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North and Southeast Asia
Regional Update
By Regional Representative
Joyce Kwok (May 2007)

Thanks to Shawn of Taipei Zoo for the production of the IZE 2007 calendar. Calendars were sent to all regional members in December 2007.

To better communicate with the zoos in China, I contacted the Chinese Association of Zoological Gardens and organized a day visit for their members to Ocean Park Hong Kong on 8th March 2007. There were 29 delegates from 19 zoos/ institutions. During the visit, I introduced IZE to them and encouraged them to become IZE members. Some of them showed great interest about the next year’s conference in Australia. We also shared Ocean Park’s experience on education and conservation with all delegates.

The vision, mission and history of IZE were translated into Chinese and printed as leaflet. This will certainly help promote IZE with zoo educators in China.

The Singapore Zoo will host the Asian Zoo Educators’ Conference 2007 in Singapore from 6th to 10th September 2007. The theme is Engage, Educate and Conserve. All zoo and aquarium educators are welcome! READ THE FULL REPORT...

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South Asia
Regional Update
By Regional Representative Sally Walker (October 2007)

South Asia consists of eight countries, Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Nepal, India, Maldives, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. Six of these are active in zoo education. Zoo Outreach Organization hosts a regional network of the International Zoo Educators Association for South Asia with the acronym SAN IZE. ZOO Conducts educator training and created a variety of educational materials for the zoo and environmental educators of South Asia and tries to support South Asia in attending and organizing other events beneficial to them. This report reviews many of the activities carried out from April through the first week of October 2007. READ THE FULL REPORT...

South Asians to Singapore … to the First Asian Zoo Educator
Conference

The first ever Asian Zoo Education Conference was held recently from 6th -10th September 2007, organized by the world famous Singapore Zoo. As Rachana Shah reported after attending the conference “ the need for a platform for the exchange of ideas among Asian zoo educators has always been deeply felt, so the initiation was taken by the Singapore zoo to fill
this gap, leading them to host the first Asian Zoo Educators conference.” READ THE FULL REPORT...

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Asia Membership List

The IZE Membership List is updated quarterly.
Institutional members are marked with an *.

Region Country Name Organization
Asia Bangladesh Gawsia Wahidunnessa Chowdhury Wildlife Trust of Bangladesh
Asia China Xiaohong Wang Zoo Atlanta (working place is in China)
Asia China Anneleise Smillie Animals Asia Foundation
Asia China Luo Lan Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding
Asia China Benjamin Hung Hong Kong Zoological & Botannical Gardens
Asia China Joyce Kwok Ocean Park Corporation, Hong Kong
Asia China Suzanne Gendron Ocean Park Hong Kong
Asia India Rong Xiu Tu Shanghai Zoological Park
Asia India Meena Nareshwar Centre for Environment Education, Gujarat
Asia India Rengasamy Marimuthu Zoo Outreach Organisation
Asia India Sally Walker Zoo Outreach Organisation
Asia Japan Hiroyuki Takahashi Chiba Zoological Park
Asia Japan Yoriko Mochimaru Tokyo Zoo Park Society
Asia Kazakhstan Akhmetova Zhanst Almaty Zoo
Asia Malaysia Loo Koi-Sang Malaysian Zoological Society
Asia Malaysia Musnarizal Abdul Manap Taiping Zoo, Taiping Municipal Council
Asia Nepal Arun Narsingh Rana King Mahendra Trust for Nature Conservation, Central Zoo
Asia Singapore May Kuen Lok Singapore Zoological Gardens
Asia South Korea Seung Aee Ma *Samsung Everland Zoological Gardens
Asia South Korea Jeong R. Rho *Seoul, Grand Park
Asia Taiwan R.O.C Shawn Peng *Taipei Zoo
Asia Thailand Chanokpud (Sammy) Prugsamatz HKS Designer & Consultant
Asia Thailand Prasarn Bensaard Siam Ocean World Bangkok

 

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