International Conservation Programs

The challenges facing conservation in our priority conservation regions of South-east Asia, Papua New Guinea and Africa are extreme. Mitigating threats to wildlife, establishing alternative livelihoods, fostering community and government support and evaluating effectiveness of programs can be extremely slow. Success requires sustained effort over many years to develop solutions and is dependent on long-term commitments from partners such as zoological institutions.

Zoos Victoria focuses on a select number of priority programs to ensure it can make significant contributions and sustain long-term commitments and partnerships in order to realise successful outcomes for biodiversity.

  • Tenkile Conservation Program

    Expanding human populations in the forests of Papua New Guinea have led to dramatic increases in the demand for native wildlife for food. In the Torricelli Mountain Ranges  hunting wildlife is the main protein source, leading to the decline in wildlife in the area.

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  • Melako Community Conservancy

    Zoos Victoria has formed a partnership with our sister community in Melako Community Conservancy. Our common goal is to save wildlife whilst building the capacity of the community to form sustainable livlihoods from wildlife related activities like tourism.

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  • Cardamom Mountains – Cambodia

    The Cardamom Mountains in south-west Cambodia are rated as one of the most important areas for biodiversity in Asia, and support significant populations of threatened species. This remote wilderness spanning 2 million hectares is under increasing pressure from illegal logging, poaching and land-grabbing.

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  • Philippine Crocodile Recovery Program

    The Philippine Crocodile is recognized as the most threatened species of crocodile in the world. Zoos Victoria has worked closely with Philippine agencies and local communities to conserve the most important population in north-east Luzon since 2000.

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  • Sumatran Conservation Program

    Zoos Victoria is working closely with Fauna & Flora International to protect a major part of the Gunung Leuser National Park in northern Sumatra, Indonesia.

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  • Conserving Asian Freshwater Turtles

    Asian tortoises and freshwater turtles comprise one of the most threatened groups of animals in the world, due mainly to unsustainable collection for food and use in traditional medicine.  Increasingly, turtle conservation is a vehicle to address the broader issue of illegal trade in wildlife

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