European Association of Zoos and Aquaria

The European Association of Zoos and Aquaria is an organisation for the European zoo and aquarium community that links over 340 member organisations in 41 countries. EAZA membership is open to all zoos and aquaria across Europe that comply with EAZA's standards. The organisation is administered and headquartered at Natura Artis Magistra in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
The mission of the association is to promote cooperation for furthering regional collection planning and wildlife conservation. EAZA also promotes educational activities and advises EU lawmakers through standing committees of the European Parliament and the European Council.

EAZA Ex-situ Programme

EAZA manages the EAZA Ex-situ Programme, a population management and conservation programme. As of 2022, over 400 animal species are represented in the programme.
Each EEP has a coordinator who is assisted by a species committee. The coordinator collects information on the status of all the animals kept in EAZA zoos and aquariums of the species for which they are responsible, produces a studbook, carries out demographic and genetic analyses, produces a plan for the future management of the species and provides recommendations to participating institutions.

Thematic conservation campaigns

Every two years EAZA launches a campaign dedicated to a threatened species or a threatened Environment. The campaign's aims are to draw attention to the problem, to promote biodiversity awareness, raise funds for special projects and to do lobbying work in national governments and international organizations.
The campaigns address EAZA members to get involved in the themes and to spread information about the importance of biodiversity and its conservation to the visitors.

Years active	Campaign	Theme / species
2024–2025	Vietnamazing	Joining forces to save Vietnam‘s species
2022–2023	EAZA21+	Internal campaign for EAZA Members
2020–2021	Which fish?	Sustainable aquatic resources
2017–2019	Silent Forest	Asian songbird crisis
2015–2017	Let it Grow	Local biodiversity
2014–2015	Pole to Pole	Penguins, polar bears, the Arctic and Antarctic in general
2011–2013	Southeast Asia
2010–2011	Apes
2008–2010	European Carnivore
2007–2008	Amphibian
2006–2007	Madagascar
2005–2006	Rhino
2004–2005	ShellShock	Tortoises and turtles
2002–2004	Tiger
2001–2002	Rainforest
2000–2001	Bushmeat	Unsustainable and illegal hunt and trade of threatened wildlife

Campaign for the Ukrainian zoos

In 2022, during the Russo-Ukrainian War, EAZA launched a funding campaign to save animals from Ukrainian zoos. In June 2022 EAZA had collected €1 324 884 from over 130 institutional and 11 000 private donors, and funds have been provided to nearly 20 institutions in Ukraine. Funds were allocated on the basis of need according to the requests received from zoos, and were distributed to recipients through channels subject to change due to possible war-time disruptions.

List of EAZA member institutions

Source:
As of October 2023, EAZA has 308 Full Members, 20 Temporary Members, 20 Candidates for Membership, 55 Corporate Members and 38 Associate Members represented in 47 countries.

Full members

Temporary members

Candidates for membership

Associate members

Institution Name

Indirect members

These zoos and aquariums are members through an aforementioned associate organization.