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2016Annual Report on Conservation and Science

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2INTRODUCTION

2016 Annual Report on Conservation and Science

The Association of Zoos and Aquariums’ (AZA) 2016 Annual Report on Conservation and Science (ARCS)

celebrates the conservation and science-related activities of AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums and

certified related facilities.

Each topic included in this report has been carefully defined to maximize consistency of reporting

throughout the AZA community. AZA’s Field Conservation Committee and Research and Technology

Committee review all of the relevant submissions by members to promote even greater consistency. Field

conservation focuses on efforts having a direct impact on animals and habitats in the wild. Education

programming includes those with specific goals and delivery methods, defined content and a clear primary

discipline and target audience. Mission-focused research projects involve application of the scientific

method and is therefore hypothesis (or question)-driven, involves systematic data collection and analysis of

those data and draws conclusions from the research process. Green (sustainable) business practices focus on

the annual documentation and usage of key resources: energy, fuel for transportation, waste and water, as

well as identification of specific green practices being implemented.

Content in ARCS reflects the submissions made through annual surveys available through AZA’s website.

The response rate for each 2016 survey was as follows:

» field conservation – 89%

» education programming – 62%

» green business practices – 63%

» mission-focused research – 74%

AZA is grateful to each member that responded to these surveys.

While 2016 ARCS focuses on individual activities undertaken in 2016, download Highlights (available at:

https://www.aza.org/annual-report-on-conservation-and-science/) to learn more about what the AZA

community accomplished together.

This Report was compiled by Arslan Ahmad (AZA Conservation and Science Program Assistant), Shelly

Grow (AZA Vice President of Conservation and Science) and AZA Conservation, Management and Welfare

Sciences Interns Adele Paillard, Sarah Farinelli and MC Mandolia.

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3INTERNATIONAL

Bahamas

ATLANTIS, PARADISE ISLAND

Education Programs

Atlantis Stingray Experience

Discovery Tour

Dolphin Deep Water Swim

Dolphin Shallow Water Swim

Jr. Ultimate Trainer for a Day

Sea Lion Interaction

Sea Squirts

Snorkel the Ruins of Atlantis

Ultimate Trainer for Day

Field Conservation

Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organization (BMMRO)

– Stranding Response to Support Marine Mammals in the

Bahamas and Marine Mammal Research

Field Research and Outreach to Support Conservation of

Marine Mammals in the Bahamas

Manatee Health Assessment

Providing the Scientific Basis for a Marine Protected Area

Designation and Reef Rehabilitation in the Bahamas

Tour de Turtles

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Bermuda

BERMUDA AQUARIUM, MUSEUM AND ZOO

Educations Programs

Environmental Youth Conference

Junior Volunteer Program

Kids on the Reef

Nonsuch Natural History Camp

Schools Program

Spring Camp

Summer Aqua Camps

Teacher Workshops

WILD Encounters

INTERNATIONAL

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Field Conservation

Bermuda Amphibian Project

Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo (BAMZ) Internship

Programme

Bermuda Reef Ecology Assessment and Mapping (BREAM)

Bermuda Turtle Project

Humpback Whale Project

Marine Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation

ReefWatch

Sargassum Community Studies

Canada

ASSINIBOINE PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Adult Workshops

Assiniboine Park Zoo Camp

Education Outreach

Foodology – Culinary Arts Camp

Guided Zoo Tours

Nature Tots

Partners in Education

School Programs

Teacher Training Workshops

Field Conservation

Bird Strike Mitigation

Grassland Skipper Conservation and Headstarting Program

International Polar Bear Day

Manitoba Burrowing Owl Recovery Program

Manitoba Polar Bear Denning Survey

Monarch Watch – Butterfly Tagging

MonarchHealth – Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (OE) Testing

Red Panda Network

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) – Fundraising

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Used

Research

Abundance Estimates, Haul-Out Patterns and Natural History

of Harbour Seals (Phoca vitulina) in the Churchill River

Estuary

Exploring the Role of Nature-Based Tourism Experiences and

Learning at an In-Situ and Ex-Situ Destination

Fecal Glucocorticoid Metabolite Concentrations in Orphaned

Polar Bear “Cubs of the Year” Brought into Captivity from

Northern Manitoba to Assiniboine Park Zoo through the

Leatherdale International Polar Bear Conservation Centre

(LIPBCC)

Genetic Variation in Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida): Population

Structure and Geographical Isolation in the Canadian

Arctic

Investigation in to Behaviour of Belugas in the Churchill River

Estuary

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Multiple Richardson’s Ground Squirrels

Polar Bear Hormone Monitoring

Recording of Animal Vocalizations

Ringed Seal (Pusa hispida) Trends in Abundance Inferred

From Genetics

Use of Seal Oil as an Enrichment Scent for Polar Bears as

Quantified with a FitBark™ Dog Activity Monitor

Using Infrared to Assess Thermoregulation Behaviours in

Polar Bears: Implications for an Arctic with Less Snow and

More Open Water

BIODÔME DE MONTRÉAL

Field Conservation

Breeding Western Chorus Frog (Pseudacris triseriata) in

Captivity

Research

Macroalgae and Coastal Ecological Bioremediation: Anti-

Predatory Strategies and Induced Fixation to Substrate

Valorization Potential of Residual Organic Matter Through

Mass Production of Black Soldier Flies (Protein Source)

CALGARY ZOO

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Programs

Birthday Parties

Botanical Education

Corporate Teambuilders

Family BBQ Shows and Christmas Shows

Guided Tours

Illuminasia Lantern Festival

In the Heat of the Night – Valentines Day Program

Keeper for a Day

Keeper Talks

Penguin Plunge Interpretive Programming

Penguin Walk

School Programs

Sleepovers

Speakers Bureau

Special Event Programming – Touchtables

Summer Camps

Teacher Workshops

Year Round Value Added Interpretive Programming – Zoo-

Wide

Youth Badge Programs

Zoo School

Field Conservation

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Ecosystem Research Project

Burrowing Owl Headstarting Program

Community-Based Conservation in Ghana and Kenya

Greater Sage – Grouse Reintroduction Breeding Program

Population Dynamics of At-Risk Northern Leopard Frogs in

Western Canada

Swift Fox Recovery

Vancouver Island Marmot Reintroduction Breeding and

Research Program

Whooping Crane Reintroduction Breeding and Research

Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified by a Local or State Agency

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

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Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

RIPLEY’S AQUARIUM OF CANADA

Education Programs

Aquarist for a Day

Discovery Dive

Dive Show – Rainbow Reef

Dive Show – Ray Bay

Ocean Explorers Club

School Program – Amazing Algae and Other Aquatic Plants

(Grade 3)

School Program – Aquarium Careers (Grade 11/12)

School Program – Climate in Crisis (Grade 10)

School Program – Creatures Undercover (Grade 2)

School Program – Deep Sea Diver (Grade 5)

School Program – Lake Invaders (Grade 6)

School Program – My Own Aquarium (Grade 1)

School Program – Pollution Solution (Grade 7)

School Program – Sensational Sharks (Kindergarten)

School Program – Stream Science (Grade 9)

School Program – Watery Web (Grade 4)

School Program – What’s in the Water (Grade 8)

Sea Squirts

Sleepover (Sleep With the Sharks)

Stingray Experience

Summer and March Break Camps

Tank Talk

Field Conservation

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

TORONTO ZOO

Field Conservation

Amphibian Rescue Centre (ARC) Husbandry and

Reintroduction Program for the Oregon Spotted Frog

Amphibian Rescue Centre (ARC) Husbandry and

Reintroduction Program for the Wyoming Toad

Aqua-Links

Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Recovery Program

Blanding’s Turtles Headstarting

Canadian National Parks Malaise Program

Eastern Loggerhead Shrike Captive Breeding Program

Freshwater Mussels Field Program

FrogWatch USA

Great Lakes Program

Great Lakes: Redside Dace – Conservation and Community

Involvement

Guatemalan Beaded Lizard Conservation

Habitat Use and Nesting Patterns of Turtles in Rouge Park

Investigating the Diet Composition of a Threatened Ontario

Songbird, the Barn Swallow

Komodo Dragon Conservation

Long-Term Monitoring of an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

Population in Southwest Michigan

Madagascar Freshwater Fishes

Madagascar Freshwater Fishes In-Situ Partnership

Madagascar Tortoise Conservation

Management, Outreach, Husbandry and Reintroduction

Program for the Puerto Rican Crested Toad

Multi-Scale Patterns of Habitat Use, Spatial Ecology and

Connectivity for Milksnakes Across a Fragmented Region

New Tools for Amphibian Monitoring: Establishing

Environment DNA (eDNA) as a Means of Monitoring

Amphibians in Ontario

Ontario Turtle Tally

Response to Asian Turtle Crisis and the Bushmeat Trade

Tomistoma Conservation

Turtle Island Conservation Programme

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Urban Turtle Initiative: Management of Turtle Populations in

Rouge Park

Vancouver Island Marmot Conservation Recovery Program

Wildlife Health Centre Husbandry and Reintroduction

Program for the Mississippi Gopher Frog

Wood Turtle Headstarting

Working Together to Save the Eastern Massasauga

Rattlesnake

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Assisted Reproductive Technologies as a Method of Embryo

Production in Wood Bison

Bat Acoustic Monitoring

Behavioural Assessment of Giant Pandas

Behavioural Development of Hand-Reared Polar Bears

Biodiversity and Adaptive Strategies

De Novo Genome and Transcriptome Sequencing of the

Canadian Beaver

Defining Hair Properties from Five Body Regions in

Vancouver Island Marmots

Developing Assisted Reproductive Techniques for the

Vancouver Island Marmot

Diurnal Behaviour of African Penguins in a Zoo Setting

DNA Barcoding the Animals of the Toronto Zoo

Do Orangutans Choose to Choose?

Establishment and Characterization of Cell Cultures from

Freshwater Fishes

Establishment of Artificial Fertilization Techniques for Puerto

Rican Crested Toad

Investigating Enteric Coccidiosis in the Endangered Black-

Footed Ferret

Investigating the Relationship Between Ambient Conditions

and Thermoregulatory Responses in Polar Bears

Non-Surgical Artificial Insemination in Cheetahs

Prevalence and Epidemiology of Babesia odocoilei in

Wild and Captive Cervids and in the Tick Vector Ixodes

scapularis in Southern Ontario

Primate Behaviour

Primate Behaviour Project

Specimen Request – All

Specimen Request – All Primates

Specimen Request – Any Crocodilian Species on Site:

American Alligator, Cuvier’s Caiman, Dwarf Crocodile

Specimen Request – Elephant

Specimen Request – Elk, Large North American Mammals

Specimen Request – Eutherian Mammals

Specimen Request – Hyena

Specimen Request – Juvenile Polar Bears

Specimen Request – Loggerhead Shrike

Specimen Request – Native Ontario Turtle Species

Specimen Request – Nile Monitor (Varanus niloticus), Black

Tree Monitor (Varanus beccarii), Komodo Dragon (Varanus

komodensis)

Specimen Request – Orangutan

Specimen Request – Snow Leopard

Specimen Request – Spotted Hyena

Specimen Request – White Rhino

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Thermoregulation and Behaviour in the Polar Bear and

Giraffes

Validation of the Body Condition Assessment of Polar Bears

with a High Body Condition Score

Visitor Interest in Mammals at the Toronto Zoo Reflective of

Mammal Body Size

VANCOUVER AQUARIUM MARINE SCIENCE

CENTRE

Education Programs

AquaCamps / AquaClubs

AquaNews and Windows on Research

Birthday Parties

Curriculum Programs

Interpretive Delivery Programs

Online Public Programs

Outreach Education: AquaVan and AquaZone

Public Programs

Sleepovers

Field Conservation

Agarum Monitoring

Arctic – Cambridge Bay, Nunavut Nearshore Ecological

Survey

Assessing Growth Trends and Body Condition of Killer

Whales to Infer Nutritional Status

Biodiversity Monitoring

British Columbia Cetacean Sightings Network

British Columbia Northern Leopard Frog Recovery Project

Cetacean Population Genetics – Killer Whale

Field Study of Demography, Population Status and Natural

History of British Columbian and Alaskan Killer Whales

Frog Conservation and Disease

Fur Seal and Sea Lion Projects

Health and Disease of Killer Whales

Humpback Whale Health Assessment Based on

Photogrammetry and Blow Samples

Marine Mammal Rescue Center

Monitor Glass Sponge Reefs

Monitor Lingcod Spawn Demography

North Coast Cetacean Research Project

Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery Project

Panamanian Golden Frogs

Recovery of Rockfish in Rockfish Conservation Areas

Rockfish Winter Hiding

Saint Lawrence Beluga Research Project

Sea Star Monitoring

Spot Prawn Surveys

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Beluga Whale Mortality Event at Vancouver Aquarium Marine

Science Center

Cetacean Novel Clinical Techniques

Cryptococcosis in Marine Mammals

Development of Sustainable Live Feed Production Systems

Fish Disease Case Reports

Harbour Seal Post-Release Monitoring

Microplastics in the Ocean

Pinniped Anesthesia

PollutionTracker: Contaminant Monitoring the British

Columbia Coastal Environment

Safe Traditional Seafoods for Aboriginal Communities – Risks

Related to CS-134 After the Fukushima Accident

Sea Lion Darting and Disentanglement Project

Sea Star Wasting Syndrome

ZOO DE GRANBY

Field Conservation

African Elephant Conservation – International Elephant

Foundation (IEF)

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) – Amur Leopard

Conservation in Russia

Assessing the Occurrence of Northern and Southern Flying

Squirrels in the Montérégie and Estrie Regions of Canada

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Bats Recovery Plan in Quebec

Conservation and Enhancement of Habitats and Endangered

Species in Boisés Miner, Granby, Quebec, Canada

Conservation of Red Pandas

Fauna and Flora Characterisation and Enhancement at Saint-

Quentin Island, Trois-Rivières

Protection of Biodiversity, Anti-Poaching and Conservation

of Gorillas and Elephants in Campo-Ma’an National Park in

Cameroon

Sharks Conservation in the Saint Lawrence River and in the

North of Quebec

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) – Snow Leopard Conservation in

Asia

Spiny Softshelled Turtle Recovery in Québec

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Research

Effect of Open Zoos and Visitors on Captive Wallabies

Gastro-Duodenal Perforations and Coelomitis in a Group of

Juvenile Spiny Softshell Turtles (Apalone spinifera)

The Behavior of Macaques in Relation to Visitor Effect and

Enclosure Design

The Importance of Social Structure and Environment on

Breeding Success in Captive Flamingos (Phoenicopterus

ruber)

Colombia

ZOOLÓGICO DE CALI

Field Conservation

Abundance Estimate of a New Population of Golden Poison

Dart Frog (Phyllobates terribilis) (Anura: Dendrobatidae)

in the Joaquincito Indigenous Village, Puerto Merizalde,

Buenaventura (Valle del Cauca-Co)

Amphibian Conservation Strategy in Colombia

Hong Kong

OCEAN PARK CORPORATION

Education Programs

Animal Encounter Programme

Animal Exhibition Panels Lending Service

Animal Feeding Demonstrations

Animal Feeding Programme

Animal Fun Talk

Animal Keeper Programmes

Animal Tell-Me-More

Bamboo Jam

Big Feet Small Feet Union

Blue Hero Mission

Business Environment Council (BEC) Biodiversity

Ambassador Training Programme

Chinese White Dolphin Boat Trip

Corporate Training Programme

Crab Education Programme (Primary 4-6)

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Educational Talks at the Leisure and Cultural Services

Department (LCSD)

Emperors of the Sky

Exhibit Walk (Kindergarten)

Graduation Bash

Grand Aquarium Scuba Diving / Exploration

Guangdong-HongKong-Macao Marine Life Drawing

Competition 2014

Habitat Walk and Talk

Hong Kong Flower Show

Hong Kong Institute of Education Volunteer Scheme

Hospital Visit

International Coastal Cleanup

Jockey Club Learn-To-Swim Programme for Primary

Students (Collaboration With Hong Kong Jockey Club and

Hong Kong Amateur Swimming Association)

Juvenile Horseshoe Crab Rearing Programme

Nature Lab Workshop

Nighttime in the Ocean’s Depths

No Straw Slogan Design Competition

Ocean Heroes

Ocean Park Academy Preview Visit

Ocean Park Academy, Hong Kong (OPAHK) – Educational

Posters

Ocean Park Academy, Hong Kong (OPAHK) – Online

Activities

Ocean Park Project-Based Learning (Primary 4-6)

Ocean Park Website – Conservation Section

Ocean Park x Chinachem Golden Age Volunteer Programme

Ocean Wonders

Octopus Education Programmes (Junior Secondary)

Plankton Education Programmes (Kindergarten)

PolyU No Straw Day

Recycle Brigade

School Outreach Seminars

Sea Lion Fun Time Show

Seasonal Camps

Shell Education Programmes (Primary 1-3)

SiChuan Week

SmartFun Education Tours

Story Book Publication (Collaboration With McDonald’s)

Teacher Day Camp

The Ocean Park Conservation Day

The University of Hong Kong Volunteer Scheme

University Student Sponsorship Programme

Virtual Guided Tour

Whale Education Programme (Senior Secondary)

White Antelope Magazine Publication (Collaboration With

Bayard Presse)

Winter Science Online Conservation Competition

(Collaboration With Hong Kong Education City)

World Oceans Day – Ocean Park Fun Day

Youth Ambassador Scheme

Field Conservation

A Multi-Species Study Evaluating the Impacts of Habitat

Fragmentation and Quality on Ranging Patterns of

Threatened Wildlife in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife

Sanctuary, Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

A Pilot Management Standardisation Project at Niuweihe

Provincial Nature Reserve, Shaanxi

Advancing Conservation for an Endangered Asian Fish, the

Sakhalin Taimen (Parahucho perryi)

Assessing International Union for Conservation of Nature

(IUCN) Red List Status of Hong Kong Ants

Blue Coral Breeding and Conservation in Xisha, Hainan

Community Conservation Education on Horseshoe Crabs and

Their Habitats in Beibu Bay, Guangxi

Community Structure, Population Parameters and Age

Structure of Chinese White Dolphin Population in

Neilingding Waters

Community-Based Conservation Management of the

Banggai Cardinalfish in Indonesia

Conservation and Ecology of Endangered Chinese Turtles

Conservation of Endangered Freshwater Turtles in Hong

Kong

Conserving Critical Orangutan Habitat in Indonesian Borneo

Conserving the Critically Endangered Chinese Pangolin

(Manis pentadactyla) in the Tea Plantations of Darjeeling

Himalaya, India

Displacement of Kernel Habitat of Coastal Delphinids Upon

Substantial Anthropogenic Coast Alternations

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Distribution, Abundance, Fishery and Trade of a Giant,

Threatened Reef Fish, the Humphead Wrasse (Cheilinus

undulatus) in the Paracel Islands

EcoGuardians Program: A Model for Mitigating Turtle

Hunting in the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh. Arakan

Forest Turtle, Assam Roofed

Education and Community Involvement in the Conservation

of Indigenous Bird Species, Including the Critically

Endangered Bali Mynah in Bali, Indonesia

Effectiveness Evaluation of Functional Area Management

Based on Biodiversity in Changqing National Nature

Reserve, Shaanxi

Establishment of Standards on Nature Reserve Master Plan

and Patrol Techniques in Sichuan, China

Estimating Genetic Diversity in Captive Populations of

Critically Endangered Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush

(Garrulax courtoisi)

Field Identification Handbook of Large and Medium-Sized

Wild Mammals and Pheasants in Southwestern China

Genetic Database Development and Population Management

for Giant Pandas in Caopo and Xiaohegou Natural

Reserves in Sichuan

Geographic Information System (GIS) Establishment in Tian’e

Zhou Baiji Dolphin National Nature Reserve, Hubei

Giant Panda Disease Surveillance Through Laboratory

Biological Sample Analysis: Capacity Building for

Veterinarians

Health Risk Assessment of Chinese White Dolphin and Its

Prey Fish Species in Exposure to Polychlorinated Biphenyls

(PCBs) and Organochlorine Pesticides

Identifying Ecological Relationships of Cacatua sulphurea to

Aid Conservation in Its Native and Introduced Ranges

Impact Assessment and Artificial Nest Building for Upper

Yangtze River National Nature Reserve of Rare and

Endemic Fish (Chongqing Section)

Impact of Environmental Change on the Chinese White

Dolphins in Pearl River Estuary

Inspiring Support for Pematang Gadung Community Forest

Through Communication, Education and Public Awareness

Efforts

Investigation of Habitat Fragmentation Status for Yangtze

Finless Porpoise in Yichang-Wuhan Section of Yangtze

River

Microplastics and Megafauna: Implications of Microplastic

Ingestion on Threatened Manta Ray Populations

Monitoring and Conservation Strategy of Chinese Sturgeon

Breeding Ground in Gezhouba Dam, Hubei, China

Multidisciplinary Approach for Assessing Komodo Dragon

Population Distribution and Trends on the Island of Flores,

Indonesia

Population Assessments of Wild Bornean Orangutans:

Comparing Ground Nest Surveys to New Drone

Technologies

Population Status and Conservation Strategies of the

Yangtze Finless Porpoise in the Low Flow Season of

Poyang Lake

Population Survey of Chinese White Dolphin in Jiangmen

Chinese White Dolphin Provincial Nature Reserve,

Guangdong

Potential Distribution Prediction and Conservation Strategy

of Chinese and Mangrove Horseshoe Crabs Juveniles Using

Ecological Niche Factor Analysis in Beibu Gulf, Guangxi

Preliminary Study on Blood Transfusion of Giant Panda

Recovering Red-Crowned Roofed Turtle (Batagur kachuga)

on the Chambal River, Northern India

Reptile Conservation in Rural Tamilnadu

Research on Evaluation and Promotion of Conserving

Chinese Sucker

Restoring a Wild Population of Chinese Alligators at

Wuchang Lake, Anhui Province, China

Saving the Last Northern River Terrapins (Batagur baska) in

the Sundarbans of India and Bangladesh

Saving the Smile: Community Education on Yangtze Finless

Porpoise Conservation

Scaling up the Chinese Pangolin Conservation Through

Education and Community-Based Monitoring Programs to

Combat Pangolin Trade in Sindhupalchowk District, Nepal

Sidelined Arks in Deep Waters: Conserving Freshwater Taxa

in the Southern Western Ghats of India

Standardisation of Patrol and Monitoring in Nature Reserves

in Gansu

Standardisation of Patrol and Monitoring in Nature Reserves

in Gansu, China

Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan for Eurasian

Otters (Lutra lutra) in Hong Kong

Strengthening Community Cooperation for Pangolin

Conservation in Kavrepalanchowk District

Strengthening Participatory Turtle Conservation Project

Along Ghaghra-Sarju River System in Terai Arc Landscape,

North India

Study and Conservation of Migratory Chinese Crested Terns

(Thalasseus bernsteini) in China and Indonesia

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Study of Potential Risk of Canine Distemper in the Wild Giant

Panda and its Associated Wildlife in Shaanxi

Study of Wintering Ground and Breeding Behavior of Blue-

Crowned Laughingthrush in Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province

Study on Population Ecology of Indo-Pacific Humpback

Dolphin in Sanya and Connectivity with Populations in

Surrounding Waters

Study on Seasonal Distribution Pattern and Habitat Use of

Yangtze Finless Porpoise, Anqing Region

Study on the Indian Ocean Humpback Dolphin (Sousa

plumbea) Population in the Indus Delta, Pakistan for

Fulfilling Its Conservation and Management Needs

Study on the Relationship Between Climate Change,

Functional Micro-Habitat Usage and Breeding Success of

Wild Alpine Musk Deer

Study on Wildlife Corridor for Giant Panda in Wolong

National Nature Reserve, Sichuan

Study on Yangtze Finless Porpoise Conservation

Management and Community Development in

Hewangmiao, Hubei

Supporting SMART Patrols in Project Harimau Selamanya

to Improve Protection of the Malayan Tiger in the Kenyir-

Taman Negara Core Area, Peninsular Malaysia

Training on Exhibition Panel Narration and Writing Skills for

Giant Panda Nature Reserves in Sichuan

Training on Infrared Camera Monitoring and Data Application

for Conservation Authorities in Shaanxi

Training on Standardised Establishment and Management at

Field Stations in Giant Panda Nature Reserves in Shaanxi

Workshop to Assess Current Conservation Status and

Management and Research Needs for 90 Asian Species

of Groupers (Family: Epinephelidae) According to

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red

List Categories and Criteria

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Biosonar Research

Biosonar Research – Understanding Dolphin Echo-Imaging

Capability

Evaluation of Cellulose Digesting Bacteria in Animal Feces

Genetic Barcoding of Jellyfish

Investigating the Influence of Genetic, Environmental and

/ or Seasonal Factors on Individual Gut Microbiota in a

Population of Gentoo Penguins

Mariculture of Hong Kong’s Corals for Research and Public

Outreach

Nutrition Accumulation and Gonad Development in Chinese

Sturgeon, Acipenser sinensis, With Different Levels of

Dietary Vitamin E

Paternity Test on Captive Spotted Seals by Microsatellite

Genotyping

Reproduction Characterization and Semen Preservation for

the Male Indo-Pacific Humpbacked Dolphin in Nanning Zoo

Small Cetacean Conservation Initiative

Study of Cooperative Behaviour of the Indo-Pacific

Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops aduncus) in Ocean Park

Hong Kong Using Cognitive Enrichment Items

Study on the Evolution of Coagulation Pathways of

Vertebrates

Yellow Bibbed Lory Research Project

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Mexico

ACUARIO DE VERACRUZ A.C.

Field Conservation

Protection and Conservation Program of Sea Turtles in

Veracruz Reef System National Park

Satellite Tracking Sea Turtles

AFRICAM SAFARI PARK

Education Programs

Working With Rural Communities

Field Conservation

California Sea Lion Health Assessment

Caribbean Flamingo Conservation Program

Crested Toad Recovery Plan

Golden Eagle Conservation Program

Jaguar Population Assessment

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Caribbean Flamingo Crop Content Analyses

Taylor Salamander Population Census

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Alabama

BIRMINGHAM ZOO

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Marine

Mammal Center

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Trees for

You and Me

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Internship – Precipice

Fund (PiCA) Grant

Chinese Alligator Reintroduction Project – Anhui Province,

China

Chipangali Large Carnivore Project – Zimbabwe

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Giant Otter Conservation in Guyana

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort

International Elephant Foundation (IEF) – Preserving Africa’s

Last Great Tuskers Project

Jaguar Corridor Project – Southern Belize

Preserving Africa’s Last Great Tuskers – Precipice Fund

(PiCA) Grant

Tarangire Elephant Project

The Effects of Human Disturbance on Jaguars in Southern

Belize – Precipice Fund (PiCA) Grant

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Efficacy of a Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)

Vaccine for Contraception in Male Giraffe

Evaluation of the Effects of Deslorelin on Egg Production in

Tortoises

Male African Dominance and Reproduction Study and

Hormone Monitoring of Multiple Birmingham Zoo, Inc.

(BZI) Species

Meloxicam Pharmacokinetics (Tiger)

Observational Study on Kin Relationships in Orangutans

Alaska

ALASKA SEALIFE CENTER

Education Programs

Alaska SeaLife Center (ASLC) Intranet

Discovery Stations

Distance Learning Programs

Road Scholar Programs

Sea Journey

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

UNITED STATES

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FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Developing a Habitat Use Model for Juvenile Steller Sea

Lions in the Gulf of Alaska With Inclusion of Predation Risk

Developing VitaLink: Autonomous Remote Satellite Tag Data

Recovery Stations

Eider Flock Maintenance 2012-2017 (R5800)

Instrument Development for Biological Research (IDBR):

Lifelong Vital Rate Telemetry in Marine Homeotherms

Long-Term Monitoring of Trends in Steller Sea Lion Behavior,

Ecology, Vital Rates and Demography Within the

Endangered, Western Distinct Population Segment

Reproduction, Survival and Depredation in Harbor Seals –

Phase 1: Validation

Sensitivity to Hydrocarbons and Baselines of Exposure in

Marine Birds on the Chukchi and Beafort Seas

The Physiological Effects of Dispersants and Dispersed Oil

on a Sentinel Cold Water Species, the Bay Mussel

Arizona

ARIZONA-SONORA DESERT MUSEUM

Education Programs

Amigos del Desierto

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) Press

Art Institute

Bat Bridge programs

Buffelgrass Busters

Community Events

Cool Summer Nights

Desert Ark Programs

Desert Discovery Programs (On-Site)

Docent Interpretive Program

Docent Tours

Docent Training and Continuing Education

Fur, Feathers and Fangs

Junior Docent Program

Laurel Clark Earth Ambassadors

Field Conservation

Arizona Monarch Partnership

Assurance Population – Gila Topminnow

Assurance Population – Quitobaquito Mud Turtles

Assurance Population – Quitobaquito Pupfish

Assurance Population – Sonora Chub

Propagation – Mexican Gartersnake

Propagation – Tarahumara Frog

Propagation – Yaqui Catfish

Salvage: Tortoise Adoption Program

Research

Argentine Cactus Moth Monitoring

Ecological Forecasting for Invasive Species

Phenology Research

Plant Biotic Interactions in the Sonoran Desert

Pollinator Hotspots

Sky Island Arthropod Diversity

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PHOENIX ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Discoveries

Animal Tales

Breakfast With the Animals

Camp Zoo

Certified Interpretive Guide Training

Conservation Science Night

Creature Features

Critter Keeper

Discovery Tours

Educator Professional Development

Family Nature Club

Family Nature Club Workshops

Farm Tots

Gifts for the Animals

Girl Scout Fall Fest

Guided Tours

Littlest Critters

Lunch With a Keeper

Lunch With a Keeper – Adults

Nature Explorer

Night Camp

Outreach Distance Learning

Photography Walk Abouts

Project – Zoo Lab

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program

Special Needs Camps

Special Needs Program

Trail Host Program

Wild Science Academy

Wild Workshops

ZOOMobile

ZooToYou – Outreach

Field Conservation

A Community-Based Approach to River Turtle Conservation

in Guyana

Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) Propagation and

Release Program

Borderlands Coalition

Calamian Deer Recovery

California Condor Nest Guarding Program

Chiricahua Leopard Frog (Lithobates chiricahuensis)

Headstarting and Release Program

Chiricahua Mountain Assessment of Large Mammal Corridor

Use and Drought Impact

Conservation of Critically Endangered Taita Warty Frog

Through Community Involvement

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Alligator Lizard

(Abronia campbelli) in Eastern Guatemala Through Habitat

Restoration and Community Forest Management

Continuing to Resolve Conflict Through Communication:

Using DVD Shows to Help Reduce Human-Carnivore

Conflict Around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

Costa Rican Corridors Assessment and Evaluation for

Jaguars and Other Species

Developing Assurance Colonies of Threatened Indian Turtles

Empowering Communities to Protect a Declining Ecosystem:

Shielding the Pygmy Three-Toed Sloth From Extinction

Giant Armadillos: A Flagship Species for Biodiversity

Conservation

Great Ape Conservation Through Reforestation and

Community Education-Fighting Destruction of Orangutan

Habitat With Healthcare Incentives for Rainforest

Guardianship

Harlequin Frog Extinction Prevention

Investing in the Future of Wildlife Conservation in Zimbabwe

Masked Bobwhite Quail Species Recovery Plan

Narrow-Headed Gartersnake (Thamnophis rufipunctatus)

Propagation for Release

Nautiluses of Palau: Is Eco-Tourism a Viable Option for

Nautilus Awareness?

Nutritional Ecology of Himalayan Black Bear in Dhorpatan

Hunting Reserve

Participatory Survey of Breeding and Roosting Sites of

Grey-Crowned Crane for Monitoring Wider Community

Awareness and Conservation

Preparatory Dusting for Sylvatic Plague of the Meteetsee,

Wyoming Prairie Dog Colony Site in Preparation of the

Release of Black-Footed Ferrets

Project Rufus: In-Situ Conservation of the Pteropus rufus

Fruit Bat in the Sainte Luce Littoral Forest

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Promoting Hippopotamus Conservation and Management

Through Research on the Ecology of Hippopotamus

Habitat Use

Proposal for a Dry Season Count of the Vulnerable Common

Hippopotamus Along the Entire Faro River

Proyecto Taguá: Chacoan Peccary Health Assessments

Saving Sumatran Tigers by Reducing Tiger-Human Conflict

Seahorse Ethnozoology and Establishment of a Conservation

Breeding Program for Threatened Seahorse Species,

Hippocampus kuda

Snow Leopard Population Monitoring

Springsnail Field Surveys

Support for Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

The Next Step for Carnivore Conservation in Misiones,

Argentina: Establishing a Biological Corridor

Toward a Better Understanding of Orangutan Adaptation to

Human-Made Landscapes

Using Livestock Guarding Dogs to Secure Habitat for South

Africa’s Large Carnivores

Warriors Protecting Grevy’s Zebra in Laisamis, Northern

Kenya

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Chiricahua Leopard Frog Effect of Population Density on

Development Rate

Developing a Pilot Breeding Program for the Endangered

Mount Graham Red Squirrel Using Fecal Steroid Analysis

and Behavior Monitoring

Developing an Ex-Situ Propagation Strategy for the Narrow-

Headed Gartersnake

Effect of High Temperature Treatment on Chytrid (Bd)

Positive Chiricahua Leopard Frogs

Evaluating Wildlife Corridors in the Chiricahua Mountain

Ranges and Neighboring “Sky Islands”

McDowell Gooseneck Corridor

Tracking Reintroduced Ex-Situ Born Narrow-Headed

Gartersnakes

US Mexico Borderlands

REID PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Nature Play Days at the Zoo

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE – Vaquita

AZA Tamandua SSP – In-Situ Education

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Hyderabad Tiger Conservation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project and Giant Anteater

Conservation and Monitoring Program

Polar Bears International

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Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery

Tanzania Conservation Resource Centre

Tarangire Elephant Project

Tucson Wildlife Center

Wildlife SOS

Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Awareness Day

Animal Exploration

Birthday Party Package (Wild and Wild Jr.)

Career Day

Creature Feature

Guided Tours

Library Reach

Meet and Greet

Zoofari

Field Conservation

Arkansas Wildlife Federation

Asian Elephant Support

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Construction of Forest Enclosures at the Lemur Rescue

Center

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

International Bear Association

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Clouded Leopard Project

The Orianne Society

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildlife SOS

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Collection of Samples and Records for AZA SSP-Endorsed

Studies

Elephant Seed Dispersal Study

Local Undergraduate Student Project Observations

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California

AQUARIUM OF THE BAY

Education Programs

Bay Lab Animal Ambassador Programs

Bay Lab Public Programs

BayMobile Outreach Programs

Behind the Scenes Tours

Exhibit Trainings

Exploration Tours

Film and Lecture Series Events

General Outreach Programs

Hybrid Ferry Programs

Public Programs – Feedings

Public Programs – Non-Feedings

San Francisco Bay Area Sustainable Seafood Alliance

Trainings and Events

Self-Guided Tours

Shoreline Clean-Up Events

Sleepovers

Special Public Program Events

Trout in the Classroom Collaboration

Field Conservation

Bay Restoration

Coast and Ocean Protection

Rivers and Deltas

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

AQUARIUM OF THE PACIFIC

Education Programs

Aquarium on Wheels Outreach

Night Dive

Public Shows

School Programs

Winter and Summer Camps

Field Conservation

AZA Guam Kingfisher SSP

Environmental Sample Processor (ESP) Deployment and

Recovery – Huntington Beach

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Monitoring Sea Turtle Presence and Activity Within Alamitos

Bay Channel and the San Gabriel River

Reef Check Surveys

Sea Turtle Rehabilitation

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE) – Coral Reef

Reproduction and Restoration Project

Southern California Thermograph Array Project

Whale Identification Survey

White Abalone Captive Breeding Project

White Abalone Habitat Monitoring with National Oceanic and

Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and National Marine

Fisheries Service (NMFS)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

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GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Artificial Insemination in Blacktip Reef Sharks (Carcharhinus

melanopterus)

Artificial Insemination in Sand Tiger Sharks

Artificial Insemination Techniques in Bamboo Sharks

(Chiloscyllium plagiosum and Chiloscyllium punctatum)

B. BRYAN PRESERVE

Field Conservation

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

BIRCH AQUARIUM AT SCRIPPS INSTITUTION OF

OCEANOGRAPHY

Education Programs

Sea Days

Field Conservation

Capacity Building and Specialty Training – Multiple Marine

Conservation Projects

Capacity Building and Training of Multiple Institutions

Community Coastal Awareness

Coral Conservation

Grunion Greeters

Sea Camp Outreach Education Support

Sea Turtle Education Conservation and Sanctuary

Sperm Atlas

Syngnathidae Conservation

Tidewater Goby Sanctuary

Research

Octopus bimaculoides Pigment Research

CABRILLO MARINE AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

Biannual Survey of Intertidal Marine Life at Point Fermin

Marine Life Refuge, Los Angeles County, CA

Cabrillo Salt Marsh Survey

Garibaldi Aquaculture, Territorial Behavior and Conservation

Inner Cabrillo Beach Survey

Pacific Seahorse Husbandry and Development

Peninsula Shorewatch

Tidewater Goby Recovery

Weekly Bird Survey at Manmade Salt Marsh at Cabrillo

Beach, Los Angeles County, California

White Abalone Husbandry and Conservation

Research

Copepod Aquaculture

Red Abalone Larval Settlement

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CALIFORNIA SCIENCE CENTER

Field Conservation

Survey of Southern Steelhead

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

CURIODYSSEY

Education Programs

After-School Science Adventures Mid-Peninsula Boys and

Girls Club

CuriOdyssey Summer Camp

Fiesta Garden School Program

Homeschool Science Discovery

LEAD School Program

Physical and Life Science Workshops

Science Explorers

Self-Guided Visits

Weekend Workshops

Wildlife Presentations

Winter and Spring Camp

Field Conservation

Bay Area Bobcat Study

Coyote Point Beach Clean Up

FrogWatch USA

Home Ranges, Den Sites and Food Habits of Ringtails in the

Sutter Buttes, California

Pacific Tree Frog (Hyla regilla) Garden Habitat Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Comparative Behavior and Sound Communication of the

Western Pond Turtle (Actinemys marmorata) in Central

California

Experimental Restoration at Coyote Point Marsh

Urban Wildlife Project: Bay Lands Gray Fox Project

FRESNO CHAFFEE ZOO

Education Programs

Adventure Camp

After-Hours Presentations

Ask Me Cart

Beach Cleanup

Behind the Scenes – Breakfast with the Elephants

Behind the Scenes – Hand to Trunk

Behind the Scenes – Reptile

Behind the Scenes – Sea Lion Snack

Behind the Scenes – Sea Lion Splash

Bird Show

Birthday Presentations

Community Events

Conservation Grant Awareness Workshop

Cubby Camp

Giraffe Feeding Station

Group Behind the Scenes

Keeper Talks

Lab – Ecosystems

Lab – Habitats

Lab – Life Cycles

Lab – Structure and Function

Overnight Safari

Party for the Planet

Rainforest Tour

Raptors

Shadow a Keeper

Stingray Bay

Story Time

Teacher Workshops

Teen LEADERS (Lead by Educating With Activities and

Demonstrations on the Environment, Resources and

Sciences)

Tot Time

Tropical Treasures

Twilight Talks

Valley Farm

Valley Farm Outreach

Young Naturalist

Zoo Academy

Zoo Preview

Zoo Talks

Zoo Tour

ZOOMobile

Field Conservation

American Kestrel Nestbox Monitoring

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Sloth Bear SSP

AZA Tiger SSP – Malayan Tiger Project

AZA Western Pond Turtle SSP – Western Pond Turtle Genetic

Testing for Species Identification of AZA SSP Program

California Condor Nest Guarding Program

Cheetah Adaptations in Varied Land-Use Regions of Kenya

Chytrid Fungi in Urodeles of Southeastern Virginia, United

States

Community-Based Grevy’s Zebra Conservation in Northern

Kenya

Friends of the Island Fox Support for Channel Islands

National Parks

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative – Pantanal Tapir

Program

Oakland Wetlands Restoration Project

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project

Reticulated Giraffe Project

Ridge to Reef: Vaquita Project

Ruaha Carnivore Project

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Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Tarangire Elephant Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Research

Antimicrobial Properties of the Natural Flora in Stingray

Mucus

Azraq Marshes Archaeological and Paleoecological Project

(AMAPP) Protein Residue Analysis Application

Curassow Genetic Testing

Determine Dosing Regimens for Flunixin Meglumine

(Bananine®) and Firocoxib in Elephants

Developing a High Resolution Genotyping Method for Tiger

Fecal DNA

Evaluation of the Critically Endangered Indochinese Box

Turtle Cuora galbinifrons Complex to Improve Captive

Population Management

Gene Expression in the Colobine Gastrointestinal (GI) System

Inca Tern Genetics

Sloths as Sentinels of Ecosystem Health: Evaluation of

Agricultural Pesticides in Plasma of Free-Ranging

Hoffmann’s Two-Toed (Choloepus hoffmanni) and Brown-

Throated Three-Toed (Bradypus variegatus) Sloth

Suidae and Tayassuidae Reproductive Health Study

HAPPY HOLLOW ZOO

Field Conservation

Jaguar Conservation

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Orangutan Support

Ruaha Carnivore Project

SaveNature.org – Conservation Meter

Virunga Fund

LOS ANGELES ZOO AND BOTANICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Animals and You

California Condor Rescue Zone

Community Outreach

Daily Animal Talks

Docent Guided Tours

Duttenhaver Conservation Field Study Student Fellowship

Elephant Training Demonstration

Family Classes

Family Overnights

Los Angeles Zoo Camp

Member Tours

North Hollywood High School – Biological and Zoological

Magnet School

Parent-Child Classes

School Poster Project – Water: Save the Drop

Scout Overnights

Special Needs Outreach

Student Volunteer Program

World of Birds Show

Zoo Explorers

Zoo Pals

ZooWorld Patch Program

Field Conservation

Asian Vulture Conservation

Assessment of Heptner’s Markhor and Bukhara Urial

Populations

Bat Survey in Los Angeles Zoo / Griffith Park

Black-Winged Starling Conservation in Indonesia

Bushmaster Survey and Preliminary Needs Assessment

Bushmeat Education at Limbe Wildlife Center

California Condor Recovery Project – Rear and Prepare for

Release to the Wild

Comparing Monitoring Methods to Infer the Conservation

Status of the Komodo Dragon Population

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Conservation of Armenian Vipers, Montivipera raddei,

Inhabiting Anthropogenic Modified Landscapes

Conserving the World’s Largest Amphibian

Drill Conservation on the Island of Bioko

Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Center (DRBC)

Fauna Monitoring Program on Polillo Island

Field Conservation of Pygmy Sloth

Fiji Crested Iguana Conservation

Finding and Providing Appropriate Conditions Under Which

to Hold the Endangered Southern Mountain Yellow-Legged

Frog

Giant Otter (Pteronura brasiliensis) Coexistence With People

in the Peruvian Amazon

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Harpy Eagle Conservation and Research

Health in the Red Uakari (Cacajao calvus)

Human-Elephant Conflict in Cambodia

Indian Gharial Behavioral Ecology and Conservation

Javan Warty Pig Recovery Project

Minimizing the Conflict Between Asian Elephants and Local

Villagers

Ndogo Conservation Initiative

Okapi Conservation Project

Paso Pacifico – Paso del Istmo Jaguar Conservation Project

Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Program

Philippine Eagle Foundation

Philippine Wildlife Conservation

Proyecto Taguá – Chacoan Peccary Conservation Project

Red Uakari Conservation on the Rio Yavari, Peru

Saiga Conservation Alliance

Saola Working Group – Saola Conservation Project

Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Project

Steller’s Sea Eagle Population Research

The Effects of Logging in Yavari River Concessions and

Indigenous Territories of the Red Uakari Monkey

Tomistoma Task Force – Malayan Gharial Conservation

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Research

Changes in Conservation Caring With Different Experiences

Development of Rapid Facial Mimicry (RFM) in Chimpanzees

Do Chimpanzees Spontaneously Engage in Empathetic

Yawning?

Effects of Carcass Feeding on the Activity and Body

Condition of Snow Leopards, Tigers and Painted Dogs

Effects of Providing Zoo-Housed Orangutans with Arboreal

Furnishings

Effects of Zoo and Nature Experiences on Stress Reduction

Evaluation of Animals and Their Exhibits

Exploration of Chemical Signaling Among Orangutans

Gorilla Activity and Social Interactions

Harpy Eagle Introduction and Breeding

Play in Chimpanzees

Relationship Between Available Space and Elephant Activity

MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Aquarium Adventure Sleepovers

Aquarium Adventure Tours

Aquarium Adventure Underwater Explorers

Auditorium Programs

Discovery Labs School Program

Education Conferences

Feeding Presentations

Homeschool Days School Program

Marketing Promotional Events

Ocean Explorers School Program

Seafood Watch

Self-Guided School Programs

Splash Zone Discovery School Program

Student Oceanography Club

Teacher Institutes

Teacher Workshops

Teen Conservation Leaders (TCL)

Theatrical Programs

Volunteer Guide (Docent) Program

Watsonville Area Teens Conserving Habitats (WATCH)

Young Women in Science

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Field Conservation

Aquarium Conservation Partnership

Conservation Research Program Administration

Migratory Movements, Depth and Temperature Preferences

of Dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) Along the Western

Baja California Coast of Mexico

Natural History of Mobulid Rays in the Gulf of California

Ocean Conservation Policy

Ocean Sunfish Research

Pacific Bluefin Tuna

Sea Otter Program

Seafood Watch

Sevengill Shark Research

Shorebird and Seabird Rehabilitation

White Shark Research

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

Deep Sea Cephalopods

Marine Macroalgae – Ecosystem Indicators of Historic

Conditions

Pelagic Red Crab Gut Contents / Plastics Study

Use of Non-Invasive Methods to Evaluate Stress in Iconic Fish

and Invertebrates

Visitor Research

Whole Genome Sequencing of the Sea Otter

OAKLAND ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Communities, Children and Conservation

Conservation Assembly / ZooMobile

Creek and Garden Programs

Docent-Led Tours

Education Birthday Parties

Family Sundown Safari

Feeding Talks

Field Biology Classes and Workshops

Habitat Restoration Programs

Out of School, Full or Half-Day Programs (Like Afterschool,

Intersession, Special Focus Weeks, Etc.)

Parent’s Night / Day Off

Pathway Encounters

Scout Programs – Workshops and Overnights

Tabling / Presentation Events (e.g. Fairs, Neighborhood/

Community Events and Festivals, Career Days, Back to

School Nights/Days, Science Fairs and Festivals)

Teddy Bear Tea with Friends!

Teen Wild Guides (TWiGs) and Teen Programs

WildLife Assembly

Youth and Student Conservation and Research Trips

Zoo Camps – Summer and School Breaks

ZooKids Programs

ZOOMobile

ZooSchool

Zoo-to-Community Initiative

Zoovie Nights

Field Conservation

Africa Matters

Amboseli Trust for Elephants

Animals Asia

Arroyo Viejo Creek On-Site Restoration Project

Asociación de Rescate y Conservación de la Vida Silvestre

(ARCAS)

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP

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Bay Area Puma Project – Felidae Conservation Fund

Big Life Foundation

Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre (BSBCC)

Budongo Snare Removal Project

California Condor Recovery Program

California Wolf Center

Centre ValBio

David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Ewaso Lions

Golden Gate Audubon Society

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Lubee Bat Conservancy

Marine Mammal Center

Mountain Lion Foundation

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Project

Oakland Zoo Mountain Lion Initiative

People and Carnivores

Project Golden Frog

Proyecto Tití

Reticulated Giraffe Project

Save the Elephants

SaveNature.org – Rainforest Conservation Parking Meter

Shark Stewards

Uganda Carnivore Program

Ventana Wildlife Society

Western Pond Turtle Headstart Program (On-Site)

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Tiger Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Changes in Space Use and Stereotypy in Sun Bears With

Application of Exhibit Matrix Style of Management

Developing a High-Resolution Genotyping Method for Tiger

Fecal DNA

Identify Markers of Inflammation and Disease in Elephant

Serum

Increasing Captive Chimpanzee Engagement With a Multi-

Step Enrichment Device With Increasing Complexity

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Marine

and Terrestrial Mammals

Pre-Hatching and Early Life-Stage Environmental Effects on

Western Pond Turtle (Emys marmorata) Personality

Reinforcer Preference in Flying Fox

SACRAMENTO ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Behind the Scenes Tours

Brownbag Talks

Career Talks

Discovery Room

Docent Training

Family and Group Overnights

Keeper Chats

Little Peeps Preschool Classes

Nature Explorers

Resource Library and Zoo Animal Fact Sheets

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Roots and Shoots Teen Program

School and Group Field Trips

Special Events Such as Boo at the Zoo and Party For The

Planet

Starlight Safaris

Summer Camp

Survive and Thrive Animal Adaptation Show

Tea and Tours

Teacher Resources

Teen Public Education Tables

Zoo Mobile

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Amphibian Ark

Assessing the Current Population Status of the Critically

Endangered Taita Apalis (Apalis fuscigularis) in Taita Hills

Forest in Kenya Through Community Involvement

AZA SAFE – Western Pond Turtle

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign: Sumatran

Tiger

Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center (BSBCC)

Conservation of Critically Endangered Taita Warty Frog

(Callulina dawida) in the Taita Hill Forest in Kenya Through

Community Involvement

Conservation of the Pemba Flying Fox (Pteropus voeltzkowi)

in Ngezi Forest Reserve in Zanzibar

Creative Leadership for Biodiversity Conservation Training

Workshops

Critically Endangered Gyps Vulture Conservation

Delta Region Sandhill Crane Conservation

Enhancing the Conservation of the Endangered Nigeria-

Cameroon Chimpanzee

Environmental Education to Save Brazil’s Golden Lion

Tamarins

Ewaso Lions – Digitizing Lions Scouts Data Collection to

Enhance Lion Conservation Efforts in Northern Kenya

Field Survey on Birds Species Disappearance, Ako-Mbembe

Forest Reserve, Bamenda High Highlands, North West

Region of Cameroon

Food Procurement for Rehabilitation Centers

Garter Snake Ecology Studies

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

In-Situ Conservation of a Critically Endangered Primate

Species (Niger Delta Red Colobus, Procolobus pennantii

epieni) Within Apoi Rainforest Area, Nigeria.

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Lemur Conservation Network

Lights for Life: Protecting the Endangered Snow Leopard

From Retributive Killing

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Masai Giraffe Conservation Demography

Mitigating Human-Lion Conflict in Amboseli National Park in

Taita Taveta County in Kenya Through Local Community

Capacity Building and Empowerment

Monitoring the Successful Release of Captive Animals Into

the Amazon Basin of Ecuador

Nido Adoptivo

Orangutan Outreach

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project

Rainforest Trust – Saving Sumatra

Red Panda Network

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Saiga Crisis Fund

Saving Sumatran Tigers by Reducing Tiger-Human Conflict

Saving the Tricolored Blackbird: California’s Passenger

Pigeon

Seafood Watch

Shared Conservation Biologist

Small Wild Cat Conservation Foundation First Conservation

Projects for Bay Cat, Flat-Headed Cat and Marbled Cat

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Spectacled Bear Conservation Society

Sustainable Innovations With Wildlife-Neighboring

Communities in Uganda

Szinda Nature School Painted Dog Research Trust

The Effect of Climate Change on Seagrass Communities in

Tanzania

The Vulture Conservation Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Vulture Conservation Botswana

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WildAid: Shark Savers

Wildlife Care Association

Wildlife Conservation Expo

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Research

Optimizing Rehydration Fluids for Salamanders

Detection of Avian Bornavirus in Thick Billed Parrots

The Ecology of Filth Flies and Pupal Parasitoids in an Urban

The Effects of Temperature on Incubation, Sex Determination

and Behavior – Western Pond Turtle

The Welfare and Individual Differences of Chimpanzees

Tiger Vocalization Recordings

Western Pond Turtle Dog Detection Project

Orangutan Genetic Research

Sacramento Zoo Clinical Medicine Research Publications

SAFARI WEST WILDLIFE PRESERVE

Education Programs

Guided Safari Tour

Husbandry Internship

Off-Site Presentation

Research Internship

Field Conservation

Act for Great Apes

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

African Wildlife Foundation

Andean Cat Alliance

Ape Action Africa

Aquarium of the Bay

Center for Biological Diversity

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Elephant Crisis Fund

Friends of Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation

Trust

Global Penguin Society

Lawrence Anthony Earth Organization

Mar Alliance

Monterey Bay Aquarium

Mountain Lion Foundation

National Wildlife Federation (NWF)

Niassa Lion Project

Northern California Bats

Oceanic Society

Painted Dog Conservation

Paso Pacifico

Project Survival

Proyecto Tití

Reticulated Giraffe Project

River Otter Ecology Project

Save the Frogs

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SaveNature.org

Shark Stewards

Snow Leopard Conservancy

Spectacled Bear Conservation

The Bird Rescue Center

The Ocean Foundation

The Silent Heroes Foundation

The Watershed Project

Wild Aid

Wild Cat Education and Conservation Fund

Wild Chimpanzee Foundation

Wild Conservation Network

Wild Nature Institute-Project Giraffe

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Conservation Paleobiology: Biotic Turnover in the Past and

Present

Occupancy and Turnover of Native Fauna

SAN DIEGO ZOO GLOBAL

Education Programs

Institute Advanced Inquiry Program

Institute Conservation Education Lab School Visits

Price Family Watershed Heroes

Safari Park – Behind-the-Scenes Safari

Safari Park – Caravan Safari

Safari Park – Cheetah Safari

Safari Park – Conservation Corp

Safari Park – Conservation in Action

Safari Park – Fur, Feathers and Scales

Safari Park – Roar and Snore Safari

Safari Park – Safari Express

Safari Park – Save Our Aquatic Resources

Safari Park Self Guided Field Trips

Safari Park Summer Camp

Safari Park – Tram

Safari Park – Ultimate Safari

San Diego Zoo Kids

Zoo – Animals in Action

Zoo – Classic Summer Camp

Zoo – Discovery Tours

Zoo – Enviro School

Zoo – Exclusive VIP Experience

Zoo – Expeditionary Learning Program

Zoo – Fall Educator Preview

Zoo – Girls in Science

Zoo – Guided Bus Tour

Zoo – Healing Animal Arts

Zoo – Inside Look Tours

Zoo – Inside Story Tour

Zoo – Internquest

Zoo – Kids Free Month

Zoo – KinderTots and Kindernights

Zoo – School in the Park

Zoo – Second Grade Adaptations Connections

Zoo – Self Guided School Field Trips

Zoo – Special Tours

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Zoo – Sunrise Surprise Strolls

Zoo – Wild Heroes

Zoo – Wildlife Overnights

Zoo – Zoo Corps

Field Conservation

American Fund for Endangered Wildlife

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) – Amur Leopard

Conservation

An Adaptive Management Approach to Recovering

Burrowing Owl Populations and Restoring a Grassland

Ecosystem

Andean Bear Conservation Research – Building Capacity in

Peru

Andean Condor Recovery in Colombia, South America

Anegada Iguana Project

Asian Wild Horse Conservation Project

Aye-Aye Dispersal Patterns

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Okapi SSP – Consortium

Behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Asian Leaf-Eating

Monkeys

Behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Gelada Baboons

Cactus Scrub Habitat Enhancement and Cactus Wren

Monitoring

California Least Tern and Western Snowy Plover

Conservation Program

Captive Breeding and Reintroduction of the San Clemente

Loggerhead Shrike

Central Africa Program

Cheetah Conservation

Chinese Dhole Recovery

Conservation and Captive Rearing of the Critically

Endangered Mangrove Finch

Conservation and Ecology of Wild Giant Panda Populations

Conservation Breeding and Reintroduction of the Critically

Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse

Conservation Breeding of the Giant Panda

Development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for the

Threatened Boreal Toad – Rocky Mountain Population

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Disease Modeling and Tasmanian Devils

Enhancing California Condor Genetic Management

Ewaso Lions – Conservation of Kenya’s Lions by Promoting

Coexistence Between People and Wildlife

Feeding Ecology of Douc Langurs at Son Tra Nature Reserve,

Vietnam

Fiji Iguana Conservation and Comparative Genetics

Gelada Ecology and Conservation

Global Wildlife Conservation – Saola Working Group Asian

Cattle Specialist Group

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation Program

Hornbill Research Foundation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN)

Investigating Ecological and Health Requirements for

Long-term Sustainability of Coastal Patch-Nosed Snake

Populations

Investigating the Role of Disease in Declining Thick-Billed

Parrot Populations in Northern Mexico

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group

Jaguar Costa Rica Corridor Research

Jungle Friends Primate Sanctuary, Inc.

Koala Management, Education and Conservation Program

Light-Footed Clapper Rail Reintroduction Program

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Management of the Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Manu,

Peru

Molecular Conservation Genetics: Development and

Application to Management of Captive and Wild

Populations

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Recovery Program

Northern Rangelands Trust – Anti-Poaching Tracker Dog

Northern Rangelands Trust – Black Rhino Translocation to

Sera Community Conservancy

Northern Rangelands Trust – Ishaqbini Hirola Community

Conservancy Project

Northern Rangelands Trust – West Gate Community

Conservation

Okapi Conservation Project

Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Program

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Peregrine Fund – Conserving Endangered Vultures

Peregrine Fund – Wildlife Poisoning Response Training

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) Project Jaguar and

Other Predators of the Talamanca

Point Loma Nazarene University (PLNU) Summer Internships

Polar Bear Conservation Research and Educational Outreach

Population Health and Genetics of Black-Footed Cats and

Infectious Disease Prevalence in Sympatric Carnivores

Proyecto Taguá – Chacoan Peccary

Recovery of the California Condor

Red Panda Network

Ridge to Reef: Community Based Conservation of the

Vaquita

Rock Iguana Breeding Program

Rodrigues Fruit Bat Conservation Support

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Saiga Conservation Alliance (SCA)

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Southern Africa Elephant Conservation Program

Southern Ground Hornbill Reintroduction

Swaziland African Elephant Parks Support

Tasmanian Devil Grant Support for the Zoo and Aquarium

Association (ZAA)

Translocation Biology of Endangered Heteromyids in

Southern California

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turks and Caicos Boa Project

Turks and Caicos Iguana Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Understanding Interactions of Giraffe, People and Livestock

to Develop Community-Based Conservation Projects

Vicuña Conservation

West Gate Community Conservancy, Northern Rangelands

Trust, Kenya

Western Pond Turtle

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Sumatran Tiger

Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

Ancient and Modern DNA Studies Supporting Conservation

and Reintroduction of the Przewalski’s Horse Gene Pool

Assisted Reproduction in the White Rhino

AZA Addax SSP – Improving the Genetic Management of the

Addax Species Survival Plan

Conservation Bioacoustics in African Cheetahs

Conservation of the Lord Howe Island Stick Insect

Determination of Reproductive Status Through Hormone

Monitoring

Dietary Risks in White Rhinos

Enhancing California Condor Genetic Management

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Evaluation of Alternative Culling Strategies on Maintenance

of Genetic Variation in Bison

Fiji Iguana Comparative Genetics

Genetic Rescue of Northern White Rhino: Stem Cell

Technologies

Genome10K: Enabling Genome Sequencing Projects of

Endangered Species to Support Conservation Efforts

Non-Invasive Reproductive Technology

Optimizing Sensory Ecology: The Influence of Acoustic

Signals on Welfare and Reproduction of High Priority

Species

SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Field Conservation

Andean Cat

Ape Action Africa

AZA Chacoan Peccary SSP

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Conservation Genetics and Evolution of the Snow Leopard

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Earthwatch Institute

Fauna and Flora International – François’ Langur

FrogWatch USA

Gorongosa Lion Project

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute

Lake Merced Restoration and Conservation

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Mountain Lake Restoration / Zoo Crew

National Network for Ocean and Climate Change

Interpretation (NNOCCI) – Climate Change Interpretation

Trainings

Red Panda Network

Reintroduction of Western Pond Turtle to Golden Gate

National Recreation Area

San Francisco Forktail Damselfly Project

Sierra Nevada Yellow-Legged Frog Conservation Program

Western Pond Turtle Sex Determination and Headstarting

Studies

Wildlife Health Network – Makira Bushmeat Project

Yosemite National Park Conservation Partnership

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Behavioral Impacts of Time-Delayed Puzzle Feeders on Black

Rhino

Pilot Study: Building Capacity for Rearing and Breeding

Damselflies

Reintroduction of the Western Pond Turtle to Mountain Lake

Sequoia Kings Canyon Yellow-Legged Frog Headstart

Project

Testing the Effectiveness of Headstarting as Part of a

Conservation Toolbox to Restore the Sierra Nevada Yellow-

Legged Frogs (Rana sierrae) to the Lake Tahoe Basin

ZooMonitor

SANTA ANA ZOO

Education Programs

Critters for Conservation

Rain Forest Tour

Scout Safari

Zoo and You Camp

Zoo Camp

Zoo Explorer

Zoo Safari

ZooMobile

Field Conservation

Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog (Rana muscosa)

Western Pond Turtle Genetic Structure and Diversity in

Southern California

Western Snowy Plover, Charadrius nivosus, Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WATER

Documented Amount Used

SANTA BARBARA ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Adult Volunteer Options

Animal Encounters

Barnyard Feeding

Giraffe Feeding

School Groups

School Science Night Outreach

Workshops

Field Conservation

Amazon Conservation Team

Amphibians of the Los Padres National Forest

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA SAFE – Western Pond Turtle Population Assessment

Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction

California Condor Conservation Program

California Red-Legged Frog Translocation in Santa Monica

Mountains

Channel Island Fox Conservation Program

East Anacapa Island Restoration Project

ECO-CELL

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF)

Oiled Wildlife Care Network (OWCN)

Sedgwick Reserve

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Southern Sea Otters in the Santa Barbara Channel

The Xerces Society – Western Monarch Thanksgiving Count

Western Snowy Plover Rearing Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Developing New Tools for Integrating DNA Data into AZA

Breeding Programs

Engineering Anaerobic Gut Fungi for Lignocellulose

Breakdown

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) – Elephant

Welfare Project

Interactions Between Lead Exposure and Hormonal Stress

Response in the California Condor

What Does the Fox Scat Say?: Evolutionary Analyses of Diet,

Population Size and Pathogens in the Island Fox, Urocyon

littoralis

SEA LIFE CARLSBAD AQUARIUM AT LEGOLAND

Education Programs

School Programs

Green (Sustainable) Practices

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

SEAWORLD SAN DIEGO

Field Conservation

Acoustic Study of Rehabilitated Dolphins Surviving Stranding

From Blast Fishing

AZA SAFE – Vaquita

From the Ridge to the Reef

Mexican Wolf Fund

SEQUOIA PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Stormwater Pollution Prevention

Zoofari Adventures Cub Club

Zoofari Adventures Junior Zookeepers

Field Conservation

Effect of Human Disturbance on Diversity, Distribution and

Seasonal Abundance of Large Terrestrial Mammals

Freshwater Creek Juvenile Coho Over-Winter Survival

Project

Gran Chaco Habitat Preservation Project

Porcupine Habitat Selection Northern California Project

Red Panda Network

Restoring Forest Corridors for Black-Handed Spider Monkey

in Nicaragua

Salt River Restoration Project

Udzungwa Forest Preservation Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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STEINHART AQUARIUM

Education Programs

3D Theater

Careers in Science Interns

Citizen Science

Docent Engagements

Docent Trainings

Early Explorers Cove

External Education Partnership – ChangeScale

Family Programs

Hohfeld Hall

Lectures

Morrison Planetarium

NightLife Programs

Online Education Resources

Out of State and International Student or Youth Field Trips

Portable Planetarium Dome

Public Floor Presentations

Self-Guided Student Field Trips

Student Labs and Homeschool Days

Teacher Professional Development

The Naturalist Center

The Rock Program Student Field Trips

Tidepool

Youth Programs

Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Coral Conservation – Florida

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Training Foreign Scientists on Animal Husbandry and Captive

Breeding

Twilight Zone Exploration Dive Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Certified by the League of American Bicyclists

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Behavioral Ecology and Captive Husbandry of Hyperolius

riggenbachi Frogs

Decompression of Mesophotic Coral Reef Fishes

Husbandry and Captive Breeding of Pygmy Seahorses

Oversight of Outside Research Requests by Aquarium

Research Committee

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THE LIVING DESERT ZOO AND GARDENS

Education Programs

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Programs Schools, Scouts and Home School

Zoo Teen Volunteer Program

Field Conservation

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

Desert Pupfish Ex-Situ Refugia Management

Desert Tortoise Conservation Education Program

Endangered Island Fox Recovery Planning

Jaguars in Panama

Joshua Tree Genome Project

Livestock Guarding Dog Program Namibia

Mexican Wolf Recovery Program

Mojave River Pond Turtle Conservation Assessment

Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Program

Projecto Tagua and the Chaco Center for Conservation and

Research (CCCI)

Rebuilding the Pride Program

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Termit and Tin Toumma Project in Niger

Urban Bee Survey

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

AZA Cheetah SSP – Determining Genetic Variability,

Kinship and Uniqueness in North American Cheetah SSP

Population

AZA Waldrapp Ibis SSP – Determining Kinship in the

Waldrapp Ibis Population

Chlamydia in Wild Raptors

Detection of Avian Bornavirus in Captive Thick-Billed Parrots

by Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-

PCR) and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)

Ensuring Optimal Welfare for Ambassador Animals

Histologic Lesions, Risk Factors and Demographics of

Cheetahs With Oxalate Nephrosis

Panama Jaguar Project

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Marine

and Terrestrial Mammals

Quail Hybrid Zone in the Santa Rosa Mountains

TURTLE CONSERVANCY

Field Conservation

Bolson Tortoise

Burmese Star Tortoise

Geometric Tortoise Critical Habitat Preservation

Goode’s Thornscrub Tortoise Habitat Preservation

Ploughshare Tortoise

Trade Interdiction

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Colorado

BUTTERFLY PAVILION

Field Conservation

Big Dry Creek Habitat Restoration

Colorado Butterfly Monitoring Network

Effects of Bison on Invertebrate Communities in the

Southern Great Plains

Senior Habitat Gardening

Urban Prairies Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Invertebrate Survey of Mongolia’s Ikh Nart Nature Reserve:

An Assessment of Biodiversity

Tarantula Growth Study

CHEYENNE MOUNTAIN ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Care 101

Docent Program

Early Childhood Classes

School Break Zoo Camps

Summer Zoo Camp

Teen Programs – Zoo Crew and Junior Zoo Keeper

The Loft

WildNights

Zoo Explorations Tours

ZOOMobile

Field Conservation

African Vulture Conservation

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) – Field Support

AZA SAFE

AZA SAFE – Black-Footed Ferret

AZA SAFE – Vaquita Porpoise

Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Program

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Mountain Tapir Habitat Ecology in Ecuador

Palm Oil Crisis and Orangutan Conservation

Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation (PARC)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – African Penguin Conservation

The Epulu Okapi Project

Tsavo Trust – African Elephant and Black Rhino Conservation

in Kenya

Wyoming Toad Recovery

Research

Giraffe Thermography-Assisted Lameness Management

Giraffe: Blood Gas and Lactate Monitoring During Field

Immobilizations of Wild Rothschild’s Giraffe

Giraffe: Comparing Foot Shape and Health in Zoos and in the

Wild

Hematocrit and Hemoglobin in Mammals at High Altitude

Wyoming Toad Vitamin A Level Monitoring With Different

Vitamin Supplements

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COLORADO WOLF & WILDLIFE CENTER

Field Conservation

Endangered Wolf Center

DENVER ZOO

Education Programs

ASK Me’s

Assemblies

Be a Zookeeper Zone

Birthday Party Program

Booths

Bunks

Camps and Mini-Camps

Career Discovery Day

Career Lab

Community Leadership Programs and Service-Learning

Programs

Docent Volunteer Training

Early Explorer Expedition Classes

Explore the Shore

General Meetings

Giraffe Encounter

Guest Assistance Ambassadors

Guide Stations – Adult and Teen Led

Guide Volunteer Training

High School Internship – Training

Keeper Experience

Lorikeet Adventure

Meet an Ambassador Animal

Middle and High School Programs

Mini-Classes

Multi-Contact Outreach Programs

New Volunteer Training

Nurturing Scientists Through Nature Play

Outreach Afterschool and Enrichment

Party for the Planet

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP)

Scout Night

Senior Safaris

Skill-Based / Continuing-Education Trainings

Temporary Traveling Exhibits

Tours

Up-Close Animal Encounters

Urban Advantage Family Science Events

Urban Advantage Field Trips

Volunteer Scoop Electronic Newsletter

Young Scientists

Zoo Crew – Volunteer Training

Zoo Crew Newsletter

Zoo Ed-Venture Treks

Zoo Ed-Ventures

Field Conservation

Amphibian Conservation Education in Peru

Amphibians of the Altiplano

Bolivian Amphibian Initiative

Botswana Raptor Project

Botswana Vet Assistance

Breeding Success of Cinereous Vultures in Ikh Nart, Mongolia

Central Kalahari Lion Conservation Project in Botswana

Citizen Science: Pika Monitoring Program in Colorado’s Front

Range

Comparative Ecology of African Wild Dogs in the Okavango

Delta and the Central Kalahari

Conservation Education and Outreach in Botswana

Creating Sustainable Futures for People, Animals and the

Environment: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Bison

Reintroduction in Northern Colorado

Denver Zoo Conservation and Research Department

Denver Zoological Foundation Conservation Award

Determining Urban Bird Numbers Through the Audubon

Society’s Annual Christmas Bird Count

Developing a Model for Local Management of Protected

Areas in Mongolia

Ecological Restoration of Arroyos and Head Cuts

Ecology and Conservation of Argali Sheep

Ecology and Social Behavior of White-Tailed and Gunnison’s

Prairie Dogs

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Effects of Bison on Plant and Animal Communities in the

Southern Great Plains

Evaluation of Human Conservation Behavior and Tonkin

Snub-Nosed Monkey Population Status in Northern

Vietnam

Fauna and Flora International – Fishing Cat Research

General Botswana Program Support

General Conservation Program Support for the Rio Mora

National Wildlife Refuge

General Mongolia Program Support

General Program Support for the Rocky Mountain/Great

Plains Region

Graduate Student Fellowships

Grassland Conservation – Piñon-Juniper Control

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort – Northern

Michigan

Ikh Nart Education and Outreach Program

Ikh Nart Nature Reserve Vegetation Map

International Crane Foundation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Malagasy Fish Conservation

Mongolian Gazelle Conservation

Mongolian Nomadic Conservation Trunk Program

New Nature Foundation – Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Okapi Conservation Project

Pallas’s Coluber Snake Ecology in Ikh Nart Nature Reserve,

Mongolia

Rio Mora Conservation Outreach

Springbok of the Kalahari

Tonkin Snub-Nosed Conservation Education

Veterinary Support for Field Conservation Projects in

Mongolia

Wildebeest Conservation in Botswana

Wildlife SOS India

Witness for Wildlife Program in Colorado – Wildlife Corridors

Programs

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

African Painted Dog Genetic Study

Captive Orangutan Dentition Emergence

Crane Semen Cryopreservation

Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship and Uniqueness in

the North American Cheetah Population

Developing New Tools for Integrating DNA Data Into AZA

Breeding Programs: An Institute of Museum and Library

Sciences (IMLS) Funded Project for 2016-2019

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Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Penguins

Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in

Western Lowland Gorillas in North American Zoos

Quantifying Taxonomic Distinction in Tooth Mark Morphology

With High-Resolution 3-D Scanning

Retrospective Classification and Management Assessment of

Canine Fractures in Captive-Managed Populations of Great

Apes

LANDRY’S DOWNTOWN AQUARIUM – DENVER

Education Programs

Animal Ambassador Programs

Behind the Scenes Public Tours

Classroom Programs

College Internship Program

Distance Learning Teleconference Classes

Homeschool Day

Outreach Classroom Programs

Public Animal Feedings

Public Interpretation and Carts

River Clean-Ups

Scout Badge Workshops

Sea Safari Summer Camp

Self-Guided Tours

Special Public Program Events

Teacher Loaner Boxes

Teacher Workshops

Volunteer / Intern Training and Continuing Education

Wild Dreams Overnights

Youth Career Workshops

Field Conservation

Owl’s Nest Rescue and Rehabilitation

Wildlife Alliance – Radio Collars

PUEBLO ZOO

Education Programs

African Food Chains

Amazing Adaptations

Amazing Arthropods

Animal Encounters

Animal Growth and Development

Coats and Colors

Conservation Concepts

Literacy to Life, Pre-Kindergarten 3 Year Olds

Literacy to Life, Pre-Kindergarten 4 Year Olds

Summer Camp

Vertebrate Adaptations

Zoo ALIVE

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE – African Penguin Artificial Nest Box Project

Painted Dog Conservation

Red Panda Network

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Oral Progestin Down-Regulation for Oviductal Artificial

Insemination in Pallas’s Cats

Connecticut

CONNECTICUT’S BEARDSLEY ZOO

Education Programs

4-H

Animal Encounters

Birthday Party Animal Encounter

Conservation Discovery Corps

Explorers

FRC Tots Program

FrogWatch USA

Tours and Events

Wild Adventure Show

Wild Assembly

Zoo Mobile

Zoo Nutrition (Distance Learning, University of Connecticut)

Zoo Volunteers: Friends and Docents

Field Conservation

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign: Tiger Health

Support Program

Chaco of Paraguay

Conservation Discovery Corps – Invasive Plant Removal

Karner Blue Butterfly Restoration

Pequonnock River Fish Counts

Piping Plover Monitoring

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Trout in the Classroom

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) – Turtle Project

MARITIME AQUARIUM AT NORWALK

Education Programs

Camp Programs

Citizen Science

Floor Education Programs

Maritime Odyssey Preschool

R / V Spirit of the Sound – Vessel Programs

School Programs

Scout Programs

Sleepover Programs

Sound Resilience – Get on Board!

Special Event Days: Sensory Friendly Mornings, Earth Day,

World Oceans Day and More

Teacher Professional Development

TeMPEST: Teen Maritime Program Emphasizing Science and

Technology

Field Conservation

Long Island Sound Biodiversity Project

Project Limulus

Trout in the Classroom

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

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WASTE

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

My Sound Buoy Network

Phytoplankton Monitoring Network

MYSTIC AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Autism Night

Birthday Parties

Career Days

Citizen Science

Classroom Programs

Coastal Field Studies

Conservation Club

Conservation Events

Distance Learning

Internships and Seminars

Outreach Programs

Overnights

School / Youth Group Exhibit Talks and Animal Interactions

Sea School Preschool

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Mentoring

Summer Camps

Teacher E-Newsletter

Teacher Workshops / Events

Youth Organization Events

Field Conservation

Amphibian Monitoring

Behavioral Ecology of Piscivores at Gray’s Reef National

Marine Sanctuary

Coastal Marine Debris Removal Events

Ecology of Piscivores at Isla del Coco National Park, Costa

Rica

Habitat Restoration of Dodge Paddock and Beal Preserve

Horseshoe Crab Monitoring

Long Island Sound Coastal Field Studies

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Research

Determination of a Suitable Dilution Marker in Blow

Etiological Study of Molt Abnormalities in the African

Penguin (Spheniscus demersus)

Evaluation of Non-Lethal Effects of Nitrogen Gas (N2)

Bubbles on Marine Mammal Immune Function and

Complement Activation

Investigation of the Marine Mammal Immune System and

Impacts of Stress on Health

Investigation of the Molecular Response of Belugas

to “Stressors” to Aid in Assessing the Impact of

Environmental and Anthropogenic Challenges on Health

Marine Ornamental Aquaculture Industry in the Northeast

U.S.: The State of the Industry

Measurement of Cortisol in the Blood, Blow, Saliva and Feces

of Beluga Whales

Research and Development of Aquaculture Techniques for

Marine Ornamental Fishes

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Delaware

BRANDYWINE ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Shows and Informal Interpretation

Family Programs

Scout Programs

Special Events

Traveling Zoo

Zoo Camp

Zoo School

Field Conservation

Delaware Wildlands

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Analysis of Fecal Samples of Fauna for Biological Markers of

Enzymes and Molecules

Medetomidine-Midazolam-Butorphanol: Entirely Reversible

Intramuscular Anesthesia in Red Panda

District of Columbia

SMITHSONIAN NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Adult Classes

Animal Demonstrations

Children’s Classes

Day Camps

Education Days

Homeschool Classes

Overnights at the Zoo

Residential Camp

School Outreach

School Programs

Smithsonian Conservation Biology Institute (SCBI) Facility

Tour

Video Podcasts: The Secret World of Zoo Jobs

Volunteer Interpreter Program

Washed Ashore Volunteer Program

Word Expeditions

Zoo Tours

Field Conservation

Anesthesia Study Evaluating the Use of Etorphine and

Azaperone Combination in Free-Ranging Warthogs

(Phacochoerus africanus)

Anti-Poaching Patrols in the Gambia Area

Asian Black Bear Conservation

Assessing and Restoring Giant Panda Habitat in the Qinling

Mountains

Assessing the Genetic Structure of the Wood Turtle in the

Northeast

Assessing the Use of Environmental DNA to Detect Wood

Turtles

Assessing Wood Turtle Distribution and Abundance in

Virginia and the Northeast

Baselining Human-Elephant Conflict to Better Understand

Causes, Patterns and Management Options

BiodiversiTREE

Borneo Mammals

Capybaras, Ticks and Brazilian Spotted Fever: How Land Use

Change Affects Disease Dynamics and Transmission Risks

Characterization of Novel Fungus Infecting Burbot

Conservation of Dholes in Thailand

Conservation of Ostrich in Niger, Africa for Reintroduction

Determining the Distribution, Conservation Status and

Habitat Use of the Yucatan Box Turtle in Mexico

Determining the Status of the Northern Pinesnake in Virginia

and Assessing the Feasibility of Reintroduction

Developing Regional Deforestation Mapping in Myanmar

Disease Survey in Free-Ranging Warthogs (Phacochoerus

africanus)

Eld’s Deer Conservation

Elephant Collaring and Satellite Tracking in Myanmar

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eMammal

ForestGEO Ecosystems and Climate Intitiatve

Gabon Biodiversity Program

Giraffe Conservation Status and Ecology in Northern Kenya

Impact of Anthropogenic Pressure on Wild Canids Living in

the Brazilian Cerrado

Influence of Human Development on Movement and Ecology

of Top Predators in Brazil

Investigation of Wild Kori Bustard (Ardeotis kori) Health and

Physiology in Kenya

Large Mammal Use of Forest Corridors Between Giant Panda

Reserves in Chingling Mountains

Mammal Distributions Across Protected Areas in the Region

Managing Human-Elephant Conflict in Myanmar (Burma)

Modeling Nomadic and Migratory Movements of Endangered

Mongolian Gazelles Using Satellite Tracking and Satellite

Estimates of Grassland Biomass

Partners in the Sky: An Initiative to Advance Animal Tracking

for Conservation

Real-Time Anti-Poaching and Survival Monitoring for

Reintroduced Scimitar-Horned Oryx in Chad

Recovery of the Endangered Black-Footed Ferret

Reintroduction of Przewalski’s Horse in Xinjiang, China

Reintroduction of the Scimitar-Horned Oryx

Relationship Between Genetics, Stress and Amyloid A (AA)

Amyloidosis Prevalence in Cheetahs

Satellite-Tracking Asian Elephant Movements Inside and

Outside a Fenced Protected Area

Smithsonian Institution Global Earth Observatory (SI-GEO)

Large Forest Plot

Smithsonian Myanmar Initiative

Supporting Integrated Protected Area Land and Seascape

Management in Tanintharyi, Myanmar

Sustaining Reintroduced Przewalski’s Horses in Hustai Nuru

National Park

The Changing Landscapes Initiative

The Role of Fire in Maintaining Critical Elephant Habitat in Sri

Lanka

Understanding the Biology and Ecology of Dholes in

Thailand

Using Geographic Information Systems and Remote Sensing

for Training Wildlife

Virginia Working Landscapes

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Behavioral Study of Kori Bustard Chicks at the Smithsonian

National Zoological Park

A Behavioral Study of the Greater Rhea at the Smithsonian

National Zoological Park

A Comparison of Husbandry Practices for Zoo- and Privately-

Owned Monitor Lizards

Amphibian Component of the Loubomo-Mougagara

Biodiversity Assessment

An Interdisciplinary Approach (Endocrine and Behavioral) to

Assess the Impact of Cub Separation and Adult Breeding

Behavior in Andean Bears

Andean Bear Workshop in Peru

Anesthesia Induction and Maintenance in Adult Arapaima

(Arapaima gigas)

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Ant Component of the Loubomo-Mougagara Biodiversity

Assessment

Assessing Impact of Facility and Management Changes on

Elephant Behavior

Assessing the Function of Penile Spines in Felid Species

Assessing the Relative Impacts of Anthropogenic Causes of

Direct Bird Mortality

Assessment and Monitoring of Marine Fish Communities and

Plankton in the Area of Influence of the Peru Liquefied

Natural Gas (LNG) Marine Terminal

Assessment and Monitoring of Seabirds in the Area of

Influence of the Peru Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Marine

Terminal

Assessment of Low Level Laser Therapy to Treat Rostral

Abrasions in Black-Legged Poison Frogs (Phyllobates

bicolor)

Assessment of Stereotypical Pacing and Welfare in an Adult

Male Sloth Bear

Behavioral Differences Between Songbirds Housed as Pairs

Versus Those Housed in Mixed Species Exhibits

Breeding Ecology and Population Status of the Island Scrub-

Jay

Carbon Content in Agroforestry Soils

Cerebellar and Mesencephalon Neoplasia in a Nile

Hippopotamus (Hippopotamus amphibious)

Clinical Challenge: Diagnosis of Coenurosis (Taenia

brauni) and Cecolith in a Malagasy Giant Jumping Rat

(Hypogeomys antimena)

Cognitive Bias in Apes: Comparisons Across and Within

Species

Collection and Preservation of Sperm from Panamanian

Golden Frogs (Atelopus zeteki)

Connectivity for Conservation: Understanding the Complex

Patterns of Altitudinal and Intratropical Migration

Crocodile Monitoring Program in the Wider Gamba Area,

Gabon

Cuban Crocodile Social Behavior

Cuban Crocodile Social Behavior – Vocalizations

Density Dependence During the Non-Breeding Season and

the Regulation of Migratory Bird Populations

Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship and Uniqueness in

the North American Cheetah Population

Diagnosis and Treatment of Ophidiomyces ophidiocola

Infection in Three False Water Cobras (Hydrodynastes

gigas) and a Green Anaconda (Eunectes murinus)

Discrepancies in Perceived Visibility of Animals Along Asia

Trail Between Visitors and Staff

Dispersal and Recruitment of Island Scrub Jays

Diversity of the Terrestrial Small Mammal Community in the

Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

DNA Testing of Mob of Meerkats to Determine Relatedness

and Parentage

Documentation of Aotus nigriceps Behavior in a Tropical

Rainforest

Dominance Rank, Nutrition and Sociality in Wild Female

Eastern Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes schweinfurthii)

Ecosystem Service Assessment and Scenario Planning in

Madre de Dios

Effects of a Recurring Late Night Event on the Behavior and

Welfare of a Population of Zoo-Housed Gorillas

Effects of Climate and Biotic Factors on Abundance,

Demography and Behavior of Forest Birds

Effects of Micro- and Macro-Nutrients on Development of

Spindly Leg Syndrome (SLS) in Mantella aurantiaca

Elucidating Spermatozoal Energy Metabolism and Metabolic

Dysfunction in Felids and Teratospermic Species

Endocrinology of Reproduction and Stress in the Giant

Panda

Establishing Assisted Reproductive Techniques for Genetic

Management in the Maned Wolf

Evaluating Hormones Captive Crocodiles

Evaluating Weight During Pregnancy

Extending the Fertility of Aging Female Cheetahs to Improve

Population Genetic Health

Fatal Gastric Dilation in Two Adult Black-Footed Ferrets

(Mustela nigripes)

Foraging Ecology of Masked Boobies Breeding at Isla

Muertos, Mexico

Forest Elephant Monitoring in Gamba, Gabon

Full Life Cycle Vulnerability Assessments for the Birds of the

Upper Midwest Great Lakes Region

Genetic and Health Evaluation of Asian Chelonians

Genomic Responses to Disease

Giant Panda Cub Development

Giant Panda Estrus Watch and Pregnancy / Birth Watch

Health Assessments of Zoo Asian and African Elephants in

the U.S.

Heating With Shade

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Husbandry, Nutrition and Veterinary Care of Song Sparrows

Identifying Genetic Predisposing Factor to Inflammatory

Bowel Syndrome in the Maned Wolves and Red Wolves

Identifying Migratory Connectivity of a Neotropical Migratory

Bird Using New Technologies – Archival GPS Tags

Identifying Migratory Connectivity of Brown Pelicans Along

the United States Atlantic Coast Using Satellite Tags

Identifying Semiochemicals in the Urine of Maned Wolves

Immunoglobulins in Primate Milks

Impact of a Natural Gas Exploratory Well on Scarab Beetles

and Ichneumonid Wasps of the Amarakaeri Communal

Reserve

Impact of a Natural Gas Exploratory Well on the Amphibian

Community of Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

Impact of a Natural Gas Exploratory Well on the Avian

Community of Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

Impact of a Natural Gas Exploratory Well on the Large

Mammal Community of the Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

Impacts of Dam Removal on Dippers and River Otters

Initial Case Reports of Cancer in Naked Mole-Rats

Investigating Memory Processes in Great Apes: A Cross-

Species Comparison

Investigating the Attribution of Perception in Orangutans

and Gorillas

Investigation of Stress Hormones in Apteryx mantelli:

Comparison of Ambassador Brown Kiwi With Those On

and Off Display

Life-Cycle Population Modeling for Select Species

Local Adaptation in Channel Island Song Sparrows

Longitudinal Evaluation of Milk Composition in Lowland

Gorilla

Long-Term Behavioral Study of a Breeding Female

Orangutan and Her Social Networks

Mad Island Migration

Mammals in Shade Coffee Systems

Measuring the Effect of Guest Interactions in a Stanley Crane

Using Hormone Analysis and Behavior Monitoring

Migration in Green Darner Dragonflies

Migratory Connectivity and At-Sea Distribution of Bahamian

Seabirds

Migratory Connectivity of the Birds of North America

Molt Patterns in Captive Kori Bustards

Multitrophic Consequences of Novel Plant Assemblages in

Urban Ecosystem

National and International Jurisdiction Over the Management

of Wide-Ranging Marine Species

Neighborhood Nestwatch

New Approaches to Large-Scale Butterfly Monitoring: Age

Structure Data, Growing Degree Days and Generalized

Population Models

Nutritional Analysis of Larval Eastern Hellbender,

Cryptobranchus alleganiensis alleganiensis, Diets in

Captivity and in the Wild

Oocyte Membrane-Bound Sperm Detection for Cuban

Crocodilian Conservation and Management

Orangutan Nesting Behavior in Captive and Wild Orangutans

Pandemic (H1N1) 2009 Influenza: A Virus Infection

Associated With Respiratory Signs in Sloth Bears

Pharmacokinetics of a Single Dose of Metronidazole in

Captive Asian Elephants (Elephas maximus)

Rabi Forest Monitoring Plot

Ranking Trees as Insect Producers for Wood Warblers

Redevelopment of the Indira Gandhi Zoological Park and the

Kambalakonda Ecotourism Park at Visakhaptanam

Regime Change in Shade Coffee

Regurgitation and Reingestion in a California Sea Lion:

Assessment and Intervention

Relationship Between Skin Microbiomes and Disease

Outcomes

Reverse Learning Capabilities of Green Tree Monitors

Sauria Monitoring Program in the Area of Influence of the

Peru Liquid Natural Gas (PERU LNG) Gas Pipeline

Sea Lion Swim Study

Self Recognition in Chameleons

Serum Protein Electrophoresis Reference Intervals for

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus)

Social Learning in Giant Pandas

Source-Sink Dynamics and Population Ecology of the Wood

Thrush

Stacking Species Distribution Models

Studying Disease Resistance to Reduce the Threat of

Chytridiomycosis to Panamanian Golden Frogs

Terrestrial Connectivity of the Gamba Landscape

The Effect of Music on the Welfare of a Green Winged

Macaw

The Influence of Policy, Socioeconomics and Ecology for

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Landscape Level Conservation: A Case Study on Asian

Elephants

The Migratory Connectivity Project

Tiger Talk – Utilizing Common Communication Signals to

Identify Estrous in A Sumatran Tiger (Panthera tigris

sumatrae)

Tracking the Migrations of the Endangered Kirtland’s Warbler

Treatment and Management of Chronic Recurrent Herpes

Simplex 1 Infection in a White Faced Saki Monkey (Pithecia

pithecia)

Understanding Basic Reproductive Biology and Welfare of

Captive Asian Elephants in Burma for Management and

Conservation

Understanding Basic Reproductive Biology and Welfare of

Captive Asian Elephants in Thailand for Management and

Conservation

Understanding Causes of Poor Reproduction in African

Painted Dog

Understanding How Hormones Modulate Behavioral

Phenotype and Social Network Structure

Understanding Interactions Between Ixodid Ticks and Their

Mammalian Hosts

Understanding Stereotypic Behavior in a Female Asian

Short-Clawed Otter

Understanding the Basic Reproductive Biology of Asian and

African Elephants for Management and Conservation

Understanding the Causes Underlying Poor Reproductive

Success in the Whooping Cranes

Understanding the Hormonal Onset of Puberty in Male and

Female Cheetahs (Acinonyx jubatus)

Understanding Underlying Causes of Inflammatory Bowel

Syndrome in Maned Wolves and Red Wolves

Using Captive Gray Seal Fecal Samples to Assess and

Analyze Prey Consumption in Wild Male and Female Gray

Seals

Using Soundscapes and Acoustic Monitoring to Evaluate the

Impact of a Natural Gas Exploratory Well on the Vocalizing

Animal Community of Amarakaeri Communal Reserve

Variation in Vocal Repertoires of Wild and Captive

Orangutans

Welfare Assessment of Stanley Cranes at the Smithsonian’s

National Zoological Park Through Fecal Glucocorticoid

Analysis With a Special Emphasis on Program Animal,

“Alice”

What Makes Ross’s Gulls Pink?

Florida

BREVARD ZOO

Field Conservation

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

Cameras4Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Botswana

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Conservation Fusion

Diamondback Terrapin (Malaclemys terrapin tequesta)

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) –

Coral

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) –

Manatee

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) –

Panther

Florida Scrub-Jay Translocations Within Brevard County,

Florida

Florida Wildlife Hospital and Sanctuary

Giant Armadillo Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Hutan – Orangutan

Indian River Lagoon Political Action Campaign

International Iguana Foundation

Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Manatee Critical Care Center

Mangrove Restoration in the Indian River Lagoon

Northern Jaguar Project

Oyster Reef Restoration Project – Gardening

Oyster Reef Restoration Project – Oyster Mats

Restore Our Shores

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife: Pangolin Conservation Program

Sea Turtle Preservation Society

Sea Turtle Research – Inwater Research Group

Seagrass Transplant Project

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Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Spectacled Bear Conservation Society

Research

Behavioral Monitoring of Resident Animals at Brevard Zoo

Experimental Research of Resident Animals at Brevard Zoo

BUSCH GARDENS TAMPA BAY

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Tours

Busch Gardens Group Camp

Busch Gardens Resident Camps

Busch Gardens Sleepovers

Day Camps

Outreach Program

Physics Day

Serengeti Safari

Zoo School

Field Conservation

Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust –

Transport of Three Rescued Chimpanzees

Conservation of Endangered African Penguins

Conservation of South Africa’s Free-Ranging Cheetahs

Through Farmer-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation

Energetics of Male and Female African Lions: Avoiding

Human-Lion Conflicts

Ewaso Lions

Forever Wild Conservation Programme

Future Conservationists of Africa

Iganyana Children’s Bush Camp Programme

Improving Capacity of Rangers to Protect the Okapi Wildlife

Reserve – Democratic Republic of Congo

International Rhino Foundation (IRF) – Black Rhino

Conservation and Anti-Poaching, Zimbabwe

Kasese Wildlife Conservation Awareness Organization

Wildlife Field Trip Project

Kouprey Express Environmental Education and Outreach

Lions in Kidepo National Park

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project

Partnering with Communities to Safeguard Wildlife Habitat in

Kibale National Park

Planting Ecological Corridors in Pontal do Paranapanema

Protecting Aguaje (Mauritia flexuosa) Palm Swamps With the

Distribution of Climbing Harnesses in the Peruvian Amazon

Protecting and Conserving Sumatran Tiger in Kerinci Seblat

National Park, Sumatra

Protection of Bonobos and Other Threatened Species at

Lilungu, Democratic Republic of Congo

Reducing Bushmeat Hunting to Protect Grauer’s Gorillas in

Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo

Ruaha Carnivore Project – Building Capacity to Monitor

Carnivores and Reduce Conflict in the Ruaha Landscape of

Tanzania

SAFE Program – African Penguins

Sanctuary Fence Destroyed by El Niño Rains

Saving America’s Rarest Bat

The Maasai Steppe Environmental Education Initiative

Tsavo Cheetah Project

CENTRAL FLORIDA ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Bat House Building Workshop

Central Florida Zoo After Dark – Nighttime Safaris

Community Outreaches

Cub Scout and Boy Scout Programs

Curriculum Programs

Florida Black Bear Awareness Program

Girl Scout Programs

Guided Tours

Homeschool Family Workshops

Homeschool ZOOventure Classes

Homeschool ZOOventure Series

Keeper for a Day and Family Zoo Keeper Experience

Master Naturalist

Night Hike

Preschool Programs

Speaker Series

Storytime

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Summer Camps

Sustainable and Locally Sourced Dinner

Wild Art and Wine

Wild Florida Adventure

Zoo to You Programs

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Central Florida Zoo’s Orianne Center for Indigo Conservation

Chacoan Peccary Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Claxton Rattlesnake and Wildlife Festival

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Gardens Conservation

and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) –

Characterization of Reproductive Endocrinology in Female

Servals (Leptailurus serval) for Improved Population

Management

Comparison of the Effects of Anticoagulants on the

Hematological Values in Eastern Indigo Snakes

(Drymarchon couperi)

Eastern Indigo Snakes Discriminate Among Prey Odors and

Prefer Copperheads

Evaluating the Validity of Portable Biochemical Analyzers in

Eastern Indigo Snakes (Drymarchon couperi)

Seasonal Effects on Blood Parameters in Eastern Indigo

Snakes (Drymarchon couperi)

DISCOVERY COVE

Education Programs

SeaVenture

Trainer for a Day

DISNEY’S ANIMAL KINGDOM

Education Programs

Backstage Safari

Backstage Tales

Behind the Scenes Tour

Community Hospital Program

Conservation Day Camp – Summer

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Lodge (DAKL) Onstage Guest

Activities

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Youth Education Series (YES)

Programs

Earth Day

Elephants and Bees: Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict in

Kenya

Epcot Flower and Garden Festival Themed Weekends

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

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Helping to Build Life Skills in Youth Through Outdoor

Exploration

Nature Plays Begins at Our Zoo or Aquarium

Night Vision Safari

Open Outdoors for Kids

Parks Build Community

Proyecto Tití – Conservation of the Cotton-Top Tamarin in

Colombia

Purple Martin Palooza

Sea Turtle Night Walks

Sense of Africa

Tour de Turtles

Vero Beach Turtle Tracks

Wanyama Safari

Weekly Sea Turtle Guest Presentation – Vero Beach

Wild Africa Trek

Wild Family Nature Clubs Across Canada and Children and

Nature Network Conference

Wilderness Explorers

Field Conservation

`Alae`ula Conservation and Research Project

Andean Cats and Local Communities

Archie Carr National Wildlife Refuge – Education Program

Assessing Piping Plover Migratory Stopovers

Assessing Primate Mortality in Southwestern Nicaragua and

Seeking Solutions for its Containment

Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH) – Plant

Conservation Grant Program

Audubon Canyon Ranch – Mountain Lion Project

Audubon of Florida – Support

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Guam Rail SSP – Pre-Release Quarantine Program

AZA SAFE

Bay Area Puma Project

Black Lion Tamarin Conservation in a Fragmented Landscape

Bonobo Conservation at Kokolopori

Bring Back the Pollinators Campaign

Building Communities That Conserve Wetlands

Centre de Rehabilitation des Primate Lwiro (CRPL) Solar

Electricity Emergency

Chimpanzee Sanctuary Storm Repairs

China Snow Leopard Conservation Program

Citizen Science: EagleWatch Web-Based Database System

Communities and Conservation: Saving Shearwaters

Community Carnivore Conservation in Uganda

Community Conservation for Spectacled Bears

Community Conservation of Andean Cats

Community Education for Carnivore Conservation

Community Guardians for Argentine Wetlands

Community Support for Okapi Conservation

Community-Based Conservation of Fishing Cats

Connecting Songbird Conservation Across Hemispheres

Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) Support

Conservation Hero – Appa Rao Allaparthi

Conservation Hero – Dendi Rustandi

Conservation Hero – Diorene Smith Cabellos

Conservation Hero – Emily Reed

Conservation Hero – Eusebio Wati

Conservation Hero – Gorilla Trackers and Antipoachers

Conservation Hero – Joko Guntoro

Conservation Hero – Lalaina Randriamanantenasoa

Conservation Hero – Nomba Ganamé

Conservation Hero – Predensa Moore

Conservation Hero – Sergei Sleptsov and Ivan Danilov

Conservation Hero – Sylvester Kampamba

Conservation Hero – Wendy Andrew

Conservation of Red-Tailed Amazon Parrot

Conservation of Ricord’s Iguana

Conservation of Sumatran Elephants

Conservation of Tasman Parakeets

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Saiga Antelope

Conservation Partnerships for Painted Buntings

Conserving Gunung Palung National Park

Conserving India’s Lion-Tailed Macaques

Conserving the Pygmy Sloth

Conserving Vultures Through Community Action

Demonstrating Sustainable Ranching in Patagonia

Devil Reintroduction to Forestier Peninsula

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Devon Greater Horseshoe Bat Project

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International – Support and Board

Member

Disney’s Wildlife Monitoring Program

Eastern Caribbean Offshore Islands Network

Emergency Vaccination African Wild Dogs

Emergency Varroa Treatment Southeast Madagascar

Ending Parrot Trapping in Democratic Republic of Congo

Energy Innovations with Ugandan Communities

Ensuring the Future of Critically Endangered Siamese

Crocodiles

Flamingo Conservation in Argentina

Gadaisu Community Biodiversity Safeguarding

Gopher Tortoise Conservation Program

Gorilla Project Truck Accident

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

Grassroots Conservation of Blanding’s Turtles

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort

Great Seeds Restoration Program

Guatemalan Endangered Reptile Awareness Program

Hahamongna to Tujunga Wildlife Corridor

Harlequin Conservation in Costa Rica

Indian Turtle Conservation Program

Integrated Bonobo Release and Conservation

Integrated Gorilla and Human Health

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Emergency Relief Network

International Iguana Foundation – Support and Board

Member

Jane Goodall’s Roots and Shoots Global

Javan Loris Community Conservation Project

Jay Watch: Audubon Citizen Science

Jersey Shore Terrapin Conservation Project

Kibale Forest Schools Conservation Project

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Long-Term Monitoring Program and Experimental Training

for Students (LiMPETS) Program

Louisiana Flood Rescue

Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative – Pantanal Tapir

Program

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Madagascar – Lemurs and Communities “Growing Green”

Maine Seabird Conservation and Community Volunteers

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Mkuze Community Conservation Project

National Wildlife Federation (NWF) – Kids and Families

Outreach: Be Out There

Nature Works Everywhere

Nicaragua Baird’s Tapir Conservation Initiative

Northern Jaguar – Viviendo con Felinos

Northern Tanzania Big Cats Conservation Initiative

Orangutan Research, Education and Conservation

Pacific Island Avifauna Health Assessment

Painted Dog Conservation – Anti-Poaching Units

Painted Dog Transboundary Initiative

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project

Philippine Eagle Conservation Program

Piping Plover Conservation – The Bahamas

Project Safe Flight Atlanta

Protecting a Key Mexican Pollinator

Protecting Great Bustards From Transportation Development

Protecting Habitat From Pine Beetle Outbreak

Protecting India’s Endangered Snow Leopards

Protecting Mongolia’s Endangered Snow Leopard

Puerto Rican Crested Toad

Purple Martin Migration and Nesting Research

Red Panda Stewardship and Conservation

Red-Shanked Douc Conservation

Reintroducing Pygmy Hogs Into Assam

Reintroduction Program for the Ploughshare Tortoise

Restoring Grevy’s Zebra Habitat in Kenya

Reverse the Decline – African Apes

Reverse the Decline – Conservation and Recovery of At-Risk

Butterflies

Reverse the Decline – Developing a Strategy to Reverse the

Decline of the Critically Endangered Sumatran Rhinoceros

Reverse the Decline – Monkeys: Expanding Education and

Outreach for Proyecto Tití

Reverse the Decline – Monkeys: Golden Lion Tamarin

Integrated Conservation

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Reverse the Decline – Recovery Program for Siberian Cranes

Reverse the Decline – Reversing the Decline of the Critically

Endangered Sumatran Tiger

Reverse the Decline – Saving Africa’s Elephants

Ridgway’s Hawk Conservation Project

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Sarus Crane Conservation in Mekong Delta

Save the Elephants – Elephants and Bees

Saving Nicaragua’s Endangered Spider Monkeys

Saving Spoon-Billed Sandpiper

Saving Tanzania’s Critically Endangered Vultures

Saving the Elephants of Amboseli

Saving the Philippine Bird King

Sullivan’s Island Bird Research Program

Towards Black-Capped Petrel Conservation

Transforming Indonesia’s Forest Management Paradigm

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Turtles of Florida’s Freshwater Springs

Umbrellabird Conservation in the Chocó, Colombia

Urban California Native Bee Survey

Urban Oases for Migrating Songbirds

Vulture Aviary

Wetlands and Wildlife Care Center Support

Whooping Crane Conservation Program

Wild Welfare

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Central Florida Support

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Serologic and Polymerase Chain Reaction Survey of

Equine Herpesvirus in Burchelle’s Zebra, Hartmann’s

Mountain Zebra and Thomson’s Gazelle in a Mixed Species

Savannah Exhibit

Agonistic Behavior in an All-Male Group of Nile Crocodiles

(Crocodylus niloticus)

Alternative Methods for Control of Nematodes in Ungulates

Artificial Insemination of Lowland Nyala (Tragelaphus

angasii) in the United States

Assessing Animal Visibility as a Tool for Enhancing Guest

Satisfaction at the Pangani, Tree of Life, Maharajah Trek,

Safari Attractions

Assessing Thermoregulation and Agonistic Behaviors in an

All Male Colony of Malayan Flying Fox and Rodrigues Fruit

Bats

Assessing Welfare of Northern Carmine Bee-Eaters (Merops

nubicus) During the Transition From Disney’s Animal

Kingdom’s Avian Research Center to Africa Aviary

Assessment of Dietary Vitamin E Supplementation in

Elephants

AZA Cheetah SSP – Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship

and Uniqueness in the AZA Cheetah Species Survival Plan

Population

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Citizen Science: Eagle Watch Web-Based Database System

for Audubon, Florida

Conservation Genomics for Examining Ungulate “Big Herd”

Management

Disney’s Animal Kingdom Expansion and Animal Monitoring

Initiative

Elephants and Bees: Reducing Human-Elephant Conflict in

Kenya

Evaluation of a Single Intratesticular Injection of Zinc

Gluconate Neutralized by Arginine (Zeuterin™) as a

Chemical Sterilant in Male Impala

Giraffe Grazing Behavior and Fecal Parasite Loads After

Supplementary Plantings

Gopher Tortoise Management and Conservation

Historical and Contemporary Genetic Diversity in a Captive

Population Prior to Reintroduction

Hybridization Within the North American Population of

Wildebeest (Connochaetes taurinus)

Investigating Decision-Making and Perception in Box Turtles

Investigation of Parental Investment and Genetic Relatedness

of Carmine Bee-Eaters

Latitudinal Comparisons of Nesting and Migratory Ecology of

a Long-Distance Migrant, the Purple Martin

Management of Iron Overload in the Black Rhinoceros

(Diceros bicornis) Using an Oral Iron Chelator

Method and Assay Validation for Ambassador Animals Study

Monitoring the Sensory Environments of the Walt Disney

Company Collection Animals

Pilot Study: A Test of GonaCon™ Gonadotropin-Releasing

Hormone (GnRH) Vaccine as an Effective Contraception

Method in Zoo-Managed Hippopotamus

Plumage Variation and Mate Choice in the Greater Flamingo

(Phoenicopterus ruber roseus)

Preliminary Feeding Trial of Atala Caterpillars (Eumaeus

atala) on Standard Caterpillar Medium

Proyecto Tití – Conservation of the Cotton-Top Tamarin in

Colombia

Reintroduction of the Mandrill: Stress Hormone Study

Serum Nutritional Profiles in Great Apes

Use of Radio-Frequency Identification (RFID) Technology to

Study the Reproductive Biology of an Ex-Situ Colony of

Northern Carmine Bee-Eaters (Merops nubicus)

Using Science to Understand the Welfare of Zoo Elephants

Wildlife Monitoring Program: Monitoring the Status of

Butterflies and Birds Found in the Wildlife Management

and Conservation Area

JACKSONVILLE ZOO AND GARDENS

Education Programs

4D Theater

AfterDark Adventures – Education

Animal Encounters

Behind the Scenes Programs

Birthday Parties

Conservation Lecture Series

Conservation Lunch and Learn

Day Camps – Fall, Winter, Spring and Summer

Early Childhood Programming – Natures Newbies

Early Childhood Programming – ZooTots

Exhibit Guide Interpretation Stations

Field Trips

FrogWatch USA

Garden Workshop Saturday Tour

Homeschool Zoocademy

Keeper for the Day

Membership Event – After Dark Program

Membership Event – Movie Nights

Nature Play Space(s)

Outreach Programming

River Quest – A Scenic River Cruise

School Programs – Public Programming

Special Event – Conservation Events

Special Events

Special Events – Fundraising

Teacher Workshop – Nature Play

Teacher Workshop – PLT

Train

WILD Program

Young Birders Club

Field Conservation

3-Wattled Bellbird Research

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Asociación de Rescate y Conservación de la Vida Silvestre

(ARCAS) – Sea Turtle Conservation Program

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Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI) – Swallow-

Tailed Kite Project

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA SAFE

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI)

Cheetah Conservation Botswana

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Cheetah Sustainability Display Program

Elephants for Africa

Giant Armadillo Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Hicatee Conservation Initiative

Indonesia Initiative

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Land Snakes Alive

Longleaf Pine Alliance

Lost Orchids of South Florida

Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Marine Mammal Rescue Program

Northern Rangelands Trust

Okapi Conservation Project

Pollinator Partnership

Puerto Rican Crested Toad Field Conservation Project

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Rupununi Region Jaguar Project

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Saola Working Group

Save the Rhino

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – African Penguin Rescue Campaign

Striped Newt (Western Clade) Breeding and Reintroduction

Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle Survival Center

Vulture Conservation Programme (VulPro)

Wood Stork Conservation Project and Partnership

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) – Scholarship

Program

Research

Animal Wellness, Citizen Science and the Empirical Zoo: An

Objective Analysis

Behavioral and Physiological Assessment of Captive

Heterosexual Gorilla Group with Multiple Silverbacks

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP) – Blood Pressure Monitoring

in Bonobos

Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in

Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in North

American Zoos

Pharmacokinetics of Flunixin Meglumine and Firocoxib in

African and Asian Elephants

LEMUR CONSERVATION FOUNDATION

Education Programs

Ako Conservation Education Program

Field Conservation

Field Training Programs for Malagasy Conservationists

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Park Protection and Basic Infrastructure for Anjanaharibe-

Sud Special Reserve, Madagascar

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Research

Colorado College Field School

Cortisol Levels and Parenting Strategies in Three Different

Lemur Species

Lemur catta Latrine Behavior

Lemur Foraging Cognition: Retention of Spatial Information,

Ranging Patterns and Memory of Novel Food Sites

Portland State University – Primate Methods

Temperature Effects on Activity Patterns of Mongoose

Lemurs (Eulemur mongoz)

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LION COUNTRY SAFARI

Education Programs

An Animal Tale

Animal Adaptations I

Animal Adaptations II

Animal Senses

Animal Theater Shows

Backyard Florida General Scout Program

Backyard Habitat

Bat House

Bear: Critter Care

Bear: Fur, Feathers and Ferns

Biofact Display

Boy Scout Bird Study

Boy Scout Mammal Study

Brownie – Bugs

Brownie – Pets

Brownie – Senses

Cadette – Animal Helpers

Careers in Zoos

Classification I

Classification II

Conservation

Daisy – Three Cheers for Animals

Education Station

Enrichment

Exhibit Talks

Food Chain

Fur, Feathers and Scales

General Scout Program

Habitats I

Habitats II

Habitats III

Junior – Animal Habitats

Junior – Detectives

Lion Country Safari Investigators (LCSI) Animal Mystery

Palm Oil

Party for the Planet

Premium Guest Experiences

Preserve Tour Materials

Rock On! Geology

Safari Day Camp

Safari Queen Boat Tour

Seafood Watch

Senior – Voice for Animals

Tigers: Tigers in the Wild

Toddler Tuesdays

Virtual Field Trips

Webelos – Earth Rocks

Webelos – Into the Wild

Webelos – Into the Woods

Wild Wednesdays

Wolf: Digging in the Past

World Oceans Day

Field Conservation

Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI)

Chimpanzoo

Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Conservation Centers for Species Survival (C2S2)

Florida Audubon Society

Florida Coontie and Black Atala Butterfly Introduction

Friends of MacArthur Park

Giraffe Painting / Giraffe Experience

Gopher Tortoise Habitat

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Into the Woods

Jane Goodall Institute

Pelican Rehabilitation and Release

Purple Martin Habitat

Rehabilitation of Indigenous Wildlife

Removal of Invasive Plants on Lion Country Safari Property

Shorebird Alliance

Tonkolili Chimpanzee Project

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Canine Fractures in Great Apes

Grip Strength Measurement in Aging Chimpanzees

Hormonal Changes With Age in Female Chimpanzees

LUBEE BAT CONSERVANCY

Education Programs

11th Annual Florida Bat Festival

General Lubee Bat Conservancy Educational Programming

Field Conservation

Conservation of the New Georgia Monkey-Faced Bat and

Its Occurrence in Proposed Community Protected Areas,

Following Large Scale Deforestation in the Solomon Islands

Rodrigues Environmental Education Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Characterization of the Antiviral Response in R. aegyptiacus

and P. vampyrus

MOTE MARINE LABORATORY & AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Experiences

Birthday Parties

Community Engagement

Field Trips

Florida Marine Science Educators Association (FMSEA) /

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)

Aquatic Series Collection Workshop

Florida Master Naturalist Program

High School Intern Program

Homeschool Programs

Kayaking

Mommy and Me at Mote

Mote Mobile Exhibit

Mote Summer Camps

Night of Fish, Fun and Fright

Sci Cafe

Scout Groups

SeaSnooze Overnights

SeaTrek Digital Learning

Special Lecture Series

Teen Sci Cafe’

Field Conservation

Coral Reef Restoration, Monitoring and Assessment

Programs

Fisheries Habitat Ecology Program

Manatee Research Program

Mote Animal Hospitals

Mote Community Partnership – Scallop Restoration Initiative

Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Program and Sea

Turtle Patrol

Shark Biology and Conservation Program

Spotted Eagle Ray Conservation Research

Stranding Investigations Program

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Research

Behavioral Ecology and Physiology Program

Chemical and Physical Ecology Program

Coral Health and Disease Program

Ecotoxicology Program

Environmental Laboratory for Forensics

Fisheries Ecology and Enhancement Program

Marine and Freshwater Aquaculture Research Program

Marine Immunology Program

Next-Generation Postdoctoral Research Fellow Projects

Ocean Acidification Program

Sensory Research With Two Resident Manatees

NAPLES ZOO

Education Programs

Camp WILD

Toddler Programs

ZooCon Distance Learning Programs

ZooMobile Outreach Programs

Field Conservation

African People and Wildlife Fund

Amphibian Ark

Anteaters and Highways

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Black Bear: Smarter Than the Average Bear Secure Trash

Campaign

Burmese Python Monitoring and Eradication Testing

Exotic Pet Amnesty Day

Florida Panther Habitat Recovery Monitoring

Florida Panther Species Recovery – Outcome-Oriented

Education

Florida Panther Species Recovery – Rehabilitation Facility

Giant Armadillo Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Monterey Bay Aquarium’s Seafood Watch Program

Orchid Conservation in South Florida and Cuba

Panthera – Leopards

Tree Planting

Wildlife Underpass Clearing

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as ISO 14001

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified Gold by Green Tourism

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

Research

Habitat Utilization of Fossa in the Eastern Rainforests

of Kianjavato: Implications for Their Subsistence in

Madagascar’s Degraded Landscape

PALM BEACH ZOO

Education Programs

“Wild Things” and “Wings Over Water” Shows

Afterschool Series

Climate Change Interpretation Training

Conservation Leadership Lectures

Guided Tours

Keeper Talks

Night Owls Overnight Adventure

STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Teacher Open House

Toddler Workshops

Water Conservation Series

Zoo Camp

Zoo Classes

Zoo Interpreters Training

Zoo Labs

Zoo School

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Field Conservation

Florida Wildlife Corridor Project

Perdido Key Captive Breeding and Reintroduction

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Greater Madidi

Tambopata Landscape Project

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Malaysia Field Project

Zoological Society of London (ZSL) Evolutionarily Distinct

and Globally Endangered (EDGE) Fellowship

Green (Sustainable) Practices

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Chordoma Prevalence in Perdido Key Beach Mice

Determination of Pseudopregancies in Malayan Tigers

Genetic Analysis of Wild and Captive Florida Panthers

SANTA FE COLLEGE TEACHING ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Backyard Habitat Day

Birthday Party

Boo at the Zoo

Career Shadow

Community Outreach Program

Education Carts

FrogWatch USA

Keeper Talks

Lecture Series

Party for the Planet

Rotary Reading Safari

Special Event Outreach

Training Demonstrations

VIP Tour

Zoo Guided Tours

Zookeeper Day

Field Conservation

Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI)

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

Gopher Tortoise Rehabilitation and Release Program

Guam Rail Breeding Program

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Non-Specific Indicators of Inflammation in Gopher Tortoises

(Gopherus polyphemus)

SEAWORLD ORLANDO

Education Programs

Day Camps

Guest Education

Resident Camps

School Programs

Sleepovers

Teacher Resources

Tours

Field Conservation

Aquatic Debris Removal of America’s Rivers

Bald Eagle Rescue and Rehabilitation

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Development of Culture Techniques for Marine Ornamental

Species

Enhancing the Breeding Success of Maine Coast Alcids

Habitat Use and Niche Variation in Norwegian Killer Whales

(Orcinus orca)

Outreach Support for Florida Wildlife Hospital and

Sanctuary, Inc

Rainforest Awareness Rescue and Education Center

Rising Tide Support for Culture of Hawaiian Reef Species

Taking Flight

Third International Meeting for the Welfare and Conservation

of Sloths in Panama

ST. AUGUSTINE ALLIGATOR FARM

Field Conservation

A Population and Nesting Survey of Reintroduced Chinese

Alligators

Avian Research and Conservation Institute (ARCI) – Swallow-

Tailed Kite Population Survey

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG)

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP – Population Monitoring of Wild

Komodo Dragons

Bird Endowment – Nido Adoptivo

Crocodilian Conservation Center of Florida

Gharial Conservation Alliance

Mabuwaya Foundation

Ocean’s Daughter Conservation Alliance – Fin Fest

Rainforest Rescue Mission Beach Cassowary Corridors

Sea Turtle Hospital at Whitney

Stacey Konwiser Tiger Conservation Fund

Vulture Conservation Programme (VulPro)

Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution – Right Whale

Initiative

World Pheasant Association – Edwards’s Pheasant DNA

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Gila Monster Genome Project

TAMPA’S LOWRY PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Interactive Experiences – Aldabara Encounter

Birthday Parties

Camps

Early Childhood Education – Childcare

Parents Night Out

Scavenger Hunts

Self-Guided Field Trip

Sleepovers

Teen Workshops

Teens for Tampa Bay

World Strides Travel Program

Field Conservation

Action Indonesia

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP – Isolation Area

CrocFest

Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC)

– Florida Black Bear Rescue / Rehabilitation / Release

Program

Florida Panther Recovery Plan

Land Acquisition of Critical Habitat for Imperiled Plants and

Animals Including the Critically Endangered Puerto Rican

Crested Toad (Peltophryne lemur)

Manatee Reintroduction Project

Manatee Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release

Marine Mammal Research Patrol

Okapi Conservation Project

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Fatty Acid Profiles of Wild and Rehabilitated Manatees

Immunity Scales With Body Mass Among Terrestrial

Mammals

Investigating How Body Mass Affects the Architecture of

Antimicrobial Immune Defenses in Terrestrial Mammals

Prolacin as a Pregnancy Diagnostic in Manatees

Symmetric Dimethylarginine (SDMA) in Manatees as an

Indicator of Renal Health.

Understanding Ovarian Activity and Estrous Cyclicity in

Red Wolves: Effects of Environment, Translocation and

Conspecifics

THE FLORIDA AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Adopt-A-School Partnerships

AMIKids Tampa Partnership

Aqua Tots

Behind the Scenes Tour

BOAT Stations

Camps (School-Year)

Camps (Summer)

Evening Tide Talks

Fish School – Safety in Numbers

Homeschool Classes

Junior Educators

Live Animal Presentation

Oceans of Chemistry Institute

Party with the Fishes (Birthday Parties)

Regional Oceans Conference for Students (ROCS)

School Group Classroom Programs

Scout Badge Workshops (Both Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts)

THE SEAS

Education Programs

Abaco Reef Restoration and Environmental Education

Aqua Tours

Aulani Rainbow Reef

Castaways Rays

DiveQuest

Dolphins in Depth

Seas Onstage Guest Programs

Seas Youth Education Series (YES) Programs

Supplied Air Snorkeling

World Oceans Day

Field Conservation

African Manatee Research and Conservation

Angel Shark Conservation Programme

Are Brown Tides Killing Oysters?

At-Sea Tracking of Little Penguins

Building Conservation Bridges to Cuba

Community Engagement for Dolphin Conservation

Community Youth Engagement for Sea Turtle Conservation

Community-Driven Shellfish (Scallop) Restoration Program

Conservation Hero – Susana Cárdenas-Alayza

Conservation Hero – Wilson Batislaon

Conservation of Pacific Leatherback Turtles

Conserving Critically Endangered Oceanic Sharks

Conserving Sea Turtles Through Community Participation

and Stakeholder Stewardship

Coral Reef Youth Education Program

Developing Elkhorn Coral Restoration Techniques

Expanding Regeneration of Threatened Corals

Fishing for the Future

Hawaiian Monk Seal Healthcare Project

Individual Dolphins as Conservation Tools

Initiating Seahorse Conservation in China

Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership (MRP)

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Manta Conservation and Capacity Building

Monitoring Manatees at Florida Springs

New England Cold Stun Event

Reverse the Decline – Coral Reefs

Reverse the Decline – Reversing the Decline of Sharks and

Rays

Reverse the Decline – Sea Turtles

Rising Tide

Sea Turtle Cold-Stunned Season

Sea Turtle Conservation Education and Ecotourism

Sea Turtle Conservation in Community

Sea Turtle Conservation in Congo

Seagrass Surveys for Education and Conservation

Shark Conservation in Costa Rica

Shorebird Conservation in the Bahamas

Southeast Regional Sea Turtle Network (SERSTM)

Tour de Turtles – Sea Turtle Conservancy

Turtle Conservation in Kenya

Urban Shark Conservation / Research Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Multi-Faceted Health Assessment for a Sample of Nesting

Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Abaco Reef Restoration and Environmental Education

Communication in Flamboyant Cuttlefish (Metasepia pfefferi)

– Investigating Body Patterning

Contraceptive Drug Trials at Disney’s Animal Kingdom and

the Seas

Developmental Life Cycle of Marine Trematodes (Decacotyle

sp.) on Captive White-Spotted Eagle Rays and Possible

Treatments

Evaluating the Pharmacokinetics of a Nonsteroidal Anti-

Inflammatory Drug (NSAID) After Intravenous and

Intramuscular Administration in Tilapia (Oreochromis

niloticus)

Evaluation of Stress in Elasmobranchs

Examining Factors that May Influence Accurate Measurement

of Testosterone in Sea Turtles

Magnetic Field Discrimination in Bottlenose Dolphins

Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership (MRP) Research

Preventing Boat Collisions with Manatees (Trichechus

manatus): A Possible Boater-Alert System Based on

Acoustic Detection of Manatees

Sex Determination of French Grunts (Haemulon

flavolineatum) in the Seas’ Recirculating Research System

Statewide Sea Turtle Nesting Surveys

Studies of the Dolphin Mind: Echolocation, Communication

and Social Life

Studies on the Development of Head and Lateral Line (HLL)

Disease in Ocean Surgeonfish

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Studies on the Endocrinology and Physiology of Stress and

Hydromineral Balance in the Elasmobranch Fishes

To Determine the Plasma Concentrations of Oral Praziquatnel

in Plasma of Spotted Eagle Rays

Training a Scent Detection Dog to Locate Sea Turtle Nests

and Gopher Tortoises

Understanding Causal Agents of Southern Stingray

Reproductive Disease for Treatment Development

WHITE OAK CONSERVATION CENTER

Education Programs

Adult Education Workshop – Florida Master Naturalist

Program

Conservation Summer Camp

K-12 Field Experiences (Off-Site)

K-12 Field Experiences (On-Site)

Monthly Public Special Event

Off-Site Lectures and Presentations

Staff Guided Public and Private Wildlife Tours

Topics in Conservation

Undergraduate / Graduate Level Field Experience

Field Conservation

Black Rhino Conservation

Florida Grasshopper Sparrow Propagation and Recovery

Program

Florida Panther Rehabilitation and Reintroduction

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group

Mississippi Sandhill Crane Propagation and Recovery

Program

Okapi Conservation

Whooping Crane Restoration

ZOO MIAMI

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

BioTECH

Citizen Science

Conservation Teen Scientist

Field Trips

Keeper Talks

Nature Play

Night Programs

Outreach Programs

Volunteer Program

Zoo Camps

Field Conservation

Audubon Christmas Bird Count

Big Life Foundation

Biological and Conservation Studies of the Miami Tiger

Beetle (Cicindela floridana)

Butterfly Surveys of Pine Rockland and Developed Grounds

of Zoo Miami

Cheetah Outreach

Citizen Science: Invasive Fish Removal Derby

Conservation and Research Specialist

CrocFest

Florida Bonneted Bat Rehabilitation

Herpetofaunal Survey of the Pine Rocklands of Zoo Miami

Invasive Species and Fire Management of the Zoo Miami Pine

Rocklands

Native Bat Roosting Mitigation and Enhancement

Pine Rockland Public Restoration

Tiger Conservation Campaign

Zoo Miami Butterfly Conservation Area

Zoo Miami Lake Enhancement Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

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WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Feather Iridescence Used in Courtship Displays by Various

Species of Pheasants

Invasive Neyraudia reynaudiana Herbicide Testing for

Effective Primary Treatment Methods in Pine Rocklands

Investigating the Habitat Usage and Impacts of Non-Native

Boa Constrictors

Investigating the Validity and Genetic Origins of a Recently

Described Species of Eunectes

Life Cycle and Development of the Faithful Beauty Moth

(Composia fidelissima)

Reversing Tropical Amphibian Declines

The Ecology of Gopher Tortoises in the Pine Rocklands

The Natural History, Habitat Usage and Origins of Florida

Flamingos

Georgia

GEORGIA AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

African Penguin Conservation

Georgia Dolphin Ecology Project

Georgia Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Center

Health and Environmental Risk Assessments (HERA) – Indian

River Lagoon Dolphin Health Assessment

Health and Environmental Risk Assessments (HERA) –

Manatees

Manta Ray Natural History

Sustainable Funding of Reef Restoration

Whale Shark Genome Project

Whale Shark Population Study – Cancún, Mexico

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Whale Sharks St. Helena

THE ZOO AT CHEHAW

Field Conservation

Bat Habitat Restoration and Research

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Gopher Tortoise Management in Pine Forest

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Invasive Plant and Animal Removal

Longleaf and Wiregrass Restoration Ecology

Ornithological Habitat Restoration

Project Heloderma

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

ZOO ATLANTA

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Ape Conservation Effort

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Kori Bustard SSP

Chytridiomycosis and Amphibian Conservation

Community-Based Red Panda Conservation and Monitoring

in Eastern Nepal

Conservation Psychology: Motivating People Across Cultures

to Protect Great Apes

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Giant Panda Conservation

Headstart / Relocation Program for Gopher Frogs in Georgia

Headstarting Diamondback Terrapins

Hellbender Salamander Population and Disease Status in

Georgia

Indigo Snake Restoration Project

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) –

Population Management

Project Abronia

Project Heloderma

Proyecto Zorro Pitoco (Project Bush Dog)

Sahara Conservation Trust (SCT)

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Vulture Conservation Programme (VulPro)

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

World Parrot Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

Behavioral Observations of Non-Human Primates at Zoo

Atlanta and Genetic Hormonal Analysis of Preserved

Primate Bodily Fluids or Fecal Samples

Blood Collection for Paternity Analysis of Captive

Guatemalan Beaded Lizards to Guide Captive Management

Comparative Muscle Fiber Architecture Adaptation

Ecology and Evolution of the Vertebrate Microbiome

Evaluating the Subclinical Prevalence of Ophidiomyces

ophiodiicola at Zoo Atlanta

Evaluation of ZooMonitor App for Animal Monitoring and

Research

Evolution of Great Ape Microbiomes

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP)

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Idaho

IDAHO FALLS ZOO AT TAUTPHAUS PARK

Education Programs

Animal Encounter Show

Behind the Scenes Tours

Career Days

Junior Zoo Crew

One Day Summer Classes

Penguin Interaction Program

Quarters for Conservation

Special Events

Spring Break Classes

Tours

Water Awareness Festival

Week Long Summer Camp

Winter Break Classes

Zoo Tots Classes

Zoomobiles

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by a Local or State Agency

ZOO BOISE

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Anti-Poaching Unit in Gorongosa National Park

AZA SAFE – Cheetah Conservation Action Plan

Children’s Conservation Education in Gorongosa National

Park

EcoHealth Program in Gorongosa National Park

Monitoring the Elephant Population in Gorongosa National

Park

Reintroduction of Southern Idaho Ground Squirrels

Saola Working Group

Table Rock Fire Restoration

Value of Time Administering the Zoo Boise Conservation

Fund

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Development of Reintroduction Protocol for Southern Idaho

Ground Squirrel

Illinois

CHICAGO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY – BROOKFIELD

ZOO

Education Programs

A Zoo for All: Inclusive Visits for Individuals with Disabilities

Astellas Polaris

Badges

Baxter International

Bridges

Chicago Zoological Society (CZS) – Sarasota Dolphin

Research Program Undergraduate Internship Program

College Experiential Learning Opportunities

Common Foundations in Informal Science Learning for Zoo

Staff and Volunteers

Crowdsharing Conservation

Crowdsharing Environmental Action

Dolphins of Pine Island

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Ecolab Foundation

Educational Signs as a Tool to Engage Local Community to

the Punta San Juan Reserve and Its Wildlife

Family Fun Saturdays

Good Works

Guthman Foundation

Hamill Family Play Zoo

Institute of Science Teaching Excellence

King Conservation Science Scholars

King Family

Nature Play Begins

Nature Play Zero to Three

NatureStart Zero to Three

NatureStart AZA Course

NatureStart Network: Building Nature Play Partnerships for

Urban Children and Families

NatureStart Networks

NatureStart Professional Development Program

Professional Learning in Informal Science Education: How

Can We Do It? How Can We Sustain It?

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP)

Project Search

Roving Naturalist (Critter Cart)

Science Fellows Program

SCIENCES (Supporting a Community’s Informal Education

Needs) Project

SCIENCES (Supporting a Community’s Informal Education

Needs): Confidence and Empowerment in STEM (Science,

Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Sleepover Safari

The Bottlenose Dolphins of Sarasota Bay: Lessons From Four

Decades of Research and Five Generations of Dolphins

The World’s Longest-Running Study of a Wild Dolphin

Population: Lessons from Four Decades and Five

Generations

Underwritters Laboratory

Volunteer Program

Wells Fargo

Wild Encounters, Keeper Chats and Ambassador Animals

Program

Zoo Adventure Passport

Zoo Camp

Zoo Camp for All

Zoo Explorers Club

Zoo For All

Zoo For All Low-Sensory Holiday Magic Event

Zoological and Aquatic Animal Residency Program – Illinois

Field Conservation

African Painted Dog

Bottlenose Dolphin Health Assessments in Sarasota Bay,

Florida: 2017

Building Bridges – Punta San Juan

Center for the Science of Animal Care and Welfare

Community Engagement for Dolphin Conservation

Gorilla, Chimpanzee and Bonobo

Northeast Gulf of Mexico Dolphin Interventions

Post-Release Monitoring of Injured, Out-Of-Habitat or

Stranded Cetaceans in the Southeastern United States

Punta San Juan Marine Wildlife Conservation Program

Pygmy Hog

Rabbs’ Fringe-Limbed Treefrog

Rain Frog

Reptile

Santa Marta Toro, Rodent

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Bachelor Foundation

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Bottlenose Dolphin

Biopsy Darting Training

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Bottlenose Dolphin

Health Assessments in Sarasota Bay, Florida: 2017

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Bottlenose Dolphin

Health Assessments in the Gulf of Mexico

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Community

Engagement for Dolphin Conservation (Disney)

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Development of

Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance (PCAD)

Model

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Dolphin Identification

System Portal

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Post-Release

Monitoring of Injured, Out-of-Habitat or Stranded

Cetaceans in the Southeastern U.S.

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Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Supported by

Corporate Funding

Sarasota Dolphin Research Program – Supported by

Individual Funding

Species Conservation Toolkit Initiative

Sumatran Orangutan

Travel Expenses for Susana Cárdenas-Alayza

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Behavioural Response of Sea Turtles to the FaunaGuard

Turtle Module

Bermuda Wild Dolphin Project

Bottlenose Dolphin Health Assessments in the Gulf of Mexico

Developing Methods to Assess Physiological Biomarkers

as Indicators of Welfare of Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops

truncatus)

Development of Population Consequences of Acoustic

Disturbance (PCAD) Model

Investigating Louisiana Dolphins’ Reproductive Health After

Deepwater Horizon

Research Collaboration Network

Testing Tackle Modifications and Fish Descender Tools for

Reducing Dolphin Scavenging and Depredation of Sport

Fish

Validating WelfareTrak® as a Tool to Improve the Welfare of

Individual Chimpanzees

COSLEY ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounter

Bobcat’s Backstage

Camps

Critter Cart

Eco Exploration Backpack tours

FrogWatch USA

Junior Zookeeper Program

Morning Chores

Park District Programs

Party for the Planet

School and Group Programs

Scout Programs

Teacher Workshop

Training Demonstrations

Turtle Day

Zoo to You

Field Conservation

Blanding’s Turtle Headstart Project

FrogWatch USA

The Great Backyard Bird Count

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

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FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

An Assessment of a Blanding’s Turtle Translocation Project:

Population Structure and Physiological Health

Bobcat Population Study

Development of Fecal Assays for Assessing Health

Parameter in Sheep and Closely Related Species

Digestive Properties of Bubo virginianus versus Tyto alba

Hi-C Genomic Zoo

JOHN G. SHEDD AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Amphibian Educator Badging

Assistantships

Club Shedd

Club Shedd – Middle School

Freshwater Ecology

Great Lakes Action Days

Great Lakes Digital Badging

High School Lake Ecology

High School Marine Biology

Interpretive Volunteers

Learning Labs – 6-12th Grades

Live From Behind the Scenes

Marine and Island Ecology of The Bahamas

Park Voyagers

Professional Training Seminar

Science Tech Treks

Shedd Science Educator Conference

Shedd Stewards

Spring Break Camp

Summer Road Trip

Summer Worlds Tour

Sustainable Seafood Culinary School Partner Training

Sustainable Seafood Event Outreach

Sustainable Seafood Restaurant Partner Training

Teen Learning Lab

Teen Work-Study

Underwater Robotics – Club and Competition

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Wreath-Cycled

Field Conservation

Aquatic Invasive Species Monitoring and Research Program

Bahamian Iguana Research and Conservation

Conch Population Assessment and Management in the

Bahamas

Coral Reef Conservation in Partnership With SExual COral

REproduction (SECORE)

Dam Removal and Migratory Fish Recruitment in Great Lakes

Tributaries

Field Surveys of Threatened and Endangered Aquatic

Species in Illinois

General Operating Expenses

Great Lakes Action Days

Movement and Habitat Use of Lake Sturgeon

Spatial Dynamics of Nassau Grouper Spawning in the

Bahamas

Urban Ecology of Mudpuppies in the Chicago Area

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

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GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Aquarium Microbiome Project

Assessing Conservation Science

Beluga Septum Endocrinology

Cetacean Perinatal Behavioral Assessment

Mycobacteria Response to Disinfection

LINCOLN PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Animal Enrichment Workshops

Artecito

Campout at the Zoo

Chicago Environmental Stewards

Chicago Environmental Stewards Spring Break Camp

Community Pop-Up Events

Conservation Ambassador Board

Conservation Camp (School Holidays)

Conservation Camp (Summer)

Cow Milking

DreamNight

Educator Open House

Free-Flight Feeding

Gorilla Cognition

Gorilla Operant Conditioning

Guest Engagement Chats

Guest Engagement Mobile Learning Stations

Learn Explore and Play (LEAP)

Member Safari Tours

Morning Safari / Twilight Safari

Nature Boardwalk Tours

Partners in Fieldwork

Pre-Service Teacher Education Partnership

Research Apprenticeship Program

Science for All Students

Seal Training and Feeding

Second Saturday Garden Tours

Teacher Workshops

Wine and Wildlife

Young Researchers Collaborative

Zoo Crew

Zoo Explorers

Zoo Intern Program

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE – Founders Circle

Bali Mynah Reintroduction Project

Conservation Assessment and Recovery of Smooth Green

Snake Populations in Northern Illinois

Developing Noninvasive Methods to Assess Health in Bats

Threatened by White-Nose Syndrome

Developing Non-Invasive Methods to Monitor the Health of

Urban Bats

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort

Little Brown Bat Priority Species

Long-Term Monitoring of an Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake

(EMR) Population in Southwest Michigan

Miscellaneous Conservation Donations to Field Conservation

Organizations

Monitoring Bat Diversity in the Chicago Area and the

Influence of Prey Availability

Monitoring Infertility in Black-Footed Ferrets

Monitoring the Health and Stress of Urban Wildlife and

Implications on Human Health

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Movements, Habitat Use and Survival of Translocated

Woodchucks

Painted Turtle Relocation and Monitoring at Nature

Boardwalk

Population Management Advising for Species Recovery and

Conservation Assurance Populations

Population Viability Analysis (PVA) for the Federally

Endangered Hine’s Emerald Dragonfly (HED)

Population Viability Analysis (PVA) of the Louisiana Pine

Snake

Population Viability Analysis (PVA) of Zoo and Wild

Populations of Endangered Red Wolves (Canis rufus)

Post-Reintroduction Monitoring of Flatwoods Amphibians

Puerto Rican Parrot Population Management

Red Wolf Recovery Team

Regional Survey of Amphibian Chytrid (Batrachochytrium

dendrobatidis) and Amphibian Stress

Serengeti Health Initiative – Distemper and Rabies

Vaccination Project

Survey and Monitoring of Graham’s Crayfish Snake in Lake

County, Illinois

The Recovery of Meadow Jumping Mice and Assessment of

the Conservation Status of Least Weasels

Tracking Fecal Metabolites to Determine Estrous Cycle and

Cortisol Levels of Tamiasciurus hudsonicus grahamensis in

an Ex-Situ Setting

Understanding Stress Physiology of the Mountain Gorilla

Urban Wildlife Information Network (UWIN)

Using Artificial Cavities to Assess the Nesting Success of

Native Cavity-Nesting Birds

Using Camera Traps to Assess Mammalian Community

Composition, Abundance and Diversity

Validating the Use of Reproductive Endocrinology as a

Management Tool for Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnakes

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Preliminary Investigation of Non-Invasive Body

Composition Estimation in Gorillas

Ape Cognition Using Touchscreen Testing

Assessment of the Nutritional Status of Captive Eastern

Massasauga Rattlesnakes (Sistrurus catenatus catenatus)

as Compared to Wild Counterparts

Association of Intestinal Microbial Communities With

Health and Stress in Free-Ranging and Zoo-Housed Black

Rhinoceros

Baseline Serosurvey of Equine Herpesvirus (EHV-1/9) in Polar

Bears and Exotic Equids Housed in United States AZA

Institutions

Behavioral and Physiological Effects of Construction Activity

and Noise on the Baringo Giraffe Housed at Lincoln Park

Zoo

Behavioral Monitoring of Chimpanzees and Gorillas

Bonobo Population Dynamics: Past Patterns and Future

Predictions for the Lola Ya Bonobo Population Using

Demographic Modeling

Breeding and Welfare in Non-Human Primates

Can Chimpanzees Learn to Use Tool-Sets in an Artificial

Termite Mount?

Carotenoids in Uropygial Gland of Rhino and Giant Hornbills

(Buceros)

Case Series Evaluation of Smooth Green Snake Oral

Squamous Cell Carcinoma

Chicago Environmental Stewards

Chimp Haven

ChimpCARE

Classification and Management Assessment of Canine

Fractures in Captive Managed Populations of Great Apes

Cognitive Bias in Japanese Macaques

Combining Site-Based Initiatives and Collaborative

Partnerships to Strengthen Great Ape Health

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COMPADRE and COMADRE Plant and Animal Matrix

Databases

Comparing the Stress of Urban and Rural Red-Winged

Blackbirds

Conservation Ambassador Board

Contribution of Zoos and Aquariums to Endangered Species

Recovery in the United States

Cross-Facility Survey of Chimpanzee Welfare Measures

Determining the Disease and Predation Risk of Free-

Roaming Dogs on Vulnerable Reintroduced Wildlife

Determining the Predominant Glucocorticoid in Sea Otters

Using an Adrenocorticotropic Hormone (ACTH) Challenge

Determining the Relationship Among Baculum Size and

Shape, Genetic Relatedness and Breeding Success in the

Endangered Black-Footed Ferret

Developing a Dynamic Interaction Based Occupancy Model

Developing a Meta-Population Model for Heterogeneous

Environments

Effects of Contraceptive Implants on Macaque Cycling /

Fertility

Effects of Urbanization on Long-Term Stress in Mammalian

Communities in the Chicagoland Area

Electrocardiogram (EKG) Monitoring of Chimpanzees With

Behavioral Overlay

Epidemiology and Familial Tracking of Naso-Oral Squamous

Cell Carcinoma in François’ Langurs Housed in AZA

Institutions

Evaluating Gorilla Enrichment Evaluation Efficacy

Evaluation of Animal Ambassador Experiences

Exploring the Biodiversity of Snakes Surrounding the Lincoln

Park Zoo’s Nature Boardwalk

Facilitation of External Research

Flexible Problem-Solving in Great Apes

Free-Roaming Domestic Dog Ecology in Villages West of

Serengeti National Park, Tanzania

Gathering Hormonal Measures of a Gorilla Bachelor Group

Goods, Equipment or Supplies Donated to Research Projects

Outside of the Institution

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP) – Video Analysis Lab

Incidence of Squamous Cell Carcinoma and Role of

Carotenoids in Three Species of Captive Bee-Eaters

Institutional Support (Direct and In Kind) for Hosting

of Scientific Conferences Focused on Presentation of

Research Results

Intraocular Pressure in Exotic Carnivores and Non-Human

Primates

Investigating Diversity, Stress and Health of Small Mammal

Communities Across an Urban to Exurban Gradient

Investigating Ovulation Failure in the Endangered Black-

Footed Ferret

Investigating the Influence of an Ape’s Social Group on Their

Individual Decision-Making

Japanese Macaque Behavioral Monitoring

Japanese Macaque Personality Assessment: Development of

a Novel Scale for Use in Zoo Setting

Japanese Macaque Social Spacing

Microbiome Comparisons Among Great Apes and Humans

Modeling the Behavioural Response of an Urban Adapted

Species to Varying Degrees of Urbanization

Pharmacokinetics of Analgesics in Black and White

Rhinoceros Species: Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatories

and Gabapentin

Plasma Concentration of Fentanyl Achieved by Transdermal

Administration in Chickens

PMCTrack – Analyses of Historic Breeding and Transfer

Recommendations in AZA’s SSPs

Population Viability Analyses (PVAs) of AZA Species Survival

Plans (SSPs)

Predictors of Wounding in Japanese Macaques

Prosocial Behavior in Japanese Macaques: A Touchscreen

Study

Prospective Assessment of the Incidence of Mammary

Neoplasia in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes): Pathology,

Genetic Markers and Clinical Application

Rabbit Management on Zoo Grounds

Retrospective Mortality Review in Chimpanzees

Retrospective Risk Assessment of Perianesthetic Mortality

in Captive Managed Populations of Chimpanzees (Pan

troglodytes)

Sandy Potatoes: Setting the Stage for Behavioral

Transmission in Japanese Macaques

Serologic Assessment of AZA SSP Population of Common

Chimpanzees for Hepatitis B Virus: Current Health Status

for Prospective Management and Retrospective Pathologic

Assessment for Overall Incidence

Social Spacing of Chimpanzees and Gorillas

Testing the Use of Surrogate Demographic Data for Species

Recovery

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Testing Whether Social Information Aids Memory of Events

by Chimpanzees and Gorillas

Training and Administration of Citizen Science Projects

Using Fourier Series to Partition Variability Between

Temporally Periodic and Stochastic Events

Visitor Perception of Chimpanzee Enrichment

Welfare of Captive Polar Bears and Their Value to In-Situ

Conservation Efforts

ZooMonitor

PEORIA ZOO

Field Conservation

Alligator Snapping Turtle Recovery Plan

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Center for Ecosystem Survival (SaveNature.org)

FrogWatch USA

Polar Bears International

SCOVILL ZOO

Field Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Red Panda Network

SaveNature.org

Green (Sustainable) Practices

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Indiana

FORT WAYNE CHILDREN’S ZOO

Field Conservation

Acres Land Trust

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Amur Leopard SSP – Reintroduction Fund

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP

AZA SAFE – African Penguin

AZA SAFE – General Administrative

AZA SAFE – Shark and Ray

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign: Sumatran

Tiger

Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI)

Coffee and Primate Conservation in Central Java

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Hellbender Headstarting Project

Indiana University – Purdue University Fort Wayne (IPFW)

Turtle Fund

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Leatherback Trust

Little River Wetland Project

Living With Lions Trust – Lion Guardians Project

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Marsh Wren Nature Preserve Management Plan Development

Michigan Department of Natural Resources

Orangutan Conservancy

Pacific Marine Mammal Rescue Center

Red Panda Network

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) – Adopt-an-Ostrich

Program

Save the Tasmanian Devil Program

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

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Research

Characterization of Reproductive Endocrinology in Female

Servals (Leptailurus serval) for Improved Population

Management

Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Penguins

The Orangutan Conservation Genetics Project

INDIANAPOLIS ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY, INC.

Education Programs

Adult Education Programs

Animal Art Adventure

Animal Chats

Boy Scout Programs

Bunk for a Badge

Career Tours

Conservation Educator Academy

Daisy Scout Programs

Dolphin In-Water Adventure

Dolphin Presentation

Dolphin Trainer Explorer Camp

Education Kits

Educator E-News

Educator Open House

Educator Professional Development

Family Nature Club

Family Overnight

Girls in Science

Nocturnal Adventures

Oasis Senior Programing

Preschool Programs

Saturday Science Programs

Science Investigator Series

Summer Zoo Camps

Zoo Educator Advisory Council

Zoo Explorer Camps

Field Conservation

Amur Tiger Conservation Project

AZA SAFE – Visionary Funder

Champions for Our Planet

Cheetah Conservation in Namibia

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) –

Borneo Tree Assessment

Kutai National Park

Kutai National Park Reforestation

Massasauga Rattlesnake Conservation

Mauritian Wildlife

Project Seahorse

Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)

Support for the Chair of the IUCN / SSC

Tarangire Elephant Project – Development of Corridors

Outside of Tarangire National Park

The Ara Project

The Nature Conservancy Gulf Project

World Parrot Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

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WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Orangutan Mental Complexity and Its Relationship to

Survival in the Tropical Forest

MESKER PARK ZOO & BOTANIC GARDEN

Education Programs

Adventure Amazonia

Animal Appreciation

Animal Certification Classes

Animal Encounters

Animal Play

Birthday Parties

Birthday Tour

Boo at the Zoo

Botanist for a Day

Boy Scouts Wildlife Conservation Belt Loop/Animal Study

Camporee – Merit Badge Workshop

Camporee Bat and Moth Survey

Community Outreach Speakers

Creature Quest /Robo Camp/ZooTastic Journey

Dash For Donna 5K Race / Family Fun Day

Destination – Discovery!

Docent Meetings

Evening Rental Amazonia Jaguar Interpretation

Evening Rental Amazonia Tour

Exhibit Interpretation

Expedition – Zoo / Dr. Zoo

Food Webs

Garden Club Botanic Tour

Globetrotters

Globetrotters and Homebodies

Goat Contact Yard

Going, Going, Gone

Grow Your Garden Wild

Indiana Bats, Kids and Caves – Oh My!

International Red Panda Day

Jumpin Jive

Keeper Talks

Kinderfun

Look Ma No Teeth / You Are What You Eat

Meet the Vertebrates

Member Appreciation Night – Amazonia Tour

Member Appreciation Night – Commissary

Member Appreciation Night – Vet Hospital Tour

Mission Green Possible

New Docent Training

New ZooTeen Intake and Training

Orchid Escape Botanic Interpretation

Party Animals! / ZooTopia

Party for the Planet – Education Tables

Plant Partners

Roaming With Animal Ambassador

Scavenger Hunts

Spaceship Earth

Special Donor Tours

Tram Tour

What’s Up Water?

Zoo Brew

Zoo Master (Junior) / Junior Zookeeper

Zoo Master / The Zookeeper’s Apprentice

Zoo Mission / Go Green!

Zoo Party

Zoo Play

Zoo Scientists / Expedition Zoo

ZooTeen Conferences (Spring and Fall)

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP – Conservation Fund

AZA SAFE – Founders Circle

AZA Tiger SSP Donation

Bat Conservation International

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Eastern Hellbender Captive Headstarting Program

Girl Scouts of Southwestern Indiana – Butterfly Garden

International Red Panda Network – Docent Donation

Kudzu Eradication Project

LightHawk

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program

Ovate-Leaved Catchfly Conservation in Indiana

Panthera USA

Purdue University Hellbender Program (Docents)

Southwestern Indiana Master Gardeners Association

(SWIMGA) – Conference Sponsorship

Tapir Specialist Group Conservation Fund

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

World Wildlife Fund (WWF) With American Association of

Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Wishing Well Donation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

POTAWATOMI ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Animal Meet and Greets

Birthday Parties

Conservation Scouts

Endangered Species Days

Evening Safari Programs

Exhibit Interpretation

Party for the Planet

World Oceans Day

ZooCamp

Zoo-to-You Outreach

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Lion Guardians

Painted Dog Research Trust

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Iowa

BLANK PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Beekeeping for Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation and

Rural Income

Bioko Biodiversity Protection

Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Conservation Trust

Conservation Fusion

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Health in Harmony

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

IDEA WILD

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

International Snow Leopard Trust

Iowa Rivers Revival

Kinabatangan River Spirit Initiative

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

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Marine Mammal Center

Neighbor Ape

Painted Dog Research Trust

Plant Grow Fly

Prairies for Agriculture

Proyecto Tití

Ringgold County Conservation

The Turtle Bill

Trumpeter Swan Restoration Project

UpCycle

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Blank Park Zoo and Iowa Department of Natural Resources

Partnership in Greater Prairie Chicken Translocation

Citizen Science – Bird Species ID

Citizen Science – Tiger Tracking

Citizen Science – Wallaby Watch

Citizen Science – Zoo Quiz

Comparison of Seasonal Circulating Vitamin D3 in Captive

North American and Free-Ranging Black Rhinoceros

Correlating Behavior With Fecal Hormones to Predict Estrus

in Female Eastern Black Rhino

Effects of Environmental Factors on Chemical and Odor

Composition of Tiger Marking Fluid and Urine to Aid

Conservation

Esophageal Squamous Cell Carcinoma in Six Harbor Seals

(Phoca vitulina)

Genome Mapping of the Scarlet Macaw

Giraffe Enrichment Effect of Belt Feeder Apparatus

Giraffe Rapid Assessment

Giraffe Welfare Project

Influence of Pig Head Tops as Enrichment Items on Feeding

Behaviors and Activity in Large Captive Felids

Lions: Social Dynamics

Macaque Laterality

Nighttime Behaviors in Japanese Macaques

Potential Use of Oral Fluid Samples for Serologic and

Nutritional Diagnoses in Captive Red-Necked Wallabies

(Macropus rufogriseus)

Prevalence of Genetic Polymorphs in the Glutathione

S-Transferase P1 Promoter in Dogs

Retrospective Evaluation of Non-Tuberculous

Mycobacteriosis in a Captive Population of Red-Necked

Wallabies

Rhinoceros: Development

Rhinoceros: Play and Curiosity

Rhinoceros Social Dyad

Seasonal Variation of 25-Hydroxy-Vitamin D in Two Captive

Eastern Black Rhinoceros

Serologic Survey and Results of Urinary Protein: Creatinine

Ratio (PCR) Testing for Leptospirosis in Captive Black-

Tailed Prairie Dogs

Visual Cognitive Abilities of Gibbons

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Wallaby Project: Comparison of One Anesthetic Protocol

to Another and Identify Most Accurate Blood Pressure

Location

NATIONAL MISSISSIPPI RIVER MUSEUM

& AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

AZA Wyoming Toad SSP

Research

Freshwater Mussel Propagation Research

Kansas

HUTCHINSON ZOO

Education Programs

Awareness Day Programs

Birthday Party Programs

Camps

Events

Guided Tours

School Classes

Field Conservation

Dusky Gopher Frog Initiative

Reintroduction and Monitoring of Black-Footed Ferrets in

Logan County, Kansas

Wildlife Rehabilitation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

LEE RICHARDSON ZOO

Field Conservation

Addax Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Asian Wild Horse Conservation/True Wild Horse Campaign

Butterfly Conservation

Elephant Conservation / Wildlife Conservation Society

(WCS) – 96 Elephants

Field Monitoring Support for Kansas Black-Footed Ferret

Reintroduction

International Elephant Foundation (IEF) – Protecting

Elephants Through the Conservation Detection Dog

Network

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Lemur Conservation in Betampona Natural Reserve

Management of the Lee Richardson Zoo Field Conservation

Grant Program

Pallas’s Cat International Conservation Alliance

Red Panda Network

Training Dogs to Detect Smuggled Rhino Horn

Turtle Survival Center

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

WATER

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Assessing the Health of a Waterway by Assessing Presence

of Macroinvertebrates

Assessment of Recovery of Testicular Function in Male

Pallas’s Cats After Eight Years of Deslorelin Treatment

Institutional Animal Care and Use Committee (IACUC)

Review of Proposed Research Projects

ROLLING HILLS ZOO

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH) – Conservation

Grants

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) Reintroduction

Project in Kansas

International Iguana Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute

Monarch Watch

Orangutan Outreach

Painted Dog Conservation

Painted Dog Research Trust

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus cupido) Disease

Surveillance

SEDGWICK COUNTY ZOO

Education Programs

Adventure Pack

Animal Tales Preschool

Auditorium Programs

Behind the Scenes – Tours

Birthday Parties

Bushmeat Crisis Interactive

Coffee Connections

Community-Based Instruction Program

Early Childhood Classes

Educational Events

Get Into Nature

Homeschool Expedition

Investigation Stations

Outdoor Wildlife Learning Site

Overnights

Senior Wednesday

Social Hours

Summer Classes

Teacher Workshops

Wonders of Wildlife

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Zoo Lab Carts

Zoo Trunk

ZooReach

Field Conservation

African Predator Conservation Research Organization

(APCRO)

Amphibian Ark

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Chacoan Peccary SSP

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG) – Fund

AZA Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo SSP – Tree Kangaroo

Conservation Program, Papua New Guinea

AZA Orangutan SSP

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP – Caribbean Wildlife

Alliance

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Black-Footed Ferret Kansas Reintroduction Program

Center for Conservation of the Humboldt Penguin in Punta

San Juan, Peru

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

International Iguana Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute

Mabuwaya Foundation – Crocodile Rehabilitation,

Observance and Conservation (CROC)

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Mexican Wolf Fund

Ngwenya Rhino and Elephant Fund

Okapi Conservation Project

Painted Dog Conservation / Wildlife Conservation Network /

Zimbabwe

Painted Dog Research Trust

Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project

Red Panda Network

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Save the Cassowary From Extinction in Australia / Rainforest

Rescue / Project Rainforest

SaveNature.org – Rainforest Conservation Parking Meter for

Pantanal National Park, Brazil

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle Survival Center

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Research

Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) as an Indicator of Ovarian

Reserve in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) in Captivity

AZA Tree Kangaroo SSP – Reproductive Assessment

Behavioral and Biological Reasons for Unsuccessful Breeding

in Black Rhinos – Olfactory Stimulation as a Method for

Improvement

Biological Validation of Urinary Oxytocin in Western Lowland

Gorillas

Detection of Avian Bornavirus in Captive Thick-Billed Parrots

by Reverse Transcription Polymerase Chain Reaction (RT-

PCR) and Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA)

Elephant Welfare Project – Institute of Museum and Library

Services (IMLS) Study Period Follow-Up

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP)

Great Ape Neuroscience Project

Imported Elephant Welfare Initiative

Investigating the Genetic Basis for Inflammatory Bowel

Disease in the Maned Wolf

Investigation of Hybridization of Two Species of North

American Ibis (Plegadis chihi and Plegadis falcinellus)

Monitoring Body Condition, Reproductive and Metabolic

Hormones in African Elephants: Using Science to Aid

Management Decisions to Optimize Health and Welfare of

Zoo Elephants

Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in Gorillas

Prevalence of Normal Gammaherpesvirus Flora in Eastern

Black-And-White Colobus Monkeys (Colobus guereza)

Retrospective Classification and Management Assessment of

Canine Fractures in Captive Managed Populations of Great

Apes

Serum Nutritional Profiles in Great Apes

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SUNSET ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Black-Footed Ferret Introduction in Logan County, Kansas

Butterfly Conservation Project

Friends of Sunset Zoo Conservation Scholar Program – 2016

– Graduate

Friends of Sunset Zoo Conservation Scholar Program – 2016

– Undergraduate

FrogWatch USA

Honey Bee Conservation Project

Puerto Rican Crested Toad Breeding Facility

The Prusten Project

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) – Wildlife

Conservation and Education

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Research

Black-Tailed Prairie Dog Project

THE DAVID TRAYLOR ZOO OF EMPORIA

Field Conservation

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Monarch Way Stations and Tagging

Pronghorn Antelope Field Survey

Reintroduction of Black-Footed Ferrets in Kansas

Symbolic Migration at Safari Edventure

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Handedness in Lemur Species

TOPEKA ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Adaptations

Animal Babies

Animal Classifications

Birds and Their Homes

Bugs Bugs Bugs

Career Talk

Conservation Connection

Discovery Home School

Eco-Club

Ecosystems and Habitats

Food Chains and Food Webs

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Library Programs

Monarch Citizen Science

Native Americans of the Prairie

Nocturnal Animals

Plants

Scout Programs

Sensory Safari

Spring Break Camp

Summer Camp

The Untouchables

The Wetlands

Threatened and Endangered

Tots and Tales

Winter Camp

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE

Baker Wetlands

Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Project of Western

Kansas

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Grassland Heritage Foundation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Monarch Watch

Orangutan Outreach

Planting of Milkweed in Native Habitat

Polillo Islands Biodiversity Project

Proyecto Tití

Spectacled Bear Conservation Peru

Tiger Conservation Campaign

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Research

Acute Phase Protein Values for Captive Orangutans (Pongo

pygmaeus) From Banked Sera

Lion Morbidity and Mortality Survey

Observations of Activity Level of Turkey Vulture Before and

After Feeding at Topeka Zoo

Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in

Western Lowland Gorilla in North American Zoos

Perch Location and Preening Behavior in the Turkey Vulture

at the Topeka Zoo

Primate Bridge Structure Survey

Survey of Nonhuman Primates From Personal Possession

Survey of Reproduction in Captive Gorillas

Survey on Conservation Medicine

Kentucky

LOUISVILLE ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

Field Conservation

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA)

Polar Bears International

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

NEWPORT AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Camp WAVE

Job Shadow and Career Exploration

Marine Biology and Conservation Lecture Series

Overnight Adventure Program

The Finstitute

WAVE on Wheels Outreach Program

Field Conservation

Banklick Watershed Council

Freshwater Mussel Conservation Program

Kentucky Hellbender Working Group

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Louisiana

ALEXANDRIA ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Alexandria Zoo Animal Encounter Programs

Alexandria Zoo Non-Animal Programs

Alexandria Zoo School Field Trip and Camp Programs

Alexandria Zoo Special Events

Field Conservation

Andean Bear Program – Ecuador

Andean Condor Program – Chile

Anteaters and Highways

Project Jaguar – Brazil

Vaquita Project

Whooping Crane Conservation Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Contraception Effects

AUDUBON AQUARIUM OF THE AMERICAS

Field Conservation

Aquarium Conservation Partnership

Catch and Release Fishing Tournament with Louisiana

Department of Wildlife and Fisheries

Coastal Wildlife Network

Gulf United for Lasting Fisheries (GULF)

Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Program

Redfish Tournament

Sea Otter Research and Conservation (SORAC)

Shark Advocacy Meeting – Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – South Africa AZA Keeper Exchange

Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Cownose Ray Species Identification

OCEARCH

South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction and Conservation

(SEZARC)

AUDUBON ZOO

Field Conservation

African Wild Dog Conservation Network

America Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG) Sponsorship –

Chicago Zoological Society

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AZA Tiger SSP – Conservation Campaign

Black Bear Conservation Coalition

Blue Iguana Conservation

Conservation Fusion – Lemur and Radiated Tortoise

Conservation Program

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Iguana Foundation

Louisiana Pine Snake Release

Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation

Mandrill Conservation Project

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Pacific Marine Mammal Center

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

World Parrot Trust

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Circulating Biomarkers of Fibrosis in Captive Gorillas: A Pilot

Study

BREC’S BATON ROUGE ZOO

Field Conservation

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA SAFE – African Penguin Projects

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC)

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Projeto Arara Azul

Save the Tiger Fund

The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund

The Thailand Hornbill Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

United States Friends of David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

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WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FREEPORT-MCMORAN AUDUBON SPECIES

SURVIVAL CENTER

Field Conservation

Coastal Wildlife Network

Gulf United for Lasting Fisheries (GULF) – Sustainable

Seafood Program

Mississippi Sandhill Crane Propagation and Recovery

Program

Proyecto Taguá (Estancia Toledo, Paraguay) and Chaco

Center for Conservation and Research (CCCR)

Whooping Crane Recovery Program

Maryland

NATIONAL AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Aqua-Partners Schools

Aquarium on Wheels Youth Program

Audio Tour

Behind the Scenes Tours

Blended Learning

Citizen Science Initiatives

Customized and VIP Immersion Programs

Diver Communication Talks

Dolphin Encounter

Educational Events

Free School Group Admission Program

Gallery Carts

Guest Diver Program

Henry Hall Scholarship Program

Informal Interpretation With Props

Internship Programs

Living Seashore – Touchpool

Making Connections Keeper / Educator Talks

On-Site Classroom Programs

Outreach Programs

Sleepovers at the Aquarium

Summer Student Volunteers

Teacher Orientation

Tots and Tales

Tours and Programs for Everyone

Visualizing Change Talks

Volunteer Diver Program

Volunteer Exhibit Guides

Weekly Briefing and Animal Update

Field Conservation

Animal Rescue

Atlantic White Cedar Restoration in Nassawango Creek

Preserve, Maryland

BioBlitz

Delaware Shorebird Project

Fort McHenry Tidal Wetland Restoration Project

Freshwater Wetland Restoration in Lower Central New York

Habitat Restoration at Cove Point Lusby, Maryland

Horseshoe Crab Research Study

Marine Debris Prevention and Removal

Model Urban Waterfront

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Apex Predator Program (APP) – Shark Tagging / Semen

Collection for South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction

and Conservation (SEZARCS)

Sand Dune Restoration – Virginia

SaveNature.org – Marine Conservation Meter

SaveNature.org – Rainforest Conservation Parking Meter

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Shoreline Restoration and Community Engagement at

Masonville Cove

South Baltimore Community Engagement and Environmental

Stewardship

Terrapins in the Classroom

Urban Conservation and Education Internship

Wetland Nursery Program

Wildlife Habitat Gardening

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Analysis of Fluke Flexibility of Swimming Dolphins

By-Products of Disinfection in Marine Mammal Pools

Comparison of the Alivecor® ECG Device for the iPhone with

a Reference Standard Electrocardiogram in the Atlantic

Bottlenose Dolphin (Tursiops truncatus)

Comparison of Two Hematology Methods for Manual Blood

Cell Counts in Sea Turtles Using Fresh and Preserved Blood

Specimens

Establishing Methods for Measuring Steroid Hormones in

Dolphin Blow

Evaluation of Enterococcus sp. as Indicator Bacteria for

Monitoring Water in Fish Exhibits: Comparing Abundance

by Two Culture Methods with Microbial Community

Structure

In Search of Dolphin Language

Insight Into the Mating System of Southern Stingrays

(Dasyatis americana) in a Captive Environment

Wild Dolphin Microbiota Research Project, Phase II

SALISBURY ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Guided Tours

Local Ecology, Animals and Forests (LEAF) Program

Self Guided Tour

Wild Party

Wildlife Encounter Animal Presentation

Wildlife Encounter Classroom Program

Zoo to You Display

Zoo to You Presentation

ZooSnooz

THE MARYLAND ZOO IN BALTIMORE

Education Programs

Animal Adventures

Animal Ambassador Encounters

Animal Craft Safari

Branches: Parks and People Partnership

Climate Change Partnership

Community Event Programs

Exhibit Design Partnership

Field Trips (Self-Guided)

Giraffe Training Encounters

Guided Tours

Home School

Keeper Chats

Kids in Kayaks Partnership

Nature Spots

On-Site Interpretation

Partner Package

Penguin Feeding Talks

Pop-Up Labs

Puppet Shows

Scout Day

Sip and Stroll

Special Interest Workshop

Storytime With the Zoo

Summer Camp

Superkids

Teacher Trainings

Teen Leader

Wild About Days

Zoo Introduction

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Zoo Naturalist Activities

Zoo Snooze Overnight

Zoo Teen Volunteer Program

Zoolabs

ZOOMobile

Field Conservation

Application of 2D and 3D Photographic Technology to

Estimate Body Size and Condition of Polar Bears

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Elephants for Africa

Exogenous Hormone Induction of Oviposition in Gravid

Panamanian Golden Frogs (Atelopus zeteki)

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

Health and Ecology Survey of Maryland Black Bear Sows and

Cubs (Ursus americanus)

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Microbiota and Innate Immunity of Amphibian Skin

Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project

Pharmacokinetics of the Antimalarial Drug Primaquine in

African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus)

Polar Bears International

Project Golden Frog

Save the Rhino – North American Campaign

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Accumulation and Half-Life of Itraconazole in

Panamanian Golden Frogs (Atelopus zeteki)

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Research

Determination of Safe and Effective Dosing Regimens for

Flunixin Meglumine and Firocoxib in African and Asian

Elephants

Developing Genomic Tools for Elephant Conservation

Developing New Tools for Integrating DNA Data Into AZA

Breeding Programs: An Institute of Museum and Library

Sciences (IMLS) Funded Project for 2015-2018

Ecology and Health Study of Free-Ranging Eastern Box

Turtles Within the Grounds of the Maryland Zoo in

Baltimore

Evaluating the Health of African and Asian Elephants in

North American Zoos: Exploring Biomarkers of Disease

and Musculoskeletal Condition

Health Surveillance of Free-Ranging Raccoons (Procyon

lotor) and Red Foxes (Vulpes vulpes) on the Grounds of

The Maryland Zoo

Identification of Sperm in Black-Footed Penguin Eggs

Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Penguins

Malaria Pathogen Amplification and Gene Sequencing

Metagenomic Analysis of Intestinal Microbiota of African

Elephants

Non-Invasive Individual Identity Tracking in the Panamanian

Golden Frog

Project Golden Frog (PGF) – Oviposition Study

Serum Osmolality in Captive African Elephants (Loxodonta

africana)

Massachusetts

BUTTONWOOD PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Ambassador Encounters

Bear Cub Club

Boo at the Zoo

Creature Creations

Education Volunteers

Elephant Appreciation Day

Endangered Species Day

FrogWatch USA – Training

Keeper Chats

Little Learners

Overnight Programs

Party for the Planet

Puddle Jumpers

Roots and Shoots

School Programs

Vulture Day

Wildlife Education Series

World Oceans Day

ZooCrew

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Field Conservation

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Buttonwood Park Zoo Wildlife Rehabilitation Program

Elephant Care International

Milkweed for Monarchs

Wild Lupine Propagation

Research

Elephant Gastrointestinal Anatomy, Physiology, Feeding

Ecology and Pharmacology Review

Hematologic and Biochemical Reference Ranges in Spotted

Eagle Rays (Aetobatus narinari) at the Georgia Aquarium

FRANKLIN PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Tours

Breakfast With the Animals

Curious Cubs

Education Stations

Hippo Theater Happenings

Homeschool

Overnights

Playful Paws

School Programs

Scout Programs

Vacation Week Programming

Volunteer Continuing Education

ZooCamp

Field Conservation

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) – Amur Leopard

Conservation

Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Chelonian Conservation Fund

Global Wildlife Conservation – Taking Action for the Tapirs

and Jaguars of the Indio-Maíz Biosphere Reserve

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

International Crane Foundation – White-Naped Crane

International Giraffe Day

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Madagascar Biodiversity Program

New England Wildlife Center

Panama Amphibian Rescue and Conservation (PARC)

Panthera

Papua New Guinea Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Red Panda Network

The Harambe Fund

Wild Camel Protection Foundation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

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WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

MUSEUM OF SCIENCE

Education Programs

Butterfly Garden School Program

Eye Opener Behind the Scene at the Live Animal Center

Life Cycles

Traveling Programs, Animal Invaders

Field Conservation

Boston Butterfly Monitoring Project

Northern Red-Bellied Cooter (Pseudemys rubriventris)

Headstart Program

Research

Building Computational Thinkers Through Informal Exhibit

Experience

ChemAttitudes

Complex Adaptive Systems as a Model for Network

Education

Designing for Productive Struggle

NEW ENGLAND AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Aquarium Teen Internship Program

Behind the Scenes Tours

Harbor Discoveries Summer Camp

Interpretation

Live Blue Ambassadors

Live Blue™ Service Initiative

National Network for Ocean and Climate Change

Interpretation (NNOCCI)

Public Programs

Student Programs

Teacher Services

Visualizing Change

Field Conservation

Conservation Medicine Program

Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Reduction

Marine Conservation Action Fund

Right Whale Research Project

Sea Turtle Conservation and Research

Sustainable Ornamental Fish Initiative

Sustainable Seafood Programs

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

Elasmobranch Mortality and Stress Physiology

Marine Stress Research

National Network for Ocean and Climate Change

Interpretation (NNOCCI) – Research and Evaluation

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WALTER D. STONE MEMORIAL ZOO

Education Programs

After-School Program

Curious Cubs

Playful Paws

Premium Tours

School Programs

Summer Camp

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE – Vaquita

Bat Conservation International

Blanding’s Turtle Headstart Project

Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

Chelonian Conservation Fund

Colobus Conservation, Ltd.

Grassroots Wildlife Conservation

Gray Area Wolves of the Southwest – The Last Pack

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Madagascar Biodiversity Program

New England Wildlife Center

Panthera

Proyecto Tití – Cotton-Top Tamarin

Red Panda Network

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Michigan

BINDER PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

Adopt-A-Beach

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Butterfly Monitoring

Piping Plover Patrol and Recovery Program

CHILDREN’S ZOO AT CELEBRATION SQUARE

Education Programs

Animal Feeding

Behind the Scenes Tours

Endangered Species Day

E-Newsletter

Exhibit Interpretation

Field Trips (Orientation)

Hatchlings

Living Learning Lab

On-Site Talks – Pet Trade

Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI)

Outreach

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Party for the Planet

Presentation Stations

Rainforest Brochure

Scout Programs (Boy and Girl Scouts)

Teacher Appreciation Day

World Oceans Day

Zoo Camp

Field Conservation

Adopt-A-Highway

AZA SAFE – Vaquita Projects

Bowling for Rhinos – Potawatomi Chapter

Hingeback Tortoise Headstart Project

Sandhill Crane Population Survey

SaveNature.org

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – Chick Adoptions

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

DETROIT ZOO

Field Conservation

African Elephant Conservation Trust

African Vulture Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

American Beaver Project

American Marten Management Project

Amphibians in Peru

Armenian Viper Project

Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG)

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Aruba Island Rattlesnake SSP

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Dusky Gopher Frog SSP – Reintroduction Project

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP

AZA Panamanian Golden Frog SSP

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP

AZA SAFE

AZA Wyoming Toad SSP

Bat Conservation International

Bird Strike Prevention at the Detroit Zoo

Black-Crowned Night Heron Monitoring

Blanding’s Turtle Headstart Project

Chinese Alligator Project

Chipangali Wildlife Orphanage and Research Centre

Common Tern Nesting Habitat Restoration in the Detroit

River and Lake St. Clair

Conservación de la Naturaleza Amazónica del Perú

(CONAPAC)

Conservation International – Amphibian Survival Alliance

Craig Packer Lion Conservation Project

Crawfish Frog Repatriation Effort

Cryptobranchid Interest Group

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Field Survey

Ethiopian Wolf Project

Ewaso Lions

Falkland Island Conservation

FrogWatch USA

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Great Lakes Colonial Waterbird Monitoring

Great Lakes Piping Plover Salvage Captive Rearing

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) – Red

List of Threatened Species

Isle Royale Wolf Study

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

IUCN/SSC Flamingo Specialist Group

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IUCN/SSC Ostrich Specialist Group

IUCN/SSC Penguin Specialist Group

Jane Goodall Institute

Kirtland Warbler Initiative

Mad Dog Initiative

Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative

Mudpuppy Surveys

Ngogo Chimpanzee Project

Okapi Conservation Project

Osprey Management in Southeast Michigan

Pandrillus Foundation

Panthera

Partula Field Program Consortium

Paso Pacifico

Penguin Sentinels

Peregrine Monitoring

Peru Adopt-A-School

Polar Bear and Grizzly Resource Overlap in Kaktovik, Alaska

Polar Oceans Research Group

Red Panda Network

Science and Conservation Centre

Siamese Crocodile Reintroduction

Snow Leopard Conservation in Nepal and China

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Ocean Project

The Peregrine Fund

The Think Tank for Kangaroos (THINKK) of the University

of Technology Sydney Center for Compassionate

Conservation

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wild Camel Protection Foundation

Wildlife SOS

World Conservation Monitoring Center

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Aardvark Nocturnal Activity and Space Use

Aesthetics, Emotions and Choice in Western Lowland Gorillas

Affective Bias Tests in Gorillas

Behavioral Impacts of Cataract Surgery for Crested Penguins

Cataracts in Captive Macaroni (Eudyptes chrysolophus)

and Rockhopper Penguins (Eudyptes chrysocome):

Characterization and Risk Factors

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Cause of Mortality in a Captive Assurance Population of

Wyoming Toads Over a 16 Year Period

Cognitive Enrichment and Preferences of Captive Bears

Dominance, Individual Welfare and Spatial Compression in a

Captive Bachelor Gorilla Group

Evaluating the Welfare Impacts of a Major Habitat Change

for Japanese Giant Salamanders, Andrias japonicus

Exploring Measures of Positive Welfare in Giraffes Using

Changes in Social Group Composition

Impact of Human Visitors on Pigs’ Use of Space and

Enrichment

Impacts of Night Housing Conditions on Indicators of

Welfare in Gorillas and Drill Monkeys

Personality in Blanding’s Turtles

Pharmacokinetic Efficacy of Transdermal Delivery

of Fentanyl in the Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes

chrysocome): A Pilot Study

Survey of Ocular Health and Pathology in Two Populations of

Captive Panamanian Golden Frogs (Atelopus zeteki)

The Effect of Browse on Affective State in Gorillas

The Effect of Increased Underwater Habitat Complexity on

Positive Indicators of Welfare in North American River

Otters (Lontra canadensis) at the Detroit Zoological

Society

The Effects of a New, More Complex Habitat on Indicators of

Welfare in Penguins at the Detroit Zoo

The Impact of Browse Availability on the Behavior and

Hormones of Captive Gorillas

The Impact of Noise and Visitor Number on Kangaroos

Occupying a Walk-Through Exhibit

Underwater Behavior of Gentoo (Pygoscelis papua) Penguins

Use of Implantable Loop Recorders (ILRs) to Identify and

Manage Heart Disease in Chimpanzees (Pan troglodytes)

Validating Infrared Thermography as a Tool to Assess the

Impact of Human-Animal Interactions

Welfare Assessment for an Adolescent Male Chimpanzee

(Pan troglodytes) at the Detroit Zoo

JOHN BALL ZOO

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Tours

Daily Animal Programs

FrogWatch USA

Interactive Animal Exhibits

Keeper for a Half Day and Job Shadows

Kids Night Out

Overnight Adventures

Scout Programs

Silver Explorers

Sprouts

Teen Volunteer Program

Traveling Zoo

Twilight Tours

Wild Encounters

Zoo Camp

Zoo Explorers

Zoo Lab

Field Conservation

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Developing Assurance Colonies of Threatened Indian Turtles

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Longitudinal and DNA

Study

FrogWatch USA

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort

Inspiring Community for Wildlife Conservation

John Ball Zoo Turtle Population Monitoring Project

Kirtland’s Warbler Annual Census Project

Limbe Wildlife Centre

Matobo Hills Biodiversity Monitoring Project – Safeguarding

Tomorrow’s Biodiversity in the Matobo Hills, Zimbabwe

Using Today’s Youth

Monarch Butterfly Raise and Release Program

Salmon in the Schools Program

Saving Endangered Birds of the Mount Kupe Forest Area

Wood Turtle Headstarting Project

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Population and Habitat

Ecology in Southern Michigan

POTTER PARK ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

AZA Guam Rail SSP

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Field Study

FrogWatch USA

Great Lakes Piping Plover Management and Restoration

Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT)

World Rhino Day

Research

Development of Successful Artificial Insemination Techniques

in Captive Rhino Species: Hormone Assays

Minnesota

COMO PARK ZOO AND CONSERVATORY

Education Programs

After-School Program

Animal Ambassadors

Animal Demo/Training

AuSM (Autism Society of MN)

Birthday Parties

Camp Como

Discovery Series

Early Childhood Programs

Family Class

Free Educational Events

Gardener Talks

Group Tours

Homeschool

Interpretive Interactive

Keeper Talk

Library Programs

Residency Program

School and Group

Scouting Programs

Storytime

Teacher Workshop

Field Conservation

AZA Wyoming Toad SSP – Master Plan Meeting and

Fieldwork

Mississippi Gopher Frog Breeding Project

Polar Bears International

Seafood Watch

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Captive Orangutan Dentition Emergence Compilation Project

LAKE SUPERIOR ZOO

Education Programs

After-School Program

Behind the Scenes Tours

Birthday Party Animal Encounters

Family Programs

Homeschool Classes

Interpretive Carts

Job Shadowing Programs

Keeper Talks

Outreach Programs

Overnight Programs

Preschool Classes

School Group Programs

School Kits

Summer Day Camps

Toddler Classes

Volunteer Continuing Education

Winter Camps

Zoo Crew Summer Teen Program

Field Conservation

Bat Conservation Fundraising

Monkey Art Fund

Proyecto Tití

Snow Leopard Fund

University of Minnesota for Moose Conservation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

MINNESOTA ZOOLOGICAL GARDEN

Education Programs

Adult Programs

Adult Travel Programs

Animal Habitat Day

Backstage Pass Programs

Boy Scout Day

College Travel Program

Distance Learning

Family Overnights

Family Zoo Adventures

Girl Scout Day

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Guided/Behind-the-Scenes Tours

Home School Day

Math Day

Nature Play Programs

Preschool Programs

School Field Trips

School Overnights

School’s Out Camps

Scout and Youth Group Overnights

Strollin’ Safari

Summer Zoo Camp

Toddler Time

Wild Wonders Preschool

World Language Days

Youth Travel Program

Zoo Classes

Zoo Crew Junior

Zoo Safari

Zoomobile

ZooMS Design Challenge

Field Conservation

Amphibian Disease Research

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Bison Recovery – Minnesota

Black Rhino Conservation – Namibia

Brown Bear Conservation

Dhole Field Conservation

Freshwater Mussel Conservation

Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra Conservation

Hawaiian Monk Seak Conservation

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Macaw Conservation

Moose Conservation Research – Minnesota

Prairie Butterfly Conservation – Minnesota

Przewalski’s Horse Conservation in China and Mongolia

Recycle for Rainforests

Sea Otter Conservation

Ulysses S. Seal Conservation Grant Program

Wild Elk Habitat Use and Movement Study

Research

Asian Wild Horse Anesthesia Study

AZA Japanese Macaque SSP – Wounding Study

Developing a High-Resolution Genotyping Method for Tiger

Fecal DNA

Ecological History of the Northern Great Plains: Layers of

Data from Layers of Sediments

Epidemiology of Trueperella pyogenes Infection in Pronghorn

Antelope

Feeding Behavior and Feeding Performance of the Hawaiian

Monk Seal

Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Penguins

The Effect of Pinioning on the Natural Behaviors of

Waterfowl

Tiger Mortality Study

Use of Animals with Partially Known Ancestries in

Scientifically Managed Breeding Programs

Mississippi

JACKSON ZOO

Education Programs

Party for the Planet

Missouri

DICKERSON PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Carnivore Conservation Project

El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC)

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Elephant-Human Coexistence: How Elephants Persist in

Traditional Agricultural Systems of South Asia

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Crane Foundation

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Maned Wolf Research

Mountain Bongo Surveillance Project Kenya-Eden Wildlife

Trust

Niassa Carnivore Project

Proyecto Taguá (Estancia Toledo, Paraguay) and Chaco

Center for Conservation and Research (CCCR)

Proyecto Tití – Conserving the Critically Endangered Cotton-

Top Tamarin in Colombia

Raptor Rehabilitation

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF) – Adopt-an-Ostrich

Program

San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy – Vaquita

Conservation

SaveNature.org

Shark Angels

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – Grizzly Bear

Conservation in the United States and the 96 Elephant

Campaign

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Research

Analysis of Female Asian Elephant Prolactin Levels

Endocrine Analysis and Assisted Reproductive Techniques in

the Malayan Tiger (Panthera tigris jacksoni)

Evaluation of Progesterone and Luteinizing Hormone (LH)

Concentrations in Female Asian Elephants

National Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV) Lab

Prevalence of Babesia in Feral Raccoon (Procyon lotor)

Populations Around Zoological Institutions That Hold

Maned Wolves (Chrysocyon brachyurus) in the United

States

The Pharmacokinetics of Tramadol in African (Loxodonta

africana) and Asian (Elephas maximus) Elephants

KANSAS CITY ZOO

Field Conservation

Amphibian Arks for Lake Titicaca Frog in Bolivia

Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis (Bd) Study at the Kansas

City Zoo

Brown Hyena Project

Freshwater Mussel Propagation and Reintroduction

Humboldt Penguin Consortium

Wyoming Toad Field Surveys

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

SAINT LOUIS ZOO

Education Programs

Adult Programs

Animal Awareness Days

Behind the Scenes Tours

Birthday Parties

Boo at the Zoo – Spooky Saturday

Camp KangaZoo and Teen Camp

Day With the Rays

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Docent Carts and Seasonal Interpreter Program

Earth Day – Party for the Planet

Enrichment Eggstravaganza

Family Programs

FrogWatch USA

Inspired by Nature: The Wildlife Art of Robert Bateman

Internal Training – Education Department, Docents and

Interpreters

Jungle Boogie

Just Like You at the Zoo

Lecture Series Programs

Library and Teacher Resource Center – Scavenger Hunts

Library and Teacher Resource Center – ZooCases

Make Tracks for the Zoo

Monsanto Education Gallery (Camp Joey, Early Childhood,

Zoo Preschool and the Wild Wonder Outpost)

Ottertoberfest

Outreach and Distance Learning Programs

Overnight Programs

Public Officials Family Day

Raja’s Birthday Celebration

School Programs

School Tours

Shark Week

Stingrays at Caribbean Cove – Traveling Exhibit

The Amazing Race

Wild Lights

Youth Programs

Zoo ALIVE Teen Volunteer Program

Zoo Friends Day

Zoo Parents Picnic

Field Conservation

Addax Conservation in the Termit and Tin Toumma National

Nature Reserve

Amphibian Ark

Andean Bear Conservation Alliance

Animal Migration and Health Study

Anti-Poaching Intervention Campaign in Niger’s Termit and

Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve

Box Turtle Ecology and Health: Comparison Between an

Urban and a Rural Site

Camel Health at the Livestock-Wild Animal-Human Interface

Camera Trap Monitoring Grevy’s Zebra in Northern Kenya

Celebrating 10 Years of Zebra Conservation Through Film

Center for American Burying Beetle Conservation

Center for Avian Health in the Galápagos Islands

Center for Conservation in Punta San Juan, Peru

Center for Conservation in Western Asia

Center for Conservation of Large Carnivores in Africa

Center for Conservation of the Horned Guan in El Triunfo

Biosphere Reserve, Chiapas, Mexico

Center for Native Pollinator Conservation

Conservation Genetics and Morphometrics of Insular

Ottoman Viper (Montivipera xanthina) Populations on

Eastern Aegean Islands, Greece

Conserving Mountain Nyala in a Human Dominated

Landscape – Arsi Mountain, Ethiopia

Core Operating Support for Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Core Support for Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Dama Gazelle Conservation Project Support Through Sahara

Conservation Fund (SCF)

Defining Patterns in the Spatial Dynamics of Breeding the

Humboldt Penguin at Punta San Juan and the Inference for

Their Conservation

Discovery of Novel Lemur Viruses

Ecuadorian Amphibian Collaboration

Endocrine Disrupting Compounds

Enhancing Access to Clean Water to Conservancy

Headquarters Staff at Kauro for Sustainable Conservation

of Black Rhino in Sera Rhino Sanctuary

Enhancing Anti-Poaching Efforts and Security in the North

and South of the Ewaso Nyiro River, Northern Kenya

Enhancing Community Based Grevy’s Zebra Monitoring in El

Barta, Northern Kenya

Enhancing the Effectiveness of Grass Guardians Club in

Westgate Conservancy, Northern Kenya

Environmental Education for the Conservation of the

Mountain Nyala and Its Habitat at the Bale Mountains

National Park, Ethiopia

Expanding Live Food Production, Housing and Staff Capacity

for Parc Ivoloina’s Amphibian Conservation Center

From Bat to Bird: Investigating a Potential Case of Sympatric

Speciation via Pollinator Shifts in the Andes

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Funding Saturday School Lunch Program

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Implementing Remotely Operated Cameras for Monitoring

Wildlife and Enforcement of Punta San Juan Marine

Protected Area (MPA)

Institute for Conservation Medicine

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group – Capacity Building

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group – Research Director

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group – Research Program

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

North African Ostrich Breeding and Recovery Project, Niger

North American Bumblebee Species Conservation Strategy

Workshop

Northern Rangelands Trust

Nutritional Support for Satellite North African Ostrich

Breeding Centers in Maine Soroa and Iferouane, Niger

Okapi Conservation Project

One Health Approach to Arbovirus Surveillance in the

Atlantic Forest, Brazil

Partula Snail Conservation Program, French Polynesia

Patterns of Home Range and Space Use of Fossa in the

Betampona Natural Reserve Ecosystem, Madagascar:

Implication for the Conservation of Madagascar’s Largest

Carnivore

Piloting a Conservation Field Training School for Herding and

School Going Children in Westgate Conservancy, Kenya

Pollinator Roadside

Recent Progress Towards Saving the World’s Most

Endangered Antelope

Ron Goellner Center for Hellbender Conservation

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Space Use and Activity Budgets of Ethiopian Wolves in a

Disturbed Population: Implications for Their Conservation

Support of Several Conservation Non-Governmental

Organizations (NGOs)

Tanzania Carnivore Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

University of Missouri – St. Louis Graduate Student Support

Updating Kenya’s National Grevy’s Zebra Conservation and

Management Strategy 2017-2020

Upgrade of Current Water Delivery System to Ensure

Reliable and Cost Effective Water Supply to the Sera Rhino

Sanctuary

Utility Right-of-Way Prairie Restoration

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Aggression Dynamics and Fecal Glucocorticoid

Concentrations of Black and White Ruffed Lemurs (Varecia

variegata)

Australian Research Council Values Project

Birth Control Pill Use in Bonobos

Characterization of Ovulatory Cycles and Pregnancy

Through Fecal Hormone Analyses in Two African Equids:

Somali Wild Ass (Equus africanus somaliensis) and Grevy’s

Zebra (E. grevyi)

Cheetah Olfactory Mate Choice

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Community Image and Perceptions Study

Courtship Behaviors as Predictor of Successful Chick Rearing

Between Crane Species

Developing Testicular Tissue Banking Techniques for Canids

Equid Social and Sexual Behavior

Fecal Glucocorticoid Monitoring 1.0 Polar Bear (Ursus

maritimus) in Relation to Husbandry and Environmental

Conditions at the Saint Louis Zoo

Fecal Glucocorticoid Monitoring of Carnivores During

Quarantine and Introduction to a New Habitat at the Saint

Louis Zoo

Island Fox Courtship Aggression

Lifetime Reproductive Planning in Asian Small-Clawed Otters

Lifetime Reproductive Planning in Fennec Foxes and Mexican

Wolves

Melengestrol Acetate (MGA) Reversibility in Colobus

Monkeys and Hamadryas Baboons

Mother-Infant Antelope Study

Patterns of Fecal Steroids Associated With Reproduction

in Two Cracidae Species: The Blue-Throated Piping Guan

(Pipile cumanensis cumanensis) and the Horned Guan

(Oreophasis derbianus)

Polar Bear Point Observation Study

Polar Bear Point Summative Evaluation

Saint Louis Zoo Membership Study

Serum Nutrient Comparisons Between Free-Ranging and

Zoo Painted Dogs (Lycaon pictus)

Serum Nutritional Profiles in Great Apes

Sifaka Varying Use of Indoor and Outdoor Habitat Space

Space Use and Activity Level of Carnivores in New Exhibits

Tasmanian Devil Activity Level and Use of Space in New

Exhibit

The Effect of Educational Programs on the Behavior and

Physiology of Fennec Foxes (Vulpes zerda)

The Ocean Project – Bye to Bags

Zoo Visitor Study

SEA LIFE KANSAS CITY AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Animal Adaptations

Annual Pass Holder BOH Tours

Bay of Rays Talk

Editable Aquifers (Birthday Party)

Home Sweet Home

Marine Science Careers

Ocean Adventure Talk

Octopus Talk

SEA LIFE Animated Animal Show

SEA LIFE Summer Camp

Seahorse Talk

Sleep Under the Sea Overnight Program

Touch Pool Talk

What’s for Lunch

Field Conservation

Increasing Marine Protection

River and Wetlands Clean Up

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

External Support

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

THE BUTTERFLY HOUSE

Education Programs

Adventures in a Butterfly Garden

A-MAZE-ing Cockroaches

Brownie Bugs

Bug Hunt

BUGJar Club

Butterfly Chrysalis Photography

Buzzing a Hive

Capturing Dragonflies: Outdoor Photography

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Daisy Clover Petal

Father’s Day: Let’s Build an Insect Hotel

Firefly Festival

Hide a Butterfly

Insect Photography

Insectercize

Junior Gardener

Keeper for a Day

Ladybugs

Little Bugs

Living the Butterfly Life

March Morpho Mania

March Morpho Photography

Monarch Butterflies: The Migration South

Native Wildflower and Butterfly Walk

Paper Kite Family Sundays

Spring Fling

Starting a Pollinator Garden

Story of a Butterfly

The World According to Insects

Webelos – Into the Wild

Wings of Wonder

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Missouri Butterfly Monitoring Network

Project Pollinator

Montana

GRIZZLY & WOLF DISCOVERY CENTER

Education Programs

Bear Pepper Spray Demonstration

Birds of Prey Outreach

Birds of Prey Program

Certified Interpretive Guide Training

Do You Speak Animal?

Educational Teacher Packets

Educational Teaching Trunks

Keeper Crew

Keeper Kids

Kids ‘n’ Snow Family Weekends

Nakiska: Dog With a Job

National Park Service Ranger Presentations

Please Don’t Feed the Bears

Scheduled Group Tours

The View From Down Here

Where the Buffalo Roam

Whose Scat it That?

Why Predators?

Wildlife Watching

Wolf Pack Feeding and Enrichment Program

Field Conservation

Bear-Resistant Container Testing

West Yellowstone Christmas Bird Count

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Nebraska

LEE G. SIMMONS CONSERVATION PARK &

WILDLIFE SAFARI

Education Programs

Campouts

Hands on Corral

Interactive Animal Talks

Scout Programs

Student Workshop

Teacher Workshops

Field Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Nature Conservancy

Whooping Crane Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

LINCOLN CHILDREN’S ZOO

Education Programs

Adventure Travel Camps

Behind the Scenes Tours

Distance Learning

Overnight Program

Tots and Turtles / Preschool Penguins

Field Conservation

African Elephant Body Condition and Metabolic Health

Galápagos Tortoise Project

Salt Creek Tiger Beetle Propagation and Reintroduction

Project

OMAHA’S HENRY DOORLY ZOO & AQUARIUM

Education Programs

African Goat Kraal

After-School Program

Animal Encounters

Backstage Experiences

Campouts

Day Camps

Family Programs

Giraffe Encounter

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Learning Is Our Nature (LION) Classes

Lemur Walkway

Little Lions Preschool

Long Distance Learning

Outreach Programs

School Group Walkabout Tours

Stingray Beach

Student Workshops

The Wildlife Show

Touch Tank

Field Conservation

American Bird Conservancy (ABC) – Bird Strike

American Crocodile Conservation – Gladys Porter Zoo

Amphibian Conservation Area

Amphibian Conservation Education Project

Amphibian Enhancement in Urban Areas

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Animals Asia

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP – Reintroduction

AZA SAFE

AZA SAFE – African Penguin

Black-Footed Cat Project

Bongo Surveillance Project

Botswana Predator Conservation Trust

Butterfly Conservation Education

Colobus Conservation, Ltd.

Crane Trust

Endangered Primate Rescue Foundation – François’ Langur

François’ Langur – China

Giant Armadillo – The Pantanal Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Honduras Amphibian Rescue and Conservation Center

(HARCC)

International Crane Foundation – Crowned Crane

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG) –

Amphibian Ark

Komodo Dragon Conservation – Bronx Zoo

Little Fireface Project – Protection of the Slow Loris

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Northern Tuli Predator Project – Botswana

Okapi Conservation Project

Peregrine Fund

Polar Bears International

Rare and Endangered Plant Program

Red Panda Network

Salt Creek Tiger Beetle

Save Our Seabirds

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Swaziland Rhinoceros Protection and Conservation

Tiger Conservation in the Endau-Rompin Landscape of

Peninsular Malaysia – Anti-Poaching Program

Tiger Conservation in the Russian Far East – Improving Law

Enforcement and Law Enforcement Monitoring at Key Sites

Tiger Conservation in the Russian Far East – Logging Road

Closures

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle Survival Center

Uniting Conservation Genetics and Conservation Education

in Madagascar: Madagascar Biodiversity and Biogeography

Project

Wildlife Conservation Network – Proyecto Tití

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Wildlife SOS – India

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Analamazaotra Lemur Research Initiative – Reintroduction

and Translocation Project

Antsiranana Lemur Research Initiative – Crowned Lemur

(Eulemur coronatus)

Antsiranana Lemur Research Initiative – Northern Sportive

Lemur (Lepilemur septentrionalis)

Browse Nutrition Initiative

Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetics of Indriidae

Conservation, Propagation, Genetics and Reintroduction of

the Yellow Lady’s Slipper Orchid in Nebraska

Evaluation of Pork as a Protein Source for Managed

Carnivores

Factors Affecting Breeding Success in Zoo Managed Male

Snow Leopards (Uncia uncia)

Kianjavato Lemur Research Initiative – Black and White

Ruffed Lemur (Varecia variegata)

Kianjavato Lemur Research Initiative – Greater Bamboo

Lemur (Prolemur simus)

Lavavolo Lemur Research Initiative – Ring-Tailed Lemur

(Lemur catta)

Lavavolo Tortoise Research Initiative

Mitogenomics of Lemurs

Nutrition Research Program

Reproductive Physiology Research Program

Species-Specific Research Initiative – Aye-Aye (Daubentonia

madagascariensis)

Study on Morbidity and Mortality in North American

Managed Amur Leopards

Nevada

SHARK REEF AQUARIUM AT MANDALAY BAY

Field Conservation

Komodo Conservation

Reef Check

Sea Turtle Conservancy

The Ocean Project

New Hampshire

SQUAM LAKES NATURAL SCIENCE CENTER

Field Conservation

Project OspreyTrack

New Jersey

ADVENTURE AQUARIUM

Education Programs

21st Century Community Learning Centers – Science

Enrichment

Behind the Scenes Tours

Camden Urban Waters Community Awareness Partnership

CAUSE (Community Urban Science Enrichment) Program

Classroom and Auditorium Programs

Community and Urban Science (CAUSE) Summer Camp

Deep Sleep

Embedded School Programming

Field Trip Planner

High School Student Shadow Program

Marine Advanced Technology Education (MATE) – Remotely-

Operated Vehicle (ROV) Program

Meet Us in the Wild – Field Programs

Outreach – Traveling Programs

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Penguin Awareness Day

Philadelphia Science Festival

Philadelphia-Camden Informal Education Collaborative

(PISEC)

River Days

Scavenger Hunts

Scout Badge Workshops

Summer Seafari Camp

Teacher E-Newsletter

Teacher Professional Development

Teen Marine Institute

That’s A-Moray: Love Below Sea Level (Valentine’s Event)

World Oceans Day and Weekend

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE – African Penguin Artificial Nest Box Project

Bald Eagle Nest Monitoring

Canine Handler Program at United States Fish and Wildlife

Service (USFWS)

Feathers for Native Americans

FrogWatch USA

Horseshoe Crab Monitoring

Horseshoe Crab Rearing

Modular Larval Rearing System (MoLaRS)

OCEARCH

RiverSweep

Sea Turtle Conservancy

South-East Zoo Alliance for Reproduction and Conservation

(SEZARC)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Turgwe Hippo Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Conservation of Endangered Banggai Cardinalfish

Pharmacokinetics of Orally Administered Voriconazole in

African Penguins (Spheniscus demersus) After Single and

Multiple Doses

Plasma Protein Electrophoresis and Select Acute Phase

Proteins in Healthy Bonnethead Sharks (Sphyrna tiburo)

Managed Under Human Care

Semen Collection, Analysis and Storage in Bamboo Sharks

BERGEN COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Amazing Adaptations

Amphibian Day

Amphitheater Show – Mammals

Amphitheater Show – Pets!

Amphitheater Show – Reptiles

Amphitheater Show – Story Time

Amphitheater Show – Wild New Jersey

Animal Enrichment

Animal Families

Animal Habitats

Animal Wrappers

Autism Awareness Day

Barnyard Babies

Bear Aware Day

Bergen Zoo School

Bird Walk

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Bison Day

Brownie Bugs

Classy Animals

Colors and Shapes

Duck Day

Endangered Creepers and Crawlers

Endangered Fur and Feathers

Endangered New Jersey

Endangered Species Day

Extreme Adaptations

Forest Friends

Fossils

Hawks Over the Hudson

In My Backyard

Mammals

Members Night

Nature Club

Night Owls

Nocturnal Gators

Overnight at the Zoo

Party for the Planet

Playtime at the Zoo

Recycled Art

Save the Eagles Day

Science 101

Scout Day

Sharing Your World With Wildlife

Sheep Shearing

Spineless Wonders

Spring Egg Hunt

Super Science Days and Career Days

Theme Day Story Times

Toddler Tales

Wild and Crafty Animal Tales

Wild and Crafty Zoo Tour

Wild Pets

Wildlife

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

World Tapir Day

Zoo Babies

Zoo Camp

Zoo Careers

Zoo Kids

CAPE MAY COUNTY PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Bongo Foundation for Mt. Kenya Wildlife

Conservation

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

JENKINSON’S AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Animal Adventures

Animal Encounters

Aquarium Explorers Summer Camp

Behind the Scenes Tour

Boating Education and Rescue

Celebrate Barnegat Bay

Celebrate Dr. Seuss’s Birthday

Earth Day – A Party for the Planet: Super Heroes for Planet

Earth

Endangered Species Day – New Jersey

FrogWatch USA – Training

Group Tours

International Polar Bear Day

Junior Keepers Summer Camp

Mermaid Tea Party

NJ’s Precious Pinelands

Penguin Pointers

Rainforest Day

Seal-Abration!

South African Penguin Festival

Tea by the Sea

World Oceans Day

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Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Channel Islands Marine and Wildlife Institute

Clean Ocean Action

Conserve Wildlife

Delaware Bay Horseshoe Crab Spawning Survey

FrogWatch USA

New Jersey Beach Buggy Association

Ocean Conservancy

Polar Bears International

Save Barnegat Bay

SaveNature.org

Seabird Ecological Assessment Network (SEANET)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Marine Mammal Center

The Ocean Project

The Shark Research Institute

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

TURTLE BACK ZOO

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Atlantic White Shark Conservancy

Bat Houses

Bird Nest Boxes

Honey Bee Conservation

Horseshoe Crab Tagging

Polar Bears International

Sumatran Orangutan Conservation

Vital Ground

WildAid

New Mexico

ALBUQUERQUE BIOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Animal Encounters at the Aquarium

Animal Encounters at the BUGarium

Animal Encounters at the Zoo

Aquarium Overnights

BioVan and Rio Rangers

Discovery Days at the Aquarium

Discovery Days at the Botanic Garden

Discovery Days at the Zoo

Earth Week Celebration

Endangered Species Awareness Week

Monthly Lecture Series

Narrated Aquarium Feedings

Narrated Zoo Feedings

Preschool Program

Spring Break Camps

Story Time Program

Summer Camps

Summer Evening Tours

World Animal Encounters Show

World Oceans Week

Zoo to You

Field Conservation

Abidjan Zoo Project – Côte d’Ivoire

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Aquatic Conservation Facility

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG)

Bahamas National Trust

Botanic Gardens Conservation International (BCGI) at

Chicago Botanic Garden

Center for Plant Conservation

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Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Fauna and Flora International

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

International Animal Rescue

International Iguana Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Meadowview Biological Research Station

Mississippi Gopher Frog Conservation

Narrow-Headed Garter Snake Field Research and Captive

Propagation

Native Species Program – Herpetology

New Nature Foundation

Ocean Conservancy

Painted Dog Research Trust

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA)

Red Apes – Orangutan Conservation

Reef Environmental Education Foundation (REEF) –

Donation

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Socorro Dove Conservation

Tasmanian Devil Research Fund

The International Vulture Programme

The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund

The Ocean Project

The Peregrine Fund

The University of Tasmania Foundation – United States of

America

The Xerces Society

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Virunga National Park

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

LIVING DESERT ZOO & GARDENS STATE PARK

Field Conservation

Bolson Tortoise Program

Cactus Moth and Emerald Ash Borer Trapping

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

New York

BUFFALO ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters – Fee-Based

Animal Encounters – Free

Birthday Parties

Buffalo Public School #59/90 Zoo Science Program

Buffalo Zoo Preschool

Cub Club Preschool Program

Day Camps – Spring, Summer and Winter)

Distance Learning Programs

Docent Training

Earth Smart Squad Newsletter

Educator’s Guide

Gnus – Docent Newsletter

Guided Tours

Homeschool Programs

Junior Zoo Teen Naturalist Program

Keeper Talks

Living Treehouse

Nature Play Events

Nature Play Workshops

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On-Site School Programs

Outreach Programs

Scout Badge Programs

Shows / Demonstrations

Sidewalk Safari Carts

Strolling Around the World Stroller Program

Western New York Family Nature Club

Wild Weekend Workshops

Zoo Quests

Zoo Snooze Overnight Program

Zoo Teen Naturalist Program

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Asian Elephant Support

AZA Amphibian TAG

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP – Population

Monitoring

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP – Conservation Fund

AZA Panamanian Golden Frog SSP

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Buffalo Niagara RIVERKEEPER

Build a Boma

Caribbean Wildlife Alliance via Fort Worth Zoo

CrocFest

Cryptobranchid Interest Group

Friends of Laguna Atascosa Refuge

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Management and Restoration of Species of Greatest

Conservation Need and Their Critical Habitats in New York

State

Nosara Refuge for Wildlife

Pacific Marine Mammal Center

Panthera

Polar Bears International

Proyecto Tití, Inc.

Red Panda Network

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA)

Service Erie County

The Orianne Society

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Vulture Conservation Foundation

Waterkeeper Alliance

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

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Research

A Preliminary Validation of Urinary C-Peptide Analysis in

Howler Monkeys (Alouatta spp.)

A Study of Japanese Macaque Wounding

Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) as an Indicator of Ovarian

Reserve in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) in Captivity

Attention Paid to Simple and Complex Visual Stimuli by

Carnivorous and Non-Carnivorous Species

Automatic Classification of Species Using Their Red Blood

Cell Images Capture via Differential Interference Contrast

Microscopy

Cat Dams: an Adaptation for Water Conservation?

Effects of Visitor Visibility on Behavior in Captive Western

Lowland Gorillas

Ensuring Optimal Welfare of Ambassador Animals

Establishing Tissue Culture Cell Lines of Non-Domestic

Species

Exploring Common Worlds and Pedagogy in the Buffalo Zoo

Preschool

Lion Morbidity and Mortality

Monitoring Sexual Maturation of Polar Bears via Non-Invasive

Fecal Analysis

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Captive

Mammals

Photo Identification of Giant Anteaters

Scene and Face Scanning in Gorillas of Conspecifics and

Allospecifics in a Captive Environment

Sexual Maturation in the Male Indian Rhinoceros (Rhinoceros

unicornis) at Buffalo Zoo

The Influence of Contraceptive on Hormonal Patterns and

Behavior in Captive Western Lowland Gorillas

ROSAMOND GIFFORD ZOO AT BURNET PARK

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

AZA SAFE

Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail Field Census

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Red Wolf Coalition

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Research

Individual Vocal Cues and Development in the Humboldt

Penguin (Spheniscus humboldti)

Somite and Limb Myogenesis in Turtles

SENECA PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Bat Echolocation

Black Bear Den Surveys

Butterfly Beltway

Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail Annual Count

Conservation Meters Dedicated to Coral Reef Conservation

in Palau and Rainforest Conservation in the Pantanal

Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Mark and Recapture

Gibbon Field Work in Gunung Palung National Park

Grow Native

Health in Harmony

International Animal Rescue

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

Lake Sturgeon Restoration in the Genesee River at Seneca

Park

Orangutan Outreach – Missing Orangutan Mothers (MOM)

Polar Bears International

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Support of Malaysian Zoo Vet Care and Reforestation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Endocrine Trajectories of Orangutan Male Secondary Sexual

Development

TREVOR ZOO

Education Programs

Birthday Party Presentations

Climate Change Exhibit Media

College Volunteer and Fieldwork Program

Conservation Handouts

Group Animal Presentations On-Site

Keeper Talks

Millbrook School Community Service

Science Presentation (Talk and / or Animal Presentations)

Off-Site

Science Research Program

Staff Guided Tours

Staff Presentations (Animal Behavior, Adaptations, Nutrition,

Zoo’s Roles and Conservation)

Summer Counselor Program

Summer Volunteer Program

Trevor Zoo Teacher’s Guide

Veterinary Technician Program

Field Conservation

Bog Turtle Population Analysis and Habitat Restoration

Pale Swallowwort / Invasive Species Control

Red Wolf Progressive Retinal Atrophy (PRA) Analysis

Trevor Zoo Conservation Support Fund

Wood Turtle Population Survey and Habitat Analysis

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

Research

Novel Problem Solving Tasks and Socialization with Regards

to Sensory Behaviors in the Family Canidae

WILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY

Education Programs

Adult Programs at Central Park Zoo

Adult Volunteer Interpretation

Birthday Parties

Brooklyn Cultural Adventures Program

Community Outreach Program / Special Events

Discovery Guides

Family Overnight Adventures

Guided Tours

Informal Programs: Adult Programs

Informal Programs: Children and Families

Informal Programs: Scouts

Nature Club

Online Teacher Academy

Professional Development Courses

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP)

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Project TRUE (Teens Researching Urban Ecology)

Scavenger Hunts

School Programs

Urban Advantage

Visionmaker

WCS-U

Wildlife Conservation Ciorps

Wildlife Theater

Zoo and Aquarium Summer Camp

Zoo Play Classes

Zoo Quests

Field Conservation

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP – Conservation Fund

Curatorial Conservation Project – Annual Migration and

Colony Attendance of Rockhopper Penguins, Isla Noir,

Chile

Curatorial Conservation Project – Developing a Herd of

Genetically-Pure Bison for Restoration

Curatorial Conservation Project – Extinct-In-The-Wild Fishes

of Madagascar

Curatorial Conservation Project – Extinct-In-The-Wild Lake

Victoria Cichlids

Curatorial Conservation Project – Flamingo Conservation in

Latin America

Curatorial Conservation Project – Gharial Ecology Project

Curatorial Conservation Project – GPS Tracking of Oilbirds in

Trinidad

Curatorial Conservation Project – Headstart Program for

Eastern Hellbender

Curatorial Conservation Project – Monitoring of Flamingo

Taxa in the Altiplano Region of Bolivia

Curatorial Conservation Project – New York Seascape

Curatorial Conservation Project – Phylogeography of

Rockhopper Penguins

Curatorial Conservation Project – Propagation of the Extinct

in the Wild Kihansi Spray Toad

Curatorial Conservation Project – Puerto Rican Crested Toad

Propagation

Curatorial Conservation Project – Resident Bat Species in the

Bronx, New York

Curatorial Conservation Project – Taxonomic Assessment

of the Indochinese Langur (Trachypithecus germaini) in

Cambodia

Curatorial Conservation Project – Translocated Howler

Monkey Survey

Education and Curatorial Conservation Project – Billion

Oyster Project

Education and Research Project – Monitoring of Shorebird

Migration Through the New York Bight Using Nano-Tag

Technology

Education Project – Hosting Harbor School Dive Program

Global Conservation – Conservation Science and Solutions

Global Conservation Projects – Africa

Global Conservation Projects – Asia

Global Conservation Projects – Challenges and Central

Initiatives

Global Conservation Projects – Latin America and the

Caribbean

Global Conservation Projects – Marine-Seascape

Conservation

Global Conservation Projects – North America

International Iguana Foundation

New England Cottontail Rabbit Conservation Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Veterinarian Program – Developing Molecular Diagnostics

Capacity for Diseases of Conservation Concern

Veterinarian Program – Health Assessment and Disease

Surveillance of Grand Cayman Iguanas

Veterinarian Project – Avian Haemosporidian Parasite

Lineages in Four Species of Free-Ranging Migratory Water

Birds From Mongolia

Veterinarian Project – Health Assessment and Disease

Surveillance of Burmese Star Tortoises

Veterinarian Project – Health Assessment and Disease

Surveillance of Confiscated Yellow Tortoises

Veterinarian Project – Health Assessment of Common Loons

in the Adirondacks

Veterinarian Project – Health Assessments of Bog Turtles in

the Northeastern United States

Veterinarian Project – Heath Assessment of Juvenile Sand

Tiger Sharks in the Great South Bay, New York

Veterinarian Project – Investigation of Snake Fungal Disease

in New Jersey

Veterinarian Project – Modeling Disease Risk in Threatened

Amphibians in the Albertine Rift

Veterinarian Project – Population Survey and Health

Assessments of Turtles in the Bronx River

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Veterinarian Project – Unusual Recurring High Mortality in

Southern Right Whales (Pathology)

Veterinarian Project (Clinical and Pathology) – Myanmar Big-

Headed Turtles Confiscation

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Wildlife Health Program – Assessing White-Nose Syndrome

in the West

Wildlife Health Program – Central New York

Wildlife Health Program – Democratic Republic of Congo

Wildlife Health Program – LACANET (Laos Cambodia One

Health Network)

Wildlife Health Program – Latin America

Wildlife Health Program – Predict

Zoo Health Program – Applying Comprehensive Earth

System Forecasts for Climate Change to Inform

Conservation Planning of the East African Great Lakes:

Tsetse Fly Distribution and Modeling

Zoo Health Program – Assessing Amphibian Response to

Climate Change and Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus in Peru

Zoo Health Program – Assessing Arctic Migratory Bird Health

in the Context of Climate Change

Zoo Health Program – Developing and Deploying a Rapid

Field-Friendly Genetic Test for the Detection of Canine

Distemper Virus (CDV) in Wildlife

Zoo Health Program – Genetic Testing On-the-Go:

Developing a Field-Friendly Method of Environmental

DNA (eDNA) Detection of Turtle Species Using a Handheld

Quantitative PCR Machine and DNA Field Extra

Zoo Health Program – Genetic Testing On-The-Go:

Developing Handheld DNA Sequencing for Species

Identification in the Field to Stop Illegal Wildlife Trafficking

Zoo Health Program – Health Assessment, Pre-Release

Health Screening, and Disease Surveillance of Southern

River Terrapin in Cambodia

Zoo Health Program – Investigation of Canine Distemper

Threat to Endangered Amur Tigers and Leopards in the

Russian Far East

Research

Curatorial Research Project – Assessing the Effectiveness of

Acupuncture in a Blue Fronted Amazon Parrot

Curatorial Research Project – Band-Tailed Pigeon Neonatal

Development and Associated Nutritional Provisions at

the Bronx Zoo in Reference to Population Sestoration of

Extant and Extinct Taxa

Curatorial Research Project – Behavioral Modification in a

Polar Bear

Curatorial Research Project – Detection and Origin Mapping

of Avian Bornavirus Through Surveillance

Curatorial Research Project – Effects of Urbanization on

Avian Microbial Communities: Hemoparasites, Bacteria and

Arthropod-Borne Viruses

Curatorial Research Project – Genetic Analysis of the Inca

Tern Colony at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) /

Bronx Zoo

Curatorial Research Project – Hormonal Assays in a Female

Andean Bear

Curatorial Research Project – Population Monitoring of

Canada Geese in the Bronx Zoo

Curatorial Research Project – Use of Artificial Lek in the

Propagation of the Andean Cock-of-the-Rock

Determination of Air Sac Volume, Lung Volume and Lung

Densities With Computed Tomography in Conscious

Standing Magellanic and Little Blue Penguins

Olfactory Enrichment and Scent Cue Associative Learning in

Captive Birds of Prey

Veterinarian Project – Hematology, Plasma Biochemistry,

Protein Electrophoresis, Cholesterol Electrophoresis and

Acute Phase Proteins in Elasmobranchs

Zoo Health Program – Canine Distemper Virus Antibody

Titers in Cats After Delivery of a Modified-Live Virus

Vaccine

North Carolina

DUKE UNIVERSITY LEMUR CENTER

Field Conservation

Ambatovy Mine Site Lemur Health Monitoring

Duke Lemur Center – Sambava-Andapa-Vohemar-Antalaha

(SAVA) Conservation Initiative

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Research

Facilitation of External Research

GREENSBORO SCIENCE CENTER

Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Piedmont Land Conservancy

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

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The Fishing Cat Conservancy

The Green Belt Movement

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Box Turtle Connection Project

Children’s Selective Social Learning About Animals – Trust

and Retention of Informant Testimony (Pilot Study)

Impact of Children’s Learning From Experts vs. Teachers

MUSEUM OF LIFE AND SCIENCE

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Used

NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT FORT FISHER

Education Programs

Alligator Egg Hunt – Easter Program

Animal Encounters

Animal Programs

Auditorium Program

Behind the Scenes Tours

Birthday Parties

Camps – Summer Camps and Year-Round Day Camps

Cape Fear Shoals Dive Presentation

Distance Learning

Feeding Presentations

FrogWatch USA

General Outreach

Indoor Programs

Outdoor Exploration Programs

Outreach Events

Scout Programs

Sea Scholars

Sea Turtle Teacher Workshop

Self-Guided Tours for School Groups

Sleepovers

Summer Teen Volunteer Program

Field Conservation

Elasmobranch Reproductive Studies

Habitat Utilization of Mature Female Sand Tiger Sharks

(Carcharias taurus) in North Carolina Coastal Waters

(Using Acoustic Telemetry Techniques)

OCEARCH

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Seasonal Residency Patterns, Landscape-Scale Habitat Use

and Movement of Bonnethead Sharks in North Carolina

Estuaries

The Ocean Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Fish Propagation Programs in North Carolina Aquariums

Ketoprofen Pharmacokinetics in Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Trial Treatment Investigation for Gyradoctylid spp. Found on

Locally Collected Pipefish

NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM AT PINE

KNOLL SHORES

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Behind the Scenes Tours

Camp Programs

Distance Learning

Dive Presentations

Early Childhood Education Programs

Feeding Presentations

Fishing Programs

Kids Parties and Sleepovers

Large Group Outreach Programs

Outdoor Recreation Programs

Outreach Programs – Festivals and Community Events

Paddling Programs

School Group – Lab Programs

School Group Auditorium Programs

Small Group Outreach Programs

Sustainable Seafood Programs

Teacher Workshops

Themed Daily Programs

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Research

Investigation of the Metabolome Following Different Capture

Techniques of the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo)

Investigation of Vitamin and Trace Minerals in Bonnethead

Sharks and Relation to “Failure to Thrive Syndrome”

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Painted Bunting Observation and Monitoring Project

Sand Tiger Shark Conservation – Habitat Use Research

Seasonal Residency Patterns, Landscape-Scale Habitat Use

and Movement Ecology of Bonnethead Sharks (Sphyrna

tiburo) in North Carolina Estuaries

NORTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM ON

ROANOKE ISLAND

Education Programs

Adult Craft

All About Sharks

Alligator Encounter

Alligator Feeding

Amphibian Metamorphosis

Aqua Tots

Aquarist for the Day

Beach Exploration

Behind the Scenes Tours

Believe It or Not

Big Sweep

Birthday Parties

Breakfast With the Rays

Career Fairs

Catch a Crab

Celestial Navigation

Certified Interpretive Guide Workshop

Certified Interpretive Host Workshops

Circle of Life

Cold Blooded Critters Tour

Creating Change

Creature Features

Day Camps

Dialogue with the Diver

Disaster Zone

Dolphin Math

Earth Day

Endangered Species Badge Program: Boy Scouts of America

Endangered Species Day

Ends of the Earth

Fish Feeding

Flying Reptiles

Freshwater Turtles

Getting to Know: Owls

Got Fur?

Great White Fishmas

Growing Green

Guide to the Solar System – SOS Program

Gyotako

Half-Day Camps

Happy Otter Hour

Impromptus

Jellies

Junior Marine Biologist Patch

Let’s Go Crabbing

Lights Out!

Live Animal Program

Marine Archaeology Day

Marine Debris Art Program

Marine Invertebrate Lab

Marine Mammals

Nautical Wreaths

Night Hikes at Nags Head Woods

No Bones About It

Noxious Nature

Ocean Jeopardy

Ocean Rescue Training

Oceans 101

On the Move

Otter Enrichment

Otter Quarters Tours

Paddling Around Roanoke Island

Plankton

Plates to Planets

PM Live Animal and Tour – 2 Hours

Quarantine Tours

Rescue Men

Sea Glass Jewelry

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Sea Turtle Egg Hunt

Sea Turtle Encounter

Sea2Sound Walking Field Trip

Seafood Series

Shark Bites

Shark Dissection

Shark Tank Tour

Sharks!

Sleeping With the Sharks

Snack With the Sharks

Snake Encounter

Soundside Fishing

Squid Dissection

Stars and More

Stingray Feeding

Summer Camp

Superphibians

Tail Spin

Tank Talks

Terrific Turtles

Totally Teeth

Touch Tank Animals

Trick or Treat Under the Sea

Upstream, Downstream

Wandering Nomads: Turtles

Weather or Not

Wetland Walks

What’s the Catch

World Oceans Day

Field Conservation

Native Plant Sale for Monarch Butterfly Conservation

Sand Tiger Shark Conservation and Management

Sea Turtle Rehabilitation

Seasonal Residency Patterns, Landscape-Scale Habitat Use

and Movement Ecology of Bonnethead Sharks (Sphyrna

tiburo) in North Carolina Estuaries

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Investigation of the Metabolome Following Different Capture

Techniques of the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo)

Investigation of Vitamin and Trace Minerals in Bonnethead

Sharks and Relation to “Failure to Thrive Syndrome”

Ketoprofen Pharmacokinetics in Loggerhead Sea Turtles

Trial Treatment Investigation for Gyradoctylid spp. Found on

Locally Collected Pipefish

NORTH CAROLINA ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Field Conservation

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

Big Cat and Other Wildlife Conservation in Southern Africa

Bongo Surveillance Project

Carolina Gopher Frog Headstarting

Conservation Medicine

Conservation of Avifauna on the Mariana Islands

Conservation of Elephants and Other Wildlife in Nigeria’s

Yankari Game Reserve

Conservation of Rothschild’s Giraffes

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Conservation of Vultures in Tanzania

Crane Trade Impact Assessment

Cross River Gorilla Monitoring in Nigeria and Cameroon

Hellbender Surveys in Western North Carolina

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Local Land Purchase and Management

Mabula Ground Hornbill Conservation

Measuring Reintroduction Success of Rehabilitated Wildlife

Pacific Marine Mammal Center

Pine Barrens Treefrog Habitat Use

Polar Bears International

Puerto Rican Crested Toad Conservation

Red Wolf Breeding and Reintroduction

Ruaha Carnivore Project – Monitoring

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Snare Removal Patrols in Kibale National Park, Uganda

Spatial Monitoring and Reporting Tool (SMART)

Conservation Monitoring Software Development

The Elephants of Cameroon

Uganda and North Carolina International Teaching for the

Environment (UNITE) Conservation Education Project –

Uganda’s Kibale National Park

WildTracks

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Ape Movement

Assessing Host-Virus Codivergence for Close Relatives of

Merkel Cell

Chimp Cognition Study

Ebola in Great Apes

Effect of Diet on Growth in Podocnemis unifilis: Assessing

Optimal Diets for Turtles in Headstart Programs

Elephant Behavioral Study at the North Carolina Zoological

Park

Elephant Enrichment

Elephant Nutrition Study

Gorilla Enrichment

Impact of Gun-Hunting on Monkey Species and Implications

for Primate Conservation

New Verified Nonindigenous Amphibians and Reptiles in

Florida, 1976 through 2015, with a Summary of Over 152

Years of Introductions

Observations on Nesting and Clutch Size in Oustalet’s

Chameleon (Furcifer oustaleti) in South Florida

Pine Barrens Treefrog Habitat Use and Conservation

Snake Mark-Recapture Study

Study of Central American River Turtle

Study of Visitor Impact on Aviary Birds

Study of Visitor Perception on Zoofari Versus at Plains

Exhibit

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Survey for Equine Herpesviruses (EHV-1) in Polar Bears

Visitor Studies

SEA LIFE CHARLOTTE-CONCORD AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

Sea Turtle Rescue

WESTERN NORTH CAROLINA NATURE CENTER

Field Conservation

American Chestnut Tree Recovery Program

Appalachian Wildlife Refuge – Host Site

Asheville Mushroom Club – Host Site

Bat and Bird Box Installation and Monitoring

Candid Critters

Eastern Hellbender Rehabilitation Program

E-Bird Monitoring

FrogWatch USA

Great Smoky Mountains All-Taxa Biodiversity Inventory

Project (ATBI)

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

– Community Collaborative Rain, Hail and Snow Network

(CoCoRaHS) Collaborative Monitoring Site

Trout in the Classroom – Trout Headstart Program

Wildlife Rehabilitation Training – Western North Carolina

Region

Green (Sustainable) Practices

WATER

Documented Amount Used

North Dakota

DAKOTA ZOO

Education Programs

Biofacts/Animal Information Talk to Dakota Zoo Visitors

Bismarck Earth Day Festival

Family Zoo Snooze

Fourth Grade Conservation Day

General Education Programs

It’s for the Animals “Wine Tasting and Silent Auction”

Junior Docents Animal Close-Ups Presentations

School Groups / Organization Presentation

Zoo Boo

Field Conservation

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Black-Footed Ferret Population Monitoring in the Conata

Basin, South Dakota

Chemical Immobilization as an Alternative to Helicopter

Roundups on Feral Horses at Theodore Roosevelt National

Park (TRNP)

Documenting the Presence of Black-Footed Ferrets on the

Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota

FrogWatch USA

Golden Eagle and Prairie Falcon Nest Surveys in Theodore

Roosevelt National Park

Helping Communities Protect Snow Leopards

Long Term Ecological Studies of Snow Leopards in Mongolia

Mongolian Wild Horse Sustainability in Wild Project

Raptor Rehabilitation

Support for Prairie Wildlife Research, Inc.

Research

Developing a New Model for Aging Swift Fox

RED RIVER ZOO

Field Conservation

Conservation Research Center: The Baviary

FrogWatch USA

Research

North Dakota State University (NDSU)

Potential Multi-Species Pregnancy Test

ROOSEVELT PARK ZOO

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

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FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Ohio

AKRON ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Cans for

Corridors

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Ohio

Biological Survey

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Turtle

Conservancy

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Wine for

Wildlife

FrogWatch USA

Greater Akron Audubon / Akron Zoo Christmas Bird Count

Humboldt Penguin Project – Punta San Juan, Peru

Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPE)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Medina Raptor Center

Northern Plains of Cambodia White-Winged Wood Duck

Project

Para la Tierra

Rebuilding the Pride – African Lion Conservation

Red Panda Network

Red Wolf Coalition

Sexual Reproduction of Acroporid Corals in the Florida Keys

to Create Genetically Diverse “Seed” Stock for Future Reef

Restoration Efforts

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildlife SOS

Research

Akron Zoo / Hiram College Partnership

CINCINNATI ZOO & BOTANICAL GARDEN

Education Programs

Adult Programs

America Recycles Day

Barrows Conservation Lecture Series

Behind the Scenes Experience

Cat Ambassador Outreach Program

Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered

Wildlife (CREW) Tours

Cheetah Encounter Show

Family Programs

Frisch’s Outreach

Global Field Program

Go Bananas Cell Phone Recycling Challenge

Greater Cincinnati Environmental Educators (GCEE) Ultimate

Educator Expo

Green Programs

Internships

Keeper Chats

Nocturnal Adventure Overnight

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP)

School Close Encounters

Seasonal Highlights

Self-Guided Activities / Tours for Schools

Teen TRIBE (Teen Recruits Inspiring by Example)

VolunTeens – Camp Counselor Assistants

VolunTeens – Green Teens

Wild Animal Encounters

Wildlife Discovery Zones

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Wings of Wonder Bird Show

Zoo Camp

Zoo on the Move

Zoo Troop

Field Conservation

African Wildlife Conservation Fund – Conserving Africa’s

Endangered Wild Dogs in Zimbabwean Lowveld

American Burying Beetle (ABB) Reintroduction Program

Angel Fund – Cheetah Outreach

Angel Fund – Niassa Carnivore Project

Angel Fund – Ruaha Carnivore Project

Asian Elephant Support

Autumn Buttercup (Ranunculus aestivalis) Reintroduction

Black-Footed Cat Working Group

Blue Throated Macaw

EcOhio Wetlands

Enhancement of Gorilla Related In-Situ Conservation

Education in Northern Democratic Republic of Congo

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF) – Sumatran Rhino

Conservation

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Kea Conservation in New Zealand

Living Lands and Waters Ohio River Program

Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership

Northern Wild Monkshood (Aconitum noveboracense)

Okapi Conservation Project

Pallas’s Cat Conservation

Panthera

Polar Bears International

Pollen Nation

Propagation of Rugel’s Pawpaw for Restoration

Propagation of South Florida Ferns for Restoration

Propagation of Trifolium stoloniferum for Restoration

Rebuilding the Pride – African Lion Conservation

Red Panda Paintings

Sand Cat Conservation

Scarlet Macaw Conservation in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve,

Peten, Guatemala

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Sloth Institute Costa Rica

The Wild Camel Protection Foundation

Wild Entrust International – Angel Fund

Wild Nature Institute

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Kids-Eye View of the Zoo

Aquatic Salamander Program

Assessment of Fecal Hormone Metabolites for Monitoring

Reproductive Activity in a Captive Female Aye-Aye

(Daubentonia madagascariensis)

Association of Fecal Corticoid Concentrations With Clinical

Avian Bornavirus in Kea

Characterization of Milk Composition in Gorillas Throughout

Lactation

Development of a Rhino Ferritin Specific Assay for

Monitoring the Progression of Iron Overload Disorder in

Browsing Rhinos

Development of Field Friendly Fecal DNA Testing for

Indonesian Rhinos

Dimensions of Africa Study

Ecological Studies of Neotropical Primates

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Effective Prevention of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease

(NAFLD) Progression by Deploying Microbiota of Long-

Lived Species

Exceptional Plant Signature Conservation Project

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP)

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP) – Bonobo Blood Pressure

Study

Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in Penguins

Investigating the Relationship Between Ambient Conditions

and Thermoregulatory Responses in Polar Bears

Investigating the Reproductive Biology of the Caracal

Otter Reproduction Program

Ovarian Cycle and Pregnancy Monitoring of the Common

Hippopotamus Through Salivary Analyses and Trans-

Abdominal Ultrasound

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Captive

Mammals

Photogrammetry Analysis of Polar Bear Images

Polar Bear Signature Conservation Project

Red Panda Reproductive Characterization

Rhino Signature Conservation Project

Small Cat Signature Conservation Project

Understanding Bumblefoot Through Behavioral

Manipulations: Radio-Frequency ID Tags for Measuring

Swimming Behavior in Little Blue Penguins (Eudyptula

minor)

CLEVELAND METROPARKS ZOO

Education Programs

Ballarat Theater Live Animal Show

Break Camps

Career Day

Collaborative Inquiry Project

Connections to Africa

Distance Learning

Education Birthday Party / Animal Interaction

Educator Open House

Emerald Necklace Camp

Future for Wildlife Training

Giraffe Feeding Program

Homeschool

Inside Tracks

Keeper for a Day

Nature Play Camp

Night Tracks

Nurture the Wonder

On-Grounds Interpretation

Online Resource Library

Outback After Dark Overnight Program

Preschool Safari

Professor Wylde’s Traveling School Show

Professor Wylde’s Traveling School Show – Events

Project Dragonfly – Advanced Inquiry Program (AIP)

Rising Waters Adult Overnight Program

Rising Waters Overnight Program

Savanna Theater Live Animal Show

Seals and Sea Lions

Seasonal Interpreter Training

Summer Day Camp

Teacher Workshops

Tiger Tracks

Veterinarian Bag Exploration for Schools

Veterinary Activity Bags – Public

Zoo Crew – Summer

Zoo Crew Interpretive Training

Zoo Crew Year Round

Zoo Nature Club

Zoo Science and Management Course

Zoo Tram Narration

Field Conservation

2016 Africa and Asia Seed Grants

Amphibian Ark

Andean Bear Conservation Alliance

Asian Turtle Assisted Reproduction Project

Asian Turtle Conservation Program

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP – Recovery Program

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AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Beekeeping for Human-Elephant Conflict Mitigation and

Rural Income Enhancement

Bwindi Apes Conservation Education Partnership

Cheetah Conservation and Human Impact in Kenya

Combating Illegal Hunting and Wildlife Trafficking in Sabah

Conservación de la Naturaleza Amazónica del Perú

(CONAPAC)

Conservation Grants Administration

Conservation of the Cross River Gorilla in the Mbe Mountains

Through Community Based Conservation Action

Disease Surveillance of Cleveland Metroparks Deer Herds

Eastern Gorilla Conservation – Capacity-Building and Core

Support

Eastern Plains Garter Snake Conservation Project

Education for Nature – Vietnam

Gharial Conservation Alliance

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Keeping Bees to Fight Poaching

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

Lake Erie Allegheny Partnership for Biodiversity (LEAP)

Little Fireface Project – Slow Loris Conservation

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study and Club Ebobo

Monitoring Wildlife Trade in the Wildlife Markets of Java and

Bali

Operation Twiga

Operation: Stop Poaching Now

Pioneering Efforts to Combat Illegal Wildlife Trade on the

Frontlines in Ho Chi Minh City

Primate Habituation Programme at Bai Hokou in Central

African Republic

Quarters for Conservation – In Kind

Red Panda Network

Reducing Demand for Ivory and Rhino Horn in Africa

Regional Wildlife Health Project

Resolving Conflict Between Humans and Large Carnivores

Around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Ruaha Carnivore Project – Pilot Community Dog Vaccination

Project

Ruaha Carnivore Project – Pilot Livestock Guarding Dog

Project

Saving the Endangered Rothschild’s Giraffe: Support to

Snare Monitoring in Uganda’s Murchison Falls National Park

Scott Neotropical Fund Grants

Sea Turtle Research and Conservation in the Paria Peninsula,

Sucre State, Venezuela

Sniffing out Poachers: Employing Conservation Dogs to Help

Fight Wildlife Trafficking in Africa

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) – Natural Partnerships Program

Spotted Turtle Headstarting

Telemetry Study of Gharial in the National Chambal

Sanctuary, India

The Amazon Center for Environmental Education and

Research (ACEER) Foundation

The Little Fireface Project: Saving the Slow Loris via

Empowerment

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Understanding Onager-Human Conflicts to Develop

Evidence-Based Conservation Strategies for the Critically

Endangered Onager Population in Bahram-e Goor

Protected Area, Iran

UNITE for the Environment

University of Rwanda Memoirs Program

WildAid

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants: Anti-

Poaching and Law Enforcement

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

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Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Analysis of Serum Calcium, Parathyroid Hormone and

25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Captive African Primates

Assessing Welfare in Zoo-Housed Cheetahs Under Different

Management Strategies

Bear Behavior Monitoring

Behavioral and Biological Reasons for Unsuccessful Breeding

in Black Rhinos: Olfactory Stimulation as a Method for

Improvement

Behavioral Variability of African Elephants at Cleveland

Metroparks Zoo

Biological Validation of Salivary and Urinary Oxytocin in

Western Lowland Gorillas

Chemical Communication in Burmese Pythons

Comparison of Self-Directed Behaviors in Two Zoo Mandrill

Groups

Determination of a Safe and Effective Dose of Nonsteroidal

Anti-Inflammatories in Asian and African Elephants

Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship and Uniqueness in

the North American Cheetah Population

Developing Assisted Reproductive Technologies in

Freshwater Turtles

Developing Genomic Tools for Elephant Conservation

Developing Techniques for Studying Effects of a Novel Skin

Disease on Locomotion in Giraffa camelopardalis

Development of the Anterior Inferior Iliac Spine

Effect of Increased Light Intensity During Daytime Period

on Behavior, Salivary Melatonin and Fecal Hormones in

Nocturnal Prosimians Housed on a Reverse Light Cycle

Effect of Meal Frequency on Biological Indicators of

Inflammation and Glucose Metabolism, Fecal Microbiome

and Behavior in Cheetahs Housed at Cleveland Metroparks

Zoo

Effect of Meal Frequency on Biological Indicators of

Inflammation and Glucose Metabolism, Fecal Microbiome

and Behavior of Large Felids Housed at Cleveland

Metroparks Zoo

Ensuring Optimal Welfare for Ambassador Animals

Evaluating the Effects of Elevated Feeding Devices on

African Elephant Behavior / Ongoing Elephant Monitoring

Evaluating the Impact of a Gluten Free Diet on Health

Parameters of Callitrichid Species

Gene Expression in the Colobone Gastrointestinal System

Interventions as a Strategic Plan to Prevent Further

Amphibian Decline

Investigating the Effects of Light Pollution on Amphibians

Learning and Behavior Outcomes Associated with

Conservation Education Teacher Training in Communities

Adjacent to Kibale National Park (UNITE) and Bwindi

Impenetrable National Park (BACEP)

Locomotor Gait Characteristics of Zoo-Housed Gorillas: Does

Space Matter?

Method and Assay Validation for Ambassador Animals

Retrospective Review of Morbidity and Mortality in the

United States Sloth Bear Population

The Chemical Effects of Slow Loris Venom: Using Captive-

Bred and Wild Caught Samples

The Effect of Exhibit and Husbandry Modifications on the

Repetitive Locomotor Behavior and Time Spent off Exhibit

by a Black-Footed Cat

The Impact of Diet on Sloth Bear Physiology, Health and

Behavior

Tracing Evolution of the Hominin Shoulders

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COLUMBUS ZOO AND AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Animal Encounters Village

Animal Observation Inquiry

Animals on Safari

Auditorium Programs

Battelle Zoo Science Quest

Camp-Ins

Classroom Safari

College Tours

Distance Learning

Guided Walking Tours

Homeschool Adventure Tours

Interpretive Contacts

Keeper Talks

Library Requests

Little Explorers’ Base Camp

Outreach

School’s Out Camps

Scout Programs

Summer Experience Day Camp

Sunrise on the Savanna

Teacher Workshops

Twilight / Wildlights Tours

University Courses

VIP Tours

Wild Encounters Tours

Zoo School

ZooKids

ZooKids Seedlings

Zoombezi Bay Science Day

ZooTots

Field Conservation

A Rocha Ghana – Securing the Future of Endangered

Primates in the Ankasa Conservation Area

African Wildlife Conservation Fund – Endangered African

Wild Dog

Akagera National Park

Amphibian Ark

Asociación de Rescate y Conservación de la Vida Silvestre

(ARCAS)

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP

Belmont Soil and Water Conservation District

Brown Bear Conservation and Research Programme in a

Model Area in Romania

Caribbean Manatee Conservation

Centre for Education, Research and Conservation of Primates

and Nature (CERCOPAN)

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) – Cheetah Conservation

Education and Community Outreach

Cheetah Outreach Trust – Conserving Southern Africa’s

Free-Ranging Cheetah Through Farmer-Predator Conflict

Mitigation

Club PAN (People, Animals, Nature): A Conservation

Education Project of the Wild Chimpanzee Foundation

Around the Tai National Park

Colobus Conservation – Colobridges

Columbus Zoo Conservation

Community-Based Effective and Proactive Human-Elephant

Conflict Mitigation Program

Connecting Zoo Professionals with Giraffe Conservation

Conservation of the Eastern Hellbender

Danau Girang Field Center: Estuarine Crocodile Conservation

Dhartee Development Society – Critically Endangered Gyps

Vulture Safe Zone Project

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Eastern Plains Garter Snake State Recovery Program

Establishing the Home Range, Behavioral Ecology and

Habitat Use of the Philippine Slow Loris (Nycticebus

menagensis) and the Bornean Tarsier (Cephalopachus

bancanus borneanus) in the Lower Kinabatanga

Ethiopian Short-Headed Frog Recovery Project

Ewaso Lions – Ecology and Conservation of Lions: Studying

Factors Affecting the Population Dynamics in Northern

Kenya

Freshwater Mussel Conservation and Research Center

Giant Armadillo Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation – Conserving Africa’s

Giraffe Through Research and Education

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

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Hirola Conservation Programme

Human Threats and Habitat Preference on the Conservation

Status of Endemic Amphibians Around the Bamenda

Highlands

Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration

International Crane Foundation – Saving Endangered Grey-

Crowned Cranes in Rwanda

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Gorilla Conservation Program

International Iguana Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute – Release of Wild Born Mandrill

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

Limbe Wildlife Centre

Little Fireface Project – Saving the Javan Slow Loris Through

Ecology, Education and Empowerment

Lola Ya Bonobo – Integrated Bonobo Conservation in the

Democratic Republic of Congo

Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative

Macuaticos Columbia Foundation – Using Satellite Tracking

to Determine the Role of Escorts Joining Mother and Calf

Pairs of Humpback Whales in the Columbian Pacific

Manatee Rescue and Rehabilitation Partnership and Manatee

Species Recovery Plan

Megabridge Foundation – Kajiado Lions Conservation Project

Mimicking Competitor Presence as a Tool to Mitigate

Human-Leopard Conflict: Could Leopard Movements be

Manipulated Using Competitor Scents and Sounds

Mision Tiburon Conservation of the Hammerhead Shark and

Its Critical Habitats in Golfo Dulce

Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project

Muskingum Soil and Water Conservation District

Natutama Foundation – Conservation and Education in

Amazon Frontier Communities

New Nature Foundation – Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Ngamba Island Chimpanzee Sanctuary Creating Awareness

on Chimpanzee Conservation Through Local Radio Drama

Shows in Western Districts of Uganda

Ohio Wildlife Center

Ohio Wildlife Center – Central Ohio Lights Out Program

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA)

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) – Edutainment Films

People and Carnivores: Carnivore and Rangeland

Conservation on the Rocky Mountain Front

Polar Bears International – Monitoring Polar Bear Maternal

Denning Ecology

Project Primate

Projet Conservation de la Foret de Nyungwe (PCFN)

Resource and Habitat Use of Aye-Ayes (Daubentonia

madagascariensis) in Torotorofotsy, Madagascar

Sacred Tibetan Stream Sites, Ritual Disturbance and Aquatic

Insect Conservation in Mountain Glacier Catchments of

Eastern Tibet

Saint Kitts Sea Turtle Monitoring Network

Satellite Tracking and Social Behavior of the Bornean

Elephant in Kinabatangan

Save the Tasmanian Devil Program

Selamatkan Yaki – The Voice of the Forest: Community-Based

Conservation Surrounding the Tangkoko Nature Reserve

Serengeti Health Initiative – Vaccinating Domestic Dogs to

Protect Human, Wildlife and Domestic Animal Health in

Tanzania

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Strong Roots

Support to IUCN / SSC Polar Bear Specialist Group (PBSG)

for Communication – Specifically Updating the PBSG

Website

Tacugama Chimpanzee Sanctuary

Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institution – Movement

Ecology of Junvenile Alligator Snapping Turtle

The Marine Mammal Center: Advancing Ocean Conservation

Through Marine Mammal Rescue, Rehabilitation, Scientific

Research and Education

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network and

University of Kent

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Conservation Project: Capacity Development Program

in Sri Lanka

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Vulture Conservation Programme (VulPro) – Cape Vulture

Rehabilitation and Release

Wetland Conservation in the Gilchin River Watershed for

Cranes and People

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Wild Nature Institute: Scientific Management for Community

Conservation of African Ungulates

Wildlife Conservation and Environmental Education in

Amazon Communities – Natutama Foundation in Colombia

Wildlife Poisoning: Prevention and Conflict Resolution –

Wildlife Poisoning Prevention and Anti-Poaching Support

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified Gold by Green Tourism

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Adaptive Value of Reciprocal Socio-Communicative Behavior

in Great Apes

Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) and Ovarian Reserves in

Black, White, Indian and Sumatran Rhinoceroses

Asian Elephant Body Composition

Assessing Long-Term Stress in Great Apes: Allostatic Load in

Bonobos

Assessing Long-Term Stress in Great Apes: Allostatic Load in

Western Lowland Gorillas

Behavioral and Biological Reasons for Unsuccessful Breeding

in Black Rhinos – Olfactory Stimulation as a Method for

Improvement

Binturong Genetic Sequencing

Defining Potential Etiologic Factors, Diagnostic Tools and

Therapeutic Options for Cardiovascular Disease in a

Captive Population of Endangered Bonobos

Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship and Uniqueness in

the North American Cheetah Population

Ensuring Optimal Welfare for Ambassador Animals

Evaluating the Health of African and Asian Elephants in

North American Zoos: Exploring Biomarkers of Disease

and Musculoskeletal Condition

Evaluation and Validation of Measures of Chronic Stress in

Ring-Tailed Lemurs

Forest Management Effects on the Population Ecology of

Timber Rattlesnakes (Crotalus horridus)

Gene Expression in the Colobine Gastrointestinal (GI) System

Hi-C Genomic Zoo

Identification of Polar Bears Through Track DNA Analysis

Measuring Alpha Klotho Levels: A New Approach to Assess

Biological Aging and Development in Bonobos

Non-Invasive Detection of Eastern Hellbender in Ohio Using

the Environmental DNA Samples

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Captive

Mammals

Pregnancy Detection in Polar Bears

Prosimian Biomedical Research Project

Quantifying Taxonomic Distinction in Tooth Mark Morphology

Retrospective Characterization of Reproductive Tract

Lesions in Relation to Parity, Age and Contraception in

Captive Suidae and Tayassuidae

Spatial Relationships and Allostatic Load in Western Lowland

Gorillas

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The Adaptive Value of Reciprocal Socio-Communicative

Behavior

The Role of Chemical Signals in Asian Elephant Society With

Applications for Conservation

Tolerance and Effectiveness of a Commercial Haemonchus

contortus Vaccine in Exotic Hoofstock Under Field

Conditions

Using Serum Inflammatory Markers to Investigate the

Immune Response to Elephant Endotheliotropic

Herpesvirus (EEHV)

Validation of a Rhino Specific Ferritin Enzyme Immunoassay

for Rhinos and the Impact of Individual and Environmental

Factors on Serum Ferritin Concentrations

Validation of Best Practices for Measurement of Iron Status

in Black Rhinos

THE WILDS

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Birding Extravaganza

DayVentures

Family Overnights

Homeschool Programs

Overnights

WildeCamp

Field Conservation

Assessing the Vegetation Community of Reclaimed

Grasslands at The Wilds

Augmenting Barn Owl Nesting Opportunities

Baseline Macroinvertebrate and Fish Community Surveys

Prior to Restoration Within a Stream System

Building Conservation Capacity for Future Restoration

Ecologists

Comparing Edge Effect on Biodiversity and Abundance of

Native Species in Remnant and Reclaimed Forested Areas,

After Mine-Land Reclamation at the Wilds

Control of Invasive Species Across the Landscape

Effect of Forest Edge on Macrofungi Diversity and

Abundance in Reclaimed Forest

Evaluation of Beaver Selection Preferences at The Wilds

Evaluation of Bison Dietary Preferences in a Mixed-Warm and

Cool-Season Pasture

Evaluation of Miller Valley Wetland Five Years Following

Restoration

Evaluation of Moth Diversity and Abundance on Wilds

Property

Habitat Variables Associated with Aquatic Macroinvertebrate

Distribution and Abundance on a Reclaimed Surface Mine

Headstarting Operations for Eastern Hellbenders

Impacts of Rising Temperatures on Germination of Warm

vs. Cool Season Grasses and Soil Properties on Reclaimed

Mine-Land in Southeastern Ohio

Improving Hardwood Forests Through Invasive Species

Control

Long-Term Lepidopteran Surveys and Pollinator Habitat

Enhancement

Miller Valley Stream Restoration

Monitoring the Health of the Miller Stream: An Assessment of

Macroinvertebrate Communities

Muskrat Die-Off in Ohio

Native Bee Diversity and Abundance on Reclaimed Surface

Mine Land

Native Taxon Inventories

Natives in Reclamation

Prairie Creation, Restoration and Management of Native

Plant Communities

Przewalski’s Horse and Onager Reproduction

Reforestation of Reclaimed Grasslands

Reintroduction of American Burying Beetles to Ohio

Snake Fungal Disease

Surveying for Wintering Raptor Presence and Abundance

Across Multiple Habitat Types at Reclaimed Coal Mines

Testing Prairie for Biomass and Carbon Sequestration on

Reclaimed Mine Land

Utilizing Fire Management to Maintain Prairie Ecosystems

Vegetation Cover and Territory Selection by Henslow’s

Sparrow Returning to Summer Breeding Ranges

Wood Duck Usage of Nest Boxes and Reproduction on a

Reclaimed Surface Coal Mine

Research

Banteng Reproduction

Bison Pregnancy Detection

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TOLEDO ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Animal Contact Yard

Animal Demonstrations

Behind the Scenes Tours

Birthday Party Animal Demonstrations

Bug Festival

Camps

Distance Learning

Dive Show – Interpretation

Elephant Exhibit Inquiry Kiosks

Fisher-Price Amphitheater Show

Great Lakes Symposium

Homeschool Programs

iEvolve with STEM

Junior Zookeeper

Nature’s Neighborhood

Nature’s Neighborhood Free Play Workshop

Ocean Lab

On-Grounds School Programs

Outreach Programs

Overnight Programs

Party for the Planet

Play Naturally Toledo

Pop Up / Backyard Activities

Preschool

Preschool Programs

Safari Train Ride Interpretive Narrative

School Assembly Program

Scout Badge Programs

Seasonal Activity Carts

Teacher Professional Development

Field Conservation

Aruba Island Rattlesnake Field Research

Conservation of the Kihansi Spray Toad

Ecology of the Cuban Boa on the United States Naval Base,

Guantanamo Bay, Cuba

Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Effort – Salvage Rearing

Kiwis for Kiwi

Large Vertebrate Biodiversity Survey

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Maumee River Lake Sturgeon Rearing Facility

Mitchell’s Satyr Reintroduction Program

Monarch Butterfly Rearing and Release

Native Orchid Conservation

Ohio Hellbender Headstart and Reintroduction

Ohio Turtle Survey and Monitoring

On-Grounds Biodiversity Monitoring

Pacific Bird Conservation

Polar Bear Conservation Initiatives

Reintroduction of the Karner Blue Butterfly to the Oak

Openings of Northwestern Ohio

Rewilding of Urban Brownfields With Prairie Installations

Save the Tasmanian Devil

Scaly-Sided Merganser Task Force

Snow Leopard Conservation in Kyrgyzstan

Wyoming Toad Field Surveys

Research

Cassowary Vocalization Research

Oklahoma

OKLAHOMA CITY ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Birthday Parties

Day Camps / Summer Camps

Nature Explorers Preschool

Schools / On Grounds

Schools / On Grounds Grants

Scout Badge Programs

Snoozes – Overnight Programming

Tuition Classes

Zoomobiles – Outreach

Zoomobiles – Outreach Grants

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Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Association of Zoological Horticulture (AZH)

AZA Chelonian TAG – Conservation Projects

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA Tiger SSP – Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

Sumatran Tiger Conservation Project

Cambodian Crocodile Conservation Programme

Captive Rearing of Critically Endangered Masked Bobwhite

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Chelonian Conservation Breeding Center, Madagascar

Conservation Ambronia

CrocFest – Crocodile Conservation

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Exploring Genetic Diversity and Its Effects on Fitness Across

Different Environments in the Endangered Grevy’s Zebra

(Equus grevyi)

Fishing Cat Distribution: Habitat Use Study

Horned Lizard of Oklahoma Conservation

International Crane Foundation

Jatun Sacha Foundation

Mbeli Bai Study of Western Lowland Gorillas

Monarch Butterfly

Northern Rangelands Trust – Conservancies Support

Okapi Conservation Project

Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation

Painted Dog Research Trust

Rainforest Trust

Rakhine Yoma Elephant Range

Studying a Living Fossil: Conservation and Ecology of the

Giant Armadillo in the Brazilian Pantanal

The Nature Conservancy – Oklahoma Chapter

The Tonkolili Chimpanzee Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Using the Chili-Grease Technology to Promote Elephant

Conservation Within Bia Conservation Area

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

A Study of Dominance Hierarchies in African Painted Dog

Asian Elephant Relative Quantity Judgment

Conservation and Ecology of the Giant Armadillo in the

Brazilian Pantanal

Conservation of the Endemic Chelonians of Sulawesi:

Forsten’s Tortoise (Indotestudo fortenii) and Sulawesi

Forest Turtle (Leucocephalon yuwonoi)

Environmental Enrichment of Translocated Texas Horned

Lizards

Non-Invasive Biomonitoring of Heavy Metals and Persistent

Organic Pollutants in the Endangered White-Naped Crane

in Mongolia

Population Genetic Structure of the Mediterranean House

Gecko (Hemidactylus turcicus)

Quantifying the Importance of Forest for the Provisioning

of Avian Pest-Control Ecosystem Services and Avian

Biodiversity in a Forest / Oil Palm Agricultural Matrix

Saving the Night for Honduras’ Bats, Moths and Beetles

The Influence of Behavior, Physiology and Genomics on the

Reproductive Success of Alligator Snapping Turtles

Understanding the Social Organization and Behavior of

Giraffes to Contribute to Conservation Planning In-Situ

and Improve the Welfare of Giraffes in Captive Collections

Ex-Situ

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Use of Saliva Samples for Evaluation of the Extent of

Natural Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesviruses (EEHV)

Infections in Asian Zoo Elephants

Viper Prefrontal Morphology Project

TULSA ZOO

Education Programs

Dreamnight Activities

Hallowzooeen – Not So Creepy Crawlies

Learning from Ultimate Nocturnal Adventures (LUNA)

Nature Exchange

Nature’s Buddies

Nature’s Night Owls

SENSEsational Science Teacher Workshop

Snooz-A-Pa-ZOO-Za Family Overnights

Stationing

Tulsa Zoo Camps (Winter, Spring, Summer)

Zoo Teens

Zoo2U – Schools

Field Conservation

American Burying Beetle Project

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign: Endau-

Rompin Landscape of Peninsular Malaysia

Berdiri Foundation Elephant Response Unit – Way Kambas

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF) – Operation: Stop

Poaching Now

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Monarch Butterfly Watch Program and Waystation Program

Monarch Initiative of Tulsa

Reintroduction of the Alligator Snapping Turtles to the

Caney River in Northeastern Oklahoma

Save the Wild Chinchillas

Seafood Watch – Conservation Partner

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT) – Natural Partnerships Program

The Scarlet Macaw Population Recovery Program

The Wild Nature Institute

West African Primate Conservation Action: Creation

and Management of a Community-Protected Forest

on the Border of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to Promote

Conservation of Endemic Wildlife and Habitat

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) – 96 Elephants

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Asian Elephant Gonadotropin-Releasing Hormone (GnRH)

Vaccine Trial

Comparing Cortisol Levels to Behavior in Female Grizzly

Bear in Captivity

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Facilitation of a Synthetic Understanding of the Anatomy

and Composition of the Giraffe Ossicone Zuwachsknochen

at Birth

Measuring Corticosterone and Progesterone Concentrations

to Determine the Relationship Between Dietary

Seasonality, Stress and Reproductive Cycling in Diana

Guenons

Osteohistological Research to Build an Osteohistology Thin

Section Database

The National Elephant Herpesvirus Laboratory (NEHL)

Oregon

OREGON COAST AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Adult Volunteer Interpreters

Animal Encounters

Aqua Tots

Behind the Scenes Tour

Behind the Scenes Tours – Careers

Biofact Carts

Coastal Learning Symposium

Day Events

Dive Interpretation Presentations

Evening Event Tours

Guest Displays

Job Shadows

Lab Programs

Magic Moments

Ocean Literacy Initiative

Oceanscape Network

Oregon Coast Education Partnership

Oregon Coast STEM Center

Outreach

Passages Discovery Zone

Plankton Station

Public Animal Feedings

Sleepovers

Virtual Explorations

Volunteer Interpreter Training

Waterlines

Youth Volunteer Interpreters

Field Conservation

Documenting and Monitoring Invasive Invertebrate Species

in Oregon’s Coastal Bays

Monitoring a Transplanted Eelgrass (Zostera marina) in a

Newly Created Intertidal Habitat

Oregon Marine Reserves

Wildlife Rehabilitation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Purchased Renewable Energy

OREGON ZOO

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Tours

Camp Programs

Headstart ZooMobile

Senior ZooMobile

Teacher Professional Development

Urban Nature Overnights (UNO)

Zoo Ambassadors

Zoo Animal Presenters (ZAP) – First Year

Zoo Animal Presenters (ZAP) – Third Year

Zoo Guides

Zoo School

Zoo Snooze Overnights

Zoo Teens

Field Conservation

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

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California Condor Breeding Program

Cascades Pika Watch

Forest Elephant Conservation in Borneo

FrogWatch USA

Future for Wildlife Field Conservation Grant Program

Hutan-Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Kasese Wildlife Conservation Awareness Organization

Long-Term Reproductive Hormone Monitoring of Asian

Elephants

Oregon Silverspot Butterfly (Speyeria zerene hippolyta)

Cascade Head Population Supplementation

Oregon Spotted Frog

Oregon Spotted Frog Escape Behavior

Oregon Zoo Conservation Crew

Orphan Cougar Placement

Painted Dog Conservation

Panthera

Polar Bear Metabolic and Nutrition Studies for Field

Conservation Efforts

Polar Bears International

Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus idahoensis) Captive Care and

Breeding

Role of Mate Choice in Reproduction of Giant Pandas

SaveNature.org

Taylor’s Checkerspot Captive Rearing and Release Program

Western Pond Turtle Headstarting

Wildlife and Lead Outreach Program

Youth Ecology Corps (YEC)

Zoo Animal Presenters (ZAP) – Conservation Work

Zoo Teen Conservation Corps

Zoo-Quatama Partnership

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Animal Behavior Audit Program

Asian Elephant Hormone Monitoring

Elephant Exhibit Post-Occupancy Study

Elephant Preparturition Behavior and Endocrinology Study

Elephant Welfare

Giant Panda Mate Preference and Reproduction

Human Animal Interactions

Polar Bear Energetics

Using Non-Invasive Fecal Hormone Monitoring to Detect

Reproductive Patterns, Seasonality and Pregnancy in Red

River Hogs

WelfareTrak – Survey Development and Use

Western Pond Turtle Ulcerative Shell Disease

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WILDLIFE SAFARI

Field Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Proyecto Tití

Wildlife Conservation Network

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Body Composition and Inflammation in Overweight and

Obese Cycling and Con-Cycling Zoo-Maintained African

Elephants (Loxodonta africana)

Non-Invasive Detection of Protein Biomarkers for Early

Pregnancy Diagnosis in the Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)

Pennsylvania

CLYDE PEELING’S REPTILAND

Field Conservation

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG) – Conservation Fund

Merill Linn Land and Waterways Conservancy

ELMWOOD PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

American Bird Conservancy (ABC)

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Northern Jaguar Project

Red Panda Network

Tití Conservation Alliance

Research

Chytrid Fungus and Ranavirus Detection

Medetomidine-Midazolam-Butorphanol: Entirely Reversible

Intramuscular Anesthesia in Red Panda (Ailurus fulgens)

Multi-Institutional Investigation of Welfare in Zoo Giraffe

Preference of Perching Height Made by Raptors at Elmwood

Park Zoo

Preliminary Investigation: Measuring Welfare in Red Panda

ERIE ZOO

Education Programs

Adult Programs

Animal Meet and Greets

Behind the Scenes Tours

Birthday Parties

Day Camps

Family Programs

Homeschooler ZooSchool Club

Job Shadows

Junior Zookeeper

Meet a Keeper Talks

On-Site Classroom Programs

Outreach

PreZooSchool

Scout Programs

Touch Tables

Volunteer Program

Zoo Tots

ZooSchool Classes

Field Conservation

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW)

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

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Hawk Creek Rehabilitation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Northern Jaguar Project

Orangutan Conservancy

Painted Dog Conservation

Painted Dog Research Trust

Red Panda Network

Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation Center

The Ocean Project

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

LEHIGH VALLEY ZOO

Field Conservation

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP – Edward Lowe

Foundation

Lehigh Valley Zoo Bat Survey

Seafood Watch

NATIONAL AVIARY

Education Programs

Avian Hospital Programming

Aviary A La Cart

Aviary Takes Wing Outreach

Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh Outreach

Encounters

Experiences

Guided Tours

Helen M. Schmidt FliteZone™ Theater Shows

Interactive Feedings

Little Peepers Early Learners Series

One Northside for Every Student

School Programs

Summer Camps

Teaching Hospital

Volunteer Program

Field Conservation

Avian Community Structure in Polylepis Fragments, Cloud

Forest and Exotic Plantations

Avian Monitoring Program – Las Cruces Area, Costa Rica

AZA Guam Rail SSP – Breeding and Reintroduction

Connectivity of Migratory Populations of the Louisiana

Waterthrush

Conservation of the Andean Condor

Effects of Fragmentation of Polylepis Forest on Bird

Communities

Factors Affecting Reproductive Success and Overwintering

Survival

Hummingbird Network

Impacts of Natural Gas Development on an Indicator Species

Marianas Avian Conservation Program

Monitoring Peregrine Falcon Nesting Sites – Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Neighborhood Nestwatch

Pittsburgh Project Owlnet

The Dominican Birding Trail

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

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PHILADELPHIA ZOO

Education Programs

A.D.O.P.T. (Animals Depend on People Too) Day

Action Chats

Adult Overnights

Animal Training Demos

Barnyard

Behind the Scenes Tours

Community Access Programs (CAP)

Custom Overnights

Daytime Seasonal Events

Docent Career Talks

Docent Tours

Docent Training Course

Evening Rentals/Events

Family Overnights

Insect Barn

Interpretation Carts

Interpreters

KidZooU Climbing Structure

Little Zoo on Wheels

Lorikeet Encounter

McNeil Avian Center Rainforest

Member Morning Strolls

New Volunteer Orientation

Night Flight

Philadelphia Electric Company (PECO) Smart Ideas

Challenge

Reptile Exercise Yard

Scout Workshops

Teacher Advisory Council

Teacher Pass

Unless Contest

Wildlife Discovery Tours

Wildlife Investigations

You Belong in the Zoo

Zoo on Wheels

Zoo on Wheels Birthday Party

Zoo on Wheels Booth

ZooCREW

Field Conservation

Amphibian Ark

Amphibian Conservation Center – Mazán Forest

Associação Amigos do Peixe-Boi (AMPA) – Giant Otter

Project

Audubon Pennsylvania Partnership

Fairmount Park Reforestation

Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program

Great Apes 2020

Haitian Frog Rescue

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Polar Bears International

Rodrigues Environmental Education Project

Saving Endangered Frogs of Haiti

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Programme (SOCP)

Sumatran Tiger Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

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Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Specified a Portion of the Amount Saved for Next Year’s

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Description of an Acoustic Assemblage of Frogs and the

Discovery of Two New Frog Species (Adenomera spp.)

From Putumayo, Columbia

Engendering Empathy Through the Use of

Anthropomorphism

Finding Lost Frogs of Ecuador

Improving the Effectiveness of Zoo / Aquarium Visitor

Conservation Education Experience: A Values Orientation

Approach

Saving Energy to Save Wildlife?

Zoo Visitors’ Onsite Recycling Behavior

ZOOAMERICA NORTH AMERICAN WILDLIFE PARK

Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Barn Owl Nest Box

Regal Fritillary Conservation

Rhode Island

ROGER WILLIAMS PARK ZOO

Education Programs

After-School Programs

Animal Care Internship

Animal Care Internship Orientation

BioBlitz

Birthday Parties

Bronx Zoo Trip

Brown University SPARK

Central Falls High School Program

Collette Travel Information Sessions

Community Zoomobiles

Conservation Heroes ZooCamp

Contact Yard

Counselor Trainings and Team Building

Cranston Summer Program

Docent Continuing Education

Docent Training Class

Docent Zoomobiles

Education Animal Meet and Greets

Egg Hunt Safari

Elephant Bath Interpretation

Exhibit Informal Interpretation

Exploration Stations

FrogWatch USA

Giraffe and Seal Feedings

Homeschool

Nature Swap

New London

Paint at the Zoo

Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Summer Scholars

Pets and Vets

Preschool Adventures

Public Relations Volunteer Training

Rock and Roar Concerts

Roots and Shoots

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School Zoomobiles On and Off Grounds

Science Weekends

Scout Safari Day

Snore and Roar Overnights

Spooky Zoo

Summer Adventures ZooCamp

Tadpole Academy ZooCamp

Teacher Institute

Wild Art

Wild Bunch Show

Wild Bunch Training

Wine and Cheese Conservation Lecture

Zoo Career Workshop

Field Conservation

American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus americanus) Captive

Propagation and Reintroduction Program

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Can Isotopes in Feces Track the Mobility of Difficult to

Observe Mammals?

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Alligator Lizard

(Abronia campbelli) in Eastern Guatemala Through Habitat

Restoration and Community Forest Management – Phase II

Conservation Radio: Conserving Species of the Bamenda

Highlands for Posterity

Conserving South Africa’s Free-Ranging Cheetah Through

Farmers-Predator Conflict Mitigation

Demography of a Recovery: Little Brown Bats Rebounding

From White-Nose Syndrome in the North East

Environment Council of Rhode Island

FrogWatch USA

Human Dimensions of Timber Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus)

Conservation: An Evaluation of Landowner Attitudes in

Connecticut, United States

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

Investigating Feeding Platforms as a Means for Dispersing

and Propagating Native Tree Seeds via Frugivorous Birds

in the Dominican Republic

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery / Butterfly Conservation

Initiative – Partnerships for Recovery

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

New England Cottontail Rabbit Recovery Program

Rhode Island Natural History Survey BioBlitz

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Tarangire Elephant Project

The Effects of Suburbanization on the Reproductive

Behavior and Physiology of Wood Frogs (Lithobates

sylvaticus)

Timber Rattlesnake Recovery Program

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program – Papua New Guinea

Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Nesting Ecology,

Mating Behavior and Genetic Diversity in Disturbed and

Undisturbed Nesting Sites

Wood Turtle (Glyptemys insculpta) Population Assessment

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

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WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Major Histocompatibility Complex Diversity in the New

England Cottontail and Implications for Conservation

South Carolina

BROOKGREEN GARDENS

Field Conservation

Backyard Habitat Restoration

Habitat Restoration Through Prescribed Burning of Longleaf

Pine Forest for Red-Cockaded Woodpeckers

Restoration and Monitoring of Wood Duck Houses Along

Brookgreen Gardens Waterways

Restoring and Repairing Bluebird Houses to Encourage

Breeding

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

GREENVILLE ZOO

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes – Backstage Expeditions

Career Day

Distance Learning Programs at the Zoo

Endangered Species Day

Enrichment Day

Family Programs – Saturday Safari

Family Programs for Zoo Tots

Get Out and Play Day

Greenville Zoo Overnights

Homeschool Programming

Learning Safari Thursdays

MOMS (Missing Orangutan Mothers) Day

Nature Play Greenville Zoo

Party for the Planet

School Programs

Wild for Reading Wednesdays

World Oceans Day

Zoo Camp

ZOOMobile

Field Conservation

Amphibian Survey of Anderson University’s Wetlands

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

Building a Future, One Lemur at a Time: Identifying Eulemur

rebriventer’s Dietary Strategy and Constraints and Their

Implications for In-Situ and Ex-Situ Conservation

Community-Based Conservation of Endangered Sea Turtles

Nesting Along Akassa Coast, Bayelsa Nigeria

Completion of a Biosecure Facility for Captive Breeding and

Reintroduction of Panamanian Golden Frogs

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Alligator Lizard

(Abronia campbelli) in Eastern Guatemala Through Habitat

Restoration and Community Forest Management

Florida Panther Conservation – Captive Management Group

FrogWatch USA

Furman Cougar Project

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

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Kalaweit Gibbon and Siamang Conservation Programme

Save the Frogs

Survey of Sternotherus Species at Oconee State Park

The Effects of Habitat Quality, Prey Availability and Wildlife

Health on the Reproduction of a Declining Predator

(Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake) in an Urban

Landscape

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wade Hampton Water Monitoring Team

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) – Anteaters and

Highways Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Bat Conservation International – White-Nose Syndrome

Research

Monitoring Black Rat Snakes on the Greenville Zoo Campus

RIPLEY’S AQUARIUM IN MYRTLE BEACH

Field Conservation

Beach Sweep

Macrobaterial Infections in Sea Dragons

Research

Mycobacterial Infections in Sea Dragons

Plasma Chemistry Database for Elasmobranchs

Reproduction Cycle and Gestation of the Spotted Eagle Ray

Reproduction of the Sand Tiger Shark in Captivity

Reproduction Patterns of Cownose Rays

Reproductive Cycle and Gestation of the Spotted Eagle Ray

(Aetobatus narinari)

Reproductive Patterns of Cownose Rays (Rhinoptera

bonasus)

Sea Turtle Reproductive Physiology

Seasonal Movement Patterns of Sand Tiger Sharks

Surgical Techniques in Cownose Rays and Southern Rays

RIVERBANKS ZOO & GARDEN

Education Programs

Adult Garden Workshop

Adventure Tours – Big Cats, Elephant, Reptile Rendezvous,

Penguin, Tortoise and Tropical Waters

African Adventure Tour – Elephants

Backyard Buds

Camp – Garden Side (Sprout and Seedling)

Camp – Spring Break Zoo Camp

Camp – Summer Zoo Camp: Wild Weeks

Camp – Winter Camp

Camp – Single Day

Daily Family Garden Programs (Mudpie Mondays, Tree Top

Tales Tuesday, Wacky Wednesday, Tantalizing Tastebuds

Thursday, Fossil Friday and Learning on the Lawn)

Discovery Days

Education Event Days – Party for the Planet, World Oceans,

Enrichment Days, Endangered Species Day

Family on Safari

Garden Outreach

Garden School Field Trips

Garden Tours

Homeschool

Interpretive Talks

Junior Master Gardeners

Nature Adventures

Night Howls

Outreach

Overnights

Pony Programs

School Programs (Classroom, Assembly and Tour Style)

Scouts – Evening Expeditions

Scouts – Workshops

Toddler Tales

Wildlife Gardener Camp

Zoo Teens

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Field Conservation

African Penguin Chick Bolstering Project

Assessing the Role of Magnetic-Based Navigation (MBN) in

the Bonnethead Shark (Sphyrna tiburo)

Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) Recovery Program

Blue-Crowned Laughingthrush (Dryonastes courtoisi) Global

Species Management Plan (GSMP)

Commercial Fisheries Management Project

Congaree Creek Heritage Preserve Fauna Survey

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Alligator Lizard

(Abronia campbelli) in Eastern Guatemala Through Habitat

Restoration and Community Forest Management

Conservation Through Education

Critical Habitat Restoration on the Upper Gila River

Do Mainland Island Sanctuaries Restore Bird Diversity and

Enhance Seed Dispersal in New Zealand

Eastern Diamondback Rattlesnake Population Survey in

South Carolina

Emerging Infectious Disease Survey of Wildsumaco, Ecuador

Health Effects of Rehabilitation and Release in Indonesian

Orangutans (Pongo pygmaeus wurmbii)

Honduras Hymenoptera Project

Listen to the Frogs: Using Bio-Acoustics to Improve Our

Conservation Relevant Knowledge of Data Deficient and

Threatened Frog Communities in Madagascar

Nzou’ Environmental Education Project – Lower Zambezi,

Zambia

Penguin Conference

Protecting Elephants, Forests, Wildlife and Communities

Through Conservation Response Units

Rescue and Rehabilitation of Critically Endangered Pangolins

Confiscated From the Illegal Wildlife Trade

Riverbanks Composting (ComPOOst) Program

South Carolina Wildlife Federation Scholarship Fund

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle Survival Center

Wildlife Poisoning: Forensic Training for Rangers in Africa

Green (Sustainable) Practices

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Research

Non-Invasive Biomonitoring of Heavy Metals and Persistent

Organic Pollutants in the Endangered White-Naped Crane

in Mongolia

Non-Invasive Identification of Protein Biomarkers for Early

Pregnancy Diagnosis in the Cheetah (Acinonyx jubatus)

Role of Nutrient Pollution and Fish Excretion in Exacerbating

or Aiding Coral Recovery From Predation During Bleaching

Events

The Effects of Habitat Quality, Prey Availability and Wildlife

Health on the Reproduction of a Declining Predator in an

Urban Landscape

SOUTH CAROLINA AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Adult Learning Series

Aquarium AquaTeen Program

Aquarium Rovers

Behind the Scenes Tours

Daily Interpretive Program

Discovery Cart Program

Discovery Lab

Distance Learning

High School Intern Program

Homeschool Programs

Member Educational Programs

Ollie’s Trading Post

Roving Interpretation

Scavenger Hunts

Sea Turtle Hospital Tours

Shadow Day

South Carolina Aquarium Curriculum

South Carolina Aquarium Species Sheets

Structured School Program

Teacher Workshops

Tributaries Member Magazine

Volunteer Training

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Field Conservation

Analyzing the Effects of Bait Type and Conspecific

Attraction on Crab Pot Entrapment in Diamondback

Terrapins (Malaclemys terrapin)

Answering Management Questions Surrounding the Atlantic

Horseshoe Crab: Impacts of Biomedical Bleeding in South

Carolina

Assessment of Mortality Sources on Diamondback Terrapins

(Malaclemys terrapin) in the Charleston Harbor Estuary

Bird Monitoring Assistance Program

Cape Island Turtle Project

Invasive Species Awareness and Monitoring

Loggerhead Turtle Pit Tag Study

Population and Habitat Monitoring of Various Species of

Conservation Concern

Robust Redhorse Conservation Committee

Sea Turtle Stranding Pathology: Formalized Data Collection

and Disease Surveillance

South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Program

South Carolina Department of Natural Resources (SCDNR)

Marine Resources Division – In-Water Sea Turtle Study

South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Enhancement

Program

South Carolina Phytoplankton Monitoring Network

Survey of Freshwater Mussels in Select Streams of South

Carolina

Research

Application and Healing Properties of American Poplar Raw

Propolis Alcohol Extract on Limulus Shell Disease

Fluid and Chemical Fluxes Across the Seafloor off Long Bay

and Charleston

Gray Triggerfish (Balistes capriscus) Life History in the South

Atlantic Bight: The Extensive Collection and Analysis

of New Data for Age, Growth and Reproduction and

Comparison With Data From 1992

South Dakota

BRAMBLE PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

Prairie Plants and Wildlife

Raptor Rehabilitation

Upper Big Sioux River Watershed Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

Research

Seasonal Fluctuations in Adult Mosquito Populations in

Eastern South Dakota

GREAT PLAINS ZOO & DELBRIDGE MUSEUM OF

NATURAL HISTORY

Field Conservation

AZA SAFE

AZA Ungulate TAG – Fundraiser

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Native Raptor Rehabilitation

Save the Rhino

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Wildlife Conservation Network – Ewaso Lions

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

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WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Tennessee

CHATTANOOGA ZOO AT WARNER PARK

Field Conservation

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA SAFE – Vaquita Conservation

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Conservation Program for Crocodylus intermedius in

Venezuela

Hellbender Conservation

Kihansi Spray Toad Holding

Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Wildlife Rehabilitation

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP)

Snow Leopard Behavior Survey for Zookeepers

Survey on Anesthesia and Anesthetic Death in Chimpanzees

Using Internet Technology to Connect Chimpanzees

MEMPHIS ZOO

Education Programs

Conservation Camp – Going, Going, Saved!

Earth Day

Explorers Academy

Homeschool Academy

Homeschool Days

Zoo Camp

Zoo Classes

Zoo Snooze

Field Conservation

African Elephant Population Monitoring in the Okavango

Delta, Botswana

Detecting the Presence of Chinese Giant Salamander in the

Qinling Mountains Using Environmental DNA (eDNA)

Development of Assisted Reproductive Technologies for

Endangered North American Amphibians

Giant Panda Conservation

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project – Translocation

of Birds from Saipan to Sarigan

Returning the Louisiana Pine Snake to Restored Habitat

Striped Newt Reintroduction Project

Research

Characterization of Urinary Prostaglandin F2 Alpha

Metabolite (PGFM) Profiles in Pregnant and Non-Pregnant

Mammals

Chemical Ecology of the Giant Panda

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Comparison of Seasonal Physiological Parameters of Indigo

Snakes (Drymarchon couperi) Housed in Outdoor Natural-

Light Enclosures Versus Indoor Stacked-Drawer Enclosures

Detecting Unknown Hellbender Populations Using

Environmental DNA (eDNA) Surveys

Development of Cold Storage and Cryopreservation of Snake

Sperm Using Pituophis catenifer as a Model Species

Inventory Surveys of Herpetological Communities in

Southeast Louisiana

Nutritional Ecology of the Giant Panda

Reproductive Biology of Male Giant Pandas

Spatial Ecology of Copperheads at Overton Park

Stress Physiology of Ursids

NASHVILLE ZOO, INC.

Education Programs

Fall Break Camp – Native Navigators

Homeschool Days – Going Green

Homeschool Days – Home, Sweet Home

Homeschool Days – Project Feeder Watch

Night Owls – Animal Habitats

Night Owls – Into the Wild

Night Owls – Zoological

Saturday Scouts – Animal Habitats

Saturday Scouts – Animal Helpers

Saturday Scouts – Digging in the Past

Saturday Scouts – Fur, Feathers and Ferns

Saturday Scouts – Zoological

Summer Camp – Camp Zoovivor

Summer Camp – Conservation Camp

Veterinary Camp

Wild Encounters – Animal Wrappers

Wild Encounters – Endangered Species

Wild Encounters – Surviving the Wild

Wild Encounters – the Rainforest

Wildlife on Wheels – Endangered Species

Wildlife on Wheels – Rainforest Adventures

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Andean Bear Conservation Alliance

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Bat Conservation International

Caribbean Wildlife Alliance

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Clouded Leopard Project

Duke Lemur Center – Projects in the Sambava-Andapa-

Vohemar-Antalaha (SAVA) Region of Madagascar

Fauna and Flora International

Friends of Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Giant Anteater Pilot Program in the Brazilian Pantanal

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Local and International Conservation Fieldwork by Staff

Lowland Tapir Fieldwork

Nature Conservation Foundation

Point Defiance Zoo – Clouded Leopard

Proyecto Tití

Rainforest Awareness Education Center – Amazonian

Manatee

Save Vietnam’s Wildlife Centre

SIA

Tapir Specialist Group

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildlife Conservation Global – Okapi Conservation Project

Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS)

RIPLEY’S AQUARIUM OF THE SMOKIES

Field Conservation

Apex Predator Tagging Study

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

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FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as ISO 14001

Certified by a Local or State Agency

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Mycobacterial Infections in Sea Dragons

Plasma Chemistry Database for Elasmobranchs

Reproduction Cycle and Gestation of the Spotted Eagle Ray

Reproduction of the Sand Tiger Shark in Captivity

Reproduction Patterns of Cownose Rays

Sea Turtle Reproductive Physiology

Seasonal Movement Patterns of Sand Tiger Sharks

Surgical Techniques in Cownose Rays and Southern Rays

TENNESSEE AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

Alligator Snapping Turtle Monitoring

Constructing a Freshwater Conservation Institute and Field

Station

Freshwater Information Network

Monitoring and Recovery of the Laurel Dace

Rearing Barrens Topminnows (Fundulus julisia) for

Conservation Purposes

Restoring Southern Appalachian Brook Trout

Ridges to Rivers

Serve and Protect: Supporting Sustainable Seafood

South Chickamauga Creek Assessment

Southeastern Freshwater Biodiversity Conservation Plan

Tennessee Lake Sturgeon Reintroduction Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Certified by a Local or State Agency

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Genetics of Spring Darters

Headwater Stream Community Ecology

Morphology and Hybridization in River Sturgeons

River Turtle Morphology

Southeastern Cave Biology

ZOO KNOXVILLE

Education Programs

Bedtime With the Beasts

Camp Wild

Classroom Programs

Night Safaris

Scout Workshops

ZooCamp

ZOOMobile Outreach Classroom Programs

ZOOMobile Outreach Community Programs

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Field Conservation

AZA Chacoan Peccary SSP – El Centro Chaqueño para la

Conservación e Investigación (CCCI)

Banding and Netting of Birds at Zoo Knoxville

Bog Turtle In-Situ Project

Center for Ecosystem Survival (SaveNature.org): Rainforest

Conservation Parking Meter

Conservation Heloderma

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Malaysian Conservation Alliance for Tigers (MYCAT)

Mbeli Bai Study

Monarch Watch

Organization for Bat Conservation

Pollinator Gardens

Survey for Mudpuppies and Eastern Hellbenders in East

Tennessee

Tennessee Butterfly Monitoring Network

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Madagascar Fund

World Parrot Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Professional Level Research Project Support

Student Research Project Support

University Level Research Studies

Texas

ABILENE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Birthday Parties

Camp Programs

Dreamnight

Homeschool Classes

Kids Night Out

Night Hike

Overnights at the Zoo

Party for the Planet

Preschool Classes

School Group Classes

World Giraffe Day

Zoo to You

Field Conservation

African People and Wildlife Fund

Amphibian Ark

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Recovery Program

Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG)

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG)

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Colobus Conservation, Ltd.

Friends of the Attwater Prairie Chicken National Wildlife

Refuge

Friends of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Crane Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Project Golden Frog

Tambopata Macaw Project

The Cougar Fund

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wildtracks

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Reticuloendothelial Virus (REV)

Research

Earth Actions

CALDWELL ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Addresses

Animal Families

Behind the Scenes Tours

Brochures

Conservation Corps

Critter Covers

Critter Tales

Extended Stay Program

Family Science Night/Career Fair

Girl Scout and Cub Scout FunShops

Going, Going, Gone

Homeschool Happenings

It All Makes Sense

Nocturnal Ed-ZOO-cation

Outreach (Not Schools)

Scavenger Hunts

Science Club

Secrets of Survival

Summer Day Camp

Tic-Tac-Zoo

Week at the Zoo

Field Conservation

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Recovery Program

ECO-CELL Electronic Recycling Program and the

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

International Elephant Foundation (IEF) – Elephant Painting

Sales

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

AZA Waldrapp Ibis SSP – Sample Collection for DNA Kinship

Study

Cheetah Oxalates

Determining Genetic Variability, Kinship and Uniqueness in

the North American Cheetah Population

Elephant Pharmacokinetic Trials

Investigation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Black

Rhinoceroses Using Serological Tests

Molecular and Morphological Characterization of a

Haemogregarine in the Alligator Snapping Turtle,

Macrochelys temminckii, in Texas

Reviving an Extinct Texan Tortoise

Validation of a Rhino Specific Ferritin Enzyme Immunoassay

for the Black Rhino, White Rhino and Indian Rhino and the

Impact of Individual and Environmental Factors on Serum

Ferritin Concentrations

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CAMERON PARK ZOO

Field Conservation

Lake Waco Eagle Nest

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified by a Local or State Agency

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Genetic and Phenotypic Characterization of Cystic Fibrosis

Airway Disease in Non-Human Primates

DALLAS ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Adventures Outreach

Backstage Safari

Cheetah Encounter

Discovery House

Family Campout

Family Pop-Up

Family STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and

Mathematics) Night

Family Zoo Adventures

Frog Club

Homeschool Day

Junior Rancher Adventure

Keeper Talks

Life On The Ranch

Lights Out Overnight

Nature Exchange

On-Site School Programs

Preschool Safari

Science Day

Sensory Friendly Day

Sleeping with the Fishes Overnight

Stroller Buddies

Summer Science Institute

Teacher Workshops

Twilight Safari Night Hike

Wild About Art

Wild Adventures Camps

Wild Encounters Stage

WildFUN (Families United in Nature)

Wildlife Show

Wilds of Africa Adventure Safari

Youth Volunteer Programs

Zoo Corps

Zoo Yoga

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Áreas Costeras y Recursos Marinos (ACOREMA)

AZA SAFE

Brazos River Water Snake Population Monitoring

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Cheetah Sustainability and Accessibility Program

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Earthwatch Institute

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Hellbender Headstart Program

Horned Lizard Management Project

Humboldt Penguin Monitoring Status in Peru

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute

Koala Management, Education and Conservation Program

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Komodo Dragon Conservation Fund

Ngwenya Rhino Fund

Okapi Conservation Project

Rattlesnake Preservation Trust

Restoring Wildlife Habitat Across Texas: Coastal Habitat

Restoration

Restoring Wildlife Habitat Across Texas: Forest Habitat

Restoration

Restoring Wildlife Habitat Across Texas: Prairie Habitat

Restoration

Restoring Wildlife Habitat Across Texas: Riparian Habitat

Restoration

Restoring Wildlife Habitat Across Texas: Riverine Habitat

Restoration

Sea Turtle, Inc.

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – Penguin and Sea Bird Conservation

Tarangire Elephant Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wild Earth Expeditions

Wild Earth Wristbands Project

Research

Animal Wellness Assessment, Research and Education

(AWARE) Institute – Elephant Welfare Initiative

Antelope Genetic Project

AZA Addax SSP – Improving the Genetic Management of the

AZA Addax Species Survival Plan®

Comparative Morphological and Molecular Studies of

Mammal Brains

EEHV Consortium – Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus

(EEHV) Surveillance: Necropsy Tissue Collection

EEHV Consortium – Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus

(EEHV) Surveillance: Serum

EEHV Consortium – Elephant Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus

(EEHV) Surveillance: Trunk Wash and Blood Samples

Elephant: Assessing Gait and Musculoskeletal Health in Zoo

Elephants

Elephant: Body Composition / Inflammation in Overweight

and Obese Cycling and Non-Cycling Zoo-Maintained

African Elephants

Elephant: Mazuri Swaziland Elephant Diet Trial

Elephant: Monitoring Body Condition, Reproductive and

Metabolic Hormones in African Elephants: Using Science

to Aid Management Decisions to Optimize Health and

Welfare of Zoo Elephants

Elephant: Monitoring Elephant Locomotion Using Radio-

Frequency Identification (RFID)

Elephant: Recumbency Patterns in African Elephants at the

Dallas Zoo

Fennec Fox: Population Analysis and Breeding and Transfer

Plan Animal Species to be Studied: Fennec Fox (Vulpes

zerda)

Frozen Zoo and Cell Cultures

Gorilla Health Project – Great Ape Cardiac Project (GAHP)

Gorilla: Anti-Müllerian Hormone (AMH) as an Indicator of

Ovarian Reserve in Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla) in Captivity

Gorilla: Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in

Western Lowland Gorillas (Gorilla gorilla gorilla) in North

American Zoos

Great Ape Cardiac Project: Brain Natriuretic Peptide (BNP) in

Great Apes

Great Ape Health Project: Insulin Resistance in Great Apes

Great Ape Neuroscience Project

Hornbill Feather Collection

Lemurs: Comparative Genomics and Phylogenetics of

Indriidae

Louisiana Pine Snake Genotyping

Naked Mole Rat: Molecular Ecology of the Naked Mole Rat

Ocelot – Semen Collection by Electroejaculation in Non-

Domestic and Domestic Animals

Penguin: Improvement of the Diagnosis of Aspergillosis in

Penguins

Prevalence of Fecal Consistency of Captive Giant Anteaters

Primates: Neuroanatomical Organization

Rat Snake: Population Dynamics of Urban Texas Rat Snakes

(Elaphe obsoleta lindheimeri) at the Dallas Zoo

Reproductive Health Surveillance Program

Reptiles: Coccidia (Apicomplexa) of Reptiles Utilizing Fecal

Samples from Dallas Zoo Captives

Rhinos: Validation of a Rhino Specific Ferritin Enzyme

Immunoassay for the Black Rhino (Diceros bicornis) and

the Impact of Individual and Environmental Factors on

Serum Ferritin Concentrations

Rock Hyrax: Aggression Control in Rock Hyrax Using

Deslorelin

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Serval: Characterization of Reproductive Endocrinology

in Female Servals (Leptailurus serval) for Improved

Population Management

Tiger – Heard But Not Seen: Acoustic Monitoring of Wild

Tiger Populations

Tiger: Validation of Texas GI Panel Results for Assessment of

Sumatran Tigers

Turaco: Measuring Genetic Diversity Within Captive Breeding

Populations of Turaco spp. (Musophagidae) as a Tool for

Informing Their Future Conservation Management

Waldrapp Ibis Genetic Sampling

EL PASO ZOO

Education Programs

Animal Encounters

Animal Presentations

Behind the Scenes Tours

Bird Show

Birthday Party Animal Encounter

Classroom Programs

Exhibit Host

Meet the Keeper

Produce Hunt

Public Programs – Enrichment

Public Programs – Trainings

Sleepovers

Field Conservation

Black-Footed Ferret Monitoring

Bolson Tortoise Conservation Project

Free the Bears

Frontera Land Alliance Conservation Education Project at

Resler Canyon

Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge Adopt an Ocelot

Program

Lion Guardians Kenyan Maasailand

Moth Research at White Sands National Monument, New

Mexico

Peninsular Pronghorn Conservation

Rio Bosque Wetlands Park Conservation Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Captive Orangutan Dentition Emergence

Development of Non-Invasive DNA Analysis for Tiger

Genomics

Moth Species of White Sands National Monument

Puerto Rican Crested Toad Pathology Review

ELLEN TROUT ZOO

Field Conservation

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

Croc School Scholarship

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

FORT WORTH ZOO

Field Conservation

Arthur A. Seeligson Jr. Conservation Fund

AZA Louisiana Pine Snake SSP – Reintroduction

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI)

Chiricahua Leopard Frog Rescue and Reintroduction

Conservation of the Critically Endangered Anegada Iguana

Cryptobranchid Interest Group

Evaluation of the Feasibility and Success of Translocating

Texas Horned Lizards Into Formally Occupied Habitat

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Houston Toad Rescue and Reintroduction

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Iguana Foundation – Iguana Conservation

Jamaican Iguana Recovery Program

Mountain Bongo Project

Okapi Conservation Project

Pecos Pupfish Rescue

Pollinator Habitat Restoration

Puerto Rican Harlequin Butterfly Monitoring

Rhino Conservation

Roatan Iguana Conservation Program

Spot-Tailed Earless Lizard Assurance Population and

Research

Texas Horned Lizard Reintroduction

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle and Tortoise

Conservation

Virgin Islands Tree Boa Reintroduction and Research

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as ISO 14001

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Bonobo Maternal Behavior and Infant Developmental

Behavior

Exposure of Two Organic Chemicals on Hellbender Larvae

Iguana Enrichment Study

Scales on Trails

FOSSIL RIM WILDLIFE CENTER

Field Conservation

Addax Antelope Assurance Population

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Database

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Recovery Program – Captive

Breeding and Release

Dama Gazelle Conservation Assurance Population

Dama Gazelle Genetic Study

International Elephant Foundation (IEF) – Salary

Administration

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Masked Bobwhite Quail Recovery Team Participation

Mexican Wolf Assurance Population

Okapi Conservation Project

Red Wolf Assurance Population

Sahara Conservation Fund (SCF)

Saola Working Group

Scimitar-Horned Oryx Conservation Assurance Population

Scimitar-Horned Oryx Global Positioning System (GPS)

Collar Study

Source Population Alliance (SPA)

Southern Black Rhinoceros Conservation Assurance

Population

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by a Local or State Agency

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Bongo Antelope Acute Phase Protein Study

Degenerative Joint Disease in Captive Large Cats: Improving

Clinical Management and Treatment Outcomes

Determining Herbacious Biomass Production and Nutrient

Value at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center

Retrospective Analysis of Factors Affecting Reproductive

Success of Captive Cheetah at Fossil Run Wildlife Center

(FRWC)

Revegetation of Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Flights

Spinose Ear Tick: Acaricide Study

GLADYS PORTER ZOO

Education Programs

Birthday Safari

Off-Site Presentations

On-Site Presentations

Outreach Program

Starlight Safari

Students Teaching Students

Summer Safari

Teacher Workshops

Tours

Field Conservation

A Study on the Relative Abundance of the Ocelot

CrocFest

Health Screening of Ocelots

International Iguana Foundation

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Recovery Program – Mexico/United

States

North American Philippine Crocodile Cooperative Breeding

and Conservation Program

Ocelot Translocation

Oiled Wildlife Rehabilitation

Sea Turtle, Inc.

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

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Research

Grouped Responses Versus Individual Responses in Captive

Western Lowland Gorillas to Group Demographic Changes:

Seeing the Forest Despite the Trees

Impacts of Climate Change on Reproduction in a Thermally-

Sensitive Species

In Press: Mexican Origins for the Texas Green Turtle Foraging

Aggregation: a Cautionary Tale of Incomplete Baselines

and Poor Marker Resolution

Kemp’s Ridley Working Group Meeting

Sample Collection

Using Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAVs) Technology for

Locating, Identifying and Monitoring Courtship and Mating

Behavior in the Green Sea Turtle (Chelonia mydas)

HOUSTON AQUARIUM, INC.

Field Conservation

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

OCEARCH

Wildlife Alliance

World Parrot Trust

HOUSTON ZOO, INC.

Education Programs

Adventure Classes

Alternative Teen Break

Camp Zoofari

Collegiate Conservation

Educator Day

Educator Workshops

Educators Night Out

Homeschool Programs

Interpretive Programs

Students as Field Researchers at Texas City Prairie Preserve

Wild Wheels

Wild Winks

Zoo Yoga

ZOOMobile

Field Conservation

Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Recovery Program

AZA Pangolin Aardvark and Xenarthran TAG

AZA SAFE

AZA SAFE – Vaquita

Bat Conservation International

Bornean Small Carnivore Program

Borneo Clouded Leopard Project

Coastal Prairie Partnership

Conservation and Ecology of the Giant Armadillo in the

Brazilian Pantanal

Conservation Heritage Turambe Rwanda

Conservation of the Painted Terrapin in Indonesia

Crab-Trap Clean Up

East Texas Black Bear Task Force

El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC)

Ewaso Lions

Giant Anteaters and Highways in Brazil

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP)

Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Groupe d’Étude et de Recherche sur les Primates de

Madagascar (GERP)

Hirola Antelope

Houston Toad Headstart and Recovery Program

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) –

African Primate Redlist Assessment and Workshop

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Jane Goodall Institute

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

Landscape Ecology and Behavioral Responses of the Sunda

Pangolin (Manis javanica) to Habitat Fragmentation and

Degradation in Sabah, Malaysia

Laos Elephant Conservation Center

Lion Guardians

Lowland Tapirs as Landscape Detectives for the Atlantic

Forest: A New Conservation Approach

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Lowveld Rhino Trust Zimbabwe

Mar Alliance

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project

Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project

Namibia Black Rhino – Rhino Pride Campaign

Niassa Carnivore Project

Niassa Carnivore Project – Elephant-Beehive Fence

Ocelot – Friends of Laguna Atoscosa National Wildlife

Refuge

Okapi Conservation Project

Painted Dog Conservation

Pride Lion Conservation Alliance

Proyecto Mono Tocan – San Martin Titi Monkey

Proyecto Tití

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Saola Working Group – Saola Conservation Project

Satellite Tracking and Social Behaviour of the Bornean

Elephant in the Lower Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary –

Sabah, Malaysia

Saving Endangered Grey-Crowned Cranes

Sea Turtle – Fishing Industry Conflict Assessment Argentina

Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation in the Gulf of Mexico

Texas Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Tiger Conservation in the Endau-Rompin Landscape of

Peninsular Malaysia

Toward Building a Conservation Constituency on Galápagos

Through Science and Environmental Education

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network

Wildtracks – Belize Howler Monkey Release

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Documented Amount of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Collaborative Research Project Investigating Elephant

Endotheliotropic Herpesvirus (EEHV)

Detection and Management of Chlamydophila pneumoniae in

Houston Toads at the Houston Zoo

Fertilization Success and Embryonic Development in the

Houston Toad (Anaxyrus houstonensis)

Instances of Canine Distemper Virus (CDV) Vaccination in

Panthera species (Lions, Tigers, Leopards, Jaguars and

Snow Leopards) From 2000-2015

Sperm Collection and Cryopreservation in the Houston Toad

(Anaxyrus houstonensis)

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RAINFOREST & AQUARIUM AT MOODY

GARDENS, INC.

Field Conservation

Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG)

AZA Chelonian TAG

AZA Chinese Alligator SSP

AZA Giant Otter SSP

AZA Humboldt Penguin SSP

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA Ocelot SSP

AZA Panamanian Golden Frog SSP

AZA Rodrigues Fruit Bat SSP

Bat Conservation International

Belize Botanic Garden

One World One Ocean

Sea Turtle Conservation – Galveston

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Shark Conservation

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

SAN ANTONIO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY

Education Programs

Community-Based Programs

Docent Station Encounters

Guest Encounters Butterflies

Guest Encounters Lory Landing

Guests Encounters Giraffes

Intern / Service Volunteer Training and Hours Served

Interpretation and Fieldwork (Teen)

Outreaches

Playleader Encounters

Real.Wild.Classrooms.

School Group Visits

Sleepovers

Staff Interpretation

Summer Camp

Volunteer Training (Adult)

Volunteer Training (Teen)

Zoo School

Field Conservation

AZA Crocodilian Advisory Group (CAG)

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP – Captive Reproduction

and Reintroduction of the Puerto Rican Crested Toad

(Peltophryne lemur) Tadpoles

Bird Species Survey

Bolson Tortoise Recovery Project

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Burmese Black Tortoise Conservation / Nagaland Zoo, India

Cave Fauna Biodiversity

Chilean Amphibian Conservation Center

Chinese Cave Fish Working Group

Colobus Conservation, Ltd.

Conservation Center for Western Asia

Conservation of the Georgia Blind Salamander and the

Dougherty Plain Cave Crayfish

Conservation of the Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander

(Ambystoma bishopi)

Coquí Conservation Initiative

CrocFest

Deep-Pelagic Nekton Dynamics (DEEPEND)

Ducks Unlimited, Inc.

Durell Wildlife Conservation Trust

Edwards Aquifer Authority – Habitat Conservation Plan

FrogWatch USA

Gharial Conservation Alliance

Habitat Restoration Around Bracken Bat Cave

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group – Tomistoma Task

Force

Japanese Giant Salamander Conservation

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Project

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Monarch Butterfly Marking Project

Monarch Larval Monitoring Survey

Monarch Way Station and Monarch Watch

Peruvian Cooperative

Population Assessment, Disease Surveys and Genetic

Determination for the Black Spotted Newt (Notophthalmus

meridionalis) in Texas and in Tamaulipas

Population Ecology of the Grotto Salamander (Eurycea

spelaea)

Population Ecology of the Mexican Upland Burrowing

Treefrog (Smilisca dentata)

San Antonio Zoo Center for Conservation and Research

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Texas Rattlesnake Festival

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León – Captive Rattlesnake

Husbandry

Wild Cats of Tamaulipas

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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Research

Characterization of Ventral Color Change by Dorsal Light

Stimulation in the False Gharial

Development of a Carapace Length Versus Weight Curve for

Large Fossil Tortoises

Evaluation of the Presence of Snake Fungus on Zoo Grounds

from Native, Wild Snakes

Nanostructure of Ventral Scales of Snakes, With Specific

Reference to Sidewinder Rattlesnakes

Tamaulipan Rock Rattlesnake Telemetry Study in Nuevo Leon

Mexico

SEA LIFE GRAPEVINE AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Amazing Cephalopods

Backstage Tour

Clown Fish Presentation

Meet the Creatures

Ocean and Sea Turtle Presentation

Quiz Trail

Rainforest Adventure Presentation

Sea Horse Presentation

Shark School

Squid Dissection

Stingray / Shark Presentation

Young Environmentalist Program

Field Conservation

Grant From SeaLife Trust

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

SEAWORLD SAN ANTONIO

Education Programs

All Day Grand Adventure Tour

Animal Tours

Behind the Scenes Tour

Day Camps

Family Adventure Tour

Group Resident Camp

Home School Days

Instructional Field Experience

Outreach – Live on Location

Penguin Encounter

Resident Camp

School Tours

Sleepovers

Special Needs Tour

Teacher Workshops

Field Conservation

Bracken Bat Cave: A Tradition of Conservation Education and

Stewardship

Conserving Hawksbill in Nicaragua’s Estero Padre Ramos

Natural Reserve

Galveston Bay Foundation’s Marine Debris Events and

Abandoned Crab Trap Removal

Horniman Museum and Gardens

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Photographic Identification Mark-Recapture Abundance

Proposal for Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in

the Galveston Bay System

Sloth and Anteater Rescue: Rehabilitation and Education

Program in the Republic of Panama

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TEXAS STATE AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Animal Presentations/Encounters

Aquarium Biofact Carts

Aquarium Discovery Programs

Aquavision Distance Learning

Backstage Pass Tours

Camp-Ins

Conservation Theme Days

Exhibit Interpretation/Interactions

Homeschool

Mini Camps

Outreach

Party for the Planet

Play to Learn

SeaCamp

Seafood Wars

Teacher Professional Development

Wildlife Theater Shows

World Oceans Day

Field Conservation

Adopt-A-Beach

Aquarium Conservation Partnership

SExual COral REproduction (SECORE)

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Improving

Oso Creek / Bay, Corpus Christi Bay and Petronila Creek

Water Quality

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Kemp’s

Ridley Sea Turtle Bi-National Conservation Program

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Marine

Monarchs: Use of Offshore Oil Platforms by Migrating

Monarch Butterflies

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Waters

for Wildlife: Monitoring the Use of Freshwater Ponds by

Wintering Whooping Cranes

Wildlife Rehabilitation Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Research

2017 American Elasmobranch Society Symposium

Indicators of Welfare in Bottlenose Dolphins in the US

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Genetic

Composition of Immature Kemp’s Ridley Turtles in the Gulf

of Mexico

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Mapping

Spotted Trout Spawning Habitat in Mission Arkansas

National Estaurine Research

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Optimizing

Coral Fragmentation Technique for Propagation

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Sharks with

Spectators: Web-Based Tracking of Texas’ Marine Apex

Predators

Wildlife Care, Conservation and Research Fund – Validating

Atlantic Tarpon Scale Chemistry to Track Migration in Texas

Waters

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THE DALLAS WORLD AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Earth Day Celebration

Exhibit Ambassadors

Exhibit Touchscreens

Field Guide

General Education Program

Keeper Talks

Member Newsletter

Migratory Bird Day

Online Lectures

Shark Awareness Day

Vaquita Awareness Day

World Oceans Day Celebration

Field Conservation

Amazon Rescue Center

Caribbean Manatee Conservation

Colombian Anteaters Rehabilitation Book

Costa Rican Sloth Conservation

Horned Guan Conservation

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Lone Star Rattlesnake Days

Mexican Crocodilian Conservation

Orinoco Crocodile Conservation Project

Red Uakari Monkey Conservation

Resplendent Quetzal Conservation

Rogers Wildlife Rehabilitation, Inc.

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Research

Advancing Conservation of the Amazonian Manatee

(Trichechus inunguis) in Iquitos, Peru

Breeding Behavior, Propagation and Management of the

Ribbon Pipefish (Haliichthys taeniophorus)

Captive Husbandry and Breeding Behavior of the Leafy

Seadragon, Phycodurus eques

Photographic Database for Assessing Reproductive

Readiness in Largetooth Sawfish, Pristis pristis

Population Parameters, Habitat Quality and Effect of Past

Reintroductions in the Orinoco Crocodile In Venezuela:

Evaluation of Conservation Actions

Preserving the Orinoco Crocodile, Crocodylus intermedius, at

the Dallas World Aquarium

Restrospective Analysis of Hemochromatosis in Toucans,

Toucanets and Aracaris

Spawning Behavior and Early Development of the Flashlight

Fish (Photoblepharon palpebratum)

The Prusten Project

Treatment of Aspergillosis in a Jabiru Stork, Jabiru mycteria,

Using Voriconazole

Xanthine Nephrolithiasis in a Giant River Otter, Pteronura

brasiliensis

Utah

TRACY AVIARY

Education Programs

Book and Boots

Field Trip Tours

Flying WILD

Kids Camps (Spring, Summer, Fall)

Little Chicks

Nature in the City

Off-Site Education Programs

Riparian Education – Summer

Scout Workshops

Site Interpretation

Volunteer Training

Field Conservation

Alta Baseline Bird Monitoring

Alta Nest Box Monitoring Study

Baseline Bird Inventory in Liberty Park

Baseline Inventory – Regional Athletic Conference and

Jordan River Golf Course

Before and After Greater Sage-Grouse (Centrocercus

urophasianus) Habitat Functional Response to Change in

Grazing Management: Rich County Three Creeks Project

Bird Monitoring in Galena Soo’nkhanni

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Bird Monitoring in the Big Bend Restoration Area

Citizen Science: Monitoring of Short-Eared Owls

City Creek Citizen Science Project

Dark Skies Program

Great Green Macaw Conservation and Education

Monitoring Migratory Snowy Plovers (Charadrius nivosus)

and Overwintering Shorebirds in Mexico

Movement of American White Pelicans in Northern Utah:

Management Implications on Nesting and Foraging

Grounds

Participation of Tracy Aviary Staff in Field Conservation

Projects

Project Broadtail

Staff Field Conservation Grant – American Avocet

Staff Field Conservation Grant – Burrowing Owl

Staff Field Conservation Grant – Insect Communities in

Greater Sage-Grouse Brood-Rearing Habitat

Staff Field Conservation Grant – Vegetation Sampling in

Sage-Grouse Habitat

Vegetation Structure and Insect Prey Availability in Sage-

Grouse Brood-Rearing Habitat

Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Northern Utah (WRCNU)

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

Research

Bone Density Study of Cage Bound and Free Flighted Aviary

Sun Conures (Aratinga solstitialis) and Quaker Parrots

(Myiopsitta monachus)

UTAH’S HOGLE ZOO

Education Programs

A.D.O.P.T. (Animals Depend On People Too) Encounters

Animal Encounters

Biofact Cart / Exhibit Interpretation

Boy Scout Merit Badge Classes

Camp-Ins

Cats and Cocoa

Certified Interpretive Guide Training

CI-Water Teacher Workshop

Climate Stewards Workshop

Conservation Partner Presentation

Continuing Education Programs for Seniors

Cub Scouts Talk

Discovery Theater

Distance Learning Programs

Donor Tour

Early Childhood Outreach

Eco Explorer Stations

Endangered Species Day

Environmental Film Series

FrogWatch USA

Girl Scouts Classes

Growing Up Wild workshop

iSEE Outreach

Keeper Camp

Keeper Programs for College Classes

Living With Wildlife Day

Lunch With a Keeper

Mating Dances

Member Storytime

Narrated Training Demonstrations

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)

Climate Change Workshop

Nature Club

Outreach Teacher Kits

Party for the Planet

Polar Bear Whiteout

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Preschool Class

Pre-Service Teacher Workshop

Primary Children’s Hospital

Project WILD

Ronald McDonald House Outreach

Safari Magazine

SCI-ART Workshop

Utah Master Naturalist Program

Utah’s Hogle Zoo (UHZ) Book Club

Volunteer Animal Handling Training

Volunteer Interpretive Training

Walk-n-Talks

Wild Aware Utah

Wolf Awareness Day

World Elephant Day

World Oceans Day

World of Flight Bird Show

Zoo Brew

Zoo Camp

Zoo Discovery School

Zoo Explorer Encounters

Zoo Just for You

ZooSnooz

Field Conservation

A Study of American Black Bears on the Paunsaugunt

Plateau, Utah

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

Advanced Detection and Deterrence of Polar Bears (Ursus

maritimus)

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA)

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Prosimian TAG

Boreal Toad Conservation Program

Elephants for Africa

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Education (GRACE)

Center

HawkWatch International

Health Assessment of Galápagos Penguins (Spheniscus

mendiculus) during an El Niño Year

Health in Harmony

Instituto de Pesquisas Ecológicas (IPE)

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project

Lewa Wildlife Conservancy

Niassa Lion Project

Olfactory Capabilities of the Polar Bear

Ostrich Conservation

Pallas’s Cat International Conservation Alliance

Polar Bears International

Proyecto Tití

Radiated Tortoise Conservation Program

Snow Leopard Trust (SLT)

Tarangire Elephant Project

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wild Aware Utah

Wildlife SOS

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

Purchased Renewable Energy

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

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PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Application of 2D and 3D Photographic Technology to

Estimate Body Size and Condition of Polar Bears

Biomedical Implications of the Genetic Basis for Species

Specific Adaptations

Cardiomyopathy in Meerkats

Developing Genomic Tools for Elephant Conservation

Gastrointestinal Disease in Amur Tigers

Genetic Resistance to Cancer in Elephants

Histologic Lesions, Risk Factors and Demographics of

Cheetahs With Oxalate Nephrosis

Influence of Male Physiology and Environmental Factors on

Breeding Success and Population Sustainability for Zoo

Managed Snow Leopards (Uncia uncia)

Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Grant –

Collection Stewardship of Imperiled Small Cats

Institute of Museum and Library Studies (IMLS) Study –

Health in Zoo Elephants

Morbidity and Mortality of Captive Peafowl

Non-Invasive Molecular Genetic Surveys of Primates

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Marine

and Terrestrial Mammals

Photographic Retinal Assessment

Pinniped Measurements for In-Water Flow Study

Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) Validation as a

Tuberculosis (TB) Test for Elephants

Relating the Presence of Anti-Sperm Antibodies to Infertility

in African Elephants

Successful Use of Equine Amnion Graft to Heal a Corneal

Ulcer in Female Snow Leopard

Virginia

VIRGINIA AQUARIUM & MARINE SCIENCE CENTER

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes Experiences

Brunch With the Bunny Member’s Event

Communicating Ocean Science to Informal Audiences

(COSIA)

Discovery Days

Docent – Continuing Education

Docent – Continuing Education Online Classes

Docent Introductory Training

Dolphin Watching Boat Trip

Gallery Programs

Marsh Ambassadors

Mentoring Young Scientists

Ocean Collections Boat Trip

Oceans of Opportunity

Sailing with Santa Boat Trip

School Programs – Outreach

Sea Theater Puppet Shows

Seal Splash In-Water Encounter Program

Snacks with Santa

STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics)

Summer Camps

Teacher Trainings

Toddler Programs

Watts Conservation Lecture Series

Waves, Words and Wonder

Whale Watching Boat Trips

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Field Conservation

2015 Humpback Whale Photo ID Matching for Navy

Contractor HDR

American Association of Zoo Keepers (AAZK) – Bowling for

Rhinos

Aquarium Conservation Partnership

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Komodo Dragon SSP

AZA SAFE

AZA SAFE – Vaquita

Baleen Whale Photo-ID and Biopsy Research

Coordinating Expert Response, Rehabilitation and Data

Collection for Stranded Marine Mammals in Virginia

Development of Mid-Atlantic Humpback Whale Catalog

(MAHWC)

FrogWatch USA

IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group – Tomistoma Task

Force

Kemp’s Ridley Sea Turtle Population Recovery Project

Norfolk Canyon National Marine Sanctuary Nomination

Pilot Study: Tagging Hauled-Out Juvenile Seals in Virginia

Project SExual COral REproduction (SECORE) – Field

Workshop Curaçao

Responding to Hooked Sea Turtles in Virginia

Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring in Virginia Beach, Virginia

Sea Turtle Tagging and Tracking in Chesapeake Bay and

Coastal Ocean Waters of Virginia

Support for Crocodile Conservation, Gladys Porter Zoo

Support for Delaware Shorebird Project

The Center for Conservation Biology – Osprey Banding and

Tracking Project

The Hawk Conservancy Trust

The Ocean Project

Tracking Loggerhead Sea Turtle Yearlings – Batten Research

and Conservation Fund

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Vessel-Based Marine Mammal Surveys for Virginia Naval

Bases

Virginia Aquarium Research and Conservation Division Staff

Support

Virginia Coastal Zone Management Program Grant – Virginia

Sea Turtle and Marine Mammal Stranding Network

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Aerial Survey Baseline Monitoring of the Virginia Capes

(VACAPES) Range

Monitoring Marine Debris in Virginia’s Coastal Zone

VIRGINIA LIVING MUSEUM

Education Programs

After-School and Summer Education Programs for PK – 5

Discovery Carts

Environmental Science Labs Grades 6-12

Mother Nature’s Road Show

Natural Science Programs – Grades PK-5

Outreach Natural History Programs Grades PK – 5

Science Safaris

Wild and Well

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Field Conservation

AZA Lined Seahorse SSP

AZA Red Wolf SSP

Bird Feeder Watch

Clean the Bay Day

Clean Virginia Waterways

FrogWatch USA

James River Water Quality Testing

Journey North Tulip Test Garden Project

Monarch Butterfly Tagging Survey

Oyster Restoration

Roanoke Logperch Recovery Plan

Sea Turtle Headstart Program

Turtle Census

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Virginia Amphibian Monitoring Project (VAMP)

Research

Butterfly Count

Invasive Turtle Species Census

Water Snake Fungal Survey

VIRGINIA ZOOLOGICAL PARK

Education Programs

Adventure Duos

Behind the Scenes Tours

Conservation Youth Team

Discovery Carts

Early Explorers

Education Event Days (Zoo-Wide)

Guided Tours

Outreach to Schools

Program Animal Pop-Ups

Safari Camps

School Discovery Programs

Trail Hosting

Watch Us Eat

Zoo Live Stage

Zoo Live to Norfolk Public Schools

Field Conservation

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya

African Pangolin Working Group

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

AZA Orangutan SSP – 2016 Melaka Zoo Trip

AZA SAFE – Founders Circle

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign: Malayan

Tiger

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

FrogWatch USA

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Mabula Ground Hornbill Project

Philippine Hornbill Conservation Program

Philippine Wildlife Management and Husbandry Care

Workshops

Phragmites (Wetlands Invasive Grass) Control

Polillo Islands Biodiversity Monitoring and Protection

Program

Population Assessment for the McGregor’s Pit Viper (Parias

mcgregori)

Red Panda Network

Sulu Hornbill Recovery Group

Thailand Hornbill Project

TRAFFIC: The Wildlife Trade Monitoring Network – Policy

and Advocacy

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA) – Turtle Survival Center

Union Island Conservation Program

Virginia Amphibian Disease Surveillance Program

Virginia Aquarium Stranding Response Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

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FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Research

Acute Phase Protein Values for Captive Orangutans (Pongo

pygmaeus) From Banked Sera

Assessing the Efficacy of the Synthetic Pheromone ‘Feliway’

in Reducing Relocation Stress in Tigers

Lion Fecal Hormones Study

Reducing Incidents of Bird Strikes on Exhibit Glass Display

Windows at Virginia Zoo

Washington

NORTHWEST TREK WILDLIFE PARK

Education Programs

Adventure Treks

Amphibian Workshops

Cheney Center

Community Access Programs (CAP) Cart

Conservation Programs

Core Area Contacts

Elk Bugling Tour

Family Camp

Free Roaming Keeper Tour

Habitat Monitoring

Live Animal Presentations

Photo Tours

Scout Days

Skype in the Classroom

Special Events

Tram Tours

Field Conservation

Pierce County Habitat Monitoring

Training and Use of Scat-Sniffing Dogs for Field Population

Studies

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

POINT DEFIANCE ZOO & AQUARIUM

Education Programs

Advanced Discoveries

Animal and Habitat Discoveries

Animal Health Care Tours

Camp Adventures

Career Day

Career Discovery Programs

Citizen Science

Explore the Shore Beach Walks

Internship

Junior Guides

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Keeper Talks and Close Encounters

Polar Bear Pal

Programs for Young Children

Puget Sound Super Heroes

Rent an Educator

Science and Math Institute Instruction

Senior Guides

Snooze Overnights

Special Events

Teacher Workshop – Introducing Climate Change to K-5

Students

Teacher Workshop – Systems

Visitor Interpretive Programs

Wild Wonders Outdoor Theater

Zoo Guides

Zoo to School

Zoo to You – Community Fee-Based

Field Conservation

Assessing the Mammal Community of Xe Sap National

Protected Area: Systematic Surveys in an Unexplored

Biogeographic Hotspot

Clouded Leopard Breeding in Khao Kheow Zoo

Developing Conservation Response Units in Sumatra

Direct Responses of Carnivores to Reduced-Impact Logging

Foraging Ecology of Northern Sea Otters in Washington

State

Malayan Tapir Ecology and Conservation

Monitoring Movements of Translocated Clouded Leopards

in Peninsular Malaysia to Assess the Efficacy of a

Management Option

Morse Wildlife Preserve Monitoring Avian Productivity and

Survivorship (MAPS) Site Station Manager

Polar Bears International – Climate Alliance 2016 for

Marketing and Public Relations Professionals

Project Seahorse

Red Wolf Zoo-Based Breeding and Recovery

Rockfish Surveys Documenting Shifting Ecosystems

Round Island Walrus Monitoring Program

Sabangau Felid Project

Sabangau Gibbon Project

Tiger Conservation in the Greater Leuser Landscape and the

Greater Bukit Baresan Selatan Landscape of Sumatra

Using Ear Tag GPS Satellite-Linked Radios to Understand the

On-Ice Distribution and Movement of Male Polar Bears in

Hudson Bay

Research

Determination of the Appropriate Dose of Meloxicam for Use

in Polar Bears

Endocrine and Behavioral Parameters of Reproduction in

Pacific Walrus

Non-Invasive Endocrinology to Enhance Animal Management

at Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium (PDZA)

Red Wolf Genome Resource Banking – Integrating

Reproductive Sciences Into Conservation Programs

Understanding Ovarian Activity and Estrous Cyclicity in

Red Wolves: Effects of Environment, Translocation and

Conspecifics

SEATTLE AQUARIUM

Field Conservation

Beach Naturalist Program

Cedar River Naturalist Program

Harbor Seal Rehabilitation

Hawaii Reef Study

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) –

Ocean Acidification Report

Neah Bay Reef Video Survey

Northern Sea Otter Activity Budgets of Foraging Data

Olympic Sculpture Park Intertidal Monitoring

Puget Sound – Sixgill Shark Research and Conservation

Project

Sea Otter Population Genetics

Sea Otter Pup Rehabilitation

Sea Star Wasting

Sea Turtle Rehabilitation

Sixgill Shark (Hexanchus griseus) Diver Sighting Database

Washington Sea Otter (Enhydra lutris) Annual Census

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Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

GREENHOUSE GAS EMISSIONS

Reported Greenhouse Gas Emissions to a Climate Registry

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated Full-Time Equivalent (FTE) Staff to Coordinating

Green Practices

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Cowshark Conservation Genetics

Effect of Ocean Acidification on Sea Star Health and

Calcification, and the Potential Link to Sea Star

Wasting Disease in Pisaster ochraceus and Pycnopodia

helianthoides

Grey and Blue Whale Fecal Hormones

Microplastic Monitoring

Non-Invasive Techniques to Monitor Reproductive Hormones

of Captive Pacific Harbor Seals (Phoca vitulina richardsi)

Northern River Otter Toxicology

Sea Otter Conservation Endocrinology

Sixgill Abundance

West Nile Virus in Sea Otters

WOODLAND PARK ZOO

Education Programs

Ambassador Animal Programs

Docent Program – Raptor Cruising / Thematic Talks

Docent Program – Toolboxes and Rambles

Docent Programs – Animal Encounters

Docent Programs – Conservation Connections

Early Childhood Programs – Fee-Based

Interpretive Engagements

Public Programs – Wildlights

Senior Programs

Woodland Park Zoo Educator Professional Development

Programs

Woodland Park Zoo School Programs

Zoo Adventures (Overnight Program)

Zoo Camps

Zoo Corps

Zoo Crew

Zoomazium – Visitation/Interactive Play

Zoomazium Programs

Field Conservation

Amphibian Monitoring

Asian Elephant Support

AZA Conservation Grants Fund (CGF)

Budo Hornbill Conservation and Education Center, Tapoh

Village, Narathiwat Province, Thailand

Elephant Health Camp at Sonpur Mela, India

Evergreen Carbon Capture Program

Field Conservation Grant Management

Hornbill Research Foundation (HRF) – Nest Adoptions in

Thailand

Hutan-Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Project –

Elephant Conservation

International Snow Leopard Trust

Licton Springs Conservation and Restoration Project

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Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study

Migratory Barn Swallow Tracking Project

Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use

Orangutan Habitat Protection and Patrolling in Gunung

Palung National Park

Panthera – Malayan Tiger Project

Partula Snail Recovery and Reintroduction Project

Partulid Global Species Management Programme

Raptor Ecology of the Shrub-Steppe

River Otters of Western Washington: Sentinels of Ecological

Health

Ruaha Carnivore Project

Silverspot Butterfly Conservation Project

Tarangire Ecosystem Project – Tarangire National Park

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife Duck Research

Washington Diversity Advisory Council

Washington Urban-Wildland Carnivore Project

Washington Wolf Recovery and Management

Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project

Western Wildlife Outreach

Wild Wise: Coexisting With Carnivores

Woodland Park Zoo Conservation Advocacy and Action

Campaigns

Woodland Park Zoo’s Northwest Carnivore Project

Research

Activity Budgets and Social Relationships of Captive

Elephants

Acute Phase Protein Values for Captive Orangutans (Pongo

pygmaeus) From Banked Sera

Analysis of Serum Calcium, Parathyroid Hormone and

25-Hydroxyvitamin D in Select Captive African Primates

Characterizing the Development of Rictal Bristles in the

Tawny Frogmouth

Correlations of Behavior Between Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo

in Papua New Guinea and Captive Tree Kangaroos in

Woodland Park Zoo

Developing a Test for Early Pregnancy Detection in Captive

Snow Leopards (Panthera uncia)

Development of a Welfare Assessment Index for Captive

Orangutans (Pongo)

Developmental Milestones and Mother / Young Interactions

in Captive Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo at Woodland Park Zoo

Effects of Zootunes Concerts on Five Species at Woodland

Park Zoo

Foot Coloration and Age in Humboldt Penguins

Genetic Analysis of Captive Breeding Program of Cuora pani

Great Ape Neuroscience Project

Influence of Male Physiology and Environmental Factors on

Breeding Success and Population Sustainability for Zoo

Managed Snow Leopards (Uncia uncia)

Macroevolutionary Analyses of Cranial Morphology and

Function in Mammals

Metagenomic Sequencing of Animal and Insect Viral

Discovery

Oxytocin as a Measure of Social Bond and Welfare in

Western Lowland Gorillas

Post-Hatching Development of the Flamingo’s Bill

Spectroscopy and Nanostructure of Irridescent Eyespot

Feathers

Tree Kangaroo Reproductive Tissue Study

West Virginia

OGLEBAY’S GOOD ZOO

Education Programs

Fox Run Hospital Programs

Master Naturalist

Preschool Programs

Summer Camps

Zoo-To-You

Field Conservation

Bobcat Survey

Captive-Rearing of Eastern Hellbenders Destined for

Reintroduction

Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

FrogWatch USA

Hornbill Conservation

Install and Monitor Eastern Bluebird Nestboxes

Monarch Watch

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Participate in West Virginia Winter Bird Count

Raptor Rehabilitation

Surveillance for White-Nose Syndrome in West Virginia

West Virginia Lepidopteran Atlas

Wisconsin

HENRY VILAS ZOO

Education Programs

Biofact Carts and Interactive Kits Program (Discovery

Docents)

Bleacher Program (Live Animal On-Site Presentations)

Conservation Education Awareness Days (Throughout the

Year)

Hot on the Trail, Radiotracking Program

Meet and Greet (Interaction With Animal Handler and

Education Animal)

Preschool Pride (Expanded From Previous Zoo School

Summer Program)

Sleepover

Wild Times Pilot Program

Zoo Camp (Summer Camp)

Zoo-To-You Program (Live Animal Outreach Into the

Community)

Field Conservation

AZA Orangutan SSP – Field Conservation Program

AZA Orangutan SSP – Field Conservation Support

AZA Penguin TAG – African Penguin Field Colony Managers’

Training/Information Sharing/Capacity Building

AZA SAFE – Vaquita Program Field Conservation

AZA Tiger SSP – Tiger Conservation Campaign

Catching Hope: Repurposed Poaching Snare Project

Deputy Director Sea Turtle Nest Monitoring in Florida

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

Orangutan Republik Foundation Scholarships for Indonesian

Students to Study Forestry and Conservation, Orangutan

Conservation

Polar Bears International

Red Panda Network

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB)

The Orangutan Conservation Genetics Project

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Used

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified as a Wildlife Habitat

Certified as LEED by the US Green Building Council

Documented Square Footage of Facility With Green Building

Certification

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Dedicated a Line Item in the Budget for Green Practices

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WATER

Documented Amount Used

Research

Abundance and Diversity of Fibrobacter in Herbivores

AZA Polar Bear SSP – Sperm Retrieval and Banking

Captive Orangutan Dentition Emergence Compilation Project

Effects of Environmental Pollutants on the Health of Polar

Bears: An Immunotoxicological Approach

Great Ape Heart Project (GAHP)

Monitoring Sexual Maturation of Polar Bears via Non-Invasive

Fecal Analysis

Orangutan Genetics Project

Patterns of Diversity in the Indigenous Microbiota of Marine

and Terrestrial Mammals

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INTERNATIONAL CRANE FOUNDATION

Education Programs

Adopt-A-Crane Program

Annual Midwest Crane Count

Crane Conservation Education Activity Packets

Estuaries in the Balance: The Texas Coastal Bend

Whooping Crane Education Trunk

Field Conservation

African Crane Trade Project

Aransas-Wood Buffalo Whooping Crane Conservation

Black-Necked Crane Conservation

Crane Conservation in the Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) / Han

River Basin of the Korean Peninsula

Cranes and Agricultural Landscapes in Africa

Cranes and Their Key Wetlands in the Amur-Heilong River

Basin

Cranes, Wetlands and Communities in Africa

Eastern Sarus Cranes and Their Key Wetlands in the Lower

Mekong River Basin

Poyang Lake Conservation in the Yangtze River Basin

SarusScape

Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership

Zambezi River Basin Wetlands Conservation and

Environmental Flows Partnership

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Used

Research

Are There Emerging Health Concerns for Eastern Migratory

Whooping Cranes?

Assessment of the Impact to Cranes From a Newly

Constructed Transmission Line

Attitudes, Knowledge and Beliefs About Whooping Cranes

Australia Research Project

Blue Crane Movement and Landscape Use

Coccidian Parasites and Conservation Implications for the

Endangered Whooping Crane (Grus americana)

Collaborative Telemetry Egg Incubation Parameter Study

Comparison of Sandhill and Whooping Crane Breeding

Success in Wisconsin

Conservation of Black-Necked Cranes on the Western

Plateau in China

Conservation of the Eastern Population of Siberian Cranes

Crane Semen Cryopreservation Study

Determining Diet Composition and Ingestion Rate of Cranes

Through Field Measurement

Ecosystem Change at Zhalong Marsh, China

Endangered Species and the Dilemma of Pest Suppression:

A Case Study of Whooping Cranes and Black Flies that

Examines Competing Aspects of Conserving Biodiversity

Environmental, Genetic and Behavioral Influences on

Reproductive Success in Reintroduced Whooping Cranes

(Grus americana)

Fecal Corticosterone and Potential Chronic Stress in Captive

Whooping Cranes

Historic and Recent Winter Sandhill Crane Distribution in

California

Human Use of Wetlands and Its Impacts: Developing

Meaningful Conservation Strategies for South Asian

Wetlands

Hunting Pressure on Waterbirds Using Non-Protected

Wetlands in South Asia

Hydrological Characteristics of Eurasian Spoonbill (Platalea

leucorodia) Foraging Habitat at Poyang Lake, China

Improving Nutrition and Outcomes of Displaced Rwandan

Grey Crowned Cranes

Khurkh-Khuiten (KKR) Valley, Mongolia

Local and Landscape Scale Habitat Characteristics of Areas

Used by Whooping Cranes During Winter to Understand

What Drives Habitat Selection at Multiple Spatial Scales

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Long-Term Monitoring of Wintering Whooping Cranes in

Coastal Texas, USA

Monitoring Corticosterone of Wintering Whooping Cranes

Non-Invasive Biomonitoring of Contaminants in the

Endangered White-Naped Crane

Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs in Cranes: A Review

of Clinical Effects and Pharmacology

North Korea Crane Habitat / Restoration

Novel Foraging by Wintering Siberian Cranes (Leucogeranus

leucogeranus) at China’s Poyang Lake Indicates Broader

Changes in the Ecosystem and Raises New Challenges for

a Critically Endangered Species

Osteoarthritis in the Pelvic Limb of Captive Cranes (Family:

Gruidae)

Population Dynamics of Red-Crowned Cranes at Hui River

Sandhill Crane Long Term Research

Seasonal Inundation and Habitat Selection in a Flood-Pulse

Ecosystem: The Role of Hydrology in Eurasian Spoonbill

(Platalea leucorodia) Reliance on Extent of Suitable

Foraging

Strengthening Biodiversity Conservation in the Arid Steppe

of East Asia: Using the White-Naped Crane as a Flagship

Species

Territory Availability Best Explains Fidelity in Sandhill Cranes

Timing of Family Dissociation Does Not Affect Long-Term

Survival Estimates of Sandhill Crane Chicks

Tissue Effects of Leg-Mounted Telemetry Devices in

Whooping Cranes

Using Telemetry to Study Movements of Summering

Canadian Sandhill Cranes Along the Lower Columbia River

of Oregon and Washington

Vector-Borne Hemoparasites in Wild Whooping Cranes (Grus

americana) and Sandhill Cranes (Grus canadensis), With

Evidence of Shared Lineages

Water Well Suitability: Employing a Geographic Information

System (GIS)-Based Program to Prioritize Locations for

Whooping Crane Freshwater Needs

Waters for Wildlife: Monitoring the Use of Freshwater Ponds

by Wintering Whooping Cranes

Waters for Wildlife: Monitoring the Use of Freshwater Ponds

by Wintering Whooping Cranes on Private Lands

Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership: Reintroduction

Whooping Crane Reintroduction – Louisiana Population

Wintering Population Monitoring and Conservation of

Siberian Cranes at Poyang Lake

MILWAUKEE COUNTY ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Adult Lecture

Alive Magazine

Animal Ambassador Programs

Animal Encounter

Animal Enrichment Day

Animals in Action Talks

AZA SAFE/Endangered Species Day

Behind the Scenes Weekend

Big Brothers Big Sisters of America (BBBS) Classes

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI) – Adult

Literacy Classes

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI) – Field Day

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI) – Primary

School Support

Camps for Disadvantaged Youth

Cow Milking Demonstration

Early Childhood Teacher Workshops

Family Farm Weekend

Giraffe Feedings

Kids Conservation Club

Kohl’s Wild Theater – On Grounds

Kohl’s Wild Theater – Outreach

Kohl’s Wild Theater Coloring Sheets

Milwaukee Public Schools (MPS) Extended Learning

Mother’s Day – Project MOM (Missing Orangutan Mothers)

Nature Play

Oceans of Fun Seal and Sea Lion Show

Party for the Planet

Public Animal Feedings

School Programs

Scout Programming

Stroller Safaris

Summer Camps

Teacher Education Courses

Tree Kangaroo Awareness Day

Wolf Awareness Day

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World Bird Sanctuary Birds of Prey Show

World Elephant Day

World Penguin Day

Zoo Classes

Zoo Pride – Behind the Scenes Tours

Zoo Pride – Speakers’ Bureau

Zoo Pride – Walk on the Wild Side Tours

Zoo Pride – Continuing Education Trainings

Zoo Pride – Sensory Safari

ZOOMobile Tour

Field Conservation

Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG)

AZA Amphibian TAG – Amphibian Ark Workshop

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP

AZA Penguin TAG

AZA SAFE

Bat Conservation International

Berggorilla and Regenwald Direkthilfe Gorilla Project

Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative (BCBI)

Cheetah Conservation Botswana

Costa Humboldt

Elephants for Africa

Giraffe Conservation Foundation

Grand Cayman Blue Iguana Recovery Program

Great Apes Survival Partnership (GRASP) – Funding

Grenada Bank Tree Boa Study

Grenada Frog Study

Grenada Reef Monitoring

International Elephant Foundation (IEF)

International Rhino Foundation (IRF)

IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Specialist Group (CBSG)

IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group – via Wildlife Conservation

Network

Jamaican Iguana Conservation Project

Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Lemur Conservation Network

Lola Ya Bonobo – Support

Madagascar Fauna and Flora Group

Migratory and Resident Avifauna Study

Ocean Spirits Leatherback Turtle Research

Orangutan Outreach

Phoenix Fund – Amur Tiger Project Support

Polar Bears International

Proyecto Tití

Red-Necked Ostrich Conservation Support

Riveredge Nature Center

Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

Turtle Survival Alliance (TSA)

Wisconsin Bureau of Endangered Resources Help Fund

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

Generated Renewable Energy On-Site

FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

WASTE

Documented Amount Composted

Documented Amount Recycled

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

Research

AZA Reproductive Management Center (RMC) – Regaining

Fertility in Wild Equids Following Contraception With

Porcine Zona Pellucida Vaccine (PZP)

Genetic Sampling of Same Sex Pairs of Humboldt Penguins

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NORTHEASTERN WISCONSIN (NEW) ZOO &

ADVENTURE PARK

Education Programs

Amphitheater Presentations

Animal Encounters

Birthday or Other Party Package

Giraffe Feeding Experience

Home School Workshops

Scout Programs

Summer Zoo Camp

The WildTimes

Zoo Classes

Zoo Snooze Overnights

Zoo Tours

Zoomobile

Field Conservation

AZA African Penguin SSP

AZA Black-Footed Ferret SSP – Black-Footed Ferret

Recovery Program With the United States Fish and Wildlife

Service (USFWS)

AZA SAFE – African Penguin

FrogWatch USA

Iowa Trumpeter Swan Restoration Program

Green (Sustainable) Practices

EXTERNAL SUPPORT

Received Support From External Sources Specifically for

Green Projects

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

GREEN CERTIFICATIONS

Certified by the Green Restaurant Association

WATER

Documented Amount of Wastewater Generated

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Black-Footed Ferret Recovery Program

University of Miami African Penguin Aspergillus Study

RACINE ZOOLOGICAL GARDENS

Education Programs

Behind the Scenes

Birthday Parties

Conservation Awareness Days

Conservation Education Programs

FrogWatch USA

Member Mondays

Slumber Safari

Summer Camp

Volunteen Program

Wildlife Explorers

Wildlife Theater

Field Conservation

AZA Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake SSP – Mark-Recapture

Study on a Michigan Population of Eastern Massasauga

Rattlesnakes

AZA SAFE – African Penguin Individual Identification Project

Duke Lemur Center – Sambava-Andapa-Vohemar-Antalaha

(SAVA) Conservation

Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal

Birds (SANCCOB) – African Penguin Day

Tree Boa Demographic Study

World Rhino Day

Green (Sustainable) Practices

ENERGY

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Documented Square Footage of Conditioned Space

FOOD

Sourced Local Food or Grew It On-Site

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FUEL

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

PLANS, POLICIES AND BUDGETS

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Plan (or Equivalent)

Developed or Updated a Sustainability Policy

WASTE

Documented Amount Sent to Landfill

Documented Amount Spent on Landfill Waste

WATER

Documented Amount Spent

Documented Amount Used

Research

Surveys of the Grenada and Johnstone’s Frogs and Tree Boa

Populations

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