Friday, October 19, 2007
Amphibians at risk in climate change
KIM HELFRICH
JOHANNESBURG – The world’s amphibians are at risk due to habitat loss, climate change, pollution and pesticides, according to a World Association of Zoos and Aquaria conference held in Pretoria.
It focused on the plight of amphibians and decided on a collective approach to create public awareness.
Additional factors contributing to a decrease in amphibian populations were over-collection for food, pets and a parasitic fungus.
The chytrid is unstoppable in the wild. African clawed frogs are seen as its likely resistant carriers, and these have been shipped around the world since the 1930s, spreading the disease wherever they land up.
The effects of chytrid are exacerbated by climate change, making it even more deadly. The zoo will stage events next year to feature amphibians and their importance to ecosystems.
http://www.citizen.co.za/index/article.aspx?pDesc=50858,1,22
Newborn Peeps at the Zoo
A baby white lion, born on October 14, 2007, sleeps in a compound at the Olmense Zoo in Olmen, Belgium, October 18, 2007. Photo REUTERS / Yves Herman (Belgium)
White lions are not albinos. The white color is caused by a recessive gene known as chinchilla or color inhibitor. They vary from blonde through to near white, but some can also be red. This coloration gives white lions a distinct disadvantage in nature because they are highly visible. It’s been perpetuated by selective breeding in zoos around the world. Inbreeding often leads to birth defects, which makes breeding for white tigers highly controversial.
The white lion is occasionally found in wildlife reserves in South Africa and is a rare color mutation of the Kruger subspecies. White lions are nearly extinct.
http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/newborn-peeps-at-the-zoo/offbeat-news
Mac and Friends Halloween Pumpkin Bash
Fall weather may be a few weeks away but the pumpkins hanging from the live oak trees around the Reflection Pool are a good indicator that it’s time for the Zoo’s annual Halloween festival, Zoo Boo!
Mac, his mom Shanti and Aunt Methai welcomed the season in grand style this week with the annual Zoo Boo pumpkin bash. Even Mac’s friends at spectacled bears, lions and the orangutans at Wortham World of Primates got in on the fun.
Join us for Zoo Boo October 20-21 and 27-28. For more information click here.
http://www.houstonzooblog.org/2007/week42/index.html#entry-40425006
Alexandra Cousteau and her brother Philippe watch David Vaughan, director of coral reef research for Mote Marine, submerge to clean the glass of a new aquarium exhibit at the Florida Keys Eco Discovery Center on Sunday in Key West. The grandchildren of late ocean explorer Jacques Cousteau visited Key West with the winners of a contest to promote ocean conservation. ROB O'NEAL/FLORIDA KEYS NEWS BUREAU
Morning Papers - continued...
Zoos
Pittsburgh Zoo Joins Fight Against Animal Extinction
POSTED: 3:55 pm EDT October 18, 2007
PITTSBURGH -- Most people have heard about the polar bears' food supply dwindling thanks to global warming, but there's another species that is reaching this critical stage: primates.
The gelada baboon is a dying breed.
"Within the eight months I just spent in Ethiopia with the geladas, I saw people destroying the grasslands where the geladas live," said conservation biologist Dr. Peter Fashing.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/14371127/detail.html
City zoo gets $10,000 Grant from U.S. Cellular
By Bobbi Mlynar (Contact)
Originally published 12:54 p.m., October 18, 2007
Updated 12:54 p.m., October 18, 2007
The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia received a $10,000 grant from U.S. Cellular during a city commission meeting Wednesday night in the municipal courtroom.
Zoo director Steve Trebilcock and Friends of the Zoo President Brenton Bennett accepted the check from Jill Donner of U.S. Cellular.
Donner told city officials that U.S. Cellular employees quickly noticed the value of the zoo to the community when the company moved to Emporia in 2006. That first year, the company donated $5,000 to the zoo, followed by a $1,000 gift earlier this year.
“I can’t begin to tell you how much we appreciate this very, very generous grant,” Bennett said. “... It’s going to significantly help us improve our graphics ... and our signage around the zoo.”
The commission voted 4-0 to deny a request from Pizza Hut for a license agreement to place a sign on public right-of-way at its new location, now under construction on Eaglecrest Drive. City Commissioner Jeff Longbine was absent for the meeting.
http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/2007/oct/18/city_zoo_gets_10000_grant_city_zoo_gets_10000_gran/
Weekend Options for Oct. 19-22: Zoo Boo and more
Last update: October 18, 2007 – 4:56 PM
ZOO BOO
If ghosts and goblins are not your thing, put on your costume and enjoy a frightless evening of fun at Como Zoo. In addition to activities and trick-or-treating, more than 200 costumed characters will entertain children . (4:30-7:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 28. $5-$6. 1225 Estabrook Drive, St. Paul. 651-487-8200.)
HARVEST BEES
Roll up your sleeves and join the Oliver Kelley Farm staff as they husk corn, work on quilts and do other fall-time chores. Learn how early settlers prepared for winter during "work parties." (10 a.m.-5 p.m. today-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun. $4-$7. 15788 Kelley Farm Road, Elk River. 763-441-6896.)
http://www.startribune.com/diversions/story/1493263.html
A mall with animals
The gorilla sat on top of an upright tyre. She scratched herself here and there. She walked around a bit, but not much. It's difficult to tell from her dark mien or her gestures if she was bored or depressed, as some visitors have claimed. The huge orangutan on my left, a male apparently, sat idly, moving only to scratch his armpit vigorously from time to time, while his wife was busy looking after and entertaining the baby. That was educational.
Welcome to Pata Zoo, a private menagerie on the roof of an old-style department store that has come under fire in the past weeks for alleged failure to take good enough care of its animals. Animal welfare activists have also argued that the zoo's location on top of a shopping mall was not suitable for the animals' health and hygiene.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/19Oct2007_news22.php
Zoo welcomes Gus and Briggs: the new Guineau hogs
Oct 18, 2007 01:07 PM EDT
The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is pleased to announce two new addition to its domestic animal barn. Louie has been the Zoo's only Guinea hog since the early 90s, but was recently joined by two young males, Briggs (named for Pat Briggs, the designer of the Zoo's "Go Hog Wild!" motorcycle) and Gus. All three are currently on exhibit.
Chuck Doyle, director of the zoo, is thrilled to welcome Gus and Briggs. "Guinea hogs are fascinating animals," he says. "Those who have visited the zoo in the past likely recall watching Louie's demonstrations. His ability to 'play basketball' and 'recycle' reflects just how intelligent this breed is."
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=7232411&nav=2aKD
New Pond Turtles
A bird keeper discovered three newly hatched pond turtles (Clemmys marmorata) by the flamingo feeder last week. They were quickly scooped up and transported to the reptile house. Loyal readers may remember from the post "A Day in the Life… of a Reptile Keeper" that we collect pond turtle hatchlings on zoo grounds and give them a head start. This allows them to grow larger more quickly and thus be safer from predators like crows. The three turtles weighed in at 6.7 grams, 7.0 grams, and 6.7 grams. Their shells were marked temporarily so we can tell individuals apart. The turtles will be weighed and measured weekly to monitor growth. They are now on display in the reptile house next to the single hatchling found in October of 2006. Favorite foods so far are small mealworms and crickets. They should be ready for release in spring of 2009.
http://sacramentozoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-pond-turtles.html
Cheetahs changing spots at Hamilton Zoo
Friday, 19 October 2007, 2:52 pm
Press Release: Hamilton City Council
Cheetahs changing spots at Hamilton Zoo
It’s been farewells and welcomes at Hamilton Zoo’s cheetah enclosure with two recent departures and arrivals.
Long-time Hamilton Zoo residents and visitor favourites, Temba and Kaitoa, have departed for Orana Park while playful brothers Moyo Matusi and Jambo have travelled across the Tasman to make their new home in Hamilton.
The impetus behind the transfers has been the opportunity for Temba and Kaitoa to contribute more actively to the regional cheetah breeding programme while offering Western Plains Zoo, Australia, more capacity in their cheetah enclosure.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00234.htm
2007 Tentative Programme
"Promoting Change in Asia"
Wild Asia’s Responsible Tourism Seminar & Awards 2007
13-15th November, Evason Phuket and Six Senses Spa, Thailand
A seminar to inspire hoteliers and supporters of responsible tourism in Asia. This year's seminar br ings together international speakers and regional practitioners - from the International Union of Conservation Nation (IUCN) Chief Scientist, Jeff McNeely, to the General Manager of Alila Ubud, Amanda Pummer, one of the crusaders instrumental in greening the members of the Bali Hotel Association. The seminar will focus on three themes: best practices to inspire; and tourism in perspective and tourism for the future.
John Gray, founder of John Gray Sea Canoe and one of our key speakers is willing to share his experience of many years in the asian tourism industry. Paul Sochaczewski, chairman of IGOLF - International Golf and Life Foundation, will also be giving us the benefit of his lengthy and varied career in the region. This seminar is an excellent chance to learn about the issues surrounding tourism in the Asia-Pacific from those who are working closely with them.
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc6szsxv_44f7jkm9
Rare white rhino born at SA zoo
Posted Thu Oct 4, 2007 8:18pm AEST
A southern white rhinoceros has been born at South Australia's Monarto Zoo.
Weighing in at a hefty 40 kilograms, Watoto the baby white rhino is the second for Monarto Zoo's breeding program.
The male calf was born on Tuesday morning and is said to be wrinkly, with big feet and ears.
Poaching and civil wars all but wiped-out the southern white rhino in the 19th century, but conservation programs like the one at Monarto have helped restore the species to about 13,000 world wide.
It is hoped the model can eventually be used to improve the numbers of the black rhinoceros.
For now keepers are leaving Watoto to bond and feed with his mother and he is expected to put on several kilos a day as he feeds and grows to the full size of about 2.5 tonnes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/04/2051335.htm
New sea lions to be roaring success at zoo
THE world's second-largest species of sea lion is set to make a splash at Edinburgh Zoo.
The animals - which can reach up to 2.6 metres long and weigh up to 300kg - are being brought to the zoo later this year to replace its two Californian sea lions.
They have been moved to join a breeding programme at Emmen Zoo in Holland, and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has decided to provide a home for the Patagonian sea lions, as they are more endangered and also more suited to the Scottish climate than their Californian cousins.
Work is being carried out to the sea lion enclosure to ensure it is fit for its new inhabitants, and a zoo spokeswoman said they hoped to have their new sea lions at the zoo by the end of the year.
This article: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1586112007
Last updated: 04-Oct-07 12:01 BST
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1586112007
Pittsburgh Zoo to announce conservation center plans
10/4/2007, 6:57 a.m. EDT
The Associated Press
FAIRHOPE, Pa. (AP) — The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium will announce its plans for an elephant conservation center in Somerset County later this month.
Details of the $1.5 million International Conservation Center will be announced at the Oct. 19 groundbreaking.
The 724-acre Glen Savage Ranch was once a private hunting preserve. The zoo bought it and is turning it into the first breeding ground for endangered African elephants in North America.
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-54/119149617892910.xml&storylist=penn
Thursday, October 4, 2007
HSBC gives Zoo hospital a boost
Business First of Buffalo
The Buffalo Zoo's plans to expand its veterinary hospital received a boost with a grant from HSBC Bank.
HSBC donated $90,000 to the zoo to support its campaign for the Frank A. McClelland Sr. Veterinary Hospital. The current facility, built in 1967, must meet new standards developed by the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, including the addition of a dedicated surgical suite and enlargement of quarantine facilities to safely handle and transfer animals.
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/10/01/daily40.html
Hotel applies for zoo licence
04 October 2007
The owner of a wedding venue and hotel is to apply for a zoo licence to keep a private collection of monkeys on the premises.
Taylor James, the new leaseholder of the recently-restored Lenwade Country House Hotel, is in talks with Broadland Council over the necessary permission to keep a pair of marmosets and a pair of lemurs in enclosures.
On Monday Mr James stressed he was not setting up a zoo, adding: “It's a private collection for myself of animals I've wanted for a long time. The hotel is also my residence.”
A spokesman for Broadland said: “We are in discussions with the applicant who has initiated the licensing process by putting a notice of intention to apply for a zoo licence in the newspaper.
“We have not yet formally confirmed with the applicant that a zoo licence is needed, and we are reviewing this case and taking legal advice as to what licence is required.”
The hotel, which wound up at the end of January with the loss of 18 people, reopened earlier this summer after Mr James and Christopher Buxton were given the lease for the business.
http://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/content/derehamtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=DFTOnline&category=News&tBrand=DFTonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED04%20Oct%202007%2015%3A35%3A08%3A593
Zoo Director and Friend
Gregg Dancho, director of Bridgeport’s Beardsley Zoo, was the featured speaker at today’s meeting of the Y’s Men of Westport Weston. Dancho brought two feathered friends to the podium to help illustrate his talk about “The Beardsley Zoo in the 21st Century. The zoo is Connecticut’s only zoo and has been in operation for the past 80 years. It features more than 300 animals, including several endangered species such as tigers and bears. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com
http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2/comments/18259/
5 baby crocs debut at zoo (video)
By Whitney Woodward Tribune staff reporter
October 4, 2007
The odds seemed stacked against the Lincoln Park Zoo's five baby African dwarf crocodiles being born.
Their father, the zoo's oldest reptile, a 67-year-old croc named R1, had yet to produce offspring even after living with females for several years.
Their aggressive mother, 41-year-old Maggie, had a penchant for crushing her own eggs.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-croc04oct04,1,4199182.story
Wait for international zoo lingers on
Ashwin Aghor
Friday, October 05, 2007 04:16 IST
Despite appointment of a foreign consultant, the project may take a decade to complete
The ambitious state forest department project to create a zoo of international standard at the Gorewada forest reserve near Nagpur is likely to be delayed. Despite numerous announcements by politicians, the government machinery is not prepared for the project’s implementation.
A forest ministry source said that after much debate on the appointment of a foreign consultant for the project, the state government had reportedly finalised the appointment of Bernard Harrison and Friends Ltd.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1125568
Moo at the Zoo
"Pet me! Pet me!" is what this cute calf seems to be thinking at the Central Alabama Fair Petting Zoo. Farmers from Plantersville to Orrville brought animals for this favorite fair exhibit. In addition to this calf were rabbits, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, a horse and a donkey. The event continues at Lions Fair Park in Selma through Saturday.
http://selmaala.blogspot.com/2007/10/moo-at-zoo.html
Cache In On Treasure Hunting Fun At Detroit Zoo
The Detroit Zoo has always been a great place to discover wildlife, but now it’s also a great place to discover hidden treasure. The Zoo has joined the growing craze of geocaching by creating six caches, or hiding places, throughout the 125-acre park.
Geocaching is a high-tech outdoor treasure hunting game in which players use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers. The only thing a prospective treasure hunter needs besides a sense of adventure is his or her own handheld GPS unit or GPS-enabled mobile phone. Participants log on to one of several geocaching Web sites to download the GPS coordinates of cache locations and the search begins.
http://www.huliq.com/36877/cache-in-on-treasure-hunting-fun-at-detroit-zoo
Answers Sought to Save Asia's Orangutans
US: October 19, 2007
CHICAGO - The remaining 62,000 orangutans in the wild could be wiped out within decades as forests in their Asian island habitat are decimated by loggers and palm oil farmers, conservationists said on Thursday.
American zookeepers met this week at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo with conservationists working on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra to sort through problems faced by the red-haired Asian apes and find solutions.
http://naturealert.blogspot.com/2007/10/answers-sought-to-save-asias-orangutans.html
First jaguar born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years
Maya, right, a young dotted jaguar, walks by the side of her mother in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 28, 2005. It is the first jaguar to be born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years. Maya's parents have black fur, but her fur will remain dotted according to experts of the zoo. The cub is raised by her mother only, the father is kept separated. (AP Photo/MTI, Istvan Kiss)
http://www.thebigcats.com/news/2005_0428_jaguar.htm
Zoo vision faces fight for survival
JOANNA VALLELY ( jvallely@edinburghnews.com)
IT'S a warm spring day and families, school groups, parties of elderly and disabled people and foreign tourists wander around Edinburgh Zoo. Some marvel at the rhinos' brand new enclosure that mimics the endangered animal's natural habitat in India. Others gaze at more than 100 South American rainbow lorikeets in the specially-created exotic bird enclosure.
This is how Edinburgh Zoo could look if its 20-year masterplan costing £72 million is allowed to go ahead.
Click here to see the Zoo's plans >>
But the vision relies on selling greenbelt land on the edge of the Corstorphine site to developers to create 100 new homes. And protesters paint a very different picture of an increasingly built-up area where emergency vehicles struggle to enter traffic-clogged streets.
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1632452007
Denver Zoo treasures birth of rare mangabey monkey
By The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 10/12/2007 02:56:23 AM MDT
A rare, red-capped mangabey monkey has been born at the Denver Zoo, one of only 27 living in North American zoos.
The birth of the monkey, named Kanzu, on Sept. 30, brings Denver's mangabey troop to six. Zookeepers haven't yet determined the monkey's gender.
They named it Kanzu, a Swahili word for treasure.
The monkey's mother, Galina, gave birth to a female, named Kipaji, last spring.
Kanzu is the fourth red-capped mangabey born at the zoo. Only eight North American zoos count the species among their collections.
Red-capped mangabeys are native to a very small region near the west coast of sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7153344
Zoo introduces baby siamangs to public
All three are orphans being raised by staff
By Sheldon S. Shafer
sshafer@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Much of the time they cling to their keepers, their little fuzzy black heads and dark eyes peeking out of the handlers' soft aprons that shroud them.
But someday they will be using their long arms to fly from rope to rope and limb to limb as they routinely soar around their glass-enclosed exhibit in the Islands area of the Louisville
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/NEWS01/710120454/1008/NEWS01
Zoo babies: From famous to forgotten
by Lisa Wathne
One of the zoo world's grandes dames, the Alaska Zoo's 27-year-old African elephant, Maggie, is being sent to a sanctuary in California to live out her days in peace. I could not be happier: Female elephants are highly social animals, but Maggie has been living alone since 1997, when her companion elephant Annabelle died.
News of Maggie's upcoming release got me thinking: I wonder how Knut is doing?
If you're saying, "Knut who?" you're not alone. Only recently, Knut-a polar bear cub born at the Berlin Zoo-appeared on more cover pages than Britney and Paris combined. He captured the hearts of people worldwide, but what have you heard about "the people's polar bear" lately?
http://newsblaze.com/story/20071012063807anim.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
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Pittsburgh Zoo Joins Fight Against Animal Extinction
POSTED: 3:55 pm EDT October 18, 2007
PITTSBURGH -- Most people have heard about the polar bears' food supply dwindling thanks to global warming, but there's another species that is reaching this critical stage: primates.
The gelada baboon is a dying breed.
"Within the eight months I just spent in Ethiopia with the geladas, I saw people destroying the grasslands where the geladas live," said conservation biologist Dr. Peter Fashing.
http://www.thepittsburghchannel.com/news/14371127/detail.html
City zoo gets $10,000 Grant from U.S. Cellular
By Bobbi Mlynar (Contact)
Originally published 12:54 p.m., October 18, 2007
Updated 12:54 p.m., October 18, 2007
The David Traylor Zoo of Emporia received a $10,000 grant from U.S. Cellular during a city commission meeting Wednesday night in the municipal courtroom.
Zoo director Steve Trebilcock and Friends of the Zoo President Brenton Bennett accepted the check from Jill Donner of U.S. Cellular.
Donner told city officials that U.S. Cellular employees quickly noticed the value of the zoo to the community when the company moved to Emporia in 2006. That first year, the company donated $5,000 to the zoo, followed by a $1,000 gift earlier this year.
“I can’t begin to tell you how much we appreciate this very, very generous grant,” Bennett said. “... It’s going to significantly help us improve our graphics ... and our signage around the zoo.”
The commission voted 4-0 to deny a request from Pizza Hut for a license agreement to place a sign on public right-of-way at its new location, now under construction on Eaglecrest Drive. City Commissioner Jeff Longbine was absent for the meeting.
http://www.emporiagazette.com/news/2007/oct/18/city_zoo_gets_10000_grant_city_zoo_gets_10000_gran/
Weekend Options for Oct. 19-22: Zoo Boo and more
Last update: October 18, 2007 – 4:56 PM
ZOO BOO
If ghosts and goblins are not your thing, put on your costume and enjoy a frightless evening of fun at Como Zoo. In addition to activities and trick-or-treating, more than 200 costumed characters will entertain children . (4:30-7:30 p.m. Saturdays and Sundays through Oct. 28. $5-$6. 1225 Estabrook Drive, St. Paul. 651-487-8200.)
HARVEST BEES
Roll up your sleeves and join the Oliver Kelley Farm staff as they husk corn, work on quilts and do other fall-time chores. Learn how early settlers prepared for winter during "work parties." (10 a.m.-5 p.m. today-Sat.; noon-5 p.m. Sun. $4-$7. 15788 Kelley Farm Road, Elk River. 763-441-6896.)
http://www.startribune.com/diversions/story/1493263.html
A mall with animals
The gorilla sat on top of an upright tyre. She scratched herself here and there. She walked around a bit, but not much. It's difficult to tell from her dark mien or her gestures if she was bored or depressed, as some visitors have claimed. The huge orangutan on my left, a male apparently, sat idly, moving only to scratch his armpit vigorously from time to time, while his wife was busy looking after and entertaining the baby. That was educational.
Welcome to Pata Zoo, a private menagerie on the roof of an old-style department store that has come under fire in the past weeks for alleged failure to take good enough care of its animals. Animal welfare activists have also argued that the zoo's location on top of a shopping mall was not suitable for the animals' health and hygiene.
http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/19Oct2007_news22.php
Zoo welcomes Gus and Briggs: the new Guineau hogs
Oct 18, 2007 01:07 PM EDT
The Rosamond Gifford Zoo is pleased to announce two new addition to its domestic animal barn. Louie has been the Zoo's only Guinea hog since the early 90s, but was recently joined by two young males, Briggs (named for Pat Briggs, the designer of the Zoo's "Go Hog Wild!" motorcycle) and Gus. All three are currently on exhibit.
Chuck Doyle, director of the zoo, is thrilled to welcome Gus and Briggs. "Guinea hogs are fascinating animals," he says. "Those who have visited the zoo in the past likely recall watching Louie's demonstrations. His ability to 'play basketball' and 'recycle' reflects just how intelligent this breed is."
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=7232411&nav=2aKD
New Pond Turtles
A bird keeper discovered three newly hatched pond turtles (Clemmys marmorata) by the flamingo feeder last week. They were quickly scooped up and transported to the reptile house. Loyal readers may remember from the post "A Day in the Life… of a Reptile Keeper" that we collect pond turtle hatchlings on zoo grounds and give them a head start. This allows them to grow larger more quickly and thus be safer from predators like crows. The three turtles weighed in at 6.7 grams, 7.0 grams, and 6.7 grams. Their shells were marked temporarily so we can tell individuals apart. The turtles will be weighed and measured weekly to monitor growth. They are now on display in the reptile house next to the single hatchling found in October of 2006. Favorite foods so far are small mealworms and crickets. They should be ready for release in spring of 2009.
http://sacramentozoo.blogspot.com/2007/10/new-pond-turtles.html
Cheetahs changing spots at Hamilton Zoo
Friday, 19 October 2007, 2:52 pm
Press Release: Hamilton City Council
Cheetahs changing spots at Hamilton Zoo
It’s been farewells and welcomes at Hamilton Zoo’s cheetah enclosure with two recent departures and arrivals.
Long-time Hamilton Zoo residents and visitor favourites, Temba and Kaitoa, have departed for Orana Park while playful brothers Moyo Matusi and Jambo have travelled across the Tasman to make their new home in Hamilton.
The impetus behind the transfers has been the opportunity for Temba and Kaitoa to contribute more actively to the regional cheetah breeding programme while offering Western Plains Zoo, Australia, more capacity in their cheetah enclosure.
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/AK0710/S00234.htm
2007 Tentative Programme
"Promoting Change in Asia"
Wild Asia’s Responsible Tourism Seminar & Awards 2007
13-15th November, Evason Phuket and Six Senses Spa, Thailand
A seminar to inspire hoteliers and supporters of responsible tourism in Asia. This year's seminar br ings together international speakers and regional practitioners - from the International Union of Conservation Nation (IUCN) Chief Scientist, Jeff McNeely, to the General Manager of Alila Ubud, Amanda Pummer, one of the crusaders instrumental in greening the members of the Bali Hotel Association. The seminar will focus on three themes: best practices to inspire; and tourism in perspective and tourism for the future.
John Gray, founder of John Gray Sea Canoe and one of our key speakers is willing to share his experience of many years in the asian tourism industry. Paul Sochaczewski, chairman of IGOLF - International Golf and Life Foundation, will also be giving us the benefit of his lengthy and varied career in the region. This seminar is an excellent chance to learn about the issues surrounding tourism in the Asia-Pacific from those who are working closely with them.
http://docs.google.com/View?docid=dc6szsxv_44f7jkm9
Rare white rhino born at SA zoo
Posted Thu Oct 4, 2007 8:18pm AEST
A southern white rhinoceros has been born at South Australia's Monarto Zoo.
Weighing in at a hefty 40 kilograms, Watoto the baby white rhino is the second for Monarto Zoo's breeding program.
The male calf was born on Tuesday morning and is said to be wrinkly, with big feet and ears.
Poaching and civil wars all but wiped-out the southern white rhino in the 19th century, but conservation programs like the one at Monarto have helped restore the species to about 13,000 world wide.
It is hoped the model can eventually be used to improve the numbers of the black rhinoceros.
For now keepers are leaving Watoto to bond and feed with his mother and he is expected to put on several kilos a day as he feeds and grows to the full size of about 2.5 tonnes.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/10/04/2051335.htm
New sea lions to be roaring success at zoo
THE world's second-largest species of sea lion is set to make a splash at Edinburgh Zoo.
The animals - which can reach up to 2.6 metres long and weigh up to 300kg - are being brought to the zoo later this year to replace its two Californian sea lions.
They have been moved to join a breeding programme at Emmen Zoo in Holland, and the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland has decided to provide a home for the Patagonian sea lions, as they are more endangered and also more suited to the Scottish climate than their Californian cousins.
Work is being carried out to the sea lion enclosure to ensure it is fit for its new inhabitants, and a zoo spokeswoman said they hoped to have their new sea lions at the zoo by the end of the year.
This article: http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1586112007
Last updated: 04-Oct-07 12:01 BST
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1586112007
Pittsburgh Zoo to announce conservation center plans
10/4/2007, 6:57 a.m. EDT
The Associated Press
FAIRHOPE, Pa. (AP) — The Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium will announce its plans for an elephant conservation center in Somerset County later this month.
Details of the $1.5 million International Conservation Center will be announced at the Oct. 19 groundbreaking.
The 724-acre Glen Savage Ranch was once a private hunting preserve. The zoo bought it and is turning it into the first breeding ground for endangered African elephants in North America.
http://www.pennlive.com/newsflash/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-54/119149617892910.xml&storylist=penn
Thursday, October 4, 2007
HSBC gives Zoo hospital a boost
Business First of Buffalo
The Buffalo Zoo's plans to expand its veterinary hospital received a boost with a grant from HSBC Bank.
HSBC donated $90,000 to the zoo to support its campaign for the Frank A. McClelland Sr. Veterinary Hospital. The current facility, built in 1967, must meet new standards developed by the American Association of Zoo Veterinarians, including the addition of a dedicated surgical suite and enlargement of quarantine facilities to safely handle and transfer animals.
http://www.bizjournals.com/buffalo/stories/2007/10/01/daily40.html
Hotel applies for zoo licence
04 October 2007
The owner of a wedding venue and hotel is to apply for a zoo licence to keep a private collection of monkeys on the premises.
Taylor James, the new leaseholder of the recently-restored Lenwade Country House Hotel, is in talks with Broadland Council over the necessary permission to keep a pair of marmosets and a pair of lemurs in enclosures.
On Monday Mr James stressed he was not setting up a zoo, adding: “It's a private collection for myself of animals I've wanted for a long time. The hotel is also my residence.”
A spokesman for Broadland said: “We are in discussions with the applicant who has initiated the licensing process by putting a notice of intention to apply for a zoo licence in the newspaper.
“We have not yet formally confirmed with the applicant that a zoo licence is needed, and we are reviewing this case and taking legal advice as to what licence is required.”
The hotel, which wound up at the end of January with the loss of 18 people, reopened earlier this summer after Mr James and Christopher Buxton were given the lease for the business.
http://www.derehamtimes.co.uk/content/derehamtimes/news/story.aspx?brand=DFTOnline&category=News&tBrand=DFTonline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED04%20Oct%202007%2015%3A35%3A08%3A593
Zoo Director and Friend
Gregg Dancho, director of Bridgeport’s Beardsley Zoo, was the featured speaker at today’s meeting of the Y’s Men of Westport Weston. Dancho brought two feathered friends to the podium to help illustrate his talk about “The Beardsley Zoo in the 21st Century. The zoo is Connecticut’s only zoo and has been in operation for the past 80 years. It features more than 300 animals, including several endangered species such as tigers and bears. (CLICK TO ENLARGE) Larry Untermeyer for WestportNow.com
http://www.westportnow.com/index.php?/v2/comments/18259/
5 baby crocs debut at zoo (video)
By Whitney Woodward Tribune staff reporter
October 4, 2007
The odds seemed stacked against the Lincoln Park Zoo's five baby African dwarf crocodiles being born.
Their father, the zoo's oldest reptile, a 67-year-old croc named R1, had yet to produce offspring even after living with females for several years.
Their aggressive mother, 41-year-old Maggie, had a penchant for crushing her own eggs.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/northwest/chi-croc04oct04,1,4199182.story
Wait for international zoo lingers on
Ashwin Aghor
Friday, October 05, 2007 04:16 IST
Despite appointment of a foreign consultant, the project may take a decade to complete
The ambitious state forest department project to create a zoo of international standard at the Gorewada forest reserve near Nagpur is likely to be delayed. Despite numerous announcements by politicians, the government machinery is not prepared for the project’s implementation.
A forest ministry source said that after much debate on the appointment of a foreign consultant for the project, the state government had reportedly finalised the appointment of Bernard Harrison and Friends Ltd.
http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1125568
Moo at the Zoo
"Pet me! Pet me!" is what this cute calf seems to be thinking at the Central Alabama Fair Petting Zoo. Farmers from Plantersville to Orrville brought animals for this favorite fair exhibit. In addition to this calf were rabbits, chickens, pigs, sheep, goats, a horse and a donkey. The event continues at Lions Fair Park in Selma through Saturday.
http://selmaala.blogspot.com/2007/10/moo-at-zoo.html
Cache In On Treasure Hunting Fun At Detroit Zoo
The Detroit Zoo has always been a great place to discover wildlife, but now it’s also a great place to discover hidden treasure. The Zoo has joined the growing craze of geocaching by creating six caches, or hiding places, throughout the 125-acre park.
Geocaching is a high-tech outdoor treasure hunting game in which players use a Global Positioning System (GPS) to hide and seek containers. The only thing a prospective treasure hunter needs besides a sense of adventure is his or her own handheld GPS unit or GPS-enabled mobile phone. Participants log on to one of several geocaching Web sites to download the GPS coordinates of cache locations and the search begins.
http://www.huliq.com/36877/cache-in-on-treasure-hunting-fun-at-detroit-zoo
Answers Sought to Save Asia's Orangutans
US: October 19, 2007
CHICAGO - The remaining 62,000 orangutans in the wild could be wiped out within decades as forests in their Asian island habitat are decimated by loggers and palm oil farmers, conservationists said on Thursday.
American zookeepers met this week at Chicago's Brookfield Zoo with conservationists working on the islands of Borneo and Sumatra to sort through problems faced by the red-haired Asian apes and find solutions.
http://naturealert.blogspot.com/2007/10/answers-sought-to-save-asias-orangutans.html
First jaguar born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years
Maya, right, a young dotted jaguar, walks by the side of her mother in the Nyiregyhaza Animal Park in Nyiregyhaza, 245 kms east of Budapest, Hungary, Thursday, April 28, 2005. It is the first jaguar to be born in a Hungarian zoo for twenty years. Maya's parents have black fur, but her fur will remain dotted according to experts of the zoo. The cub is raised by her mother only, the father is kept separated. (AP Photo/MTI, Istvan Kiss)
http://www.thebigcats.com/news/2005_0428_jaguar.htm
Zoo vision faces fight for survival
JOANNA VALLELY ( jvallely@edinburghnews.com)
IT'S a warm spring day and families, school groups, parties of elderly and disabled people and foreign tourists wander around Edinburgh Zoo. Some marvel at the rhinos' brand new enclosure that mimics the endangered animal's natural habitat in India. Others gaze at more than 100 South American rainbow lorikeets in the specially-created exotic bird enclosure.
This is how Edinburgh Zoo could look if its 20-year masterplan costing £72 million is allowed to go ahead.
Click here to see the Zoo's plans >>
But the vision relies on selling greenbelt land on the edge of the Corstorphine site to developers to create 100 new homes. And protesters paint a very different picture of an increasingly built-up area where emergency vehicles struggle to enter traffic-clogged streets.
http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1632452007
Denver Zoo treasures birth of rare mangabey monkey
By The Denver Post
Article Last Updated: 10/12/2007 02:56:23 AM MDT
A rare, red-capped mangabey monkey has been born at the Denver Zoo, one of only 27 living in North American zoos.
The birth of the monkey, named Kanzu, on Sept. 30, brings Denver's mangabey troop to six. Zookeepers haven't yet determined the monkey's gender.
They named it Kanzu, a Swahili word for treasure.
The monkey's mother, Galina, gave birth to a female, named Kipaji, last spring.
Kanzu is the fourth red-capped mangabey born at the zoo. Only eight North American zoos count the species among their collections.
Red-capped mangabeys are native to a very small region near the west coast of sub-Saharan Africa.
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_7153344
Zoo introduces baby siamangs to public
All three are orphans being raised by staff
By Sheldon S. Shafer
sshafer@courier-journal.com
The Courier-Journal
Much of the time they cling to their keepers, their little fuzzy black heads and dark eyes peeking out of the handlers' soft aprons that shroud them.
But someday they will be using their long arms to fly from rope to rope and limb to limb as they routinely soar around their glass-enclosed exhibit in the Islands area of the Louisville
http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071012/NEWS01/710120454/1008/NEWS01
Zoo babies: From famous to forgotten
by Lisa Wathne
One of the zoo world's grandes dames, the Alaska Zoo's 27-year-old African elephant, Maggie, is being sent to a sanctuary in California to live out her days in peace. I could not be happier: Female elephants are highly social animals, but Maggie has been living alone since 1997, when her companion elephant Annabelle died.
News of Maggie's upcoming release got me thinking: I wonder how Knut is doing?
If you're saying, "Knut who?" you're not alone. Only recently, Knut-a polar bear cub born at the Berlin Zoo-appeared on more cover pages than Britney and Paris combined. He captured the hearts of people worldwide, but what have you heard about "the people's polar bear" lately?
http://newsblaze.com/story/20071012063807anim.nb/newsblaze/TOPSTORY/Top-Stories.html
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