As zoos have evolved, conservation education and animal husbandry have become vital components of animal care. Continuing education and supplemental training are now a necessity for animal care providers who want to build a career in the zoo world.
The lack of public perception of their true plight is why giraffes are facing what legendary conservationist Sir David Attenborough called in 2016 a “silent extinction.”
This article originally ran in the Spring 2011 issue of Zoo View, the quarterly magazine of the Greater Los Angeles Zoo Association. For up-to-date information about the elephant program at the Los Angeles Zoo, visit lazoo.org/elephants. Enrichment in the Elephants of… read more →
Have you ever felt the ground move beneath your feet? I don’t mean the regular earthquakes that Southern California experiences, but the soil that we walk on. It is teeming with life, and each square foot hosts billions of residents, wriggling throughout it.
A keeper's quest to protect rhinos takes her to South Africa to train horses and rangers for a new mounted patrol unit As a lifetime equestrienne, former rhinoceros keeper, and founding board member of the nonprofit Global Conservation Force (GCF),… read more →
