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Annual Report 2016-2017 SAN FRANCISCO ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ANNUAL REPORT FISCAL YEAR 2016 - 2017 American black bears - Juneau and Valdez Ursus americanus ABOUT THE COVER Rescued Black Bear Cubs Join the San Francisco Zoo Family The female and male cubs THE MISSION featured on the cover of this year’s annual report OF THE SAN FRANCISCO were rescues found this ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY IS TO past spring far apart in Female found outside Juneau, CONNECT PEOPLE WITH WILDLIFE, Alaska’s wilderness. These Alaska, June 2017. INSPIRE CARING FOR NATURE AND cubs, who are unrelated and both less than one year ADVANCE CONSERVATION ACTION. old, were found orphaned and in starving condition. In March 2017, the Department of Interior changed its policy to allow for hunting of hibernating bears. These cubs may have been orphaned as a result of the hunting deaths of their mothers. The cubs came to the San Francisco Zoo after rehabilitation at the Alaska Zoo and are thriving in their new home. Male found outside Valdez, Alaska, May 2017. Animal rescue is an important component of the Society’s strategic vision, tying together our work in animal conservation, wellness, and advocacy, as well as raising awareness of human impact on animal habitats and the environment. Special thanks to our volunteer photographers, Marianne Hale and May Woon, for their contributions. Dear Friends: What is your Zoo story? Each one of us has a unique connection to the Zoo whether as a visitor, donor, volunteer, partner, or staff member. In this fiscal year 2016–2017 annual report, we are pleased to share a collection of vignettes and stories that together tell the larger narrative of today’s San Francisco Zoo and Gardens as a vibrant space for animal advocacy, conservation, wellness, and community education and engagement. Through the course of the enclosed narrative, we highlight aspects of our story that are often less well known but equally important to the Zoo’s impact as an educational and recreational community resource. This mission work includes the significant field contributions of our amazing staff and their roles as research scientists, veterinary practitioners, and leaders advancing the treatment and protection of wildlife. All of this is further enhanced by our extensive partnerships with external veterinary professionals, wildlife advocates, and educators. Where these internal and external communities intersect is often where the true magic of the Zoo happens. Here are just a few of our favorite stories: • Our groundbreaking animal wellness and enrichment activities inform our work and the work of colleagues around the world. Examples include our Foobler ball enrichment experiments with our rhino Boone, which will soon be available for other zoos to replicate, and a first-of-its-kind back surgery on a komodo dragon performed in partnership with UCSF, highlighted on page 8. • Our dynamic new spaces and exhibits elevate animals’ quality of life and enhance visitors’ learning. Examples include our renovated flamingo exhibit that allows coming generations of flamingos to be fully flighted, a pop-up coastal research center that is providing research opportunities and partnerships, and an expanded great ape habitat designed to address the needs of aging primates. Of course, none of this is possible without the immense generosity of our donors. You can read more about each of these exhibits and some of the donors who supported them in the timeline starting on page 2. • Our renewed long-term commitment to “active conservation programs that aid species survival, research, and conservation, both at home and in the field.” These conservation priorities align to policies outlined by the American and World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. They shape our on-site breeding and acquisitions and similarly guide our field work. Our preservation work to re-populate the San Francisco forktail damselfly in the City’s Presidio further demonstrates the rigor of our methods and the importance of strong cooperative partnerships, in this case with the Presidio Trust and National Park Service, to achieve success. Read more about our conservation activities on page 9. The sum of these activities and relationships, guided by the strong strategic vision of the San Francisco Zoological Society Board of Directors, is a San Francisco Zoo and Gardens that is more relevant than ever as a safe harbor for animals, as a provider of wellness programs and responsible wildlife conservation efforts, and as a community resource for education and advocacy. Whatever your connection to the Zoo, we hope you enjoy this annual report and the stories of our work. Better yet, why not come out to visit and create your own next Zoo story? Sincerely, Tanya M. Peterson, J.D. Edward G. Poole CEO & Executive Director Chair, Board of Directors P.S. To become a San Francisco Zoological Society member, please visit www.sfzoo.org/join. 1 AUGust 19, 2016 GranD OPening of COQUerel’S SifaKA EXHibit Adorable and inquisitive sifakas Karen and Neil join our Lipman Family Lemur Forest – the largest mixed-species lemur exhibit in the country. The new sifakas exhibit, also funded by Barry and Marie Lipman, features an 18-foot fony baobab tree – an excellent launchpad for these small but mighty creatures that can leap 20 feet in a single bound. This centerpiece of our Madagascar exhibit is the Zoo’s biggest addition this year and the biggest sifaka exhibit in any zoo. JulY 16, 2016 JulY 30, 2016 AUGust 6, 2016 AUGust 2016 Celebrating Our Zoo March of the Penguins Nature Trail Reunion Another Successful Year Crew We commemorate Our Magellanic penguin Party 600+ attendees of Zoo Camp! More than the enthusiastic efforts of chicks participate in this celebrate 2,500 alumni 1,800 youth aged 4 to 17 34 middle-school Zoo Crew annual rite of passage, and 40 years of the Nature expanded their knowledge of volunteers with a fun day trekking through the Zoo to Trail, one of the Zoo’s most animals and summer fun at at the Zoo. These students join their colony on Penguin enduring volunteer programs. Zoo Camp. Enrollment this devoted 550 hours over Island. Cuteness abounds. Fun fact: 12 current Zoo year was the highest yet! 12 months towards habitat employees got their start on restoration projects around the Nature Trail!. San Francisco, including Mountain Lake in the Presidio and Lake Merced. 2 September 30, 2016 Zoo II’S FUR Ball 2016 Our Zoo II volunteer corps of young professionals support the Zoo with quarterly philanthropic activities. “Fur Ball 2016: Where the Wild Things Are,” chaired flawlessly by Willa Moore, raises $56,000 from 300 attendees. AUGust 31, 2016 September 14, 2016 September 17, 2016 October 2016 Ocean Beach Cleanup Honoring Veterans at International Red Panda ZooMobile Reaches More Dozens of Zoo staff cross the Zoo 420+ veterans and Day We celebrate Tenzing, Bay Area Students Our the Great Highway to their caretakers enjoy a day at Hillary, and Hunter, the Zoo’s amazing educational team take part in an Ocean the Zoo with complimentary red panda trio, with a day designed new lessons on Beach cleanup. Why? Our admission, lunches provided of keeper talks, a special animal movement and climate commitment to protect and by Veterans of Foreign Wars take-home activity book change conundrums, adding to preserve animals and natural Post #4103, guided tours, with fascinating facts on red the five popular lessons offered habitats doesn’t end at the and unforgettable animal pandas, plus a special hand- through this mobile classroom. Zoo’s gates. Keeping the encounters. This 5th annual made keepsake courtesy of ZooMobile brought STEM environment clean is all of event is just one of the many our Zoo staff. curricula and favorite animal our responsibility. ways the Zoo opens its doors ambassadors to 71 underserved to our larger community. elementary, middle, and high school classrooms in the Bay Area this year! 3 M ARCH 2017 RED Ivory EXHibit OPens This powerful six-minute video by Zoo artist-in-residence Henry Jackson takes viewers on a journey depicting the past, present, and future of elephants and the threat poaching poses to these majestic animals’ survival. Can you imagine a world without elephants? We can’t, thus the Red Ivory exhibit, which expands the Zoo’s commitment to the “Stop Ivory Trade” campaign and our invitation to visitors to pledge their support for this critical effort. Our thanks to John and Michele McNellis (pictured here at left), whose generosity fully funded this project. October 2016 October 2016 december 2016 December 16-29, 2016 Boo at the Zoo This spook- Lion House Improvements Quarterly Senior Strolls ZooLights Over its tacular two-day Halloween Our re-lit, re-roofed, and One of our most popular 13-night run, 20,000-plus event drew 10,000+ visitors redesigned Lion House community engagement visitors enjoyed the Zoo for trick or treating, a features a larger night programs, Senior Strolls bathed in colorful holiday costume parade, a Pumpkin enclosure and glass walls that offer members of our elder lights, visits with Santa and Stomp & Chomp, a haunted benefit the animals’ daily lives community quarterly early his reindeer Belle, Holly, and Nature Trail, and creepy, and visitors’ experience. Our morning guided walking Peppermint, and a festive thanks to George and Linnea crawly Insect Zoo fun. Also tours of the Zoo and holiday marketplace featuring in October: ZOOtoberFest, Roberts, whose support made reduced admission. seasonal food and music. our new signature event this possible. Our devoted offering Halloween activities, docents also raised money to OktoberFest-inspired beer, build a platform for the big German food and music, a cats, vastly improving guests’ 5,000 square-foot hay maze, sightlines and affording the and, of course, access to our animals an elevated space to stellar animal exhibits.
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