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The International Species Information System (ISIS) is an international non-profit organization serving more than 800 zoos and aquariums in 80 countries worldwide. ISIS provides its members with zoological data collection and sharing software called ZIMS - the Zoological Information Management System.〔 As of April 2013, the ZIMS database contains information on 12,490 taxonomies at species level, 393,641 living individuals and 3,170,281 reported individuals in groups.〔https://zims.isis.org International Species Information System ZIMS Species Holding〕 ISIS members use the basic biologic information (age, sex, parentage, place of birth, circumstance of death, etc.) collected in the ISIS system to care for and manage their animal collections (including demographic and genetic management in many cases). Since its founding almost 40 years ago, ISIS has been a Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) pursuing wide animal conservation goals. Operating independently from any government, it is not a conventional for-profit business and has no political goals. ISIS works in partnership with zoo associations around the world, adding new institutional and regional associations frequently. Regional association members include: * Asociación Colombiana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ACOPAZOA) * Asociación Latinoamericana de Parques Zoológicos y Acuarios (ALPZA) * Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) * European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) * Japanese Association of Zoos and Aquariums (JAZA) * Sociedade de Zoológicos do Brasil (SZB) * Australian Zoo and Aquarium Association (ZAA) ISIS and the Central Zoo Authority of India (CZA) have a five-year memorandum of understanding with a primary goal of migrating the majority of the zoos in India into the ZIMS database. Currently, ISIS has staff and representatives in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Bogota (Colombia), New Delhi (India) with headquarters in Minnesota (USA). ==Centralized database== Today, zoos and aquariums are “gene banks” for endangered species. In some cases, species which have become extinct in the wild and have been bred in zoos are eventually returned to the wild. Examples include the black-footed ferret, California condor, Przewalski's horse, red wolf, Micronesian kingfisher (not yet reintroduced), and the Arabian oryx. Individual zoos generally do not have the space to maintain a viable species population (which for many mammals and birds requires 500+ animals to maintain sufficient genetic diversity〔), so this requires coordination between many zoos. In addition, scientific expertise on husbandry, nutrition, veterinary care and so on is spread throughout the zoos and aquaria of the world. Breeding and population management relies on accurate information about animals in all member institutions, especially pedigree history (parentage) and demography (births and deaths). An ISIS-Board approved Data and Privacy Policy has been in place since 1995. Member data remains under the ownership of the submitting institution; member data is not available for sale. ISIS records are accepted by international regulatory bodies such as CITES. Several Regional Associations seek ISIS membership for their members: Roughly three-quarters of Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) members in North America are ISIS members. The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria (EAZA) requires its members to join ISIS. The World Association of Zoos and Aquaria's (WAZA) Conservation Strategy Guidelines strongly recommend that all zoo and aquaria join and participate in data sharing via ZIMS.〔WAZA (2009 Conservation Strategy ).〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「International Species Information System」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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