The conservation, originally Captive Breeding Specialist Group of IOCN SSC had some forerunners that were not very successful. The intention always was to have a link between in situ and ex situ conservation and conservation breeding. And therefore we changed, finally, the naming to Conservation Breeding Specialist Group. And in 1979, Uly Seal was appointed as chair of CBSG and he was the personality that really brought us along with his enthusiasm and with his visions, I think he made a big, big impact on breeding programs. He was more or less the founder of ISIS mutual registration program. He were more or less with, together with Bill Conway, the father of the regional breeding programs. But CBSG started, I think, in London with about 10 persons and then the second meeting was in St. Catherine’s Island, when it was still the county zoo of Wildlife Conservation Society. And we were about 20 persons and we met in the livingrooms there.
