EEP ASSOCIATION – European program for endangered species
Numerous animal species are directly or indirectly endangered by human activities. Hunger for farmland, excessive exploitation of forests, building of roads, poaching and collecting, together with a general deterioration of the environment, cause an often marked reduction in members of a species. Moreover, in environments impoverished and divided into “islands” by human activities, members of the same species have great difficulties meeting for reproduction and often mate with close, genetically similar members producing a less resistant and adaptable offspring.
To remedy this situation and have selected animals, suitable for reintroduction and reproduction, a network of parks has been created to study and monitor each animal and newborn of endangered species.
This network, named E.E.P., ( European Endangered Species Programme ) includes all the Animal Parks in the world, connecting them and commiting them to programs of reproduction, study and exchange that can save an endangered species or at least suspend its extinction in the hope that its habitat will once again be livable.
MAMMALS
• Antelope Addax (Addax nasomaculatus)
• Antelope Maria Gray (Kobus megaceros)
• Western bongo ( Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci)
• Southern lechwe (Kobus leche)
• Asian elephant (Elephas maximus)
• Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)
• Lar Gibbon (Hylobates lar)
• Giraffe (Giraffa camelopardalis)
• Striped Hyena (Hyaena hyaena)
• Hyppopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibius)
• Ringtailed lemur (Lemur catta)
• Black and white Ruffed Lemur (Lemur variegatus)
• Snow Leopard (Uncia uncia)
• Clouded Leopard (Neofelis nebulosa)
• Scimitar horned oryx (Oryx dammah)
• Bat eared fox (Otocyon magalotis)
• Red Panda (Aiulurus fulgens)
• Red river hog (Potamochoerus porcus pictus)
• White rhinoceros (Ceratotherium simum)
• Common squirrel monkey (Saimiri sciureus)
• Siamang (Hylobates syndactylus)
• Antelope sitatunga (Tragelaphus spekii gratus)
• Meerkat (Suricata suricatta)
• Cotton top tamarin (Saguinus oedipus)
• South american tapir (Tapirus terrestris)
• Amur tiger (Panthera tigris altaica)
• Zebra di Hartmann (Equus zebra hartmannae)
REPTILES
• Rhinoceros iguana (Cyclura cornuta)
• Gila monster (Heloderma suspectum cinctum)
• Aldabra tortoise (Aldabrachelys gigantea)
• Testuggine radiata (Astrochelys radiata)
BIRDS
• White tailed eagle (Haliaeetus albicilla)
• Hyacinth macaw (Anodorhynchus hyacinthinus)
• Cacatua delle Molucche (Cacatua moluccensis)
• Cicogna di Abdim (Ciconia abdimii)
• Cicogna nera (Ciconia nigra)
• Gru dal collo bianco (Grus vizio)
• Manchurian Crane (Grus japonensis)
• Snowy owl (Buco scandiaca)
• Northern bald ibis (Geronticus eremita)
• Humboldt pinguin (Spheniscus humboldti)
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• Griffon vulture (Gyps fulvus)
• Red kangaroo (Macropus rufus)
• Uccello martello (Scopus umbretta)