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Try TAIEX to pay for zoo to zoo travel and create partnerships

March 26th, 2007

TAIEX is a very neat,  and simple to use , little EU funding instrument that provides finance for study trips or seminars to allow professionals of a given organisation  and disciplne to learn from colleagues in another EU State. It is all to do with supporting the application of EU legislation and spreading more general European [...]

article on zoos and economic development

March 21st, 2007

zoos-and-economic-development5.doc

What is Interreg? And how can nature sites & zoos in the EU get resource (i.e. money) from it?

March 21st, 2007

Interreg is an EU funding instrument that brings together interests from within different regions ( = ‘Inter- reg’) of Europe who have a common problem or solution, and  will up to 50% fund a project to address this.  There are 3 strands A, B & C,  each allowing different kinds of geographic partnership, and each [...]

Has the time come for Goverment to see zoos as the way to talk to the public about sustainability..?

March 19th, 2007

The environment”, someone once said  “It is all around us…” .It certainly is all around us as a subject today.  One can hardly pick up a paper, or turn on the TV without encountering ‘sustainability’, ‘climate change’, ‘sustainable technology’, etc… Surely, the time has come for zoos, aquariums and large audience nature sites to become accepted [...]

UK zoos and the 2012 Olympics: threat or opportunity? Should we be doing something?

March 15th, 2007

Jump to Comments Well the first question is about Lottery money, not that our community has been conspicously very successful in this area to date.  There is much debate as to these funds,   as well as Goverment monies and attention,  being drained away to the Olympic theme and the relevant parts of London. I remember [...]