me this is the funniest interaction I have ever seen on this site.

 

Likewise for Australian/New Zealand zoo's. Will they be more open to it.?

 

@Chlidonias would probably know best. I’ve never heard of one so I don’t see why you can’t try.

 

There's already some NZ collections on ZTL, although I'm not sure how complete they are.

 

All NZ should be on ZTL.

 

Why don't they want this known?

 

After Ulysses Seal passed away International Species Information System changed. Before the change one could go in and read species counts at number zoo's. It was cool resources to go to zoo's then that had species I wanted to see.

 

I mean the collection is technically listed on ZTL, so you can't really say "they aren't". And that was why I was questioning their completeness, (what I meant in the og. post was how complete/accurate the listings are).

 

Oh, yeah now I see, I read that wrong, thanks for the information.