By City News Service
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LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Los Angeles Zoo today unveiled a five-year conservation plan that focuses on using evidence-based methods for conservation, promoting human-wildlife co-existence, combating the illegal wildlife trade and achieving social and environmental justice and California conservation.
The plan will guide the zoo s efforts through 2026 as it works to change the landscape of conservation by leveraging its knowledge, expertise, partnerships and engagement with communities. The zoo s director and CEO Denise Verret said it was a historic plan for the city and the zoo.
“Our zoo is the city s treasured resource for connecting Angelenos with wildlife and nature, and we are doubling down on that promise with this comprehensive strategy that includes every person in our community in the action to save wildlife. It is important to recognize that conservation has historically failed the communities most affected by the degradation of
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The San Diego Zoo Safari Park gorillas who tested positive for COVID-19 in January have now fully recovered from the virus, officials said. Some of our spaces are closed, like our indoor lair building, the carousel, our play park, spaces that are difficult to keep safe and sanitary and then our outdoor dining is limited, 25% capacity and then indoor retail also has limited capacity, said Denise Verret, the zoo s CEO and director .
Although it s not the same experience, guests are happy to be one step closer to some kind of normalcy. As long as everybody s smart and follows the CDC rules for health you know, get through it, said Brian Kernan, a Burbank resident.
By City News Service
Jan 19, 2021
LOS ANGELES (CNS) - The Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association announced today its fundraising campaign to name a hatched condor raised $31,076 and the condor will be called Cali if female or Cal if male.
Zoo officials launched the campaign on Dec. 9 with the goal of raising $25,000. They called the hatching of the bird known as LA1720 a “miracle. For any donated amount, people were able to select from four potential names for the hatchling.
Individual donations ranged from $1 to $1,000.
“We are thrilled by the outpouring of support that stretched from coast to coast, said Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association President Tom Jacobson. “The money raised will help support the reintroduction of the California condor to its ancestral skies, and the enthusiasm we have witnessed through small donor-funded campaigns like this tells us that, even during time of tremendous uncertainty, conservation of wildlife is still a high priority.