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How
Did the MFG Start
The Madagascar Fauna Group is an international consortium of zoos
and related organizations, pooling their talents and resources
to work together in one of the world's most endangered places,
Madagascar. The MFG was formed following a 1987 meeting at St.
Catherine's Island (Georgia, USA), at which Malagasy government
officials asked the international zoo community for assistance
with habitat protection, species propagation, research, and training.
The
meeting was convened by the Wildlife
Conservation Society (WCS) and the Conservation
Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) of IUCN. The institutions
present included Durrell
Wildlife Conservation Trust, Parc
Zoologique et Botanique de Mulhouse and the Strasborg consortium,
the Duke
University Primate Center, and several US zoos. These institutions
became the founding members of the Madagascar Fauna Group, which
was formalized in 1988.
Today,
the MFG now has 39 member institutions
in Europe, Great Britain, the US, Australia and Africa.
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