Conservation Projects Supported by the Jackson Zoological Park

"What Can You Do" Conservation Graphics to point visitors toward support of:

Grevy's Zebra Trust

Grevy's Zebra The Grevy’s Zebra Trust was established to conserve Grevy’s zebra, an endangered species, across its range in collaboration with local communities. Located in Kenya, with extension to Ethiopia, we recognise the critical role played by pastoral people whose livelihoods are inextricably linked to the same landscape. The Grevy’s Zebra Trust holds community awareness workshops which are designed for knowledge exchange and discussion on Grevy’s zebra conservation.

www.grevyszebratrust.org

Orangutan Conservancy

Nyaru-menteng Orangutan Rehab Center

Nyaru Menteng is an orangutan rehabilitation center located in Central Kalimantan near the city of Palangka Raya. The Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Reintroduction Project is situated 28 km (18 miles) outside of Palangka Raya, the Capitol of Central Kalimantan. It is located within the boundaries of the Nyaru Menteng Arboretum, a 62,5 hectare lowland peat-swam forest ecosystem, founded in 1988 by the Ministry of Forestry Regional office of Central Kalimantan. The clinic, quarantine facilities and socialization cages are inside a fenced area of 1.5 ha. while mid-way housing is at the farthest end of the Arboretum, which has good forest for the smallest orangutans and is undisturbed by visitors. Kaja Island for the larger orangutans is located only 8 km away by road.

Lone Droscher-Nielsen co-founded the project with Dr. Willie Smits. Lone is a Danish woman who spent 4 years volunteering in Tanjung Puting caring for small infant orangutans, before she and her Dayak husband Odom opened the Nyaru Menteng Orangutan Project with the help of BOS Indonesia. The project is funded and managed by BOS and works in co-operation with The Department of Konservasi Sumber Daya Alam (a department within the Department of Forestry) for Central Kalimantan.

Along with other AZA accredited zoos, we support The National Elephant Center in Florida

RESEARCH - Wild populations of elephants are increasingly becoming managed due to shrinking habitat, changing population dynamics and encroachment by human development. Population management research at The National Elephant Center will provide conservationists with tools and techniques for managing these populations in the wild.

ADVOCACY - The Center envisions becoming a voice for elephants nationally and internationally through advocacy and collaboration that will speak up for elephants on issues that affect their continued survival.
EDUCATION - Though not open to the public, The National Elephant Center will educate school children locally and support formal education programs at accredited zoos throughout the country, which teach millions of visitors each year about elephants and their status in the wild.
CONSERVATION - The Center will provide an important space for research that will help zoos aid the Asian and African elephant populations in the wild. North American zoos already help support more than 85 research projects in zoos and in the wild to learn more about elephants.

Bear TAG

Collected funds in the “bear” donation box are donated to the Bear Taxon Advisory Group (TAG) which looks to the special needs and conservation issues involving the eight bear species in AZA accredited institutions, along with bears from zoos around the world and especially bears in their wild habitats. Jackson Zoo exhibits black bears.

Other Conservation Projects

Red Wolf SSP/U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service

Red Wolf SSP / U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service: As part of the SSP release program a female red wolf from JZP was returned to Bull's Island at the Cape Romain National Wildlife Refuge in South Carolina, with two of the four offspring from the female fostered into released dens.

Working through the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service a total of 19 trumpeter swan chicks have been returned to release programs in Iowa and Minnesota.

Tapir TAG

Contribution made to the Third International Tapir Symposium, Jan. 2007, in Mexico. The IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialists group, along with the AZA Tapir TAG and the EAZA Tapir TAG works with hundreds of tapir experts from over 30 countries to help establish important initiatives and action plans to save tapirs and habitat, such as in Costa Rica and Panama.

Encourage our zoo members to donate to the Adopt a Reef program of the Center for Ecosystem Survival (CES)

Zoo is linked with DrivingGreen.com - Recycle containers on zoo grounds

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Conservation Projects Supported by Jackson Zoo