Points system for further assessment (publicly held and displayed collections)
Applications must also score at least 20 points on the following scoring system in table 2.
Table 2 : points system for further assessment of applications to hold species for advocacy
|
Category
|
|
Points
|
Conservation awareness
|
Exposure*
|
>250,000 visitors per annum
|
6
|
|
50,000 - 250,000 visitors per annum
|
5
|
|
5,000 - 50,000 visitors per annum
|
4
|
|
1,000 - 5,000 visitors per annum
|
3
|
|
0 - 1,000 visitors per annum
|
0
|
|
At least 10% of visitors participate in formal education programme involving target species
|
4
|
Interpretative tools
|
Eye-catching meaningful signs including personal action suggestions
|
4
|
|
Signage includes languages other than English
|
1
|
|
Dedicated annual event day(s) centred on exhibit
|
2
|
|
Exhibit specifically features in education programme
|
3
|
|
Interactive audio-visual display
|
2
|
|
Signage or conservation related activities specifically aimed at children.
|
2
|
|
Static displays supporting exhibit
|
2
|
daily keeper (or trained volunteer) talks/ encounters
or
weekly keeper (or trained volunteer) talks/ encounters
|
4
or
1
|
|
Dedicated species advocacy staff# operating for at least half opening hours
|
2
|
|
Up to date on-line (internet) interpretation
|
2
|
|
Regular newsletter coverage (story in at least 2 editions annually)
|
1
|
Exhibit type
|
Ecosystem based display (e.g. multi-species exhibit of native species found together in the wild at some time, with interpretive material about the ecosystem represented)
|
5
|
Coordination
|
|
Conservation partnerships
|
specific fund-raising partnership with relevant in-situ project of programme species
|
4
|
|
specific (non fund-raising) partnership with relevant in-situ project of programme species
|
2
|
|
Co-ordinated programme
Note: number of institutions
and places in these should
also match optimum size for captive population
|
>10 institutions
|
5
|
|
5 - 10 participating institutions
|
3
|
|
2 - 5 participating institutions
|
2
|
|
single institution
|
0
|
|
Managed population
|
species co-ordinator, SPARKS+ [in full] studbook, annual reports and recommendations
|
3
|
# Staff or volunteers whose primary job is to roam around the institution providing information (including the key advocacy messages) to visitors on the animals displayed. Does not include general animal husbandry staff (e.g. zoo keepers).
* individuals and groups may gain approval to hold animals in captivity without providing public access to these if this is an essential component of a larger, coordinated and publicly accessible advocacy programme. This would include situations where breeding to maintain a captive population can only be achieved without pressures associated with public display. An example of this is Antipodes Island Parakeets. Such applications must be supported by the governing body of the coordinated programme and applicant must be essential component of the coordinated programme.
+ SPARKS = Single Population Analysis and Records Keeping System. Distributed by the International Species Information System (ISIS). See www.isis.org for details.
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