Donate for Ukrainian zoos and aquariums
EAZA is coordinating a collection of relief funds for our colleagues in Ukrainian zoos and aquariums. Please support our efforts to help them care for the animals.
EAZA Emergency Fund for Ukraine Zoos
EAZA stands with all zoos in Ukraine, their staff and their families, the animals in their care and the communities they serve.
Since the beginning of the Russian invasion in 2022, EAZA has been coordinating an Emergency Fund for zoos and aquariums, assisting individual Members with their own fundraising efforts, and working with the Association of Zoos of Ukraine (AZU, formally known as UAZA) to ensure that our Ukrainian colleagues receive the assistance they need when it is best able to support them.
On behalf of the recipients of your donations, EAZA would like to thank all the individuals who have made 11,790 donations so far, as well as the 221 EAZA Members and other organisations worldwide, for your extraordinary generosity.
Thanks to you we have collected €2,026,933.34 as of 31 August 2024!
With no end to the war in sight, we continue to raise funds and provide support to those in need. Please consider joining the efforts to care for zoo animals in Ukraine and donate to the EAZA Emergency Fund for Ukraine Zoos. Any help you can provide would be received with gratitude. EAZA commits to full transparency on the collection and distribution of funds for Ukraine: 100% of your donation will go to help Ukrainian zoos.
How to donate?
For small donations, please scan the QR code or click on this payment link. You can choose an amount and donate via iDeal, Bancontact, credit card or PayPal. Please add ‘Ukraine – name of your institution/your name’ in the description box so we can acknowledge your donation.
For larger sums, we encourage you to make a bank transfer, to minimize transfer fees. Please contact us at info@eaza.net to get our bank account details.
NB: If you do not want your name to be acknowledged on the donor list available above, please email info@eaza.net.
What are we doing with your donations?
The Ukraine Zoos Emergency Fund is administered according to a strict protocol with a comprehensive list of claimable items.
Funds raised are being used to assist Ukrainian zoos to continue to provide food and care to animals in conditions of relative welfare and safety, as well as providing support for care staff and management at the zoos. We have direct contact with our Candidates for Membership Mykolayiv Zoo, Kharkiv Zoo and Kyiv Zoo, and indirect contact with other zoos via the Association of Zoos of Ukraine (AZU) and the contacts of our Members. Funds are being allocated on the basis of need according to the requests we receive from zoos, and are distributed to recipients through channels subject to reasonable due diligence.
The full reports on the fund and its use of donations are available for:
To this date, more than € 1,900,000 – sometimes in several payments, directly or via the Association of Zoos of Ukraine (AZU, previously UAZA) – has been allocated to the following institutions: Animal exhibition EkZoterra, Askania Nova Reserve, Berdyansk Zoo Safari, Bion Terrarium Center, BioPark Odesa, Cherkasy Zoo, Ecopark Kovalivka, Feldman Ecopark, Home Zoo Center Vasylivka, Kharkiv Zoo, Kyiv Zoo, Limpopo Zoo, Lutsk Zoo, Mena Zoo, Mykolaiv Zoo, Odesa State Zoo, Oscar Dolphinarium network, Pheasant breeding center "Golden Pheasant", Podilsky Zoo, Rivne Zoo, Safari Park on the Arabat Arrow, Vinnica Zoo, Zofia Polczynska Wytwornia Pasz/Vinicca Zoo, Zolotoj Fazan, Zoo XII Months and ZooMir (Bilytske).
Additionally, colleagues at Panda Foundation of Warsaw, Łódź Zoo, Berlin Zoo and Tierpark, Prague, Wrocław, Košice, Gdansk, Tallinn Zoos and other EAZA Members have also arranged trucks that delivered supplies to, at least: XII months, Bilytske, Cherkasy, Feldman Ecopark, Kharkiv, Limpopo, Lutsk, Mykolaiv, Odesa Biopark and Odesa State Zoo, Poltava, Rivne, Vinnytsia Zoos.
You can read all of our past published updates by clicking on the dates below:
- 2022: 1 March; 10 March; 14 March (Facebook); 18 March; 24 March (on Facebook or on LinkedIn); 30 March; 12 April; 22 April; 3 June; 5 July (Facebook); 24 August (Facebook); 28 September (video update); 10 October (Facebook); 14 November (Facebook); 22 December (article in Zooquaria 116)
- 2023: 15 February (Facebook); 24 February (video on 1st anniversary of war outbreak); 12 June (LinkedIn); 9 August (Facebook); 31 August (Instagram); 13 November (Facebook)
- 2024: 12 January (Facebook); 15 March (Facebook); 29 May (Facebook);
We want to acknowledge the extraordinary work done by teams from Łódź, Warsaw, Gdańsk, Wrocław, Berlin, Prague and Košice Zoos, who have done most of the supply work so far!
Money from the EAZA Fund will also be used to combine with these efforts.
