A structured, measurable enrichment programme
Catalogue, planning, tracking, diversity analysis, and impact assessment: manage your enrichments from A to Z and prove they truly make a difference.
- Shared catalogue
- Visual calendar
- 9 analysis tabs
Animal Welfare Monitor
Animal Welfare Monitor
Enrichment is only effective when it is organised and tracked
You know that enrichment is essential for your animals' welfare. You offer puzzle feeders, objects, substrates. But do you know exactly which enrichments are in place today in each enclosure? For how long? And most importantly, do they have a measurable effect?
AKONGO does more than just list your enrichments. It organises them in a shared catalogue, schedules them via a visual calendar, tracks their installation and removal history, analyses their diversity in each enclosure, and measures their real impact on animal behaviour.
Enrichment moves from being a one-off action to a structured, measurable programme.
Your enrichment library, shared across the whole team
The catalogue brings together all the enrichments in your facility and makes them available to the whole team.
- Complete records — name, photo, description, category, and tags for each enrichment.
- Stock and filters — track the availability of each enrichment and filter the catalogue by sector, tag, or available stock.
- From planning to action — install an enrichment directly into an enclosure from the catalogue.
- Knowledge sharing — when a keeper documents a new enrichment, the whole team benefits immediately. Good ideas no longer stay hidden in a personal notebook.
Plan rotations, follow the calendar
The AKONGO calendar gives you a monthly view by sector and by enclosure, with colour coding by enrichment type for instant readability. At a glance, you can see what is in place, what is due for rotation, and what is missing.
With advance planning, you can schedule installations and removals ahead of time. The calendar becomes your diversity monitoring tool: it lets you verify that each enclosure regularly receives varied enrichments, covering different categories such as feeding, sensory, cognitive, social, and physical.
Measure diversity and prove the impact
Analysis goes far beyond simple counting: you see what was offered, how often, with what diversity, and what really works for your animals.
- Key indicators — a summary of your programme and your progress towards your diversity and frequency goals.
- Detailed history — every installation and removal session, tracked.
- Timeline — all enrichment activity traced chronologically.
- Diversity index — an objective measure of coverage across enrichment types.
- Distribution and routines — temporal patterns and the enrichment combinations that work best together.
- Audit-ready — show that your programme covers every welfare dimension, not just a few repetitive items.
A complete registry, exportable for your accreditations
Your enrichment registry is exportable as PDF, providing a complete and professional document that you can attach directly to your EAZA or AZA accreditation files. You have a formal record of your entire programme, ready to be presented during an audit.
What it changes for your enrichment programme
- Collective knowledge
The catalogue shares the knowledge of the entire team. A keeper invents a new enrichment? They document it and everyone benefits.
- Planned rotations
The calendar ensures enrichments rotate regularly. No more risk of leaving the same object in an enclosure for months.
- Measured diversity
The diversity index objectively shows whether your programme is varied or repetitive. A concrete argument for audits.
- Proven impact
By cross-referencing enrichment data with behavioural observations, prove that your enrichments truly change behaviour.
- Exportable registry
The complete enrichment registry is exportable as PDF. Perfect for EAZA/AZA accreditation files.
- Multilingual
Enrichment cards are automatically translated. Ideal for international teams or sharing between facilities.
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Enrichments connected to behavioural analysis
Enrichment data integrates with other modules for a complete view of welfare.
- Enclosure managementEnrichments are linked to each enclosure with 6 dedicated sub-tabs.Explore module
- Behavioural analysisCross-reference enrichment data and observations to measure impact.Explore module
- TimelineEvery installation and removal appears in the activity feed.Explore module
- DashboardsEnrichment effort is reflected in global statistics.Explore module
- Task managementSchedule installations as assigned tasks.Explore module
Structure your enrichment programme
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