Taiz Zoo is a Means of Protection from Extinction

                                A Report Taiz Zoo is a way to Protect Against Extinction
                                                        September 2023 AD

 About the  Project:

An overview of the status of Taiz Zoo

        Due to the scarcity of resources that the Zoo in Taiz Governorate is going through, which has resulted in a lack of interest from the official authorities in the park, this has led to a deterioration in the conditions of the park, the most important of which is the spread of diseases among the animals in the park as a result of the acute shortage and inability of the health aspect in providing healthy vehicles and food (veterinary medicine) and also as a result of the food shortage, which was These two elements are the biggest challenge facing the Sand Organization for Nature Conservation in this period. It has intensified its efforts despite the meager funding and scarcity of capabilities. However, the organization was primarily concerned at this stage with taking care of the animals inside the park healthily and nutritionally in order to preserve the animals from death as a result of disease and hunger, as it saw that this is the The most important thing that can be implemented.

             Diseases among the animals in the park as a result of the acute shortage and inability of the health aspect in providing healthy vehicles and food (veterinary medicine) and also as a result of the food shortage, which was These two elements are the biggest challenge facing the Sand Organization for Nature Conservation in this period. It has intensified its efforts despite the meager funding and scarcity of capabilities. However, the organization was primarily concerned at this stage with taking care of the animals inside the park healthily and nutritionally in order to preserve the animals from death as a result of disease and hunger, as it saw that this is the The most important thing that can be implemented

Activities that were implemented in the third quarter ,SanId has implemented the following activities:

• 4 meetings were held with the concerned official and popular authorities in Taiz Governorate in order to study the deteriorating situation of the park and search for sufficient funding to preserve the lives of the animals in the park that suffer from disease and hunger.
• Two veterinarians were appointed to review the health conditions of the animals and contribute to their treatment.
• A joint committee was formed from the organization, the Environmental Protection Authority, the Tourism Office, and the Agriculture Office to discuss a plan to protect the animals in the park and improve their health and nutritional status, as well as the appearance of the park.
• Implementing a health campaign to treat some animals by contracting with 2 veterinarians for a week, during which they treated many animals. And (providing nutritional supplements, vaccines and vitamins through veterinarians.
• Providing a number of detergents, sterilizers, and treatments to treat animals exposed to pups. Continuing to monitor the conditions in Taiz Park and other zoos and constantly monitoring events in what the animals go through in these parks. The most important of which are the zoos in Sana’a and Taiz, and learning about the health conditions that the many animals are experiencing and taking care of them. In gardens, inventorying the damage they inflict, and submitting reports to the competent authorities.

Conducting awareness sessions mong the community surrounding the park, as well as concerned official and community bodies, on the necessity of preservationOn biodiversity in the Republic of Yemen, as the organization considers environmental protection to be the protection of natural resources and their sustainability for future generations

The most important challenges and difficulties:

• Scarcity of capabilities and lack of support provided for these activities.
• Decrease in treatment and food due to scarcity of financial capabilities.

Lessons learned:

• High level of community awareness of the importance of protecting animals and taking care of the environment, especially gardens as a park for visitors and to protect animals.
• The interaction of the competent authorities with the activities carried out by SANED.
• The community feels love, appreciation and gratitude GlobalGiving for cooperation and providing aid to Yemen and hopes to increase support to achieve the project goals and protect animals in the parks.

Recommendations:

• Increasing financial support to provide adequate food and medicine for zoo animals.
• Improving the appearance of the garden and reclaiming the seating areas.
• Providing salaries for the garden staff to carry out their duty towards the garden.

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                                 A reportTaiz Zoo, a means of protection from extinction
                                                           May 2023 AD
 
                                                      (Republic of Yemen)

project name : Taiz Zoo is a means of protection from extinction      

 The project Location : Zoo - Taiz Governorate

 The name of the organization applying for the scholarship:

Sanid organization For Nature conservation (SONC )                                           

Report duration : 3 months

starting date : 1/ March 2023                        Expiry date :  May 2023

Organization address : Capital Municipality - Directorate of Shoub - Al Habari

phone number : 0096701231477

Prepared the report : Muhammad Abu Haider

Current Position : project manager

E-mail : Programs.officer@sanid.org

mobile number : 00967 775907606

Organization's website :  www.sanid.org

An overview of the tragic situation in Yemen

Zoo in Taiz Governorate - Republic of Yemen .

The zoo in Taiz suffers greatly from a lack of liquidity that maintains its continued activity and enables it to take care of the animals in it by taking care of them and providing them with various meals according to each type of animal in the zoo and the continuous administrative apparatus. Those who lost their source of livelihood because of the war . The lack of care and protection for the animal species in the zoo is a serious matter that may cause disease or death as a result of the severe shortage in the provision of healthy and food vehicles.

Project objectives:

The project aims to provide adequate nutrition for the animal species in the zoo .

Establish a model slaughterhouse in the zoo .

Provision of refrigerators to store food, medicines and vaccines

. Provide optimal health care for all animals in the zoo .

Providing all the requirements of preventive, curative and diagnostic health care tools and materials such as devices, medicines, nutritional supplements, vaccines and vitamins. Make environmentally and behaviorally appropriate adaptations for all animatronics

Project ambition:

The project aspires to rehabilitate the zoo in a way that helps it continue to receive its visitors, whose existence depends largely on the services provided in the zoo that will be covered by the project, and therefore it will have a strong financial support that will help it continue. provide its services in the long term .

Activities carried out during the period from March to May:

        Due to what the zoo in Taiz governorate is going through in terms of scarcity in capabilities, it resulted in a lack of interest from the official authorities in the garden, which led to a deterioration in the conditions of the garden, the most important of which is the spread of diseases among the animals in the garden as a result of the lack and inability of the health side (veterinary) and also as a result of the lack of food, so these two elements were the biggest challenge it faced Sand Organization for Nature Conservation during this period intensified its efforts despite the meager funding and scarcity of resources, but the organization was mainly concerned at this stage in taking care of the animals inside the garden in terms of health and nutrition in order to preserve the animals from death as a result of disease and hunger, as it considered that this is the most important thing that can be implemented.

SANED has carried out the following activities :

Because of the lack of drainage of the airport water, it led to stagnation of water in the yards and wards of the park in which the animals are present for long periods, in addition to its mixing with waste and garbage.

• The organization carried out 3 meetings with the concerned official and popular authorities in Taiz Governorate in order to study the status of the park and find out the causes of its deterioration and the consequences of that, and the need to develop an appropriate solution to address the deteriorating situation of the park and search for sufficient funding to preserve the life of the animals in the park that suffer from disease and hunger

• . Two veterinarians have been appointed to review the health conditions of the animals and contribute to their treatment. by the Office of Agriculture.
• A joint committee of the organization, the Environmental Protection Authority, the Tourism Office and the Agriculture Office was formed to prepare a plan to protect the animals in the park and improve their health and nutritional status, as well as the appearance of the park.
• Implementing a health campaign to treat some animals by contracting with 2 veterinarians for a week, during which many animals were treated. f) Providing nutritional supplements , vaccines and vitamins through veterinarians.
• Providing a number of detergents, sterilizers, and treatments to treat animals that have been wounded.
• Drainage of rainwater from those sites, as the period is considered a period of heavy rain.
• Provide food for the animals in the garden, each type with appropriate food. The most important of which are deer wild .

Birds are under the supervision of a veterinarian:

• Continuing to follow up on the conditions in Taiz Park and other zoos, monitoring events on an ongoing basis in what animals go through in these zoos, the most important of which are zoos in Sana’a and Taiz, reviewing the health conditions in which the many animals live, taking care of them in the gardens, counting the damages they suffer, and submitting reports to the competent authorities.
• Conducting awareness sessions among the community surrounding the park, as well as the official and community stakeholders, on the need to preserve biodiversity in the Republic of Yemen, as the organization considers protecting the environment as protecting natural resources and their sustainability for future generations.

The most important challenges and difficulties:

• Scarcity of capabilities and lack of support for these activities.
• Low attention and care for these animals and lack of sufficient financial allocations to the extent that there are no monthly salaries to provide them to all workers in the park, is also considered in relation to the management of the park and lack of sufficient financial allocations to the extent that there are no monthly salaries to provide them to all employees in the park, and this would lead to a decrease in interest and care these animals urgently and inescapably .

Lessons learned:

• High level of community awareness of the importance of protecting animals and caring for the environment, particularly parks as a park for visitors and for the protection of animals.
• The interaction of the competent authorities with the activities carried out by SANED.
• Low treatment and food due to scarcity of financial capabilities.
• The community's feeling of love, appreciation, and thanks to globalgiving for cooperation and assistance to Yemen, and hopes to increase support to achieve the project's goals and protect animals in the gardens.

Recommendations:

• Increasing financial support to provide adequate food and medicine for zoo animals.
• Improving the appearance of the garden and reclaiming the seating areas.
• Providing salaries for the garden staff to carry out their duty towards the garden.
• Continuous cleanliness and non-accumulation and stagnation of rain water in the garden yards, especially near animals.

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The zoo in Taiz suffers greatly from a lack of liquidity that maintains its continued activity and enables it to take care of the animals in it and providing them with various meals according to each type of animal in the zoo and the continuous administrative apparatus who lost their source of livelihood because of the war. The lack of care and protection for the animal species in the zoo is a serious matter that may cause disease or death as a result of the severe shortage in the provision of healthy and food vehicles.

The project aims to:

• Provide adequate nutrition for the animal species in the zoo.
• Create a typical slaughterhouse in the zoo.
• Provision of refrigerators to store food, medicines and vaccines .
• Provide optimal health care for all animals in the zoo.
• Providing all the requirements of preventive, curative and diagnostic health care tools and materials such as devices, medicines, nutritional supplements, vaccines and vitamins. Make environmentally and behaviorally appropriate adaptations for all animatronics

Project ambition:

The project aspires to rehabilitate the zoo in a way that helps it continue to receive its visitors, whose existence depends largely on the services provided in the zoo that will be covered by the project, and therefore it will have a strong financial support that will help it continue. provide its services in the long term.

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An introduction:

Zoo in Taiz Governorate - Republic of Yemen.
It is the only zoo in Taiz Governorate, which hundreds of thousands of citizens visit annually from different governorates of the Republic of Yemen to see the animals closely and enjoy looking at them and provide sufficient information about them in terms of their behavior. Food, whereabouts, and other information that a visitor to the zoo obtains to teach his children and family what the zoo contains. Contains many predators, reptiles, pets, prey, Poultry and others also contain rare animals such as the Yemeni tiger and others Important animals, and the park is an ecological wealth of our country and a national, international and human duty to conserve and support them. By all means and possibilities.

Sanid organization is currently contributing to the conservation of nature and the preservation of biodiversity in the Republic of Yemen, as the organization considers environmental protection to protect natural resources and their sustainability for future generations.The organization continuously monitors the conditions in Taiz Park and other zoos, and continuously monitors events in what the animals go through in these gardens.

        The importance of carrying out the activities:Work to protect zoo animals of all kinds, and take care of their health and food, especially endangered species such as the Arabian leopard, lions and other species.The intervention to care and protect the animal species present in the zoo is considered to be from the risks of disease or death as a result of the acute shortage of health and food care provision due to the scarcity of financial allocations approved in light of the critical situation in Yemen.

      The lack of provision of various health and food services will lead to the extermination of these animals due to hunger and diseases that they suffer from, and sometimes they eat each other because of their severe need for food.

      The high financial cost of caring for and protecting animal species in the garden It is also considered with regard to the management of the park and the lack of sufficient financial allocations to the extent that there are no monthly salaries to provide for all the workers in the park, and this would lead to a decrease in the interest and care of these animals urgently and unavoidably.

All of this was an incentive and encouragement for Sand Conservation to move forward with the implementation of the activities that would implement the project goal despite all the material and political obstacles and the situation of the country that has been afflicted by wars and crises since 2011, which made the official side deficient in carrying out its tasks in the aspect of protecting the environment In the forefront of reserves and the protection of animals, especially those exposed to extinction. The nucleus of the work was the zoo in Taiz, which the organization intends to make of it a model zoo, and this can only be achieved through the generous support provided by donors through globalgiving and organizations concerned with animal protection and the environment in general.

Activities carried out:

1. Feed the animal species in the garden, each species with the right food.

2. Providing exemplary health care for a number of animals in the garden (providing nutritional supplements, vaccines, and vitamins through veterinarians.

3. Field visits for 2 to the competent authorities in Taiz Governorate (Environmental Protection Authority - Agriculture Office) .

4. Awareness of the community surrounding the park about the importance of preserving animals


5. Submit a letter to the relevant official authorities of the need to work on the development of restrooms for visitors to the park. And safety barriers and maintenance of some cages due to the increase in visitors to the park.

6. Providing a number of detergents, sterilizers and treatments to treat animals that are exposed to wounds.

7. Preparing a preliminary study to provide the source of electric power and water and sewage tanks and present it to the park administration to identify the park's management capabilities in preparing the appropriate places and obtaining approval from the official authorities.

8. Meeting with the Agriculture and Irrigation Office to discuss the provision of an integrated internal irrigation network and the establishment of green nurseries.

9. Meeting with gardeners and discussing with them how to care for animals in the garden and preparing a list of their training needs in this field. 10. Making publications to promote and introduce animals, their behavior and whereabouts, zoo facilities, pavilions and animals

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The Zoo of Taiz, southwest of Yemen, still needs to provide urgent assistance to save wild animals, including the endangered ones, such as the 38 Arabian leopards whose numbers have increased to 47, despite the weak assistance the zoo receives. The conflicting parties signed a temporary truce for a period of two months, starting from the first of April to end of May, but the tragic situation still exists in Taiz Zoo. The needs of the park are constantly increasing, especially with the breeding of animals in the zoo. The team of Sanid Organization for Relief and Development (SORD) is still doing its best to provide rescue assistance to the captive animals in light of the ongoing war in Yemen. SORD is also sure that there are people in this vast world who will not allow the wildlife in Yemen to end, especially the endangered animals that are in captivity.