In novem­ber 2019 The PP was approached by Andrea Swat­man, head of the Aquar­ium Team at Chester Zoo. She had been tasked with main­tain­ing IUCN insur­ance pop­u­la­tions as an out­come of IUCN (Inter­na­tional Union for Con­ser­va­tion of Nature) ex-​situ man­dates and EAZA (Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion of Zoos and Aquaria )Regional Col­lec­tion Plans. The task is to main­tain ‚insur­ance pop­u­la­tions‘ of the REDLIST crit­i­cally endagered species of P. alfredi and P. tweed­iei. This is a dif­fi­cult task for Chester Zoo to do on their own and because keep­ing ‚insur­ance pop­u­la­tions‘ is very close to what we have pre­ciously done with our ‚old‘…

Our Team The Parosphromenus Project is a team­work between many indi­vid­u­als all over the world, — of ded­i­cated peo­ple who con­tribute in many ways, — as breed­ers, as researchers, as hob­by­ists, as sci­en­tists, as sup­port­ers. The Project would not excist with­out our many mem­bers and active peo­ple. But to keep this together, coor­di­nate, inspire and con­tin­u­ally search for progress, a smaller group of ded­i­cated peo­ple have been con­tin­u­ally tak­ing on respon­si­bil­i­ties within the Project in our Steer­ing Group, and we would like to intro­duce our­selves on this page. The Parosphromenus Project Novem­ber 2019 Founder and ide­o­log­i­cal leader Proff. Dr. Peter…