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Tiergarten der Stadt Nürnberg

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Der Tiergarten hat vier Hauptaufgaben zu erfüllen: 1. Artenschutz: a) Der Tiergarten beteiligt sich an über 30 Europäischen Erhaltungszuchtprogrammen (EEP) b) Er stellt für verschiedene Auswilderungs- bzw. Wiederansiedlungsprojekte seine Nachzuchten zur Verfügung 2. Bildung für nachhaltige Entwicklung a) Der Tiergarten bietet einer breiten Öffentlichkeit aller Altersklassen entsprechend seinem gesetzlichen Auftrag Bildungsangebote, die Natur, Tiere und Pflanzen für die Menschen begreifbar machen. b) Indem er Wissen über die Natur bietet, trägt er dazu bei, die Wertschätzung dafür zu steigern. 3. Forschung a) Der Tiergarten hat eine eigene Forschungsabteilung, deren insbesondere verhaltensbiologischen Erkenntnisse sowohl der Weiterentwicklung der artgerechten Tierhaltung als auch in situ-Artenschutzprojekten dienen.

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Response to Listing high risk plants & plants for which a phytosanitary certificate is not required for introduction into the Union

15 Aug 2018

Our park "Tiergarten Nürnberg" is a landscape zoo with some 65 ha area covered by forest, open land, tropical houses and mediterranean vegetation. Each vegetation type representing biotopes of the presented animals. We are involved in research about plant pests on our ground mainly investigating the effects of different Asian Phytophtera species on Quercus, Fagus, Tilia, and other tree species. We urgently appeal to the Commission to create stricter regulations for quarantine, have stricter controls of plant, earth and wood imports of any kind, because invasive insects and fungi are really a threat to our vegetation with side effects for agriculture. But at the same time we urge the Commission not to consider a ban of tree imports from outside EU. We as a zoo try to educate our one million visitors about nature, ecosystems, complex matters of ecology and economy and about how to manage the huge problems we are facing in the field of conservation. Plants are a crucial tool in zoo education. We rely on plants as Ficus, Caesalpinia, Acacia, and hundreds of different species to illustrate our "conservation stories" (see attached file, page 10). Zoos are conservation centres for the protection of animal species. But we cannot tell a story about animals without talking about plant conservation and biodiversity of plants. Many zoos started already many years ago to implement botanical aspects into the animals conservation work that we do. We import special tropical, mediterranean or continental trees to illustrate special biotopes of different animal species. Some zoos specialised on the conservation of certain tropical areas, creating a "twin" of the original ecosystem in the zoo setting. For these twinning projects of course trees from the area have to get imported. In our zoo the conservation story of manatees is told through the vegetation of South American tropical forest with some 150 species being imported for the design of this twin ecosystem (flooded Amazon forest) in our zoo. We agree that we urgently need stricter quarantine conditions and stricter control mechanisms accompanying plant and earth imports. But tree import restrictions as proposed for the new regulation would really endanger our whole educational impact that we have for one million people every year in our zoo and for some 40 million visitors of the zoos of the Zoo Federation VdZ (Verband der Zoologischen Gärten). Not the trees themselves, but the accompanying insects, microbes and fungi are the problem enhanced by climate change. Not a ban but an effective quarantine is needed.
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