The Role of Zoos in Wildlife Conservation

Abstract

In his keynote address to the Conference, Mr. Peter Scott, wearing, as he said, many hats—he is chairman of the World Wildlife Fund, the Survival Service Commission of the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the Fauna Preservation Society— surveyed the world scene of wildlife destruction and depletion, and the task of WWF. He listed six practical ways in which zoos might help in conservation, and suggested further that zoos could assist man to achieve a proper relationship with the natural world as well as to prevent further unnecessary extinction of species.