The UK Mail talks with Safari Zoo keeper Laura Beth about caring for the park's popular group of lemurs, including microchipping this year's babies and tracking medical treatments in ZIMS. "...The scan numbers are recorded on a global online system…
Radio Canada reporter Gino Harel visits Granby Zoo to get a closer look at the role of zoos in providing data critical to species conservation. This story is an example of worldwide coverage of zoos curating missing species data following…
Himalayan, Houston, and Sorocaba Zoos Expand Species360 Community // We are pleased to welcome 54 aquarium, zoo, wildlife refuge, and research institutions as Species360 members in early 2019. These institutions are improving animal welfare and helping to inform species conservation…
Asian elephant family walking through the meadow in the morning. A few weeks ago, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences published a landmark study demonstrating the power of data curated by Species360 members using the Zoological Information Management System…
In this blog, Peoria Zoo curator Dawn Petefish describes the impact of first establishing a new Animal Welfare Plan -- and later using ZIMS for Care and Welfare to streamline the way that staff record, review, monitor, and share animal…
Worldwide, Species360 members are leading efforts to sustain biodiversity. At The Florida Aquarium, breakthrough work with staghorn coral has led to the release this spring of 3,200 corals raised in nurseries. Planted by hand, each will help to repopulate a…
"Saihi" and her mom Rouhin are part of the Giant Panda family at Shirahama Adventure World. Born at just 75 grams, zookeepers cared for the cub when she was too small to nurse. Shirahama is a zoo, aquarium, and theme…
National Academy of Sciences journal PNAS: ZIMS replaces “best-guess” assumptions with data for species survival rates. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences: The study, “Data gaps and opportunities for comparative and conservation biology,” suggests a value far beyond the…
Tetsuya Sato-san, President of Nasu Animal Kingdom and Kobe Animal Kingdom, demonstrates traditional Japanese falconry at the 2018 annual International Aquarium Congress held in Fukushima, Japan. (Photo: Peter Donlon) We are pleased to welcome leading Japanese conservation and zoological institutions…
Saitama Children's Zoo will host a full day of training in ZIMS, with instructor Yoshihiko Takaki. It is the first training for ZIMS in Japanese. The Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) will conduct a full day of ZIMS…
