PKBSI Annual Virtual Meeting 2020
By PKBSI
Wednesday - December 16, 2020 5:53 pm     Article Hits:1180     A+ | a-
PKBSI held annual virtual meeting (Rakornas) on 14 December 2020 with theme "Save Animal in Covid-19 Pandemic" that attended by 130 participants from the PKBSI Councillor Board, Advisory Board, Executive Board, Director of Biodiversity and Conservation, Ministry of Environment and Forestry, zoo directors and staffs, as well as all relevant stakeholders.

The chair of PKBSI Councillor Board, Prof. Dr. Emil Salim, gave speech that highighted the important role of the zoos supporting the wildlife conservation in Indonesia and all actions that we should do during Covid-19 pandemic.

This meeting included the annual report presentation from PKBSI Board, Food For Animals fundraising program, and presentation from PKBSI member about their conservation success, knowledge, experience, and innovation sharing in regards of Covid-19 pandemic, as well as the update of relevant informations that applied for animal husbandry and management in zoos.

This year is very difficult for all tourism sector, especially zoos that highly impacted due to Covid. Zoos have responsibility to provide best husbandry for their animals to keep their health and welfare. This meeting is a great time to support each other and share experience and knowledge for the zoos. Eventhough this is the first time we held the annual meeting virtually, all participants are very enthusiastic.