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Updated: 2:43 PM CDT July 15, 2021
COAL VALLEY, Ill. With pandemic restrictions rolled back and new additions settled in nicely, the Niabi Zoo is ready for guests!
The zoo opened their new exhibit, Spineless Wonders, in July.
According to zoo director Lee Jackson, Spineless Wonders explores the life of invertebrates. The exhibit houses animals like black widow spiders, giant robber crabs, sea anemones, and tarantulas.
The zoo has also welcomed three new animals within the last three months. Most recently, a 7-year-old black and white Colobus Monkey named Kenna. Kenna came to us as part of a captive management plan that oversees the population management of all Colobus monkeys in North America, said Jackson. Our goal is that she eventually becomes a mom and helps assure the continued strength of the population.”
Rhino conservation: How you can be involved This content is brought to you by the Impact Division of the Mantis Collection
Following a decade of intensive rhino poaching, six years of drought in the Eastern Cape and the impact of the pandemic on ecotourism, the responsibility of caring for the rhinos at Mantis Founders Lodge is onerous. In this article we outline the challenges facing rhinos, what is being done about it and how you can help.
The major challenges facing the rhinos at Mantis Founders Lodge
Since 2008,
rhino poaching increased by over 9,000% due to an unsustainable demand for rhino horn products in the Far East. This has seen numbers of the Southern White Rhino, reduced from nearly 30,000 to less than 20,000 today. Sadly, more rhinos are being lost than being born, meaning that this species is on its way to becoming extinct unless effective intervention is achieved.
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Feb 24, 2021
Stormy
SAN ANTONIO – San Antonio Zoo welcomed a male rhinoceros, Stormy, and introduced him to the zoo and our female rhinos yesterday. Stormy arrived from North Carolina Zoo, and our Animal Care staff and all of our zoo crew are extremely excited to have him as a part of our zoo family. In the coming weeks, he will get to know his new home in The Savanna as he mingles with the female rhinos, Reina and West.
This new male Southern White Rhino will provide zoo guests another opportunity to appreciate near-threatened species at San Antonio Zoo. Stormy is a thirty-year-old white rhino and was brought to San Antonio Zoo as a part of the Association of Zoos & Aquarium’s Species Survival Plan in hopes he will breed with the zoo’s two females. At his previous home, Stormy sired four calves.