European Endangered Species Programme
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The European Endangered Species Programme or EEP is the most intensive type of population management for a species kept in European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
European Association of Zoos and Aquaria
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 (EAZA) zoos. Each of the EEPs has a coordinator (someone with a special interest in and knowledge of the species concerned, who is working in an EAZA zoo or aquarium) assisted by a Species Committee.

The coordinator has many tasks to coordinate, such as collecting information on the status of all the animals of the species for which he or she is responsible kept in EAZA zoos and aquaria, producing a studbook, carrying out demographic and genetical analyses, and producing a plan for the future management of the species
Species
In biology, a species is one of the basic units of biological classification and a taxonomic rank. A species is often defined as a group of organisms capable of interbreeding and producing fertile offspring. While in many cases this definition is adequate, more precise or differing measures are...

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Together with the Species Committee, recommendations are made each year on which animals should breed or not breed, which individual animals should go from one zoo to another or on breeding loans, and so on.

Sumatran tiger

One species which has been handled by EEP was Sumatran tiger
Sumatran Tiger
The Sumatran tiger is a tiger subspecies that inhabits the Indonesian island of Sumatra and has been classified as critically endangered by IUCN in 2008 as the population is projected at 176 to 271 mature individuals, with no subpopulation having an effective population size larger than 50...

 which only a few hundred left in the wild in only about 7 percent of their habitat remains. In November 2011, Sumatran tiger Kirana has delivered 3 cubs at Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo
Chester Zoo is a zoological garden at Upton-by-Chester, in Cheshire, England. It was opened in 1931 by George Mottershead and his family, who used as a basis some animals reported to have come from an earlier zoo in Shavington. It is one of the UK's largest zoos at...

under EEP which attempts to coordinate breeding between zoos and maintain genetic diversity.

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