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The Florida Association of Zoos & Aquariums (FAZA)
is a nonprofit organization dedicated to high ethical standards in the management of professional zoos, aquariums, and animal parks in Florida. Accreditation Our voting members are required to be accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, the organization which sets the highest standards in the world for animal care, education, conservation, and science. Less than 10% of federally licensed US wildlife exhibitors have met these rigorous standards. |
Collective Care
FAZA members cooperate together and with other AZA-accredited zoos to maintain safe populations of rare animals outside the wild. Because of our warm climate, we often steward large numbers of certain tropical species. For example, almost one-third of the rare reticulated giraffes in North America and white rhinos live in our care. Likewise, FAZA members are responsible for about two thirds of manatees and staghorn coral populations and play a crucial part in the rescue and restoration efforts for world’s third-largest barrier reef: the Florida Reef Tract.
Over $178 million to Save Species in the Wild
Beyond programs like those above, the AZA-accredited and certified institutions of FAZA contribute millions of dollars to helping plants and animals around Florida and the world. FAZA members invested over $178.6 million dollars in saving species in the wild in the last decade alone. Of this, over $78.5 million was devoted to efforts that help Florida species and habitats.
FAZA members cooperate together and with other AZA-accredited zoos to maintain safe populations of rare animals outside the wild. Because of our warm climate, we often steward large numbers of certain tropical species. For example, almost one-third of the rare reticulated giraffes in North America and white rhinos live in our care. Likewise, FAZA members are responsible for about two thirds of manatees and staghorn coral populations and play a crucial part in the rescue and restoration efforts for world’s third-largest barrier reef: the Florida Reef Tract.
Over $178 million to Save Species in the Wild
Beyond programs like those above, the AZA-accredited and certified institutions of FAZA contribute millions of dollars to helping plants and animals around Florida and the world. FAZA members invested over $178.6 million dollars in saving species in the wild in the last decade alone. Of this, over $78.5 million was devoted to efforts that help Florida species and habitats.
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FAZA is a member of the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) that envisions a just world that values and conserves nature. Created in 1948, IUCN is now the world’s largest and most diverse environmental network, harnessing the knowledge, resources and reach of our more than 1,400 Member organizations and 15,000 experts. This diversity and expertise makes IUCN the global authority on the status of the natural world and the measures needed to safeguard it.
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Many people are afraid of sharks. In reality, sharks have a lot more reason to fear us. Approximately a quarter of all shark and ray species are estimated to be threatened with extinction. Each year tens of millions of skates, sharks, rays, and chimaeras are caught.
This is bad for the ocean. As apex predators, sharks play a key role in the marine ecosystem. FAZA is a partner with Wildlife Conservation Society and the larger community of people who care about sharks, rays, and skates who are making a difference by taking action to support the Sustainable Shark Fisheries and Trade Act and raising awareness of the plight of these essential and marvelous species. Learn more about these important efforts for our world. |