Spring news from the Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark (PCBA) – March 2020
Author Jochen Menner, Curator of Birds Taman Safari 2/ Prigen Conservation Breeding Ark The PCBA was established in 2017 to serve as a breeding facility for the most endangered Indonesian species, the main focus is on songbirds. The centre is located within the grounds of Taman Safari 2, Prigen in East Java, it operates as […]
Update on Ecological Monitoring of Bali myna at Bali Barat National Park
Author Tom Squires, PhD Candidate at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK The Bali myna (Leucopsar rothschildi), so emblematic of the island it is endemic to, has been reintroduced to Bali Barat National Park over the past 30 years in attempts to re-establish a wild population. The population of this highly sought-after songbird was decimated from the […]
Community engagement projects for Bali Mynas
Authors Sunny Nelson, Stuart Marsden & Tom Squires Sunny (Lincoln Park Zoo) along with Tom and professor Stuart from Manchester Metropolitan University recently visited Bali Barat National Park, Bali Safari & Marine park and Nusa Penida to develop the Silent Forest Campaign pre-selected Project for Bali Myna conservation. We concentrated on community projects – the […]
The EAZA Passeriformes Taxon Advisory Group changes its name
The EEP Committee has approved the name change of the EAZA Passeriformes TAG into “EAZA Songbird TAG” as per 6 January 2020. During the last TAG meeting in Valencia we proposed this name change to the participants with the argument that the scientific order name is not always really user friendly. Also, sometimes it tough […]
The Silent Forest Campaign Team says Thank you
To all the supporters of the Silent Forest Campaign our heartfelt gratitude. HOWEVER, the work will continue and the TAG working group on Asian Songbirds will in the future adapt the name Silent Forest Working Group and take over the campaign logo and website. The content and communications including social media will be taken over […]
“Searching for the Birds” Project Updates
Author: Prof. Stuart Marsden What project-related developments, either directly or indirectly, took place the past months? Fieldwork for the project is underway at one of the two project study areas, with the remaining areas to be surveyed towards the end of 2019 and in 2020. Surveys were implemented at two sites on Patuha in February […]
“Bali Myna Fieldwork” Project Updates
Author: Tom Squires and Prof. Stuart Marsden What project-related developments, either directly or indirectly, took place the past months? Ecological fieldwork for Bali myna has been ongoing at Bali Barat National Park (BBNP) over the last year in collaboration with the national park staff. Five Indonesian graduates have been helping collect data for the project […]
Silent Forest, Silent Spring
Author: Mark Liziczai (KLG Goodeid Projekt, Hungary) Our institution is a secondary grammar school, which has received the award of ‘Eco-school’. Whatever the class, we are teaching our students to pay attention to their environment, nature and endangered species. We decided to talk about the Silent Forest campaign, even if it is almost closed, […]
New contestant for the Binocular collection!
Have you been following the Silent Forest “binocular contest”? For more than a year now, Liberec Zoo has been collecting old, but still functional, binoculars to distribute to eco-centers across Indonesia via the NGO Green-books.org (find all information about this in this previous post). Somehow, this activity escalated into a friendly contest between Copenhagen Zoo (Denmark) […]
Roev Ruchey is not Silent
Author: Chipura Svetlana (Park of flora and fauna “Roev Ruchey”, Russia) Park of flora and fauna “Roev Ruchey” continues to actively participate in the EAZA Silent forest campaign by addressing global and local problems in the field of biodiversity conservation. Like our friends and colleagues from other zoos of Russia and the world, we conduct […]