Love your pets, love photography!

Posted March 27, 2012 By admin

If there’s one creature that will be most important to you, it will be your pet for sure. Because of that, surely there are times that you would feel like taking photos of this cute little one. If you are planning on photographing your pet or pets and you have not started anything yet, then continue reading this article and you might just be able to discover what needs to be done.

First and foremost, Photographing your pets requires preparation, and whether you are only taking pictures just for the fun of it, you still need to do these steps to get your pet’s best shots!

Know your goal. Why are you photographing your pet, is it to earn from it or is it just for your sheer love and fascination to it? This is important to know because this will determine what things you need to prepare and what backdrop and atmosphere you should be having.

Decide on the place. The next thing to think about is where you’d like your pet to be photographed. The usual location is outdoors, however, studios are also very popular nowadays. With proper background and props, the latter one may also work great. But if you want to get a hold of your pet’s playful moments, outdoor shooting is still the best.



Prepare all things. After doing an ocular inspection on where you’d want to take photos of your dear pet, you should now start to prepare everything. Here’s a simple checklist of what to prepare: grooming, props, food, lighting and of course, the camera.

Start shooting. Now that you’re done preparing everything, you are now ready to take pictures of your little critters. Remember to relax, do not get too excited as your pets may feel too much excitement that they will just jump around and ruin your props! Also, remember to get to your pet’s level, crawl and lie down when taking your shots when needed, it will capture your pet’s best moments.

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Wildlife Conservation

Posted May 11, 2011 By admin

Main conservation efforts can be split into two main fields;
in-situ (in the wild) conservation and ex-situ (in captivity) conservation.
In-situ Conservation

Captive Breeding Programmes: are established for those species that are of high priority to conserve in zoos and wildlife parks on a national or international level. These days most breeding programmes are instigated by the European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) and are known as European Breeding Programmes (EEP). Each EEP is assigned a co-ordinator who has the responsibility of collecting data on a given species and formulating studbooks, with recommendations as to the best pairing of individual animals as to minimise the risk of in-breeding.


Zoos who join the EEP then agree to co-operate within the programme and freely exchange animals for the benefit of the EEP. Managing captive populations of animals globally is one way modern zoos are working to conserve rare species for the future, in the hope that one day, where possible they may be used to re-populate depleted stocks in the wild.
We are also part of several European Studbooks (ESB) – similar to and EEP but the species is only monitored and no breeding recommendations are made by the studbook keeper. Each Taxon (or family group of animals) has its own Taxon Advisory Group (TAG); which oversees all the EEPs and ESBs for those animals. For example, there is a TAG for all rear carnivores in zoos.

There are also other studbooks we contribute towards. These range from national studbooks called Joint Management of Species Programme (JMSP), to International Studbooks (IS); although these are less significant than the European programmes today.

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