Wind Chime at the Brookfield Zoo
After an earlier International Union of Directors of Zoological Gardens (IUDZG), founded in 1935 at Basel (Switzerland), ceased to exist during World War II, a new IUDZG was founded in Rotterdam in 1946 by a group of zoo directors from allied or neutral countries. In 2000 IUDZG was renamed as WAZA to reflect a more modern institution working together at a global level, to build cooperative approaches to common needs, to tackle common issues, to share information and knowledge, and represent this community in other international bodies such as the World Conservation Union (IUCN) or Conferences of the Parties to global Conventions, such as CITES, CBD or CMS.
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World Wildlife Conservation both 'In situ' and 'Ex situ.' (Click On)
WAZA defines the responsibilities of the world's zoos and aquaria in regard to the conservation of the diversity of global wildlife. It sets out the conditions which individual zoos and aquaria and their cooperative networks should satisfy in order to realize their full potential in conservation.
