EAZA Ex situ Programmes (EEPs) are population management programmes for over 500 animal species, coordinated by experts from EAZA Membership. They are the cornerstone of teamwork and collaborative efforts in the EAZA community. The aim of EEPs is to have and maintain healthy and thriving populations of healthy animals within EAZA and beyond.

The EAZA Ex-situ Programme (EEP) is a population management and conservation programme by European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) for wild animals living in European zoos. The programme was formerly known as the European Endangered Species Programme.

What is an EEP? Breeding programmes, such as the European Endangered Species Programmes (EEP), aim at conserving healthy populations of animals in captivity while safeguarding the genetic health of the animals under our care.

The EAZA Population Management Manual sets out the procedures and practices that each EEP is obliged to follow – a framework that ensures high quality and engaged management of EEP species. Unless there is a real emergency among a wild population, EEPs aim at maintaining viable animal populations in human care, rather than acquiring animals ...

The RCP process informs which species EAZA will actively manage across its Member zoos and aquariums as part of an EAZA Ex situ Programme (EEP). Each EEP will then develop its own tailor-made Long-Term Management Plan (LTMP), which outlines the strategy towards achieving the species-specific goals set as part of the RCP process.

That framework – today known as EAZA Ex situ Programmes (EEPs) – was set up in 1985 during a meeting held at Antwerp Zoo among zoo directors from: Antwerp, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Cologne, Mulhouse, Copenhagen and Helsinki.

Eindhoven Zoo cooperates with about 300 zoos in Europe. Together they form the EAZA, the European Zoo Association. Among other things, they ensure that we no longer have to take animals from the wild to show them in zoos.

Dec 8, 2024 · Its task is to register zoo animals and monitor changes in their population size and genetic diversity. EEP. European Endangered Species Programme. Its task is to coordinate and monitor the zoo management of a particular species, as well as to maintain a population within zoos that ensures proper health and genetic variability. ESB

The European Endangered Species Programme (EEP) is the most intensive type of population management for a species kept in the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) zoos. It is a captive-breeding programme that aims to conserve sustainable back-up populations of animals in captivity while safeguarding the genetic diversity up to 90%.

Woburn Safari Park is an European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) accredited zoo, and participates in the captive management of endangered breeding animals through the EAZA Ex-Situ Programme (EEP). These help to ensure a viable and sustainable captive population of key species is maintained long term.