Original Report Title: Biospecimen Provision
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The zoo continues to be a valuable source of hard to acquire biospecimens for the teaching and reference collections of a local university.

Original Report Title: Checklist of the Birds of Keystone Heritage Park
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: Monitoring of the site continues, and the bird checklist now numbers 191 species observed; a few new species of birds also had reproduction confirmed at the site.

Original Report Title: Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The Zoo's Education Curator continued in his leadership role in the ongoing efforts of the establishment of this relatively new Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition partnership organization, that supports public educators' efforts to enhance and enrich science education and increase science literacy in the Chihuahaun Desert region.

Original Report Title: Citizen and Institutional Recycling Efforts
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The zoo continues to act as a recycling point for a number of materials, some of which come from the public and some of which are generated by internal use. Metal cans, cardboard, paper and christmas trees are some of the items that are gathered for recycling.

Original Report Title: Creation of Conservation Action Links on Zoo Web site
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The zoo's website provides people the opportunity to Take Action and to become involved in important wildlife conservation projects. The website's 'Take Action' section has information on how people can help protect Asian elephant and Sumatran Orangutan habitat, how to help protect our ocean environment, and how they can join the Zoo's Roots and Shoots program, in partnership with the Jane Goodall Institute. The Zoo's website also enables people to download three different conservation programs that contain much information regarding ocean conservation and on the conservation status of animal species that are part of the Zoo's animal collection

Original Report Title: Donate-a-Phone Project to aid Sumatra's Tesso Nilo's elephants & their ecosystem
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $200.00
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Comments: The zoo continues to work with the WWF, in use of a Donate-a-Phone Project to aid Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park's elephants & their ecosystem. Cell phones & PDA's are donated to the zoo, and in turn the zoo sends these units to a vendor that gives the zoo $1 for each of those units.

Original Report Title: El Paso County Christmas Bird Counts Participation [El Paso CBC, Hueco Tanks CBC]
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The Zoo's Animal Curator partcipated in the collection of bird census data in this year's El Paso and Hueco Tanks, Christmas Bird Counts.

Original Report Title: El Paso Zoo TV
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $8,500.00
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Comments: Even though the zoo no longer has its own TV show, the Education Curator continued to be quite active in 2005 in utilizing a variety of media outlets for discussion of conservation related topics, making 170 appearances on TV and radio.

Original Report Title: El Paso/Trans-Pecos Audubon Society: Board Meeting space
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments:The zoo enabled this local National Audubon Society chapter to continue to meet at the zoo for part of the year.

Original Report Title: Elephant Conservation Weekend
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $5,600.00
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Comments: The Zoo's Annual Elephant Festival celebrates man's 5000 year relationship with the largest land animal on earth. The Elephant Festival weekend is a fun and educational experience for the entire family, with live entertainment,special exhibits, and unusual opportunities for zoo visitors. Kids won prizes playing the elephant focused Safari-Rama game. Other activities included watching and asking questions at the daily elephant training demonstration and program, an Elephant Walk Self-Guided Tour, 'Behind the Scenes' tours of the elephant facility, and Produce Hunts inside the Elephant Exhibit. Proceeds from 'Behind the Scenes' tours, the 'Produce Hunt', the sale of Juno and Savannah Elephant Art prints and paper hat elephant ears for kids, were later used to support the El Paso Zoological Society's Conservation Fund project support of Asian elephant conservation efforts in Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park project. A conservation action center was also set up to help people learn how to 'take action' to protect elephants and help conserve their habitats around the world. Visitors learned about Asian elephants and the problems facing those in Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park because of habitat loss due to deforestation for firewood, small scale farming and palm oil plantation establishment. Visitors also learned about how they could help other elephant conservation efforts, by reviewing projects being funded by the Asian Elephant Conservation Act and information posted on other websites. Vistors were also encouraged to write their representative in Congress in support of the Asian Elephant Conservation Act.

Original Report Title: Elephant Walk Self-Guided Tour Pamphlet Project
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $1,500.00
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Comments: An additional 3000 copies of this bilingual, large format pamphlet were printed up. The pamphlet is used by visitors to explore the zoo on their own and learn about endangered species at the zoo. The pamphlet enables the zoo visitor to follow numbered elephant footprints painted on the public path, to various endangered Asian animal exhibits. The guide provides information on what being endangered actually means, and the benficial role of flagship species in helping other animals and their habitats gain protection. Other information includes the current status of wild elephants, and the various threats to wild tapirs, lion-tailed macaques, Malayan sun bears and Indo-Chinese tigers. Information is also provided regarding the WWF's project to help save elephants in Sumatra's Tesso Nilo National Park, and guests are encouraged to make a donation to the El Paso Zoological Society's Conservation Fund, in support of the Zoo's participation in this project.

Original Report Title: Endangered Species Poster Project
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The zoo continued to provide schools, teachers, and others with Asian elephant posters and tiger posters that asked them to help save those species.

Original Report Title: Formation of a Roots and Shoots Chapter
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $20,700.00
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Comments: The zoo continued to work with area youth in this ongoing, action related organization developed by the Jane Goodall Institute. The Zoo's local chapter of Roots & Shoots is part of an international organization that promotes youth participation in conservation, environmental issues and community service. The mission of Roots & Shoots is to foster respect and compassion for all living things, to promote understanding of all cultures and beliefs and to inspire each individual to take action to make the world a better place for the environment, animals, and the community. The El Paso Zoo Roots & Shoots volunteers will continue to develop and implement projects based on care and concern for animals, the environment, and the human community. Members will become active in leadership, organization and education as well as many fun and challenging activities.

Original Report Title: Guided Tours of the Zoo's Asian Animal Area
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $484.00
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Comments: Funds generated by these 'behind the scenes' tours of Malayan sun bear and Asian Elephant facilities, generated support for the Zoo'S Tesso Nilo National Park and Zambia book projects.

Original Report Title: Habitat for Wildlife Weekend
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $5,550.00
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Comments: The primary focus of this event was habitat conservation and education. As usual, this year's event included the partcipation of a number of other conservation related organizations such as the local water utility, the state wildlife department and the local chapter of Master Naturalists, among others. A Conservation Maze activity area was set-up, where people went through the maze, partcipated in activities, and learned about various conservation issues at multiple activity tables; guests ultimately earned participation awards such as Asian elephant conservation postcards and Thick-billed parrot conservation bookmarks. Petition drive stations were also set-up to have guest help aid in preserving the habitat of the Amur leopard in Russia. Over 500 signatures were collected and ultimately snt to Russian President Putin.

Original Report Title: Ibu's "Art to Help Orangutans" Project
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $300.00
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Comments: One of the zoo's Sumatran orangutans, Ibu, has donated a selection of her artwork to be sold to zoo visitors. The proceeds of the sale of her artwork were donated to Orangutan Foundation International.

Original Report Title: Investigation of the Reptilian, Amphibian & Terrestrial Invertebrate Life of Keystone Heritage Park
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: A few additional taxon, family & species of invertebrates were found at the site.

Original Report Title: Partner in the National Audubon Society's Great Backyard Bird Count Event
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The Zoo's Animal Curator partcipated in the collection of bird census data from multiple sites and on muliple days, for this year's event.

Original Report Title: Passport to the El Paso Zoo Pamphlet & DVD Project
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $10,000.00
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Comments: An additional 10,000 copies of this pamphlet were printed up. This pamphlet and DVD include information on ocean conservation and the conservation of numerous zoo animals, including a number of rare and endangered species. The booklet also includes a number of animal related children's activities, as well as "Take Action" items that vistors can accomplish at a later date, to help animals and help take care of the earth. By completing actions and activities, children can become El Paso Zoo "Junior volunteers."

Original Report Title: Staff participation in various Conservation Groups/Projects
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: John Kiseda continued as the president of the El Paso/Trans-Pecos Chapter of the Audubon Society, as well as Conservation chair. Enrique Rodriguez continued as a board member for the local wildlife rehabilitation organization, Chihuahan Desert Wildlife Rescue. John Kiseda remained on the steering committees of the AZA's Thick-billed parrot and Mexican grey wolf SSP's, as well as the Raptor and Columbiformes TAG's. Amanda Leverett continued on as a member of the Marine Fish TAG. Rick LoBello is President of the Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition.

Original Report Title: Teaxs Wildscape Garden
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The zoo continued to exhibit native flora in a wildscape garden. These plants are useful for a variety of animals, and are appropriate for the Chihuahuan Desert.

Original Report Title: Thick-billed Parrot SSP: Project Support
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $2,000.00
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Comments: The Zoo's Thick-billed parrot bookmark project was continued with local schools, with 10,000 more bookmarks being printed up. The bookmarks have parrot conservation information on them, in Spanish and English. School children also collect pennies to help support the SSP's cooperative efforts with Mexican researchers and conservationists [one thousand dollars was provided for Mexican colleauges in-situ field project work].

Original Report Title: Water Conservation
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $5,800.00
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Comments: The zoo continues to make improvements in more effective use and reduced use of water, especially in animal exhibits. Additional equipment was again purchased and installed in some wet moat systems to enhance the filtration and movement of water, and thus decrease the number of times that pools had to be serviced, dropped, cleaned and refilled.

Original Report Title: Wildlife Rehabilitation Support
Update Year: 2005
Amount Spent: $0.00
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Comments: The Zoo continues to work with the local wildlife rehabilitation organization in temporarily holding injured native wildlife, provision of emergency care of some injured native wildlife, the occassional transport to veterinarians or wildlife rehabilitators, and in the provision of wildlife rehabilitator contact information to members of the public.