2012 Annual Report conservation science 1 TABLE OF CONTENTS

3 Introduction

5 BACK FROM THE BRINK Blue Iguanas

8 SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES

10 FIELD CONSERVATION PROJECTS — International

13 RESTORING A FRESHWATER NATIVE Southern Appalachian Brook Trout

15 FIELD CONSERVATION PROJECTS — United States

56 A DISEASE-FREE FUTURE FOR ETHIOPIAN WOLVES A Wolf Vaccine in Sheep’s Clothing

58 JAVAN WARTY PIG Conservation and Recovery

Cover Photo: Attwater’s Prairie Chicken © Stephanie Adams, Houston Zoo INTRODUCTION

The 2012 Annual Report on Conservation Science

Zoos and aquariums accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) serve as conservation centers that are concerned about ecosystem health, take responsibility for species survival, contribute to research, conservation, and education, and provide communities the opportunity to develop personal connections with the animals in their care. Whether breeding and reintroducing endangered species; rescuing, rehabilitating, and releasing sick and injured animals; maintaining far-reaching educational and outreach programs; or supporting and conducting in-situ and ex-situ research and field conservation projects, accredited zoos and aquariums play a vital role in maintaining our planet’s diverse wildlife and natural habitats while engaging the public to appreciate and participate in conservation.

The 2012 Annual Report on Conservation Science (ARCS) focuses exclusively on those conservation projects that have a direct impact on animals in the wild. The report is based on survey data submitted by 179 of AZA’s 223 accredited zoos and aquariums and 15 certified- related facilities. Each of the more than 2,700 project submissions listed in this report were reviewed by at least one member of AZA’s Field Conservation Committee (FCC) to ensure that the project met the criteria of having a direct impact on animals in the wild. Based on this survey, AZA facilities collectively spent approximately $160 million on field conservation in 2012, providing further evidence of the significant role AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums play in saving the worlds’ species.

A GLOBAL EFFORT AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums served as active conservation leaders for projects in their own backyards, throughout the United States, and globally – reaching over 115 countries in 2012 alone. While most activities (~1,000) took place in the United States, facilities reported working between 50-105 times in each of the following countries: Indonesia, Kenya, China, Congo, Madagascar, and Mexico.

3 SPECIES AND HABITATS AZA-accredited zoos and aquariums supported both species-specific and habitat-focused conservation projects. Projects focused on conserving ecosystems often supported a variety of animals, while species-specific projects targeted over 650 individual species, over 200 of which are listed under the US Endangered Species Act and about 200 of which are part of an AZA Species Survival Plan® (SSP). Of the species-specific projects:

• 60% focused on mammals, including cheetah, elephant, rhinoceros, chimpanzee, snow leopard, orangutan, giant panda, Grevy’s zebra, jaguar, polar bear, and okapi

• 13% focused on reptiles, including sea turtles, eastern Massasauga rattlesnake, and diamondback terrapin

• 13% focused on birds, including Humboldt penguin, red-necked ostrich, African penguin, California condor, and piping plover

• 6% focused on amphibians, including eastern hellbender, Oregon spotted frog, Panamanian golden frog, Puerto Rican crested toad, and Wyoming toad

• 4.5% focused on invertebrates, including elkhorn, staghorn, and other coral; horseshoe crabs; monarch butterfly; and Karner blue butterfly

• 3.5% focused on fishes, including whale shark, blue rockfish, and California grunion

The remainder of this 2012 Annual Report lists the names of all projects included in the annual survey, by institution.

This report was compiled by Shelly Grow (AZA Director of Conservation Programs) with significant data entry and clean-up by AZA Conservation and Science Interns Arslan Ahmad, Kathryn Juliano, Zachary Page, Kathryn Redeen, and Vanessa Hensley. This report, along with those from previous years, is available on the AZA Website at: www.aza.org/annual-report-on-conservation-and-science/.

4 Photos © Julie Larsen–Maher, WCS BACK FROM THE BRINK Blue Iguanas

By Julie Larsen-Maher Originally published in CONNECT January 2012

“This is Gorgonzola’s territory. She’s usually right around here,” is usually in the same place, easy to find and study, and has says Doug Bell, as his eyes follow a thick, dusty trail around consistently used the same soil patch to lay between five-and- a fruit tree in the Queen Elizabeth II Botanic Gardens on the ten eggs a year since 2003. island of Grand Cayman. Bell, who has been involved as a volunteer with the Blue I am thinking that is an interesting name for the lizard we are Iguana Recovery Program (BIRP) since 2004, is field specialist looking for – a special one – a Grand Cayman blue iguana, and all-around expert on blue iguanas. He is part of a small a reptile so rare that ten years ago, there were fewer than a staff in this bare-bones organization consisting of a director, dozen in the wild on the planet. two wardens, and various volunteers from around the globe whose mission it is to bring these reptiles back from the brink. Is it because this cerulean-sprinkled iguana looks like the blue- veined cheese? “It was a classic endangered species story,” says Fred Burton, director of the BIRP, the man who initiated their rescue and Instead, this particular female was named for her favorite continues as their champion. indulgence, the noni fruit from the tree we just passed, which has a pungent, cheese-like odor. Apparently, she got her label The largest native land animal on Grand Cayman had evolved because she enjoys this fruit so often that she has been known without worries about predators. There were no carnivorous to smell like gorgonzola. mammals. The iguanas basked on pristine beaches, and their habitat at the interior of the island was largely inhospitable to Gorgonzola is an important animal in this small group that most life, so they flourished. came so close to extinction. She was among the first captive- bred animals to be released into the park in 2001. Gorgonzola Then, the tides literally turned for the blue iguanas.

BACK FROM THE BRINK 5 Once plentiful along the coast, the iguanas that preferred the shore were hunted out by early settlers. Those that remained inland faired better and were protected within the razor-sharp edges of eroded karst and thorny shrub that make up iguana paradise.

Time passed, and people didn’t know much about the iguanas that shared their island, and they didn’t go looking.

Then, the human population sprang up with numbers more than doubling every 12 years or so, bottlenecking the iguanas, and systematically taking over their landscape.

“The environment on Grand Cayman took several million years to evolve,” says Burton, “yet a bulldozer can destroy this habitat in ten minutes.”

The iguanas had no adaptation for all that came with human expansion. Big buildings, dogs, cats, insects, rodents and fast cars were all introduced to their island home. Hot asphalt highways that webbed through their land made good basking spots for the heat-loving reptiles, and many became victims of road kill. These roads, and then hotels, covered the iguanas’ nesting sites. Non-native fire ants and rats attacked the iguanas’ nests and destroyed their eggs. Young iguanas were picked off by feral cats. Dogs killed adult iguanas.

Ultimately, blue iguana numbers plummeted. for a precious few “founders” (genetically unrelated animals In the 1990s, by some counts, there were hundreds in the with roots from wild populations) and a tiny captive breeding wild, but by 2002, it seemed fewer than a dozen iguanas had program began. endured. Blue iguanas are slow breeders and not the most prolific of “Iguanas are survivors. They are smart, but they have had to reptilian egg layers at one clutch per year of 10-to-20 at the learn by experience,” says Burton. height of a female’s maturity. I watched with fascination as an iguana nest was excavated at the breeding center, each egg Bringing back an iguana population would take the right so rare and precious, it was as if we had discovered those laid animals and healthy ones. Burton and his team put forth an by a dinosaur. The roundish, leathery eggs, a little larger than a epic effort to save those that remained. chicken’s, go to Burton’s home for 70 days in an incubator in a climate-controlled room that doubles as his office.

“Blue iguanas were impossibly The new hatchlings are then moved to the breeding facility at the QE II Botanic Garden, and after a two-year head start, rare,” says Burton, “so rare that the young iguanas are big enough to hold their own against predators and are ready for their release to the wilds of the we couldn’t learn about them island. to try to save them.” “Now that we have an established population back in the wild and can finally study how the iguanas live in their natural environment, we are better able to understand their needs as well as the pressures on the population,” says Bell. “Blue iguanas were impossibly rare,” says Burton, “so rare that we couldn’t learn about them to try to save them. There was Starting in 2001, Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS) health a sheer lack of information. How many were left? Where were experts, including veterinarians and technicians, partnered with they? What were their conservation problems?” BIRP to ensure that the two-year-old iguanas were in top form before their release. Dr. Paul Calle, Dr. Bonnie Raphael, and The BIRP watched wild iguanas on the east end of the island various members of their staff took turns working on location to learn what they could of their behaviors in the wild and then in Grand Cayman where they set up protocols and performed determine the iguanas’ needs for space and survival. They built iguana health assessments including weighing, measuring, a center at the QE II Botanic Garden and set up a safe zone blood sampling, and tagging the juvenile blue iguanas.

BACK FROM THE BRINK 6 “It is incredibly enabling to have the top zoo vets in the to a plan that includes predetermining their iguana neighbors world working with us. Their expertise and resources have for best genetic potential in future populations. brought success faster and more effectively. We needed these important health screens for the iguanas to move forward,” “We have tried many different styles and materials for the says Burton. iguana retreats, but their preference is for the original wooden design,” says Bell, who has constructed over 300 of these herp The collaboration between BIRP and WCS has continued for houses in the last seven years. the last ten years. Each retreat, with various angles and entrances, weighs Calle adds: “We can accomplish our conservation goals for this upwards of 40 lbs and has to be carried on the backs of very critically endangered species through a partnership of good determined and sweaty volunteers from the air drop spot to its science, husbandry, commitment, and health care.” specific location in the sharp, shrubby forest.

During their health checkups, the juvenile iguanas are tagged “It takes an unbelievable effort to maneuver the retreats over with individual combinations of colorful beads that show on the vicious rock and through the thick, and often poisonous, either side of their crests. This bit of iguana jewelry, like a scrub,” says Bell, who spends ten days at a clip moving and pierced earring, serves as identification and a visual code for placing the iguana retreats in the thick, sticky tropical climate the staff that release and observe the iguanas in their new of the reserves. homes. As of August 2011, there are over 100 retreats housing the “It is remarkable to be part of this great conservation success blue iguanas released into the protected areas of the Salina story. In 2011, we examined and tagged more blue iguanas in and Collier Reserves. If all goes well, the total number of one morning than existed in the wild ten years ago, and we did blue iguanas released into the wild by the end of 2011 will be it day after day,” says Calle. over 630. In a few more years, the population recovery goal of 1,000 iguanas at three sites will be met, allowing the blue The long-term outlook for blue iguanas is most positive in iguana to be reclassified as Endangered and off the Critically three protected areas on the eastern side of Grand Cayman. Endangered list. QE II Botanic Garden, Salina Reserve, and Colliers Wilderness Reserve are all hot and humid spots with the craggiest of “This is a species that we almost lost. Now, through the substrates that seem so unwelcoming only an iguana could cooperative efforts of BIRP and WCS, the blue iguana is well love them, and they do. on its way to recovery,” says Calle.

Retreats, or houses for herps, are designed and built, then A species is back from the brink. airlifted to these protected area reserves and placed according Julie Larsen-Maher is the Staff Photographer at WCS and a member of CONNECT’s Editorial Board

BLUE IGUANA RECOVERY The Blue Iguana Recovery Program gets so much “bang PROGRAM for the buck” by relying very heavily on volunteers and institutional partnerships to get a lot of the work done. Local volunteers are an everyday part of the scene at the breeding facility, and local corporations provide a significant proportion of the program’s annual funding.

International volunteers who have visited Grand Cayman to work with the BIRP, number some 200 by now and more sign up every year, with visits ranging from ten days up to three or even six months at a time.

Core institutional partners include the International Reptile Conservation Foundation (Arizona, USA) and the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (Jersey, U.K.). However, many other zoos, particularly in the AZA network, also provide significant support. Notables over the years have included the zoos (and their various funding foundations) at San Diego, Milwaukee County, Fort Worth, Central Florida, Disney, the Smithsonian National Zoo, and the Wildlife Conservation Society.

7 SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES

By Richard Bergl, Tara Harris, Stuart Wells and Joanne Harcke Originally published in CONNECT May 2012

While conservation research has a long history within Zoo and its partners have demonstrated a long-term Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) institutions, a commitment to the conservation of this species number of new initiatives demonstrate the important role and are integrating innovative technologies into our zoo-based research plays in wildlife conservation. By research approaches to better understand this critically employing both cutting edge technology and a wide range endangered ape. of zoo/aquarium-based expertise, scientists and conservationists are working to make in-situ conservation Working with the Wildlife Conservation Society and efforts more effective. By using quantitative data to help governmental partners in Nigeria and Cameroon, North guide decisions, zoo/aquarium conservation and research Carolina Zoo put in place a mobile computer-based monitoring staff are helping to ensure the future of endangered species system for recoding and analyzing data relevant for Cross around the world and in our own backyards. Here we provide River gorilla conservation. This system allows rangers to a few examples of conservation science in action. quickly and accurately record information in the field and provides semi-automated analysis of data by management staff. Satellite imagery has been a valuable tool to predict North Carolina Zoo – Answering Questions for the gorilla habitat. Using these maps, we have searched for gorillas Conservation of Africa’s Most Endangered Ape in remote forest areas where they had not previously been recorded, and between 2007 and 2010 we found over 70 The Cross River gorilla, endemic to the remote highlands of separate signs of gorilla presence, expanding the known range the Nigeria Cameroon border, is the most endangered of the of the Cross River gorilla over 200 percent and identifying a African apes. Years of hunting have made these gorillas number of important habitat corridor areas. Finally, DNA extremely reclusive, and many aspects of their biology and extracted from gorilla fecal samples has allowed us to better ecology are poorly understood. However, the North Carolina understand patterns of genetic diversity and migration in the

SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES 8 Cross River population. We are currently investigating Another Phoenix Zoo study helped to determine the the use of DNA as a tool to census of all the Cross River environmental parameters necessary for raising Page gorillas, something that has not been possible using springsnails. In Arizona, the 12 known populations of traditional approaches. springsnalis are all in decline and classified as a species of greatest conservation need. In 2010, we developed a monitoring and assessment system that allowed us to Minnesota Zoo – Research on Animal Movement track the springsnalis responses to improvements in their Informs Conservation Planning aquatic habitat. This system has allowed establishment of a reproducing population of springsnails at the Johnson Combining zoo/aquarium expertise, such as animal Foundation Conservation Center. This is the first time this immobilization methods, and the unique living laboratory species has reproduced outside of its natural habitat. Data that zoos/aquariums provide with new wildlife tracking from our population is providing information to biologists technologies is another way in which AZA researchers working in the field about the development rate and specific contribute to in-situ conservation. This approach has been environmental conditions that these snails require. Our applied by the Minnesota Zoo in response to a 50 percent colony will also serve as a source for individuals to be decline in moose populations in northeastern Minnesota since released, allowing augmentation of wild populations of this 2005. Our staff began by testing tracking and activity collars endangered gastropod. on zoo animals, providing valuable background data and essential validations of these technologies. We are now helping track and analyze movement and activity data from over 50 North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher – Evaluating wild moose in Minnesota. Among the questions we are the Effectiveness of Sea Turtle Rehabilitation attempting to answer is how temperature influences moose habitat use. Results from this research will be used to identify The North Carolina Aquariums are extensively involved important moose habitat in Minnesota and to develop with the rescue and rehabilitation of loggerhead sea turtles. management recommendations that will help prevent further Through several research projects, we have been able to losses of this iconic northern mammal. monitor the efficacy and impacts of our programs, which aim to preserve and protect loggerheads in the wild. Half way across the world in Namibia, Minnesota Zoo conservation biologists are employing similar tracking We used satellite transmitters to track the movements of techniques to inform conservation efforts for the critically cold-stunned (hypothermic) juvenile loggerheads which had endangered black rhino and threatened Hartmann’s mountain beached themselves and that were treated by the aquariums zebra. Working closely with local decision-makers, we are and released. By following post-release movements, we were providing science-based habitat maps based on long-term able to demonstrate that rehabilitated animals survived, research that are used to inform conservation-compatible exhibited normal behaviors, and were not prone to repeat land use plans. stranding events. Further, since 2007, we have used satellite telemetry to track the post-release movements of loggerheads excavated from their nests. These hatchlings are typically held Phoenix Zoo – Using Scientific Data to Help Native for two-to-four years before being released. Post-release, maps Species Recovery Efforts created using satellite position data indicate that released animals survive and behave normally, even after several years We at the Phoenix Zoo’s Johnson Foundation Conservation of care in an aquarium setting. Data collected are also being Center are using research to improve conditions for the native used to help determine optimal release locations for species in our care, focusing on environmental parameters, loggerheads of this age class for future releases. behavioral indices, and optimum conditions for reproduction. We work in close collaboration with partners at the Arizona These are just a few among many ways in which AZA Game and Fish Department and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service institutions are directly applying research to the conservation to propagate animals for their in-situ recovery efforts of animals in the wild. Many zoo/aquarium-based conservation throughout our region. initiatives are conducting science-based conservation projects focused on a variety of species, habitats, and conservation Recent research projects at the zoo include a study examining challenges. how temperature affects the rate of development of tadpoles in our Chiricahua leopard frog head-starting program. We were Richard Bergl is the Curator of Conservation and able to determine an optimal temperature for rearing the frogs Researchat North Carolina Zoo which maximizes production of metamorphosed frogs, rather Tara Harris is the Director of Conservation at the Minnesota Zoo than late-stage tadpoles. These sub-adult frogs are less reliant on water born nutrients, can more effectively escape predators Stuart Wells is the Director of Conservation and Science at than tadpoles, and can be released early in the year. An earlier the Phoenix Zoo release also gives the frogs more time to acclimate to the Joanne Harcke is the Conservation & Research Coordinator release environment to help reduce mortality during the winter. at the North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Fisher

SCIENCE SAVES SPECIES 9 Field Conservation Projects INTERNATIONAL

ARGENTINA Bermuda Reef Ecology Assessment Zoo de Granby and Mapping (BREAM) Amur Leopard Conservation Fundacion Temaiken Bermuda Turtle Project Conservation of Osununu Natural AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) Reserve Project Diamondback Terrapin Project

Conservation of Gorillas Lowland Tapir (Tapirus terrestris) Grouper Project Conservation Project Conservation of Red Panda Humpback Whale Project Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon brachyurus) Conservation of Southern Flying Conservation Project Internship Programme Squirrel (Glaucomys volans) in Quebec Parana Pine (Araucaria angustifolia) Madagascar Learning Centre Enhancing the Conservation of the Ecosystem Conservation Project Marine Wildlife Rescue and Geoffroy’s Pied Colobus monkey Threatened Species Recovery Program Rehabilitation (Colobus vellerosus) in Brong–Ahafo Region, Ghana

Follow–Up on Egg Laying and the Use BAHAMAS CANADA of Pike River by the Spiny Softshell Turtle (Apalone spinifera) Atlantis, Paradise Island Vancouver Aquarium Marine Science Centre Cetaceans of Bangladesh: Conserving International Elephant Foundation a Regional Hotspot of Species BC Cetacean Sightings Network Inventory and Enhancement of the Diversity and Abundance with Local Natural Habitat on Saint-Quentin Island Communities and Institutions British Columbia Northern Leopard Frog Recovery Project (Trois-Rivières, Quebec) Coral Reef Monitoring and Restoration Program Carbone Boréal de in The Bahamas Cetacean Population Genetics – Harbour Porpoise l’Université du Québec à Chicoutimi, Promoting the Expansion of Andros (Québec) West Side National Park on Andros Cetacean Population Genetics – Snow Leopard Enterprise Expansion Island, The Bahamas Killer Whale

The Blue Project Dolphin Echolocation and Net Avoidance HONG KONG Field Study of Demography, Population Ocean Park Corporation BERMUDA Status and Natural History of British Columbian and Alaskan Killer Whales 2011 Hunchun Amur Tiger Festival Bermuda Aquarium, Museum and Zoo Fur Seal and Sea Lion Projects 2012 International Seafood Summit Fellowship Programme BAMZ/BZS Research Grants and Monitor Glass Sponge Reefs Support 3rd South-East Asian Training Monitor Lingcod Spawn Demography Workshop in Marine Mammal Research Bermuda Amphibian Project Techniques Monitor Spot Prawn Nurseries Bermuda Endemic Land Snail Survey A Future for Wild Chinese Giant Oregon Spotted Frog Recovery Project Bermuda Killifish Project Salamanders Recovery of Rockfish in Rockfish Bermuda Mangrove Response to Sea A Mini-Marine Specimen Bank for Conservation Areas Level Rise Sousa chinensis Conservation in the Pearl River Estuary Rockfish Winter Hiding Bermuda Marine Moorings Initiative

10 An Ecological Study of Horseshoe Conservation of Horseshoe Crabs in Ha Effects of Forest Loss and Degradation Crab Spawning and Nursery Beach Pak Nai, Hong Kong: Bridging Science on Lowland Amphibians of Hong Kong, Habitat and Community Participation Singapore, and Thailand

An Investigation of the Ecological and Conservation of the Chinese Giant Empowering Local Community to Behavioural Constraints on the Hainan Salamander (Andrias davidianus) Conserve the Critically Endangered Gibbon Phase II: A Study of Factors Impacting Chinese Crested Tern in Zhejiang This Species’ Reintroduction Province, China Assessment of Giant Panda Corridors: Road Effect, Corridor Effectiveness Conservation of the Chinese Pangolin Establishing Studbook for Captive and Corridor Restoration (Manis pentadactyla) in the Eastern Spotted Seals Himalayas of Nepal Assessment of the Irrawaddy Dolphin Factors of Establishing Ecological Population and its Habitat in Western Conservation of the Yellow- Corridor for Giant Panda Negros Crested Cockatoo Feeding Ecology and Habitat Choice of Bamboo and Vegetation Recovery of Conserving the Largest Salmon in the Sichuan Snub-Nosed Monkey in China Giant Panda Habitat after Wenchuan World Earthquake Field Enforcement Capacity Building Conserving the World’s Largest of Newly-Built Giant Panda Nature Bamboo Corridor Design Plan and Amphibian: Reintroduction of the Reserve in Gansu Management Strategy of Giant Panda Chinese Giant Salamander into the Habitat at Xiaoxianling Wild From Nearing Extinction to Flagship Species – the Endemic Palawan Forest Building Capacity to Save Asia’s Developing Release Protocols for Turtle Siebenrockiella leytensis Threatened Wildlife and Habitats Trade-confiscated Sunda Pangolins in Vietnam Genetic Structure of Giant Panda Small Cambodian Crocodile Conservation Populations at Liziping Nature Reserve Program: Ensuring the Future of Discovering Amphibian Diversity and the Critically Endangered Siamese Building Conservation Capacity in Group Density of Nepalese Assamese Crocodile in the Wild Vietnam Macaque using Multiple Covariate Distance Sampling in Eastern Nepal Changes in Population Size, Social Distribution Pattern and Food Choice Organization and Residence Patterns Study of Post-Released Captive Giant How to Reintroduce a Crocodile? of Sousa chinensis in Zhanjiang Waters Panda Assessing the Effectiveness of Different Release Strategies for the Characterizing Pesticides Exposure to DNA Bank for Sousa chinensis in Asian Philippine Crocodile the Critically Endangered Indo-Pacific Waters: A Preliminary Approach of Humpback Dolphins Specimen Banking Human Orangutan Conflict Response Unit (HOCRU) Coastal Marine Mammals along the Downstream Migration of Captive Eastern Gulf of Thailand Sub-Adult Chinese Sturgeon Identifying Priority Areas for Conservation of Saola (Pseudoryx Combating Trade in Nature Reserve East Kalimantan Cetacean nghetinhensis) Using Local Ecological Products to Protect Giant Pandas and Conservation Project 2011–2012 Knowledge Red Pandas Ecology and Conservation of Smooth- Impact of Sea-Level Rise on Protection Community Education Sponsorship Coated Otters and Management of Coastal Mangrove Programme Wetland Ecology and Distribution of Hose’s Conservation Capacity Training and Civet and Other Small Carnivores in Impact of Traffic Noise on Spotted Seal Evaluation for Educators in China a Logging Concession in Sarawak, (Phoca largha) Borneo Conservation of Blue-Crowned Impact on Biodiversity from Acute Laughing Thrush (Garrulax courtoisi) in EDGE Coral Reefs: Building Local High Tourist Flow in Nature Reserves Wuyuan, Jiangxi Province Capacity for Coral Reef Conservation In-Depth Monitoring of Giant Panda Conservation of Endangered Primates Education Interpretive at GP Education Populations in Wanglang State in Lao PDR Centre in Dujiangyan with Kangmei National Nature Reserve, Sichuan

11 Information and Investigative Rehabilitation, Reintroduction and University Student Sponsorship Service for Illegally Traded Wildlife Conservation Planning of Confiscated Programme (USSP) in Guangzhou Javan Slow Lorises Unraveling the Blue: Determining the Investigating the Status of the Rehabilitation, Reintroduction and Relationship Between Blue Whales and Indo-Pacific Humpback Dolphin and Conservation Planning of Confiscated Oceanic Processes off Southern Sri Orcaella sp. Slow Lorises in Indonesia Lanka

Marine Dolphins Conservation through Reintroduction Experiment of Whale Shark and Marine Mammals in Community Education and Capacity Captive-Bred Red-Necked Pond Turtle the Northern Bohol Sea, Philippines: Building (Mauremys nigricans) Status Assessment and Conservation

Marine Mammal Stranding Response in Restoration and Usage of Habitat & Whale Shark and Marine Mammals Hong Kong Food Resources of Giant Panda of the Northern Bohol Sea, Building the Foundation for Long-Term Mark-Recapture and Habitat Selection Seahorse Survey and Reef Check in Conservation Study of Captive-Released Horseshoe Hong Kong Crabs SHR Design for GP Education Centre Mitigating Human Elephant Conflict in Dujiangyan MEXICO Through Research and Community Interface in Golaghat District, Assam Southeast Asian Marine Mammal Africam Safari Park Stranding Network Symposium and Amphibian Health Assessment – Monitoring Tiger (Panthera tigris tigris) Workshop Bacalar and its Prey in Barandabhar Corridors Study of the Non-Breeding Distribution of Terai Arc Landscape of Nepal Crested Toad Recovery Plan of Spoon-Billed Sandpiper Monkey Contraception Program in Masked-Bobwhite Recovery Program Hong Kong Survey of Potential Reintroduction Sites for Rehabilitant Orangutans, and Tuxtla Ground Dove Habitat and New Insights into Blue Whales, the Sri A Reintroduction Pilot Project Population Assessment Lankan Enigma: Linking Oceanography and Blue Whale Distribution in an Survey on Porpoise Bycatch by Ecological Cul-De-Sac Fisheries in Dongting Lake, China

Photo-Identification Research of Survey on Porpoise Bycatch by Critically Endangered Western Gray Fisheries in Poyang Lake, China Whale Surveying the Waters Off Green Island Planning of Management Capacity (Taiwan) for Beaked Whales Building for Nature Reserves in Tackling Illegal Wildlife Trade in Sichuan Guangdong, China through Community Population Dynamic Study of Chinese Taxonomic Status and Population White Dolphins in the Pearl River Structure of Finless Porpoise in the Estuary: 2nd Year Data Collection and Pearl River Estuary Preliminary Analysis The Pattern of Abundance, Social Population Dynamics Study of Chinese Structure and Habitat Use of Chinese White Dolphin in the Pearl River White Dolphins in Beibu Bay Estuary: Data Collection The Population Ecology Tarim River Population Ecology of Chinese White System Endemic Fish (Schizothorax Dolphins in the Pearl River Estuary. biddulphi) Phase 1: Establishing Baseline Models Training the Next Generation: Tortoise Potential Impact of Climate Change on and Freshwater Field Skill Training Sex Ratio of Juvenile Chinese Alligator Course and Student Research Projects Recovery of Coral-Reef Habitats in in Vietnam Community-Managed Reserves

12 Photos © Todd Stailey, Tennessee Aquarium RESTORING A FRESHWATER NATIVE The Southern Appalachian Brook Trout

By Kathlina Alford and Dr. Anna George Originally published in CONNECT June 2013

Of all the water available on Earth, only 0.01 percent of it is rainbow and brown trout, native Southern Appalachian brook the fresh water we use for drinking, bathing, growing crops, trout are now found in less than three percent of their historic industry, and all of our other daily activities. We share that range in Tennessee and North Carolina. tiny fraction of water with a quarter of all the vertebrates on Earth. Unfortunately, the competition for this scarce resource Fortunately, both angler and conservation groups are working means that freshwater ecosystems and the animals that live together to reverse this decline in the Southern Appalachian in them face the highest rates of imperilment worldwide. In brook trout. Joint projects in our national forests have restored the southeastern United States, these habitats are also global riparian zones to shade the creeks and removed invasive trout biodiversity hotspots. More than a third of the country’s above barriers like waterfalls. Southern Appalachian brook freshwater fishes are found in the Southeast, including colorful trout, however, aren’t just genetically distinct from northern fishes like minnows, darters, and the Southern Appalachian populations; each population in the South is often distinct brook trout. from its neighbor, even among short distances. We believe that because this species is found in high-altitude headwater Southern Appalachian brook trout are one of the most streams, each population became isolated and differentiated beautiful aquatic treasures that the Appalachian Mountains throughout the region. For this reason, we need to be have to offer, with bright red bellies and yellow wavy markings extremely cautious with reintroduction programs to avoid on their backs. Populations in the Southeast look very similar disrupting any local adaptations. to brook trout in the north, but tend to be smaller and are genetically different. Unfortunately, these distinct populations Southern Appalachian brook trout had only been successfully in the South have been under threat for many years. Due to raised in captivity a few times previously at the Tellico Fish poor land use decisions for logging and the introduction of Hatchery, but they were able to use constantly flowing water

RESTORING A FRESHWATER NATIVE 13 from the source stream where the trout lived. The National Fish and Wildlife Foundation awarded a grant to the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute (TNACI) in 2012 so that we could try to replicate their success in a closed system at the Aquarium. This technique could then be used to restore trout from anywhere in their range, since we have almost no risk of escaped fish or disease risks.

We collected 50 adult Southern Appalachian brook trout in October 2012 to start this new captive breeding program. With the help of Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service trout experts, we were able to collect more than 1,000 eggs from these brood fish. About 20 days later we knew that more than 400 eggs had been successfully fertilized when we observed what is called “eye-up,” where the eyes of the developing baby trout could be seen within the fertile eggs. “Hatch Day” finally came on 29 November as the baby trout outgrew their egg sacs and began wiggling out. At this point they are called “sac fry” because they still have a huge yolk sac to feed them. They were able to stretch their bodies out and continue to grow, but they didn’t eat for several more weeks until their yolk was completely absorbed. Like any growing baby, once they were ready for real food, these fish were hungry. Finely diced blood worms, powdered egg yolk and live brine shrimp were on their menu. By the time they started eating, they looked like tiny versions of their parents, measuring about one-half of an inch.

This technique could then be used to restore trout from anywhere in their range, since we have almost no risk of escaped fish or disease risks.

We will raise these baby trout through late spring until they reach three to four inches in length. Then they will be reintroduced into the same stream where we collected their parents so a student from Tennessee Tech University can examine the survival of the trout in the wild. The results will be used to help us make more informed decisions about how to continue with this reintroduction program. We are so thankful for our great partners, especially the anglers in the region, who provide so much support for projects like these. Together, we can help protect and restore this amazing biodiversity in our own backyards.

Kathlina Alford is a Conservation Associate, at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute

Dr. Anna George is the Director at the Tennessee Aquarium Conservation Institute

14 RESTORING A FRESHWATER NATIVE Field Conservation Projects UNITED STATES

ALABAMA Eider Research and Conservation Assurance Population: Quitobaquito Program Mud Turtles Birmingham Zoo Evaluating Injury to Harlequin Ducks Assurance Population: Quitobaquito AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Caused by Hydrocarbon Exposure Pupfish Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Improving Attachments of Remotely- Assurance Population: Sonora Chub Operation Migration Deployed Dorsal Fin-Mounted Tags Bat Species Richness & Abundance at Orangutan Outreach Long-Term Monitoring in PWS the Chiricahua National Monument

Red Panda Day Marine Debris Investigation and Bat Species Richness & Abundance, Outreach Winter Survey at the Chiricahua The Nature Conservancy’s Partnership National Monument for 2010–2011 to Protect the Hirola Marine Invasive Species Consistent Messaging Buffelgrass Busters WCS Tarangire Elephant Project Marine Wildlife Capture & Migratory Species Bat Research & Rehabilitation Services Education

ALASKA Monitoring for Marine Invasive Species Propagation: Mexican Gartersnake

Alaska SeaLife Center Non-Indigenous Marine Species Propagation: Tarahumara Frog Monitoring Program Alaska Region Stranding Network Propagation: Yaqui Catfish Annual Meetings and Training Pacific Walrus Haulout Attendance and Disturbance Roost Monitoring for the Endangered Alaska Region Stranding Network Lesser Long-Nosed Bat in Northern Enhancement Response and Post-Release Monitoring Sonora, Mexico of Stranded Marine Mammals in Alaska SeaLife Center Marine Mammal Alaska–2012 Salvage: Rucker/Turkey creek fire Research Program 2009–2013

Stranded Marine Mammals as Salvage: Tortoise Adoption Program Arctic Wildlife Oil Spill Response Indicators of Ocean Health 2008 Capacity Enhancement Sky Island Biodiversity Support of the Alaska Sea Life Center Beluga Whale Health and Stranding Stranding (Rescue and Rehabilitation Project Phoenix Zoo Program) A Proactive Approach to Horned BIOMap Alaska at Alaska Sea Life The Impact of Predation on Juvenile Lizard Conservation Center Survival and Population Recovery of African Wildlife Conservation Fund & Comparative Study of the Metabolic Steller Sea Lions SAVE Valley Conservancy Effects of Radio-Transmitter Thermoregulation in Free-Living Attachment Methods on Wintering Agua Fria and Las Cienega National Antarctic Seals: The Missing Link in Steller’s Eiders Conservation Area and Monument Effective Ecological Modeling Resource Management Plan COSEE Alaska: People in a Changing Climate Arizona Forest Planning Initiative ARIZONA Development and Testing of Arizona Game and Fish Black-Tailed Alternative Methods for Satellite Arizona–Sonora Desert Museum Prairie Dog Reintroduction Tagging of Beluga Whales Assurance Population: Gila Topminnow Arizona Game and Fish Heritage Eider 2012–2017 Advisory Committee

15 Arizona Game and Fish Wildlife Hornbill Research and Conservation Support to Orangutan Conservation Corridors and Connectivity, County by through Research in the Lower County, Four to Date In-Situ Conservation of the Greater Kinabatangan, Sabah, Malaysia Bamboo Lemur Using Non-Invasive AZA Komodo Dragon Conservation Genetic Techniques Turtle Survival Alliance SSP Conservation Fund Iznachi Andean Bear Sanctuary Western Governors Association Biodiversity and Leopard Study of the Climate and Wildlife Corridor and Matobo Hills Jordan Phoenix Zoo METI Project for Connectivity Projects Preservation of the Arabian Oryx Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) – Propagation & Release Program Las Cienega Watershed Partnership Reid Park Zoo Grevy’s Zebra Trust California Condor Nest Guarding Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Program Project

Chiricahua Leopard Frog (CLF) Masked Bobwhite Quail Species ARKANSAS (Lithobates chiricahuensis) Recovery Plan Headstarting and Release Program Little Rock Zoo Mexican Wolf Recovery in US and AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Community Engagement in Mexico Regional Collaboration Conservation of Nanda Devi Biosphere Mount Graham Red Squirrel Appalachian Bear Center Reserve in the Indian Himalayas Propagation and Release Program Arkansas Natural Heritage Commission Continuing to Resolve Conflict Through Narrow-Headed Garter Snake Communication: Using DVD Shows to AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (Thamnopsis rufipunctatus) Help Reduce Human-Carnivore Conflict (CEF) Propagation for Release around Ruaha National Park, Tanzania Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) National Park System Project Desert Tortoise Population Monitoring Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Program Native Fish Species Reintroduction: Desert Pupfish Determining Biological Factors Goualougo Triangle Ape Project (GTAP) that Influence Mate Choice in the Native Fish Species Reintroduction: Endangered Black-Footed Ferret Gila Topminnow International Bear Association Eco-Ethological Observations of Native Invertebrates Species International Elephant Foundation Orangutans at the Lower Kinabatangan Husbandry & Release Program Wildlife Sanctuary IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Northern Jaguar Project Specialist Group (CBSG) Ecological and Genetic Evaluation of Roatin’s Spiny-Tailed Iguanas Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project Kibale Community Fuel Wood Project (Ctenosaura oedirhina) Pathogen Transmission among Wild Madagascar Fauna Group Ecology and Conservation of the and Domestic Ungulates Endangered Rothschild’s Giraffe Partners in Conservation (Giraffa camelopardalis rothschildi) in Philippine Biodiversity Conservation Kenya Programme Rainforest Alliance

Health Assessment of an Endangered Santa Rita & Chiricahua Mountain Land Southern African Foundation for Population of Black Howler Monkeys Management Project the Conservation of Coastal Birds (Alouatta pigra) in Mexico: Implications (SANCCOB) Saving the Orangutan of Indonesian for Conservation Borneo The Clouded Leopard Project Home Range, Social Behavior and Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Team Ecology of the Bornean Tarsier and the Bornean Slow Loris Support of Ongoing Training for Local Staff in Sumatran Elephant Hornbill Nest Project Conservation

16 CALIFORNIA Red Rock Shrimp Aquaculture Shielding from Extinction the World’s Most Endangered Xenarthran: The Aquarium of the Bay Rotifer Aquaculture Pygmy Sloth of Escudo de Veraguas Island, Panama Bay Restoration Weekly Bird Survey at Manmade Salt Marsh at Cabrillo Beach, Los Angeles Coast and Ocean World Bird Sanctuary Songbird County, CA Population Study Rivers and Delta White Abalone Husbandry and Undaria Removal at Fisherman’s Conservation Happy Hollow Zoo Wharf in San Francisco, CA Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) California Science Center Heart of the Congo Aquarium of the Pacific Survey of Southern Steelhead Abalone Surveys with California Jaguar Conservation Department of Fish and Game CuriOdyssey Santa Clara Valley Audubon Society – Kelp Restoration Project Coyote Point Beach Clean Up Burrowing Owl

Monitoring Sea Turtle Presence and FrogWatch USA SaveNature.Org: Conservation Meter Activity Within Alamitos Bay Channel Pacific Tree Frog (Hyla regilla) Garden and the San Gabriel River Los Angeles Zoo and Botanical Habitat Project Gardens

B. Bryan Preserve A Trade Study of the Serow in Fresno Chaffee Zoo Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra Southeast Asia California Condor Nest Guarding Conservation Program Abundance, Population Density and Genetic Diversity of the Red Uakari Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution Community-Based Grevy’s Zebra (Cacajao calvus) in the Peruvian of Oceanography Conservation in Northern Kenya Amazon

Seadragon Conservation Conservation of Critically Endangered Asian Rhino Conservation Amphibian Species in Fragmented Asian Vulture Conservation Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Afromontane Forests of Southeast Ethiopia Black-Winged Starling Conservation Biannual Survey of Intertidal Marine in Indonesia Life at Point Fermin Marine Life Conservation of the Northern Muriqui Refuge, Los Angeles County, CA Populations in Simonesia, Minas Gerais, Bush Meat Education at Limbe Brazil Wildlife Center Cabrillo Salt Marsh Survey Continuing In-Situ Conservation of the California Condor Recovery Project: Chrysaora Sea Jelly Farming Burmese Roofed Turtle in the Chindwin Rear and Prepare for Release to the River, Myanmar Copepod Aquaculture Wild Determining, Distribution, Ecology, Caribbean Flamingo Conservation Garibaldi Aquaculture, Territorial Biological Niche and Conservation of Behavior, and Conservation Tree Roosting Bats in the Tana River Comparing Monitoring Methods to Forests in Kenya Grunion Aquaculture Infer the Conservation Status of the Komodo Dragon Population Friends of the Island Fox Support for Grunion Gamete Cryopreservation Channel Islands National Parks Conserving the World’s Largest Inner Cabrillo Beach Survey Amphibian Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Pacific Sea Horse Husbandry and Drill Conservation on the Island of Lake Oku Clawed Frog Recovery Development Bioko Program

Peninsula Shorewatch Drill Rehabilitation and Breeding Olive Ridley Sea Turtle Research and Center Red Abalone Larval Settlement Conservation Program

17 Finding and Providing Appropriate Ocean Sunfish Research Ventana Wildlife Society Conditions under which to Hold the Endangered Mountain Yellow-Legged Pacific Bluefin Tuna WCS Tiger Project Frog Policy Work Western Pond Turtle Head Start Harpy Eagle Conservation and Program (On Site) Sea Otter Research and Conservation Research Amphibian Ark Sevengill Shark Research Health in the Red Uakari (Cacajao calvus) Shorebird and Seabird Rehabilitation Sacramento Zoo

AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Human Elephant Conflict in Cambodia Sustainable Seafood Initiative

AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Javan Warty Pig Recovery Project White Shark Research Campaign: Sumatran Tiger Madagascar Fauna Group Oakland Zoo Burrowing Owl Conservation Minimizing the Conflict between Asian Africa Matters Elephants and Local Villagers California Raptor Center

Amboseli Elephant Research Okapi Conservation Project Food Procurement for Rehabilitation Centers American Bird Conservancy Paso del Istmo Jaguar Conservation Project Friends of the Island Fox Animals Asia

Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project Georgia Turtle Center ARCAS

Philippine Eagle Conservation Grevy Zebra Health Database Arroyo Viejo Creek Restoration Project Development (On Site) Phylogeny of Pygmy Alligator Lizards in the Sierra Madre Oriental Grevy’s Zebra Trust Bay Area Puma Project – Felidae Conservation Fund Proyecto Tagua - Chacoan Peccary Hornbill Research Foundation Conservation Project Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Saola Conservation Project Specialist Group (CBSG) Budongo Snare Removal Project

Sonoran Pronghorn Recovery Project Kibale Fuel Wood Project Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI)

Steller’s Sea Eagle Population Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Giraffe Conservation Foundation and Research Rothchild’s Giraffe Project Mabula Ground Hornbill Project Survey of Invasive Species on Aruba Hornbill Nest Project Madagascar Fauna Group Turtle Survival Alliance Keystone Conservation Masai Giraffe Conservation Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby Demography Kibale Fuel Wood Project Reintroduction Okapi Conservation Project Lubee Bat Conservancy

Monterey Bay Aquarium Orangutan Outreach Project Golden Frog Atlantic Bluefin Tuna OSA Wildlife Sanctuary Project Tamarin Conservation Research Program Pan African Sanctuary Association SaveNature.Org: Parking Meter Administration Conservation Educators workshop Collection Movements, Distribution and Pangolin TAG Husbandry Requirements of Large Saving Wild Tigers Elasmobranch Fishes of Kaneohe Bay, Population Monitoring Program to Turtle Survival Alliance Hawaii Study Water Hole Use of the Nubian Uganda Carnivore Program Ibex in Egypt Natural History of Mobulid Rays in the Gulf of California Red Panda Network

18 Riparian Brush Rabbit Recovery San Diego Zoo Global Conservation Breeding and Program Reintroduction of the Critically Amphibian Veterinary Outreach Endangered Pacific Pocket Mouse Program Sahara Conservation Fund Conservation Breeding of the Giant Amphibian Veterinary Outreach Seafood Watch Panda Program

Shared Conservation Biologist Conservation Partnerships: Bicultural An Adaptive Management Approach to Conservation in Southern California Shark Population Monitoring Recovering burrowing Owl Populations and Restoring a Grassland Ecosystem Desert Tortoise Conservation Center Sierra Wildlife Rescue Andean Bear Conservation Research, Development of Techniques for Snow Leopard Trust Building Capacity in Perú Reproductive Assessment of Captive and Wild Brown Kiwi Sumatran Orangutan Outreach Andean Condor Recovery in Columbia, Program South America Effects of Wind Turbines on Golden Eagles and Condors in Northern Baja Survey of Otters in Parsa Wildlife Anegada Iguana Project Reserve of Nepal California, Mexico AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Tana River Forest Bat Survey Enhancing California Condor Genetic AZA Okapi SSP Consortium Management Volta Water Project Impact Study Barcoding for Species Conservation Feeding Ecology of Douc Langurs at Wildlife Care Association Son Tra Nature Reserve, Vietnam Behavior, Ecology and Conservation of Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Asian Leaf-Eating Monkeys Gelada Ecology and Conservation (ZCOG) Behavior, Ecology, and Conservation of Gharial Conservation Fund Gelada Baboons Safari West Wildlife Preserve Grevy’s Zebra Trust

Action for Cheetahs in Kenya Behavioral Associations in Old Hawaii Endangered Bird Conservation World Monkeys: An Aid to Captive Program African Wildlife Foundation Management

Hornbill Research Foundation Bongo Surveillance Project Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative International Elephant Foundation Cheetah Conservation Botswana Bulgaria/U.S. Red-Breasted Goose International Rhino Foundation Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Conservation Project Investigating the Role of Disease Elephant Voices California Least Tern and Western in Declining Thick-Billed Parrot Snowy Plover Conservation Program Grevy’s Zebra Trust Populations in Northern Mexico Captive Breeding and Reintroduction Northern California Bats IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding of the San Clemente Loggerhead Specialist Group (CBSG) Okapi Conservation Project Shrike IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Painted Dog Conservancy Central Africa Program Jaguar Costa Rica Corridor Research Project Survival Chacoan Peccary Project - Paraguay Light-Footed Clapper Rail Cheetah Conservation Proyecto Titi Reintroduction Program

Clouded Leopard Conservation The Bird Rescue Center Madagascar Fauna Group Program The Feather Distribution Project Management of the Cocha Cashu Coastal Sage Scrub Biodiversity Biological Station in Manu, Peru Worth A Dam – Martinez Beavers Monitoring at the Safari Park

Conservation and Ecology of Wild Giant Panda Populations

19 Molecular Conservation Genetics: Tasmanian Devil Genotyping Penguin Project Development and Application to Management of Captive and Wild The Regional Dynamics of Insect- Conservation Fund Populations Transmitted Diseases Francisco Garter Snake Project Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog Translocation Biology of Endangered Leopard Conservancy Recovery Program Heteromyids in Southern California Western Pond Turtle Sex Northern Rangelands Trust Ishaqbini Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program Determination and Head Starting Hirola Community Conservancy Project Turks and Caicos Boa Project Studies Okapi Epulu Project Turks and Caicos Iguana Project Wildlife Health Network Pandrillus Drill Rehabilitation and Turtle Survival Alliance Word Parrot Trust Breeding Center, Nigeria Using Genomic Analyses to Ensure Pandrillus Foundation Sustainability of Global Elephant Santa Ana Zoo Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Populations Donation for Oophaga lehmanni Program West Gate Community Conservancy, Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens Polar Bear Conservation Research and Northern Rangelands Trust, Kenya Educational Outreach Amazon Conservation Team White-Bellied Heron Reintroduction Population Health and Genetics of Amphibians of the Los Padres National Wildlands Network Black-Footed Cats and Infectious Forest Disease Prevalence in Sympatric Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby Carnivores California Condor Conservation ZAA Native Conservation Program Program Population Management for Caribbean Rock Iguana SSP Recovery Programs ZSSD Koala Management, Education Center for Snake Conservation: Snake and Conservation Program Count Preserving the Endangered Drill In-Situ: Utilizing Genetic Tools Channel Island Fox Conservation for Ecological and Conservation San Francisco Zoological Gardens Program Assessments Andean Cat Coal Oil Point Habitat Restoration

Purple-Faced Langur Conservation AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation East Anacapa Island Restoration Campaign Recovery of the California Condor Project Conservation Genetics and Evolution Red Panda Network International Elephant Foundation of the Snow Leopard

Red-Necked Ostrich Recovery Santa Barbara Zoo Wetland Margin Conservation Strategy Fund Enhancement Project Sahara Conservation Fund Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Southern Sea Otters in the Santa Saiga Conservation Fund Barbara Channel Earthwatch Institute

San Diego Zoo Palm Conservation Western Snowy Plover Nesting Habitat Fauna & Flora International/Francois Initiative Restoration Langur

Seeds of Success Zoo Conservation Outreach Group IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding (ZCOG) Specialist Group (CBSG) Snow Leopard Trust Natural Partnerships Program Jane Goodall Institute SeaWorld San Diego Southern Africa Elephant Conservation Lakipia Predator Project Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre Program Madagascar Fauna Group Cetacean Response for Investigation Swaziland African Elephant Parks Support Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog

20 Conservation of Hawksbill, Green Southern African Foundation for Desert Tortoise Conservation and Loggerhead Sea Turtles through the Conservation of Coastal Birds Education Program Research, Participatory Monitoring, (SANCCOB): African Penguin and Beach Patrolling Seabird Rehabilitation Mecca Aster Propagation and Habitat Restoration Project Conservation Strategy for Jaguars and The Beaver Solution Pumas in Northern Sonora, Mexico Mexican Wolf Recovery Planning with a Radio Collaring Project The Critically Endangered Western Lowland Gorilla is Heavily Hunted for Mexican Wolf Reintroduction Project Continuing Development of a Bushmeat Trade in the Kouilou Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project Philippine Marine Mammal Stranding Uganda Fuel Reduction Project Network Rebuilding the Pride Wildlife Rehabilitation & Conservation Derelict Fishing Net Removal in Puget Sahara Conservation Fund Sound Wildlife Rescue and Rehabilitation Saharan Ostrich Conservation Ejido Communities Fuel Wood Project Sequoia Park Zoo Termit Carnivore Project Eradicating Chemical Fishing & Training Local Fishermen On Center for Ecosystem Survival: Urban Bee Survey Sustainable Fishing Techniques Rainforest Parking Meter Yucatan Jaguar Project Hubbs-SeaWorld Research Institute Chimp Cents

Identifying Shark Nursery Area Coastal Bullfrog Life History with Community involvement in the and Competition with Northern COLORADO Colombian Pacific Coast Red-Legged Frog: A Proposed Cheyenne Mountain Zoo Management Strategy Increasing Public Participation in African Penguin Conservation Stopping Illegal Wildlife Trade in Forest Monitors Red Panda Habitat Vietnam AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative: Visions of the North Coast: Healthy Goualougo Triangle Ape Project Investigations in Pathology of Marine Ecosystems Mammals and Birds Black-Footed Ferret Recovery

Steinhart Aquarium Light-Footed Clapper Rail Developing Assisted Reproduction in AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Mountain Tapir Marine Mammal Clinical Pathology (CEF) Endangered Colorado Butterflies Mexican Wolf Fund Citizen Science: Intertidal Biodiversity Help Stop Elephant Poaching Survey at Pillar Point Pinniped Rescue and Rehabilitation Helping Colorado Migratory Birds Coral and Mangrove Conservation: Polar Bears International Florida International Elephant Foundation: Rallying the World to Action: World African Elephant Field Support Medical Treatment for Birds of Golden Oceans Day as the Nexus for Ocean Gate Park Conservation Action Palm Oil Crisis and Orangutan Conservation SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) Response & Post-Release Monitoring Panama Amphibian Rescue and of Stranded Marine Mammals in Alaska Southern African Foundation for Conservation (PARC) – 2012 the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) Saving Sea Turtles with the Next Silky Sifakas in Peril Generation TRAFFIC/Environment Canada Coral The Epulu Okapi Project Identification Workshop Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Wild African Vulture Conservation

Seabird and Raptor Food for 2012 The Living Desert Wyoming Toad Recovery Desert Pupfish Ex-Situ Refugia Management

21 Denver Zoo Ecology and Social Behavior of Lewa Wildlife Conservancy White-Tailed Prairie Dogs Amphibian Ark Living with Lions – Kilimanjaro Lion Effects of Bison on Plant and Animal Project Anniversary of Tonkin Snub-Nosed Communities in the Southern Great Monkey Conservation in Khau Ca, Plains Malagasy Fish Conservation Vietnam

Elephant Conservation in Vietnam Managing Canine Distemper in Wild Blakiston’s Fishing Owl Project Dogs Elephant Surveys and Training in Boteti Lion Conservation Project Taman Negara National Park, Malaysia Mandrill Enhancement in Gabon Botswana Prey Survey Evaluation of Human Conservation Marmots as Keystone Species Study in Mongolia Botswana Vet Assistance Behavior and Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey Population Status in Northern Mongolian Nomadic Conservation Breeding Success of Cinereous Vietnam Trunk Program Vultures in Ikh Nart, Mongolia General Botswana Conservation Movements of Grevy Zebras in Kenya Brown Hyeana Conservation in the Project Support Makgadikgadi, Botswana Pallas Coluber Snake Ecology in Ikh Genetic Testing of Bison on Wind River Nart Nature Reserve Central Kalahari Lion Conservation Ranch Project in Botswana Providing Enrichment to Orangutans in Great Lakes Piping Plover Project in Rehabilitation Centers in Borneo Cheetahs of the Kalahari in the Central Northern Michigan Kalahari Game Reserve Raising Elephant Awareness among Grevy’s Zebra Conservation Education the Local Communities in and around Citizen Science Pika Monitoring in Kenya Vinh Cuu Nature Reserve, Vietnam Program in Colorado’s Front Range Grevy’s Zebra Population Dynamics in The Ecology and Conservation of Small Clouded Leopard Conservation in Kenya Carnivores in the Semi-Desert Steppes Borneo Hedgehog Resource Partitioning in of Mongolia Comparative Ecology of African Wild Mongolia Tonkin Snub-Nosed Conservation Dogs in the Okavango Delta and the Education Central Kalahari Hirola Antelope Conservation in Kenya

Undergraduate Kenyan Conservation Conservation Assurance Population of IdeaWild Scholarship the Andean Condor, Panama Golden Ikh Nart Education and Outreach Frog and Boreal Toad Program Wildebeest Conservation in the Kalahari Conservation Genetics of Grevy’s Ikh Nart is our Future Women’s Zebra in Kenya Cooperative in Mongolia Witness for Wildlife at Herman Gulch Wildlife Corridor in Colorado through Conservation of the Lesser Flamingo in Influence of Prey Distribution on Lion Patagonia’s Freedom to Roam the Great Rift Valley Lakes, Kenya Movements In Kenya Campaign Determinants of Grassland Dynamics International Rhino Foundation Wolves in Mongolia in Tibetan Highlands in the Qinghai Alpine Grasslands of China Kibale Fuel Wood Project Landry’s Downtown Aquarium – Developing a Model for Local Lake Titicaca Frog Conservation in Denver Management of Protected Areas in Peru Mongolia Houston Audubon Society Lake Titicaca Frog Education in Peru Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International NOAA Lappet-Faced Vulture Feasibility Ecology and Conservation of Argali Trash Fest Assessment Study in Botswana Sheep Wild Aid Lesser Kestrel Breeding Ecology in Ecology and Conservation of Wild Mongolia Bactrian Camels in Mongolia

22 Wildlife Alliance – Tigers Investigation of the Physiological, Assessing Wood Turtle Distribution in Behavioral and Vocal Responses of Northern Virginia World Parrot Trust Beluga Whales Assessment of the Population and Long Island Sound Coastal Field Reproductive Biology of Baird’s Tapir Pueblo Zoo Studies in Panama AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) Mystic Aquarium Rescue and Smithsonian National Zoological Park Rehabilitation of Stranded Marine Australian Coral Conservation Project Rodrigues Fruit Bat Population Count Mammals and Sea Turtles along the Connecticut and Rhode Island Biodiversity Monitoring and SaveNature.Org Shorelines Assessment Program for the PERU LNG Project Southern African Foundation for Snapping Turtle Health Assessment the Conservation of Coastal Birds and Freshwater Educational Study Breeding Ecology and Population (SANCCOB) Using Animal Borne Imagery Status of the Island Scrub-Jay

Swift Fox Conservation Team Carbon Dynamics of Forest Recovery Under a Changing Climate DELAWARE Climate Vulnerability of Forest Birds in CONNECTICUT Brandywine Zoo the Mid-Atlantic United States

Connecticut’s Beardsley Zoo Andean Condor Conservation Program Conservation of Dhole in Thailand Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Andean Condor Radio Telemetry Project Conservation of Przewalski’s Horse AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Campaign Chaco of Paraguay Density Dependence During the Non- Breeding Season and the Regulation of Delaware Wildlife Rehabilitators Connecticut Amphibian Monitoring Migratory Bird Populations Association Program Effects of Climate and Biotic Factors IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Tiger Anti Poaching Support on Abundance, Demography, and Specialist Group (CBSG) Behavior of Forest Birds Tiger Health Support Program The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund Eld’s Deer Conservation Turtle Survival Alliance Elevational Distribution, Malaria Parasites and Genetic Structure of Mystic Aquarium DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA Borneo Birds Amphibian Monitoring Smithsonian National Zoological Park Establishing Assisted Reproductive Assisting with the African Penguin A Behavioral Study of Kori Bustard Techniques for Genetic Management in Chick Bolstering Project in South Chicks at the Smithsonian National the Maned Wolf Africa Zoological Park Forest Scenarios Behavioral Ecology of Beluga Whales – A behavioral study of kori bustards at A Partnership with Arctic Watch the National Zoological Park Full Life Cycle Vulnerability Assessments for the Birds of the Upper Coastal Marine Debris Removal Events A Behavioral Study of the Greater Midwest Great Lakes Region Rhea at the Smithsonian National Detection of Influenza A Viruses from Zoological Park Genetic Analyses of Chytrid Fungus Seals Stranded in the Northeastern (BD) and Amphibian Hosts United States An Investigation of Leg Fractures and Anatomy in the Greater Roadrunner Gonadal Tissues Cryopreservation Health Assessment of Belugas in the Chukchi Sea and Bristol Bay Appalachian Salamander Conservation Host Specialization of Avian Malaria and Shifts from Wild to Zoo Birds Health Survey of Free-Living and Asian Black Bear Conservation Captive Seabirds in South Africa Impact of Anthropogenic Pressure Assessing and Restoring Giant Panda on Wild Canids Living in the Brazilian Horseshoe Crab Monitoring Habitat in the Qinling Mountains Cerrado

23 Impacts of Dam Removal on Dippers Old Growth Carbon FLORIDA and River Otters Oocyte Cryopreservation in Rare Brevard Zoo Informatic Tools for Population-Level Biomedical Models African Predator Conservation Animal Movement Dynamics Panama Amphibian Rescue and Research Organization (APCRO) Interaction Networks for Small Conservation (PARC) Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Mammals, Ticks and Disease Pattern Formation in Semi-Arid Butterfly Monitoring Investigating the Effects of Climate Systems Change on Salamander Health Captive Propagation of the Imperiled Peruvian Amazon Biodiversity Atala (Eumaeus atala) Butterfly Investigation of Wild Kori Bustard Monitoring, Assessment, and (Ardeotis kori) Health and Physiology Conservation Program Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Kenya Recovery of the Endangered Coral Restoration Foundation Land Use Impacts on Ecosystem Black-Footed Ferret Services Dolphin Biology Research Institute Reef Recovery Initiative Large Mammal Use of Forest Corridors Florida Grasshopper Sparrow Research Between Giant Panda Reserves in Relationship between Genetics, Stress Chingling Mountains and AA Amyloidosis Prevalence in Florida Scrub-Jay Translocations within Cheetahs Brevard County, Florida Linking Forest Community Dynamics to Ecosystem-Climate Interactions Reproduction and Reintroduction of Helping Australia’s Cassowary Arid Lands Antelope in Sub-Saharan Mad Island Migration Banding Africa International Iguana Foundation

Male Giant Panda Reproduction: Reproductive Biology of the Addra International Rhino Foundation Helping to Breed through Artificial Gazelle IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group Insemination with Frozen Sperm Reproductive Biology of the Persian Manatee Research and Conservation Mammal Distributions Across Onager with FWC Protected Areas in Region SI-GEO Large Forest Plot Mangrove Restoration in the Indian Mapping the Distribution of Ponds and River Lagoon Large Mammals in Eastern Cambodia Source-Sink Dynamics and Population Ecology of Wood Thrush Monofilament Recovery and Recycling Migration in Green Darner Dragonflies Stacking Species Distribution Models Program (MRRP) Migratory Connectivity of the Birds of Oyster Reef Restoration Project North America Takin Ecology and Conservation Perdido Key Beach Mouse Breeding Modeling Effects of Climate Change on The Gabon Biodiversity Program Program Giant Panda Habitat The Ostrich Recovery Program in Niger Red Cockaded Woodpecker Molecular and Morphological Tracking the Migrations of the Translocation in St. Sebastian Preserve, Phylogenetics of Hawaiian Songbird Endangered Kirtland’s Warbler Florida Radiations Using Geographic Information Systems Right Whale Monitoring Program Molt Patterns in Captive Kori Bustards and Remote Sensing for Training Sahara Conservation Fund Multitrophic Consequences of Novel Wildlife Plant Assemblages in Urban Ecosystem Virginia Working Landscapes Sea Turtle Preservation Society

Neighborhood Nestwatch Sea Turtle Research

New Approaches to Large-Scale Securing the Future of Chimpanzees Butterfly Monitoring: Age Structure and Gorillas in a Changing Landscape Data, Growing Degree Days, and Generalized Population Models

24 Stow It Don’t Throw It N/aâan ku se’s Carnivore Conservation Saving the Wild Cheetah: Community Conservation Corp (CCC) Training Turtle Survival Alliance Namunyak Wildlife Conservation Trust Program

Watamu Turtle Watch Orangutan Conservation through Strengthening Community Captivity to Healthcare Incentives and Community Manage Grevy’s Zebra Conservation in Reforestation Busch Gardens Tampa Bay Kenya

Annual Support for Wildlife Protection Painted Dog Anti-Poaching Units Strengthening Conservation Education and Snare Sweep Patrol Teams in the And Empowering Local Communities Pan African Sanctuaries Alliance Lower Zambezi, Zambia Bordering Rwanda’s Volcanoes (PASA) 2012 Education Workshop National Park Care for Rescued Wildlife: Elephant Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project Conservation Center and Enclosure Support for Wildlife Protection and Alterations at PTWRC PASA 2011 Veterinary Workshop Snare Sweep Patrol Teams in the Lower Zambezi, Zambia Centre de Rehabilitation des Primates PASA Chimpanzee Reintroduction de Lwiro – A Multi-Disciplinary Project – Sierra Leone The Ecology and Conservation of Lions Approach to Conservation Project Kianjavato: A Reforestation The Maasai Steppe Conservation Children’s Environmental Education Partnership between People and Education Program: Launching the Bush Camp (Iganyana) Lemurs WILD Weeks Environmental Summer Camp Initiative Conserving Chimpanzees by Project Rhino KZN Integrating Cultural Values and Tsavo Cheetah Project Conservation Practices in the Albertine Protection of Sumatran Tiger in Rift Kerinci Seblat National Park, Sumatra, Bat Conservation International Indonesia Continued Veterinary Interventions to Center for Ecosystem Survival Save Zimbabwe’s Black Rhinos Proyecto Titi: Expanding our City Bats Educational Impact to Foster Cotton- Ecology and Conservation of the Top Tamarin Conservation in Colombia Disease Surveillance in Selected Endangered Rothschild’s Giraffe (Phase Two) SGCN’s - Bats and Amphibians Education for Bonobo Conservation Reducing Conflict between Farmers Gopher Tortoise Council and Protection and Endangered Elephants in India

Environmental Education and Outreach Rehabilitation and Release of Rescued Disney’s Animal Kingdom through the Kouprey Express Primates, Diani, Kenya Anti Poaching Units Vehicle FOC Education Program & Rhino Rescue and Rehabilitation Support Watch / Rhino Walk Antiguan Racer Habitat Conservation for Snared Wildlife in South Luangwa, Project Zambia Helping Orangutans Return to the Wild: A Holistic Environmental Archie Carr Refuge Education Program Rescue, Rehabilitation and Release Enrichment Program of Bonobos (Pan paniscus) in the Audubon EagleWatch Democratic Republic of Congo Increasing Survival and Protection of AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Grevy’s Zebra in Laisamis, Northern Risk Factors with Mycobacterium (CEF) Kenya Tuberculosis Complex Infection in Elephants Bay Area Puma Project International Elephant Foundation

Ruaha Carnivore Project Be Out There Kibale Fuel Wood Project

Saving Orangutans by Safeguarding Benefiting Caohai Cranes and Koala Rescue, Rehabilitation and Their Habitat (SOS Habitat) Communities Release – Supporting a Brighter Future for this Iconic Species Saving the Orangutan of Indonesian Biology and Conservation Monitoring Borneo of the Three-Wattled Bellbird in Mbeli Bai Study Eastern Honduras

25 Black Rhino Conservation – Zimbabwe Ecology of the Mangrove Cuckoo Maine Seabird Conservation and Community Volunteers Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre Elephants and Bees Mangrove Curriculum Transfer to Belize Botanical Conservation Grants Emergency Funding for Community- Program Based Forest Rangers Mbeli Bai Study Club Ebobo Conservation Education Building Capacity of Conservation Emergency Support for the Okapi Leaders in the Democratic Republic of Conservation Project in Epulu, DRC Monarch Butterfly Conservation Congo Project Ensuring the Future of Critically Burmese Star Tortoise Reintroduction Endangered Siamese Crocodiles Monitoring Scarlet Macaw Chicks in the Program Maya Biosphere Reserve Every Duck Counts Cheetah Conservation in the Kalahari National Mongolian Taimen Protection Global Youth Service Day Campaign Citizen Science Eagle Watch Web- Based Database System Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Nature Fest: Friends of Lake Louisa Education (GRACE) Center State Park, Inc Communities for Primate Conservation and Educator Capacity Building Great Lakes Piping Plover Project Nicaragua Baird’s Tapir Conservation Initiative Community Conservation of Andean Great Seeds Restoration Program Bears Nkomo School: Helping Wildlife by Guatemalan Endangered Reptile Helping Communities Community Forest Conservation in Awareness Program Indonesia Okapi Conservation Project Hartmann’s Zebra Monitoring in Community-Based Conservation of Namibia Orangutan Research, Education and Snow Leopards Near Mt. Everest Conservation Health Assessment of Timber Conservation of Nantu Rainforest, Rattlesnake (Crotalus horridus) Pacific Island Avifauna Health Sulawesi Populations in Massachusetts Assessment

Conservation of Shorebirds including Implementing a Conservation Parrot Conservation on Bonaire Semipalmated Sandpipers Education Program in the Walikale Region of Eastern Democratic Republic PASA Cameroon Reintroduction Conservation of the Critically of Congo (DRC) Project Endangered Saiga Antelope International Elephant Foundation Philippine Eagle Conservation Conservation of Transylvanian Inland Wetlands Jamaican Iguana Recovery Programme Project Limulus: A Community Research Program Conserving Zimbabwe’s Endangered Jane Goodall’s Roots & Shoots Global Wild Dogs Promoting Gorilla Conservation Jersey Shore Terrapin Conservation Through Education Cranes and Crabs: Conservation Project Coupling Protecting Bats: Africa’s Greatest Kibale Fuel Wood Project Migration Determination of Site Fidelity of Leaders in Environmental Action for Relocated Gopher Tortoises Protecting Crops: Elephants and Bees the Future (LEAF) Project Disney Animal Rescue & Readiness Let’s G.O. (Get Outside) Fund Protecting India’s Endangered Snow Leopards LiMPETS Program Disney’s Wildlife Monitoring Program Protecting Orangutans through Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative: Disney’s Holiday Bird Count Education, Mapping and Monitoring Pantanal Tapir Program Drill Re-Introduction in Nigeria Protecting Tigers in Thailand Maasailand Lion Conservation Program Eastern Bluebird Nest Box Monitoring Madagascar Tortoise Project

26 Proyecto Titi: Conservation of the Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens Fruit Bats as Bushmeat in the Solomon Cotton-Top Tamarin in Colombia Islands Air Potato (Dioscorea bulbifera) Round-Up Puerto Rican Crested Toad Rodrigues Environmental Education Project AZH Plant Conservation Fund Purple Martin Colony Next Box Monitoring SEABCRU Flying Fox Research Bat Blitz 2012

Rapid Response – Finding Lost Youth Environmental Association Crane Field Monitoring Support Loggerhead Nests (YEA) for Fanihi! International Rhino Foundation Red Panda Community Conservation Mote Marine Aquarium Awareness Jacksonville Zoo and Gardens’ Wood Stork Conservation Project and Behavioral Ecology and Physiology Reintroduction Program for the Partnership Program Ploughshare Tortoise Marine Mammal Rescue Program Fisheries Habitat Ecology Program Rescue of Male Elephant, Skoso Orinoco Crocodile Conservation Great White Shark Studies Restoring Connectivity of GLT Habitat Project Manatee Research Program Restoring Grevy’s Zebra Habitat, Kenya Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project Marine and Freshwater Aquaculture Restoring Habitat – Hawaiian Native Range of the Jaguar and Guyana Research Program Birds Conservation Partnership Links Marine Stock Enhancement Program Restoring Habitat for Gopher Tortoises Reticulated Flatwoods Salamander Project Ocean Acidification Program Saving Rawa Kuno Legacy Forest

Simuni Wildlife Monitoring Project Sea Turtle Conservation and Research See African Cats: Save the Savannah Program and Sea Turtle Patrol The Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity See Chimpanzee: Save Chimpanzees Initiative Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Hospital Somkhanda Community Conservation Turtle Survival Center Shark Biology and Conservation Project Program Volunteering at Suncoast Seabird Spotted Eagle Ray Conservation Sanctuary Shark Population Studies in Boca Grande, Fla. Sumatran Rhino Conservation Patrols Wildlands Network Studying the Effects of Catch and Suncoast Shorebird Partnership Wildlife SOS India Staff Training Release Fishing on Sharks Ticket to Ride Underwater Coral Nursery Lion Country Safari Uganda: Change My Community Conservation Program African Predator Conservation Naples Zoo Research Organization (APCRO) Umbrellabird Conservation in the Amphibian Ark Chocó AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) ARCAS Urban Oases for Migrating Songbirds Conservation Genetics of African and AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Whooping Crane Conservation Asian Rhinoceros Campaign Program IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Whooping Crane Reintroduction Team Specialist Group (CBSG) (CEF) Support Bushmaster Assessment and Wildlife Rehabilitation Center of Lubee Bat Conservancy Conservation Central Florida Florida Bat Monitoring Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Wolverine Conservation through Citizen Science Centre ValBio

27 Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Perdido Key Beach Mouse Short Course in Wildlife Medicine Conservation Project Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund: Gorilla The Use of the Amazonian Manatee as Council Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program a flagship species for the Conservation of the Lower Rio Negro Region, International Elephant Foundation Turtle Survival Alliance Brazilian Amazon

International Rhino Foundation SeaWorld Orlando St. Augustine Alligator Farm Invasive Water Hyacinth to Fuel Pellets Aquatic Bird Rescue, Rehabilitation, Asociación Chelonia and Research Madagascar Fauna Group Cambodian Crocodile Conservation Cetacean Rescue and Rehabilitation Panthera Lion Guardians Programme (CCCP)

Citizen Science to Document Polar Panthera: Munyawana Leopard Project IUCN/SSC Crocodile Specialist Group Bear Population Trends: Pilot Project Plush Predators for Tigers Mabuwaya Foundation Diagnosing the Decline of the Rocket Stoves Endangered Northern Rockhopper The Orianne Society: The Orianne Penguin Center for Indigo Conservation (OCIC) South Florida National Parks Trust: Living Safely with Wildlife in Big Evaluating Anthropogenic Impacts, Vulture Conservation Programme Cypress National Preserve Education Distribution and Health of Dolphin (VulPro) Communities Along the East Coast Tree Planting of Central Florida WCS John Thorbjarnarson Memorial Fund – Crocodilian Conservation World Parrot Trust: African Grey Parrot Florida Manatee Rescue and Wildlife Trade Rehabilitation Steve Martin’s Natural Encounters, Inc.

World Parrot Trust: Blue-Throated Identifying Beach Lighting “Hotspots” Ground Hornbill Project Macaws To Protect Sea Turtle Hatchlings International Rhino Foundation Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Love A Sea Turtle – The Upstream (ZCOG) Downstream Connection & Educational Moholoholo Rehab Centre Outreach The Peregrine Fund Palm Beach Zoo Marine Ornamental Fish Aquaculture Turtle Survival Alliance Effects of Lateral and Sternal Posture on Anesthesia and Post-Capture Monitoring of Endangered Right Vulture Program Health in Black Rhinoceros Whales in Coastal Waters of NE Florida World Parrot Trust Hawksbill Sea Turtle Research Oyster Restoration in the Mosquito Lagoon IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo Specialist Group (CBSG) Protecting the Delta in Murchison Falls Conservation Area, Uganda Ecology and Conservation of the Perdido Key Captive Breeding and Shoebill and Cranes in the Malagarasi- Reintroduction Protection and Restoration of Atlantic Moyowosi Flood Plain Ecosystem, Puffins at Seal Island National Wildlife Tanzania Research and Conservation of Endangered Sea Turtles in Venezuela Raptor Rescue & Rehabilitation for Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Bald Eagles Programme Validation and Application of Blood- Based Field Test for Evaluating Rescue, Rehabilitation, Restoration, Florida Panther Recovery Plan Tuberculosis in Lions Education Gyps Vulture Restoration Program Research and Conservation of Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo Flamingos in Priority Wetland Sites of Hillsborough River Watershed Alliance Argentina – Frog Listening Network Avian Conservation Center and Center for Birds of Prey Restoring Native Pollinator Habitat on Manatee Rescue, Rehabilitation and Florida’s Farms Release BFREE Harpy Eagle Project

28 Marine Mammal Research Patrol Grouper Moon: Spawning Research in IUCN/SSC Antelope Specialist Group Cayman Islands Okapi Conservation Project Mississippi Sandhill Crane Propagation Health Assessments of Florida Sharks and Recovery Program Orangutan Foundation Individual Dolphins as Conservation Radio Telemetry of Pygmy Tools Zoo Miami Hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) A Community-Based Landscape on Tiwai Island and in the Gola Forest Local Ocean Trust – Watamu Turtle Conservation Program for a Felid area Southeastern Sierra Leone Watch Program Carnivore Guild in Northern Belize

Southern African Foundation for Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership Atala Reintroduction the Conservation of Coastal Birds (MRP) (SANCCOB) AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Manatee Warm-Water Refugia and The Kingdom of Swaziland’s Big Game Mortality Bat Acoustical Survey of Zoo Miami Parks Grounds Mass Stranding of Dolphins on Cape Turtle Survival Alliance Cod Biological and Conservation Studies of the Miami Tiger Beetle (Cicindela Whooping Crane Northern Right Whale Monitoring floridana) Program Butterfly Survey of Pine Rockland The Florida Aquarium Producer to Plate: Sustainable Seafood Fragment Zoo Miami Caribbean Coral Propagation Facility & Aquaculture (The Coral Farm) Changes in Habitat Use and Survival Reducing Boat Related Manatee Rates of Juvenile Bull Sharks during Deaths in Belize Fantasy Island: A Cooperative Recovery after an Extreme Weather Conservation and Education Project Event Rising Tide

Marine Mammal Stranding Network Community Based In-Situ Sea Turtle Sea Turtle Index Nest Monitoring Nest Protection Program in Rekawa, River Otter Rescue and Rehabilitation Program Sri Lanka Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Shorebird Conservation in the Continuing In-Situ Conservation of the Bahamas Use of Aquacultured Acropora Burmese Roofed Turtle in the Chindwin cervicornis Fragments for Restoration Tagging of Post-Rehabilitated Green River, Myanmar Activities Sea Turtles Using a Prototype Satellite Florida Scrub-Jay Translocation Project Telemetry Device

Florida Statewide Amphibian Disease The Seas Tour de Turtles (Disney’s Vero Beach Monitoring Abaco Reef Restoration and Resort) Environmental Education Hope Gardens and Zoo Jamaican Tour de Turtles (Sea Turtle Iguana Headstart Facility Acropora Coral Nursery and Conservancy) Restoration International Elephant Foundation Towards Black-Capped Petrel Conservation Community Youth Engagement For International Iguana Foundation Sea Turtle Conservation Turtle Survival Alliance International Rhino Foundation Conservation of the West African Invasive Argentinian Black and White Manatee White Oak Conservation Center Tegu Removal and Environmental Conserving Critically Endangered Conservation Centers for Species Impacts Oceanic Sharks Survival Investigating the Habitat Usage and Conserving the Endangered Florida Panther Rehabilitation and Impacts of Non-Native Boa Constrictor Smalltooth Sawfish Reintroduction Kibale Fuel Wood Project Creating Pollinator Habitat in International Rhino Foundation Agricultural Landscapes Komodo Dragon Population

29 Monitoring, Movement Surveying and Monitoring of HAWAII Characterization, and Nesting and Prey Loggerhead Sea Turtle Index Nesting Survey in Komodo National Park Beaches Honolulu Zoo Mabula Ground Hornbill Lamanai Hicatee Conservation Sustainable Funding of Reef Initiative Restoration Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Project Okapi Conservation Project Whale Shark Genome Project Monaoa Cliff Trail Restoration Project Predation Impacts on Caterpillars Whale Shark Population Study, in Urban and Suburban Miami: Cancun, Mexico New Nature Foundation (Kibale) Implications for Rare and Endangered Butterflies of South Florida AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

Sahara Conservation Fund: Adopt-an- Chytridiomycosis and Amphibian IDAHO Ostrich Program Conservation Tautphaus Park Zoo Saving from Extinction the Pigmy Community-Based Red Panda AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus pigmaeus) Conservation and Monitoring in (CEF) of Ecudo de Verguas Island, Panama Eastern Nepal IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Sea Turtle – Youth Education Program Zoo Atlanta Specialist Group (CBSG) at Crandon Park Visitors and Nature Center Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Snow Leopard Trust

Survey and Environmental Impact Giant Panda Conservation Southern African Foundation for of Non-Native Oustalet’s Chameleon the Conservation of Coastal Birds Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation (Furcifer oustaleti) in South Florida (SANCCOB) Program The African Crane Conservation Head-Start/Relocation Program for Program Zoo Boise Gopher Frogs in Georgia AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Zoo Miami Lake Enhancement Project Head-Starting Diamondback Terrapins Amur Tiger Hellbender Salamander Population and AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative: GEORGIA Disease Status in Georgia Gorilla Georgia Aquarium Indigo Snake Restoration Project Biology and Conservation Monitoring Cayman Island Sting Ray Health Infectious Disease Control and of the Three-Wattled Bellbird in Assessment Bioresource Banking for Amphibians Eastern Honduras

Coral Restoration in the Florida Keys Mount Kenya Bongo Repatriation Building a Scientific Research Center in Gorongosa National Park Georgia Dolphin Ecology Project Project Abronia Idaho Panhandle Wolverine Study Health Survey of Endangered African Project Heloderma Penguins Kibale Fuel Wood Project & Kibale Restoring Allen Cay for Shearwaters Eco-Char Initiative HERA – Indian River Lagoon Dolphin and Iguanas Health Assessment Life-Saving Medical Care for Ruaha Carnivore Project: Researching Confiscated Eastern Gorilla Orphans: Manta Ray Natural History Carnivore Ecology and Conflict in Every Life Counts for These Critically Tanzania’s Ruaha Landscape Endangered Species Sand Tiger Shark Health Assessment

Securing the Highly Threatened Tiger Long-Whiskered Owlet Sand Tiger Shark Research Habitat Connectivity in the Leuser-Ulu Monitoring Dholes with GPS and Radio SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) Masen Mega Landscape Collars Support for Manatee Rehabilitation, Turtle Survival Alliance Reintroduction of Southern Idaho Brazil Ground Squirrels

30 Rescue to Reintroduction: Reversing George Rabb Award Yellowstone to Yukon the Decline of Madagascar’s Imperiled Radiated Tortoise Global Conservation Leadership Program for Youth–Botswana Wildlife Cosley Zoo Saving the Snowy Cats of the Himalaya Conservation Blanding’s Turtle Project

Stop Poaching of the Black Rhino Health Assessment Humboldt Penguins Punta San Juan John G. Shedd Aquarium The Green Light Project – Bristol Bay Beluga Whale Health Reforestation, Solar Energy, and Honduran Amphibian Rescue and Assessment Research Project Community-Supported Conservation Conservation Center of the Black and White Ruffed Lemur Elasmobranch Health Assessments in Inspiring Haitian Youth to Conserve Florida Keys The Parrot Corridor Coral Reefs Great Lakes Migratory Fishes – Understanding and Managing Canine IUCN Dam Removal and Migratory Fish Distemper Virus as a Disease Threat to Recruitment Siberian Tigers Latin American Conservation Biology and Wildlife Management Training Great Lakes Migratory Fishes – Warriors for Wildlife Course Reemergence of Lake Whitefish Wildlife SOS – ForestWatch! Latin American Zoos Capacity Training Migrations

Natural Diet Study of Columbian Holistic Management and Conservation Amphibians Including Local of Conch and Lobster Fisheries and ILLINOIS Educational Curriculum Biodiversity Critical Habitats of the Bahamas Strengthening Chicago Zoological Society – Illinois Endangered/Threatened Brookfield Zoo Nature Play in Punta San Juan Aquatic Species List A Health Assessment of the Southern Nutrition Support for the Chacoan Project Guyana – Arapaima Fur Seal Population (Arctocephalus Peccary In-Situ Captive Breeding Conservation australis) at Punta San Juan, Peru Program in the Chaco Region of SECORE Foundation partnership Alliance for Marine Mammals Paraguay

American Prairie Foundation Polar Bear Conservation Awareness Lincoln Park Zoo Video Game Blanding’s Turtle Project A Historical Comparison of Bird Population Study to Estimate and Species Diversity in Lincoln Park Conducting Orangutan SSP Staff Monitor Gharial during Spring Migration Training and Education Initiative at Matang and Sepliok Wildlife Centers, Predation and Range Quality as Avian Reintroduction and Translocation Malaysia Factors Underlying Hirola Declines in Database (ARTD) Northeastern Kenya Determination of Prevalence of Nasal Black-Footed Ferret Mate Choice Carcinoma in Mexican Wolves (Canis Protecting Endangered Snow Leopard Project baileyi) Using Computed Tomography in Kyrgyzstan through a Community- Blood and Tick Collection for Based Approach Dolphin Research Disease Surveillance of Translocated Punta San Juan Penguin Research Woodchucks Durrell’s Vontsira: A Status Assessment of One of the World’s Most Threatened Rays of Hope: Identifying Factors Conservation Assessment and Carnivores Mediating the Survival of Panamanian Recovery of Smooth Green Snake Atelopus Populations Populations in Northern Illinois Elephants for Africa Saving Angola’s Endemic Threatened Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake First Amphibian Conservation Rescue Bird Species through the Conservation Recovery Team (Illinois) Center in Venezuela of the Scarp Forest Ecophysiology of Nine-Banded Franciscana Dolphin and Marine Strategic Growth of Conservation Armadillos (Dasypus novemcinctus) Turtle Conservation Through Citizen Programs at the Punta San Juan Participation in Coastal Buenos Aires Marine Protected Area

31 Effects of the European Buckthorn Serengeti Health Initiative: Distemper Giraffe Conservation Foundation Secondary Metabolite, Emodin, on the and Rabies Vaccination Project Western Chorus Frog Indiana University–Purdue University Shell Mineral Composition of Artifically Fort Wayne Turtle Fund Exploring the Bio-Diversity of Incubated Eggs of Ornate Box Turtles Arthropods Across Chicago, IL IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding The Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund Specialist Group (CBSG) Exploring the Bio-Diversity of Small International and Lincoln Park Zoo – Mammals Surrounding Lincoln Park A Collaborative Study Javan Gibbon Center Zoo’s Nature Boardwalk The Recovery of Meadow Jumping Little River Wetland Project Fecal Hormone Analysis of the Smooth Mice and Assessment of the Living with Lions Trust – Lion Green Snake Conservation Status of Least Weasels Guardians project Gombe Ecosystem Health Project Use of Progestin, Androgen, and Orangutan Conservation Corticosteroid Field Kits for Non- Goualougo Triangle Ape Project Invasively Monitoring the Black Rhino Pacific Marine Mammal Rescue Center (GTAP) Using Artificial Cavities to Assess the Sahara Conservation Fund: Adopt-an- Head-Starting and Reintroduction for Nesting Success of Native Cavity- Ostrich Program Ornate Box Turtles in Illinois Nesting Birds Southern African Foundation for Illinois Blandings Turtle Recovery Using Camera Traps to Assess the Conservation of Coastal Birds Planning Team Mammalian Community Composition, (SANCCOB) Abundance, and Diversity Integrated Dynamic Modeling of Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Ecosystem Services Validating the Use of Reproductive Program (SOCP) Endocrinology as a Management Tool Long-Term Monitoring of an Eastern for Eastern Massasagua Rattlesnakes The Peregrine Fund Massasauga Rattlesnake (EMR) Population in Southwest Michigan Miller Park Zoo Indianapolis Zoological Society, Monitoring Bat Diversity in the Inc. Sumatran Tiger and Prey Research Chicago Area and the Influence of Prey Amur Tiger Conservation Project Availability

Scovill Zoo Cheetah Conservation in Namibia Movements, Habitat Use, and Survival of Translocated Woodchucks Endangered Wildlife Trust Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International

Painted Turtle Relocation and SaveNature.Org Dr. Steven Amstrup Monitoring at Nature Boardwalk Indianapolis Zoo Conservation Pilot Study: Evaluating the Use of INDIANA Program Administration Prostaglandin Metabolite Assay to Determine Pregnancy in the Black- Fort Wayne Children’s Zoo International Elephant Foundation Footed Ferret Acres Land Trust International Iguana Foundation Population Management Advising for AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Species Recovery and Conservation International Rhino Foundation Assurance Populations AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Kutai National Park Campaign: WCS Sumatran Tiger Work Population Viability Analysis for the Madagascar Fauna Group Federally Endangered Hines Emerald AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Dragonfly (HED) (CEF) Protecting Livestock from Lion Predation through Boma Fortification Post-Reintroduction Monitoring of Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Flatwoods Amphibians Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Coffee and Primate Conservation in Programme Puerto Rican Parrot Population Central Java Management Dingo Discovery Center Reintroduction of Guam Rail

32 Tarangire Elephant Project: Limbe Wildlife Centre Jane Goodall Institute Development of Corridors Outside of Tarangire National Park Tonkin Snub-Nosed Monkey Sahara Conservation Fund Conservation Snow Leopard Trust Mesker Park Zoo & Botanic Garden

EarthShare of Missouri Executive KANSAS Sedgwick County Zoo Board African Predator Conservation Hutchinson Zoo Health Assessment and Serosurvey Research Organization (APCRO) of the American Marten in Manistee Reintroduction and Monitoring of Amphibian Ark National Forest, Michigan Black-Footed Ferrets in Logan County, Kansas Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance International Year of the Bat Wildlife Rehabilitation (ALTA) Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Lee Richardson Zoo Potawatomi Zoo AZA Chacoan Peccary SSP Amur Leopard Field Conservation African Predator Conservation AZA Jaguar SSP: Yucatan Jaguar Field Monitoring Support for Kansas Research Organization (APCRO) Project Black-Footed Ferret Reintroduction Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance AZA Matschie’s Tree Kangaroo SSP- IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding (ALTA) Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program, Specialist Group (CBSG) Papua New Guinea Amur Leopard Conservation Lemur Conservation in Betampona AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Natural Reserve AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation AZA Conservation Partners Management of LRZ Field Campaign Conservation Grant Program AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) Okapi Conservation Project (CEF)

International Crane Foundation Project Punte Kundo: In-situ Black-Footed Ferret Kansas Community Based Red Panda Reintroduction Program Mabula Ground Hornbill Project Conservation Program Center for Conservation of the Snow Leopard Trust Reduction of Human/Elephant Conflict Humboldt Penguin in Punta San Juan, Through Beekeeping in Ghana, West Wildlife Conservation Network Peru Africa Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Chilean Amphibians – Atlanta Support Veterinary Care for Injured (ZCOG) Botanical Garden Black Rhinos in Zimbabwe Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Turtle Survival Center IOWA El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center (EVACC) Rolling Hills Zoo Blank Park Zoo Black-Footed Ferret (Mustela nigripes) FrogWatch USA Art of Conservation Reintroduction Project in Kansas Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Chimpanzee Sanctuary and Wildlife Greater Prairie Chicken (Tympanuchus Education (GRACE) Center Conservation Trust cupido) Reintroduction Project in Greater Flamingo Banding, Yucatan, Georgia Sea Turtle Missouri Mexico Giraffe Conservation Foundation International Iguana Foundation Grevy’s Zebra Trust Health in Harmony International Rhino Foundation Humboldt Penguin Guano Harvest Iowa DNR Prairie Chicken Project IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Oversight Field Work Trip to Punta San Specialist Group (CBSG) Juan, Peru

33 International Elephant Foundation Partnership (CAP Paraguay) Riverbank Learning Garden

International Iguana Foundation Snow Leopard Trust Seafood Watch

International Rhino Foundation Survey of Amphibians in the Paraguayan Chaco IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding LOUISIANA Specialist Group (CBSG) Tiger SSP Audubon Aquarium of the Jane Goodall Institute Americas Topeka Zoo Conservation Team Steering Kaiser’s Newt Field Conservation African Wild Dog Project Committee Kansas Herpetological Censusing by AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative GULF (Gulf United for Lasting Sedgwick County Zoo Staff Fisheries) Ferret Reintroduction Project of Mabuwaya Foundation: CROC Project Western Kansas Louisiana Marine Mammal & Sea Turtle Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Rescue Program International Elephant Foundation Project Redfish Tournament IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Okapi Conservation Project Specialist Group (CBSG) Audubon Zoo PAAZAB Wattled Crane Recovery Orangutan Outreach Program – Johannesburg Zoo Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance Penguin Project (ALTA) Painted Dog Conservation / Wildlife Conservation Network / Zimbabwe Zoo Conservation Outreach Group AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative (ZCOG) Red Panda Network Hornbill Research Foundation

Sahara Conservation Fund International Elephant Foundation KENTUCKY Save the Cassowary from Extinction in International Iguana Foundation Australia / Rainforest Rescue Louisville Zoological Garden Louisiana Pine Snake Release SaveNature.Org: Pantanal National AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Park, Brazil (Parking Meter) Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Black-Footed Cat Conservation Project The Southern African Foundation for Program the Conservation of Coastal Birds Turtle Survival Alliance Black-Footed Ferret Conservation Turtle Survival Alliance Center Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) Turtle Survival Alliance: Turtle Survival Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Center in South Carolina Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International BREC’s Baton Rouge Zoo

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund International Elephant Foundation (ZCOG) (CEF) Micronesian Avifauna Conservation Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Sunset Zoological Park Program El Valle Amphibian Conservation AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) (CEF) Center (EVACC) Polar Population Project Black-Footed Ferret Introduction in International Elephant Foundation Logan County, Kansas Newport Aquarium Save the Tiger Fund Jane Goodall Institute Chopsticks For Salamanders The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund

Japanese Tsunami Relief Fund River Sweep

Paraguay Conservation Action

34 MARYLAND Terrapins in the Classroom Museum of Science Northern Red Belly Cooter Headstart National Aquarium Tidal Marsh Restoration at Eastern Program Neck National Wildlife Refuge Assessing Chronic Natural Resource Damage from the BP Oil Spill Tidal Marsh Restoration at Poplar New England Aquarium Island Atlantic White Cedar Restoration: Biological Effects of Offshore LNG Port Nassawango Creek Preserve, Maryland Tidal Marsh Restoration at the Areas Westport Waterfront Bahamas Coral Reef Conservation Conservation Medicine Program Initiative Salisbury Zoological Park Consortium for Wildlife Bycatch Baltimore Harbor Contaminant Study Reduction Andean Cat Alliance

Farring-Baybrook Park Restoration Marine Conservation Action Fund Lower Shore Land Trust

Floating Wetlands in Baltimore’s Inner Marine Spatial Planning Nanticoke Watershed Alliance Harbor Ocean Health Index Nature Conservancy: Ecuador Fort McHenry Tidal Wetland Restoration Project Phoenix Islands Protected Area Nature Conservancy: Lower Eastern Shore Habitat Restoration at Cove Point Right Whale Research Project (Lusby, MD) Proyecto Titi Sea Turtle Conservation and Research Hematology and Plasma Chemistry Red Wolf Coalition Values for the Spotted Eagle Ray Sustainable Aquaculture Turtle Survival Alliance Invasive Species Removal and Native Sustainable Ornamental Fish Initiative Forest Restoration at Eastern Neck Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Sustainable Seafood Programs National Wildlife Refuge (ZCOG): Andean Bear Project

Marine Animal Rescue Program Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Walter D. Stone Memorial Zoo (MARP) (ZCOG): Giant Anteater Blanding’s Turtle Project Maryland Diamondback Terrapin Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Working Group (ZCOG): Mountain Tapir MICHIGAN Maryland Shark Fin Ban Legislation in Maryland Binder Park Zoo MASSACHUSETTS Measuring Mercury Concentrations in Blanchard’s Cricket Frog Project Wild and Captive Bottlenose Dolphins Buttonwood Park Zoo Kirtland’s Warbler Study Cape Cod Stranding Network Minority Student Conservation Internship Michigan Box Turtle Research Franklin Park Zoo Project Golden Frog/Proyecto Rana Piping Plover Patrol/Recovery Program Beetle Ranching Dorada Prairie Habitat Restoration Project Jonathan Gilmour Scholarship Awards Riparian Buffer Restoration: Indian Head, Maryland New England Zoo and Aquarium Detroit Zoo Conservation Collaborative Sand Dune Restoration: Virginia African Elephant Conservation Trust

Panama Amphibian Rescue and SaveNature.Org Amphibians in Peru Conservation (PARC) SaveNature.Org: Marine Conservation AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Sahara Conservation Fund: Adopt-an- Meter Ostrich Program AZA Aruba Island SSP Shoreline Restoration at Masonville Snow Leopard Trust Cove

35 AZA Eastern Massasagua Rattlesnake Turtle Survival Alliance Minnesota Zoological Garden SSP Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance Wrangler Island Polar Bear Survey (ALTA) AZA Panamanian Golden Frog SSP Wyoming Toad Survey AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation AZA Puerto Rican Crested Toad SSP Campaign AZA Wyoming Toad SSP John Ball Zoo BioDiscovery Project 2012 PASA Community Engagement Blanding Turtle Head Start Initiative for Primate Conservation Bison Recovery, Minnesota Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Annual Kirtland’s Warbler Census Black Rhino Conservation, Namibia Project Common Tern Nesting Habitat (in partnership with The Nature Restoration at Belle Isle on the Detroit Conservancy and Save the Rhino Trust) Community-Based Bat Conservation River Programme for Myotis csorbai in Brown Bear Conservation Syangja District of Western Nepal CONAPAC Hartmann’s Mountain Zebra Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Conservation International/Amphibian Conservation Longitudinal and DNA Study Survival Alliance IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Great Lakes Piping Plover Recovery Crawfish Frog Repatriation Effort Specialist Group (CBSG) Project Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Field Macaw Conservation Indigenous People Protecting the Survey Threatened Endemic Philippine Tarsier Moose Conservation Research, FrogWatch USA and its Forest Minnesota

Great Lake Colonial Waterbird Mapping the Kill: Predicting Tiger Prairie Butterfly Conservation, Monitoring and Leopard Attacks on Livestock to Minnesota Reduce Human-Cat Conflict in Central Great Lake Piping Plover Salvage Indai Recycle for Rainforests Captive Rearing Population Status Of Mountain Bongo Reintroduction of Przewalski’s horse in Grevy’s Zebra Trust (Tragelaphus eurycerus isaaci) of Xinjiang, China Cherangini Hills International Rhino Foundation Sea Otter Conservation Salmon in the Schools Program Michigan Bird Conservation Initiative Ulysses S. Seal Conservation Grant Wood Turtle Head-Starting Project Program Michigan Butterfly Monitoring Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Mississippi Gopher Frog Reintroduction (ZCOG) Project MISSISSIPPI

Mpala Research Center Jackson Zoo MINNESOTA AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Mudpuppy Surveys Campaign Como Park Zoo and Conservatory Ngogo Chimpanzee Project African Predator Conservation Grevy’s Zebra Trust Osprey Reintroduction in SE Michigan Research Organization (APCRO) Orangutan Outreach Polar Oceans Research Group AZA Wyoming Toad SSP Master Plan Raptor Rehabilitation Meeting and Fieldwork SE Michigan Karner Blue Butterfly Red Wolf Recovery Program Reintroduction Mississippi Gopher Frogs

Siamese Crocodile Re-Introduction Orangutan Conservation

Southern African Foundation for Polar Bears International the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) Seafood Watch

36 MISSOURI Amphibian Ark Populations on Eastern Aegean Islands, Greece Dickerson Park Zoo Andean Bear Conservation Alliance Conservation NGO AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Anti-Poaching Training for Grevy’s Campaign Zebra Ambassadors in Kenya Conservation of Armenian Vipers, Montivipera raddei Inhabiting AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Anthropogenic Modified Landscapes (CEF) AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Core Support for Madagascar Fauna Bongo Surveillance Project Campaign Group Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Bale Beauty Nature Club: An Emerging Dama Community Game Guards Conservation Organization in Ethiopia Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International in Niger’s Termit and Tin Toumma National Nature Reserve BioBlitz Dong Phayayen-Khao Yai Carnivore Developing Effective and Reliable Conservation Project Box Turtle Ecology and Health: Protocols for the Vegetative Comparison between an Urban and a El Valle Amphibian Conservation Propagation of Species of Diospyros Rural Site Center (EVACC) and Dalbergia Building Bridges: Reconnecting Elephant-Human Coexistence – How Effects of Nest Site Quality on Children with Nature at Punta San Elephants Persist in Traditional Humboldt Penguin Breeding Success Juan, Peru Agricultural Systems of South Asia Endangered Wildlife Trust – South Bushmeat Survey of Villages International Crane Foundation Africa Surrounding Betampona Natural IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Reserve Enhancing Water Availability for Specialist Group (CBSG) Grevy’s Zebra in Northern Kenya Center for American Burying Beetle Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Conservation Environmental Education for the Conservation of Mountain Nyala and its Center for Avian Health in the Madagascar Fauna Group Habitat at the Bale Mountains National Galapagos Islands Park, Ethiopia Maned Wolf Research Project in Brazil Center for Conservation of the Horned Establishing a Conservation Council in Midwestern Bat Research Guan in El Triunfo Biosphere Reserve, El Barta, Northern Kenya Chiapas, Mexico Raptor Rehabilitation Establishment of Sahara Conservation Center for Conservation of the Fund (SCF) Sahara Conservation Fund: Adopt-an- Humboldt Penguin in Punta San Juan, Ostrich Program Peru Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program: Equipment for a Challenge in a SaveNature.Org Center for Native Pollinator Challenging Environment Conservation The Mariana Avifauna Conservation Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Program: Program Cheetah Conservation and Human Eradicating Rabies in the Endangered Impact in Kenya Turtle Survival Alliance Ethiopian Wolf Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Zoo Conservation Outreach Group FrogWatch USA (ZCOG) Community Conservation of Elephants General Support for Field Conservation in Mali Saint Louis Zoo Goualougo Triangle Ape Project Consequences of Landscape (GTAP) A Community’s Race to Save the Change and Potential Solutions for Hirola, A Critically Endangered Improvement of Hirola and Lesser Grevy’s Zebra Trust Antelope on the Brink of Extinction Kudu Range in Eastern Kenya Grevy’s Zebra Trust: Development of A National Survey for Grevy’s Zebra in Conservation Genetics and the Grevy’s Zebra Trust Monitoring Kenya Morphometrics of Insular Ottoman Database Viper (Montivipera xanthina)

37 Grevy’s Zebra Trust: Establishing a Okapi Project in the Democratic Using Gray Wolves as a Model for Grevy’s Zebra Warrior Network in Republic of Congo Training Semen Collection and Laisamis, Kenya Freezing for Ethiopian Wolves Ozark Hellbender Larvae Rearing Health and Management Workshop for System Conservation of the Myanmar Logging Camp Elephants P.A.U.S.E – Pollinators/Art/Urban NEBRASKA Agriculture/Society/and the Health Monitoring of Wild Lemurs Environment Lincoln Children’s Zoo Salt Creek Tiger Beetle Propagation Hellbender Conservation Partula Snail Conservation Program, and Reintroduction Project French Polynesia Identifying the Vector of Plasmodium in the Galapagos Islands Polar Bear Conservation Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo & Aquarium Implementing an Early Detection Plan Population Status and Habitat for the Amphibian Chytrid Fungus Suitability Map of Mountain Nyala Amphibian Conservation Area

Improving Chicken Health to Promote Predation and Range Quality as Drivers Amphibian Conservation Education Public Health of Hirola Populations in Northeastern Project Kenya Influence of Resource Availability and AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Seasonality on Sympatric Indri indri Reptile Diversity Assessment in the Black-Footed Cat Project Rainforest of Betampona Nature IUCN/SSC Bumblebee Specialist Group Reserve Conservation of Madagascar’s Endemic Orchids Juan (Peru) During the Breeding Saharan Red-Necked Ostrich (Struthio Period and the Implications on Their camelus camelus) Recovery Program Contributions to Snow Leopard Trust Conservation in Niger International Elephant Foundation Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Saint Louis Zoo’s Ecuadorian Project Amphibian Collaboration International Rhino Foundation

Locating and Habituating High Altitude Support for Conservation Action in the IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Prolemur simus at Tsinjoarivo, eastern Termit/TinToumma Region of Niger Specialist Group (CBSG) – Amphibian Madagascar Ark Support for International Elephant Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Foundation IUCN/SSC Tapir Specialist Group Project Support for Madagascar Fauna Group Okapi Conservation Project Mitigating Human-Carnivore Conflict Research Director in Niger’s Termit and Tin Toumma Reintroduction of Diplazium National Nature Reserve Support for Madagascar Fauna Group laffanianum Research Program Monitoring Captive-Born Ruffed SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) Lemurs and their Offspring with Radio Support Madagascar Fauna and Flora Collars in Betampona Natural Reserve Group Capacity Building Southern African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium Tanzania Carnivore Program (SANCCOB)

Movement Patterns Habitat Targeting Introduced Bird Species The Mabuwaya Foundation – Philippine Preferences and Natural History of the in the Search for Avian Malarial Crocodile Conservation Armenian Viper, Montivipera raddei, in Reservoirs in Galapagos Armenia Tiger Conservation in the Endau- The Health and Genetic Diversity of Rompin Landscape of Peninsular North American Bumble Bee Species Four Lemur Populations in Betampona Malaysia: Anti-Poaching Program Conservation Strategy Workshop Natural Reserve Tiger Conservation in the Russian Far Northern Rangelands Trust Turtle Survival Alliance East – Improving Law Enforcement and Law Enforcement Monitoring at Key Novus International Habitat For University of Missouri – St. Louis Sites Wildlife Program Graduate Student Support

38 Tiger Conservation in the Russian Far NEW MEXICO Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program East – Tiger Health and Veterinary Support Program Albuquerque Biological Park Turtle Survival Alliance Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance Uniting Conservation Genetics and Using Genetic Markers to Assess the (ALTA) Conservation Education in Madagascar, Status of Captive African Painted Dogs in the United States Madagascar Biodiversity and Aquatic Conservation Facility Biogeography Project Zoo Conservation Outreach Group BGCI at Chicago Botanic Garden (ZCOG) Center for Plant Conservation NEVADA Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Shark Reef Aquarium at Mandalay NEW YORK Bay Chiricahua Leopard Frog Rosamond Gifford Zoo at Burnet Captive Breeding and Management of Correlation Of Snow Leopard Genetics Park Hybrid Pupfish (Cyprinodon daibolis x with Immune Function Amphibian Ark mionectes) Crocodile Taxon Advisory Group AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Komodo Conservation (CEF) Fauna & Flora International, Inc. Ocean Project Belize Zoo and Tropical Education Giraffe Conservation Group Reef Check Center Hornbill Research Foundation Sea Turtle Conservation Characterization and Cryopreservation of Semen from Endangered Markhor International Rhino Foundation (IRF) Goats Meadowview Biological Research NEW HAMPSHIRE Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail Field Station Census Squam Lakes Natural Science Mississippi Gopher Frogs Center International Elephant Foundation

Project OspreyTrack Narrow-Headed Garter Snake Field IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Research and Captive Propagation Specialist Group (CBSG) Native Species Program: Herpetology NEW JERSEY Orangutan Foundation International Ocean Conservancy Wildlife Trust of India Adventure Aquarium Ocean Project Clean Ocean Action Zoologische Gesellschaft FurAr Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Horseshoe Crab Counts AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Phylogenetics and Population History Horseshoe Crab Rearing of the Callitrichidae Seneca Park Zoo Southern African Foundation for REEF Headquarters Bat Echolocation the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) Snow Leopard Trust Black Bear Den Surveys

Socorro Doves Butterfly Beltway Jenkinson’s Aquarium

Horseshoe Crab Survey with University Tasmanian Devil Research Fund Chittenango Ovate Amber Snail of Delaware Sea Grant College Annual Count The Coqui Conservation Initiative Program Conservation Meters Dedicated to The Lion Tamarins of Brazil Fund SEANET: The Seabird Ecological Coral Reef Conservation in Palau and Rainforest Conservation in the Assessment Network The Peregrine Fund Pantanal The Xerces Society

39 Eastern Massasauga Rattlesnake Mark Curatorial Conservation Project – Global Wildlife Health and and Recapture Developing a Herd of Genetically-Pure Conservation in Africa Bison for Restoration Gibbon Field Work in Gunung Palung Global Wildlife Health and National Park Curatorial Conservation Project Conservation in Asia – Flamingo Conservation in Latin Grow Native America Global Wildlife Health and Conservation in Latin America and Gunung Palung National Park Curatorial Conservation Project – Caribbean Madagascar Fieldwork Health in Harmony Global Wildlife Health and Curatorial Conservation Project – Conservation in North America International Animal Rescue Maleo Conservation in Sulawesi Veterinarian Program – Developing Lake Sturgeon Restoration In the Curatorial Conservation Project – Molecular Diagnostics Capacity for Genesee River at Seneca Park Mitigating Problem Jaguar Issues in Diseases of Conservation Concern Madagascar Fete Belize Veterinarian Program – Health Missing Our Mothers Orangutan Event Curatorial Conservation Project – Assessment and Disease Surveillance New York Seascape of Grand Cayman Iguanas Support of Malaysian Zoo Vet Care and Reforestation Curatorial Conservation Project – Veterinarian Project – Assessing Northern Cricket Frog and Amphibian Amphibian Response to Climate Turtle Survival Alliance Initiative Change and Pathogenic Chytrid Fungus in Peru Curatorial Conservation Project – Trevor Zoo Propagation of the Extinct in the Wild Veterinarian Project – Health Bog Turtle Population Analysis and Kihansi Spray Toad Assessment of Common Loons in the Habitat Restoration Adirondacks Curatorial Conservation Project – Red Wolf PRA Analysis Puerto Rican Crested Toad Veterinarian Project – Health Assessments on Bog Turtles in the Red-Tailed Hawk Veterinary Care Curatorial Conservation Project – Northeastern USA Sea Life on the Beach Veterinarian Project – Identifying Wildlife Conservation Society Curatorial Conservation Project – The Disease Risk in Amphibians in Bwindi Curatorial Conservation Project – Occurrence of Coyotes in and around Impenetrable Forest National Park, American Eel Monitoring Project New York City Uganda

Curatorial Conservation Project – Curatorial Conservation Project – Veterinarian Project – Identifying Asa Wright Nature Center WCS Sea Duck Research Program Disease Risk in Amphibians in Kahuzi- Biega National Park, Democratic Curatorial Conservation Project– Curatorial Conservation Project Republic of Congo – Assessing the Occurrence of Headstart Program for Eastern Two Indochinese Silvered Langur Hellbender Veterinarian Project – Identifying Taxa (Trachypithecus germaini and Disease Risk in Threatened Global Conservation Projects – Africa Trachypithecus margarita) in Two Amphibians, Democratic Republic of Protected Forest Areas in Cambodia Global Conservation Projects – Asia Congo

Curatorial Conservation Project – Global Conservation Projects – Veterinarian Project – Identifying Bahamas National Trust Initiatives Public Health Risks Associated with Introduction of Zoonoses Curatorial Conservation Project – Global Conservation Projects – Bird Conservation in Bronx Park Latin America and the Caribbean Veterinarian Project – Investigation of Canine Distemper Threat to Curatorial Conservation Project Global Conservation Projects – Endangered Amur Tigers in the – Canada Goose Population Marine-Seascape Conservation Russian Far East Management Global Conservation Projects – Veterinarian Project – Kihansi Spray Curatorial Conservation Project – North America Toad Species Recovery - Disease Caribbean Flamingo Conservation Surveillance

40 Veterinarian Project – Population North Carolina Aquarium on Middle Mountain Land Acquisition Survey and Health Assessments of Roanoke Island Turtles in the Bronx River Nichols Longleaf Pine Preserve Land Beach Vitex Survey Removal Acquisition Veterinarian Project – Restoring Allen Native Plant Sale for Monarch Butterfly Cays for Shearwaters and Iguanas in Primate Conservation on Bioko Island Conservation Allen Cays, Exuma Islands, Bahamas Reintroduction of Schweintz’s Outer Banks Marine Mammal Stranding Veterinarian Project – Unusual Sunflower (Helianthus schweinitzii) to Network Recurring High Mortality in Southern Purgatory Mountain Right Whales (Pathology) Sea Turtle Rehabilitation Ridges Mountain Management Plan

SMART Conservation Monitoring North Carolina Zoological Park NORTH CAROLINA Software Development Assessment of Impact of Climate North Carolina Aquarium at Fort Change on Wild Polar Bears Snare Removal Patrols in Kibale Fisher National Park, Uganda AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Cape Fear Arch Conservation Survey of Amphibians and Reptiles at Collaboration Bachelor Creek Nature Preserve the North Carolina Zoological Park Management Loggerhead Sea Turtle Satellite The Caraway’s Schweintz’s Sunflower Tracking Bongo Surveillance Project (Helianthus schweinitzii) Mitigation Site

Marine Mammal Stranding Response Camera Trap Monitoring of Wildlife on The Elephants of Cameroon Team NC Zoo Property Tooro Botanical Garden Painted Bunting Observer Team Cape Fear Shiner Recovery Program UNITE Conservation Education Project Song Bird Banding & Monitoring Conservation Medicine at Uganda’s Kibale National Park Project Conservation of Avifauna on the Uwharries Conservation Partnership Wildwaters Workshop Marianas Islands

Conservation of Elephants and other Western North Carolina Nature North Carolina Aquarium at Pine Wildlife in Nigeria’s Yankari Game Center Knoll Shores Reserve Animal Rehabilitation Training – African Penguin Conservation Western North Carolina Region Conservation of Rothschild’s Giraffe

Bogue Banks Dune Restoration Project Bog Turtle Protection Project Crane Trade Impact Assessment

Diamondback Terrapin Monitoring and Great Smoky Mountains All-Taxa Cross River Gorilla Monitoring in Incidental Capture Assessment Biodiversity Inventory Project (ATBI) Nigeria and Cameroon

Eastern Oyster Spatfall Study Indiana Bat Conservation Monitoring Ginseng and Basic Mesic Forest Program FrogWatch USA Management Plan

Marine Mammal Stranding Response Hellbender Surveys in Western North Carolina OHIO Monofilament Line Recycling Project IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Akron Zoological Park Movements of Post-Rehabilitated Cold Specialist Group (CBSG) Stunned Green Sea Turtles FrogWatch USA IUCN/SSC Nigeria-Cameroon Oyster Garden Demonstration and Chimpanzee Action Plan Greater Akron Audubon / Akron Zoo Recruitment Project Christmas Bird Count Life History and Behavioral Aspects of Sea Turtle Awareness Project the Cape Fear Shiner Humboldt Penguin Project – Punta San Juan – Peru Sea Turtle Stranding Network McArthur Uwharrie Trail link

41 IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Polar Bears International Building Capacity to Manage Human- Specialist Group (CBSG) Wildlife Conflict Project Enhancement of Gorilla Related Madagascar Fauna Group In-Situ Conservation Education Building Scientific Capacity for Biomonitoring in the Bateke Plateaux, Northern Plains of Cambodia White Propagation of Trifolium stoloniferum Gabon Winged Wood Duck Project for Restoration Butterfly Conservation Initiative (BFCI) Red Wolf Coalition Conservation Rebuilding the Pride Education Support Center for Biological Diversity Red Panda Paintings Snow Leopard Trust Chacoan Peccary Conservation Rhino Conservation Education Project White Winged Wood Duck Veterinary – Karuma Cheetah Conservation and Human Medical Husbandry Research Impact in Kenya Scarlet Macaw Conservation in the Mayan Biosphere Reserve, Peten, Choice of Plants and Therapeutic Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden Guatemala Natural Products In Two Wild Western American Burying Beetle Captive Gorilla Groups Scientists for the Future Breeding Program Community-Based Gharial Sumatran Rhino Conservation Angel Fund – CCF Kenya/ Action for Conservation Initiative in the Narayani Cheetah River of Chitwan National Park The Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative Angel Fund – Cheetah Outreach Comparison of Counts of Endangered Antillean Manatees in the Biosphere Working Dogs for Conservation Angel Fund – Niassa Carnivore Project Reserve of Pantanos de Centla, Mexico

Angel Fund – Ruaha Carnivore Project Cleveland Metroparks Zoo CONAPAC – Detroit Zoo

Autumn Buttercup (Ranunculus ACEER Foundation Conservation Coin Drop aestivalis) African Elephant Density, Community Conservation Genetics of Tonguetied Avon Park Harebells (Crotalaria Ecology, and Wildlife Management Minnow (Exoglossum laurae) avonensis) Andean Bear Conservation Alliance Conservation of African Lion Cumberland Sandwort (Arenaria and Cheetah through Children’s Asian Turtle Conservation Program cumberlandensis) Conservation Education and Interaction to Deter Human-Wildlife Earth Expeditions Assessment of the Conservation Conflict Status of Montevideo Red Belly Toad EcOhio Wetlands Populations in Uruguay Conservation of Amphibians and Reptiles in the Fragmented Lacandona Fishing Cat Research and Conservation AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Rainforest, Mexico In-Situ Population Monitoring of the AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Conservation of the Cross River Black Warrior Waterdog (Necturus (CEF) Gorilla in the Mbe Mountains through alabamensis) Bat Conservation International Community Based Conservation Action International Elephant Foundation Bat Monitoring in Cleveland Conservation Status and Distribution IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Metroparks of the Maned Wolf in the Paraguayan Specialist Group (CBSG) Chaco Benefits of a Keystone and Threatened Kea Conservation in New Zealand Species for Human Health Conservation Status of the Fishing Cat in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership Big Creek Clean Up Disease Surveillance of Cleveland Northern Wild Monkshood (Aconitum Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Centre Metroparks Deer Herds noveboracense)

Okapi Conservation Fund

42 Ecology and Conservation of the Madagascar Fauna Group Turtle Conservation Program at the Hoary Fox in the Brazilian Cerrado Kachhua Wildlife Sanctuary and Mbeli Bai Gorilla Project & Club Ebobo Sarnath Turtle Centre Education for Nature – Vietnam Minimizing Human-Wildlife Conflict Turtle Survival Alliance El Valle Amphibian Conservation by Improving School Community Center (EVACC) Perceptions of Wildlife in Kibale Turtle Survival Center National Park Evaluation of Functional Connectivity Variability and Genetic Population for Four Focal Bird Species in a Natural Partnerships Program Structure of the Coati in Mexico Sub-Andean Landscape Non-Invasive Methods as Tools to Vernal Pool Restoration/Creation in Evaluation of the Habitat and Forest Estimate Abundance of Darwin’s Fox Cleveland Metroparks Fragment Connectivity of the San Martin Titi Monkey PASA Educator and Veterinary Training Workshops Columbus Zoo and Aquarium Global Conservation Connections – Amphibian Ark Venezuela Pilot Dog Vaccination Project Anatolian Shepherd Guard Dog Pioneering Efforts to Combat Illegal Gorilla Rehabilitation and Conservation Program Education (GRACE) Center Wildlife Trade on the Frontlines in Ho Chi Minh City ARCAS Gorillas Across Africa Workshop Polar Bears International & Arctic Assessing Rhino Conservation Home Range, Social and Behavioral Ambassador Center Strategies in India Ecology of the Bornean Slow Loris and Bornean Tarsier Population Assessment of Belizean AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Jaguars through Non-Invasive Analyses Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration Blakiston’s Fish Owls of the Western Quarters for Conservation Sikhote, Alin Mountains – Conservation Increasing Capacity to Protect an Lessons from the Iman River Basin IUCN-Listed ‘Key 1’ Population of Black Regional Conservation Program Rhinoceros in Zimbabwe from an Brown Bear Conservation and Regional Wildlife Health Project Intense Poaching Threat Research Programme in a Model Area in Romania Resolving Conflict between Humans Indigenous People Protecting the and Large Carnivores around Ruaha Endemic Philippine Tarsier and its Capacity Development Program for National Park, Tanzania Habitat Turtle Conservation Project in Sri Lanka Rhino Protection Unit International Rhino Foundation Captina Conservancy: Hellbender Save the Tiger – Panthera IUCN Research and Assessment Saving Orangutans by Safeguarding Kasiisi Porridge Project Caribbean Manatee Conservation Their Habitat

Kavango-Zambezi Transfrontier Central Ohio Vernal Pool Monitoring Sea Turtle Research and Conservation Conservation Area Workshop in the Paria Peninsula, Sucre State, Venezuela Kibale Forest Schools Conservation CERCOPAN Wildlife Veterinary Education Program Capacity Enhancement Spotted Turtle Headstarting

Kibale Fuel Wood Project Certified Wildlife Friendly Tarangire Elephant Project

Kinabatangan Orangutan Conservation Cheetah Conservation Education and Telemetry Study of Gharial in the Project – Sabah, Malaysia Community Outreach National Chambal Sanctuary, India

Lake Erie Allegheny Partnership for Chimpanzee Habitat for Conservation Trade in Slow Lorises and other Biodiversity (LEAP) and Education Primates on Java: Market and Enthnoprimatological Surveys Lewa Wildlife Conservancy Commitment to Conservation Award

Long-Term Butterfly Monitoring Project Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program

43 Conservation and Ecology of the Forest Canopies as Safe Havens from Post-Release Monitoring of Released Maroon Langur Amphibian Chytrid Fungus – Phase 2 Chimpanzees

Conservation Education for Critically Freshwater Mussel Conservation and Projet Conservation de la Foret de Endangered Asiatic Cheetah Research Center Nyungwe (PCFN)

Conservation of the Cross River Gorilla Giant Armadillo Project Promoting the Humboldt Penguin as a through Conservation Education Flagship Species in Southern Peru Outreach in the Afi Mountain Wildlife Goualougo Triangle Ape Conservation Sanctuary and Research Project Protecting Pickersgill’s Reed Frog – A Critically Endangered Species in South Conservation of the Eastern Hellbender Human-Wildlife Conflict Collaboration Africa

Conservation of the Hammerhead HWCC: Building East African Capacity Reducing Rhino Horn Trade in Yemen Shark and its Critical Habitats in Golfo to Transform Wildlife Conflict into Through Awareness and Education Dulce Conservation Solutions & Sustainable Coexistence Sanaga-Yong Chimpanzee Rescue Conservation Starts with Education: Center Lola ya Bonobo Sanctuary in the DRC Improving the Conservation Status of Endangered African Wild Dog in Satellite Tracking and Social Crocodile and Freshwater Turtle the Zimbabwean Part of the Greater Behavior of the Bornean Elephant in Research and Conservation Project Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Kinabatangan Area Development of a Captive Crayfish Saving Migratory Birds from Building Rearing Program for Imperiled In Defense of Animals Africa – Collisions – The Lights Out Columbus Appalachian Crayfishes and Crayfish Education Initiative Campaign and Monitoring Program Feeding Obligates International Elephant Foundation Saving the Javan Slow Loris through Development of Reintroduction Ecology, Education and Empowerment Techniques and Population Monitoring International Iguana Foundation of Radiated Tortoises at Two Important Schools Awareness Project – IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding TSA Sites in Southern Madagascar The Biodiversity and Elephant Specialist Group (CBSG) Conservation Trust Eastern Plains Garter Snake State Limbe Wildlife Centre Recovery Program SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) Long-Term Ecological Study of Snow Ecology and Conservation of Serve as Fiscal Host for Three Field Leopards in Mongolia’s South Gobi Endangered Rothschild’s Giraffe Conservation Organizations Lowland Tapir Conservation Initiative Ecology and Conservation of Lions Snow Leopard Trust – Studying Factors Affecting the Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership Story Books Emphasizing Otters in the Population Dynamics in Northern Asian Wetlands Kenya Manatee Species Recovery Plan; Manatee Rehabilitation Partnership Strong Roots Effects of Seasonal Influences on the Home Range and Behavioral Ecology Mexican Gray Wolf Recovery Program Sumatran Rhino Conservation and of the Bornean Tarsier in the Lower Propagation Kinabatangan Wildlife Sanctuary Monitoring for Coexistence Supporting the Anti-Snaring Activities Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project Efforts to Combat Illegal Trade on the of the South Luangwa Conservation Frontlines in Ho Chi Minh City Ohio Wildlife Center Society Elephants for Africa Otter Surveys in Asia with Special The African Chelonian Institute Reference to IUCN/SSC Otter Exploration, Discovery and Monitoring Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program of Wild Harpy Eagles in Southern Specialist Group Action Plan Belize Turtle Survival Alliance Pan African Sanctuary Alliance (PASA) Field Training Workshop in Sea Turtle Verification of Carnivore Use of an Population Assessment of the Marine Forensics Important Wildlife Linkage in Western Otter and the Southern River Otter in Montana Southern Chile

44 White Oak Conservation Center Okapi OKLAHOMA Elephant Endothelial Cells: A System Conservation Project to Isolate Elephant Endotheliotropic Oklahoma City Zoological Park Herpesvirus Wildlife Conservation and AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Environmental Education in Amazon Louisiana Pine Snake Communities – Natutama Foundation Club P.A.N. – Environmental Education Marine Mammal Care Center Rescue, in Colombia in Côte d’Ivoire and Guinea to Protect Rehab and Release Program Wild Chimpanzees The Boonshoft Museum of Discovery Ostrich Conservation, Niger Congolese Hunters and Children Peregrine Falcon Cam and Banding Safeguarding Wild Gorillas from the Reintroduction of the Alligator Bushmeat Trade Snapping Turtles Project Feeder Watch

Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Saving Oklahoma’s Salamanders Toledo Zoological Gardens Establishing Conservation Education Snow Leopard Scat Measuring Study Aruba Island Rattlesnake Field Using Printed Media at the Limbe Research Wildlife Centre, Cameroon and the Snow Leopard Trust: Natural Surrounding Community Partnerships Program AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Horned Lizard of Oklahoma Tiger Conservation in the Endau- Cheetah Conservation Initiative Rompin Landscape of Peninsular Iganyana (“Painted Dog”) Children’s Malaysia Conservation of Endangered Frogs of Bush Camp the Dominican Republic Documenting and Monitoring Invasive Jatun Sacha Invertebrate Species in Oregon’s Conservation of Guatemalan Cloud Coastal Bays Forest Salamanders Northern Rangelands Trust Conservancies Conservation of the Kihansi Spray Toad Okapi Conservation Project OREGON Ecology of the Cuban Boa on the US Naval Base, Guantanamo Bay, Cuba Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Oregon Coast Aquarium Conservation Great Lakes Piping Plover Salvage Documenting and Monitoring Marine Rearing Status, Habitat Preference and Invasive Species in Oregon’s Coastal Distribution of Red Panda Ailurus Bays Host Plant Selection in the Mitchell’s fulgens in Ilam District, East Nepal Satyr Butterfly Monitoring a Transplanted Eelgrass Sumatran Orangutan Conservation (Zostera marina) in a Newly Created International Iguana Foundation Program (SOCP)/Pan Eco Inter-Tidal Habitat

Mariana Avifauna Conservation (MAC) Monitoring Transplanted Eelgrass Project Tulsa Zoo (Zostera Marina) in a Newly Created A Proposal to Increase Human- Inter-Tidal Habitat Nerodio Elephant Co-Existence Through a Northwest Coast Reef Surveys Penguin Conservation Initiatives Community-Based NW Coast Reef Surveys Polar Bear Conservation Initiatives Creation and Management of a Community-Protected Forest on the Oregon Marine Reserves Reintroduction of the Karner Blue Border of Ghana and Côte d’Ivoire to Butterfly to the Oak Openings of Promote Conservation of Endemic Wildlife Rehabilitation Northwestern Ohio Wildlife and Habitat

Reintroduction of the Virgin Islands Crocodile Crisis in Cambodia – Oregon Zoo Boa (Epicrates monensis granti) to Emergency Rescue Appeal Launched California Condor Breeding Program Puerto Rico to Save the World’s Second Largest Siamese Crocodile Population Cascades Pika Watch Sloth Bear Conservation Initiative FrogWatch USA Wyoming Toad Field Surveys

45 Future for Wildlife Field Conservation Erie Zoo Factors Affecting Reproductive Grant Program Success and Overwintering Survival Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) International Elephant Foundation Guam Rail Breeding/Reintroduction for SSP AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Kasese Wildlife Conservation Campaign Awareness Organisation Impacts of Natural Gas Development on an Indicator Species AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Long-Term Reproductive Hormone (CEF) Monitoring of Asian Elephants Las Cruces Area, Costa Rica Avian Monitoring Program Conservation and Research of Matabeleland Leopard and Brown Endangered Wildlife Hyena Project and EPIC Kids Monitoring Reproductive Success of Birds in the Dominican Republic Hawk Creek Rehabilitation Oregon Silverspot Butterfly (Speyeria zerene hippolyta) Cascade Head The Dominican Birding Trail Northern Jaguar Project Population Supplementation Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Orangutan Conservancy Oregon Spotted Frog (ZCOG) Polar Bears International Oregon Spotted Frog Escape Behavior Philadelphia Zoo Red Panda Network Physiological Monitoring of AMPA/Giant Otter Project Reintroduced Canada Lynx Skye’s Spirit Wildlife Rehabilitation Center Amphibian Ark Polar Bear International Southern African Foundation for Amphibian Conservation Center – Pygmy Rabbit (Brachylagus the Conservation of Coastal Birds Mazán Forest idahoensis) Captive Care and Breeding (SANCCOB) Audubon Pennsylvania Partnership Role of Mate Choice in Reproduction Tamarack Wildlife Rehabilitation of Giant Panda Center Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF)

Taylor’s Checkerspot Captive Rearing Wildlife Conservation Society Conservation Drones Experimentation Diamondback Terrapin Head Start Western Pond Turtle Headstarting Lehigh Valley Zoo Program

FrogWatch USA Endangered Primate Rescue Centre Wildlife Safari Seafood Watch AAZK Bowling for Rhinos Fairmount Park Reforestation Time Budget and Ethogram of Mexican Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) FrogWatch USA Grey Wolves at the Lehigh Valley Zoo Compared to Wild Wolves Chintimini Wildlife Center Golden Lion Tamarin Conservation Program International Elephant Foundation National Aviary Haitian Frog Rescue Avian Community Structure in Polylepis Fragments, Cloud forest, and Jaguar Conservation and Monitoring in PENNSYLVANIA Exotic Plantations Western Belize

Clyde Peeling’s Reptiland Conservation of the Andean Condor Madagascar Fauna Group Glacier Pools Preserve, Picture Rocks, Determining the Ecological Polar Bears International PA (Interpretive Graphics) Significance and Conservation Pride Dynamics and Dispersal in the Monarch Butterfly Waystation, Importance of a Unique Habitat for Lion Population of Ongava Game Reptiland Overwintering Birds Reserve Effects of Fragmentation of Polylepis Rodrigues Environmental Educator Elmwood Park Zoo Forest on Bird Communities Project Titi Conservation Alliance

46 Saving Endangered Frogs of Haiti Support through International Elephant Kibale Fuel Wood Project Foundation for Sustaining Protection Snow Leopard Trust for Nigeria’s Largest Elephant Landscape Genetics and the Population in Yankari Game Reserve Disappearing forests of Our Planet Sumatran Orangutan Conservation Program (SOCP) Survey of the Eastern Hellbender in Maximizing the Benefits of Brushtail Three Tributaries of the Allegheny Possum Control to Biodiversity Tigris Foundation River System in Western Pennsylvania Conservation and the Cost Effectiveness of Control Measures Tuanan Orangutan Research Project ZOOAMERICA North American New England Cottontail Rabbit Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium Wildlife Park Recovery Program AZA Black-Footed Ferret SSP AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Noninvasive Tracking of Jaguars and Campaign: Improving Law Co-Occurring Felids in Belize, Central AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund Enforcement and Law Enforcement America (CEF) Monitoring at Key Sites in the Russian Reduction of Human/Elephant Conflict Far East Barn Owl Nest Box Through Beekeeping at Kakum AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Regal Fritillary Conservation National Park Campaign: WCS Wildlife Health Program for Amur Tigers Rhode Island Natural History Survey Bio Blitz Caribbean/Florida Coral Rescue and RHODE ISLAND Conservation Shielding from Extinction the World’s Roger Williams Park Zoo Most Endangered Xenarthran: the Conservation Parking Meters and the American Burying Beetle (Nicrophorus Pigmy Sloth (Bradypus pigmaeus) of Adopt an Acre® Program americanus) Captive Propagation and Escudo de Veraguas Island, Panama Reintroduction Program Coral Propagation Supporting the El Valle Amphibian Anthropogenic and Environmental Conservation Center Health Assessment and Serologic Impact on Gastro-Intestinal Parasitism Survey of a Reintroduced American Timber Rattlesnake Recovery Program in American Crocodile and Morelet’s Marten Population Crocodile International Elephant Foundation: Aquatic Ecology, Environmental Village Scout Anti-Poaching Work in SOUTH CAROLINA Change, and Conservation Strategy South Luangwa, Zambia in the Glaciated Eastern Himalayan Brookgreen Gardens Headwaters International Rhino Foundation: FrogWatch USA Operation Stop Poaching Now Conservation Status and Distribution Habitat Restoration through Prescribed of the Maned Wolf (Chrysocyon Mabuwaya Foundation: Philippine Burning of Long Leaf Pine Forest for brachyurus) in the Paraguayan Chaco Crocodiles Conservation Red Cockaded Woodpeckers

FrogWatch USA Polar Bears International Restoration and Monitoring of Wood Duck Houses along Brookgreen Sea Otter and Walrus Rehabilitation Identifying Conservation Priorities for Gardens Waterways Tropical Andean Butterflies Sea Turtle Rescue and Rehabilitation Restoring and Repairing Blue Bird Increasing Capacity in Chile with a Houses to Encourage Breeding Sea Turtle Second Chance Program Breeding Facility for Endangered Chilean Amphibians SECORE (SExual COral REproduction) Greenville Zoo Inter-Population Comparison of Support through International Elephant Predator Recognition Behavior in the Amphibian Ark Foundation for the Programme My Endangered Oregon Spotted Frog Elephant Neighbor”” Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance Karner Blue Butterfly Recovery/ (ALTA) Support of Partners in Conservation Butterfly Conservation Initiative: Partnerships for Recovery

47 Biodiversity and Conservation of Lwafi Population Demography of the Sea Turtle Stranding Pathology: Game Reserve in the Southwestern Chambered Nautilus, Nautilus Formalized Data Collection and Tanzania pompilius, in the Philippines Disease Surveillance

Complex Causes of Amphibian Radio Telemetry of Head-Started South Carolina Aquarium Sea Turtle Declines in Sympatric Cricket Frogs Juvenile Bog Turtles (Glyptemys Rehabilitation Program and Chorus Frogs muhlenbergii) in East Tennessee South Carolina Oyster Restoration and Creating and Conserving an Urban Rays of Hope: Identifying Factors Enhancement Program Farm in Greenville SC Mediating the Survival of Panamanian Atelopus Populations South Carolina Phytoplankton FrogWatch USA Monitoring Network Riverbanks Zoo and Garden in Hydrology of the Bunched Arrowhead Conservation Partnership with the Survey of Freshwater Mussels in Select World Wildlife Fund (WWF) in Streams of South Carolina International Elephant Foundation Suriname Orangutan Outreach Shielding from Extinction the Pigmy SOUTH DAKOTA Red Panda Network: Community- Three-Toed Sloth (Bradypus pigmaeus) Based Red Panda Conservation and of Escudo de Veraguas Island, Panama Bramble Park Zoo Monitoring in Eastern Nepal – Phase II Migratory Bird Rehab

The Effects of Forest Management on Turtle Survival Alliance: Turtle Survival Big Sioux River Watershed Project Structure of Stream Salamanders Center in South Carolina

Wildlife Rehabilitators of Greenville Great Plains Zoo & Delbridge Museum South Carolina Aquarium of Natural History Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Ambush Posture Behavior of Two African Predator Conservation (ZCOG) Sympatric Rattlesnake Species found Research Organization (APCRO) within Inland Coastal Habitat in South Carolina Riverbanks Zoo & Garden AZA’s Conservation Endowment Fund (CEF) Comparison of Health Parameters of Bird Monitoring Assistance Program Endangered, Wild Ring-Tailed Lemurs International Rhino Foundation Cape Island Turtle Project Development of Next Generation Native Raptor Rehabilitation Serology Assays for EEHV Infection in Distribution and Health Assessment of Red Drum, South Carolina Estuaries Asian and African Elephants SaveNature.Org

Evaluation of Tag-Retention in Ecology of Juvenile Gopher Tortoises Snow Leopard Trust/ Natural Diamondback Terrapins, Malaclyms Ruderal Habitat Partnership Program Terrapin Empowering Communities to Protect Declining Ecosystems: The Kibale Fuel Invasive Species Awareness and Wood Project and Kibale Eco-Char Monitoring TENNESSEE Initiative Nesting Site Survey for the Swallow- Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park Tailed Kite Establishing an Incubation Facility for Andean Condor Program Critically Endangered Vulture Species Population and Habitat Monitoring in West Bengal, India Chattanooga Zoo Conservation Award of Various Species of Conservation Identifying Overwintering Habitat Concern Hellbender Conservation Requirements of Eastern Indigo Robust Redhorse Conservation Snakes and Eastern Diamondback Kihansi Spray Toad Holding Committee Rattlesnakes Pantanal Giant Armadillo Project SCDNR Marine Resources Division In- Making CITES Work for Seahorses and Water Sea Turtle Study Snow Leopard Trust Supporting Thailand as it Implements CITES Recommendations Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG)

48 Knoxville Zoological Gardens Conservation of Iberian Amphibian Returning the Louisiana Pine Snake to Species Restored Habitat AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative

Conservation of the Araguaia Corridor Banding and Netting of Birds at in Brazil: Addressing Human Predator Nashville Zoo, Inc. Knoxville Zoological Gardens Conflict AZA Tiger SSP’s Tiger Conservation Bog Turtle In-Situ Project Campaign Conserving the World’s Largest Butterfly Survey: 7-Islands Wildlife Amphibian: Reintroduction and Conservation Biology of Hellbenders Refuge Translocation of the Chinese Giant Salamander into the Wild Duke Lemur Center Madagascar Center for Ecosystem Survival: Projects SAVA Rainforest Meter Developing Assisted Reproduction Technologies for Salamanders in Giant Galliwasp Conservation Initiative Chinese Academy of Forestry: National Support of Several Reintroduction Instutito de Pesquisas Ecologicas Research and Development Center of Programs Wild Fauna and Flora Mill Creek Bird Survey Development of Assisted Reproductive Conduct the Cades Cove and Technologies for Endangered North Project MIKE Newfound Gap Breeding Bird Surveys American Amphibians Puerto Rican Crested Toad FrogWatch USA Development of Novel Technologies for Remote Sensing of Wildlife Red Panda Network Hummer/Bird Study Group Fecal Near Infrared Reflectance TSI – Nashville Crayfish (Tennessee International Elephant Foundation Spectroscopy in Okapi, Snow leopards Streams Initiative – Nashville Crayfish) and Amur Leopards International Rhino Foundation

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49 International Crane Foundation AZA Ape TAG Conservation Initiative Fort Worth Zoo

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El Paso Zoo Zoo Conservation Outreach Group Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Captive American Association of Zoo Keepers (ZCOG) Breeding and Release Project: Rainforest Conservation Parking Attwater’s Prairie Chicken Cloacal Meter Microbial Study

50 Grevy’s Zebra Trust Dian Fossey Gorilla Fund International Lowland Tapirs as Landscape – GRACE Center Detectives for the Atlantic Forest: A International Rhino Foundation New Conservation Approach Distribution and Habitat Use of Mexican Wolf Assurance Population Nocturnal Prosimians in the Lower Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project Kinabatangan Conservation Area Sahara Conservation Fund Niassa Lion Project El Valle Amphibian Conservation Salary Administration for International Center (EVACC) Okapi Conservation Project Elephant Foundation Elephant Conservation Unit Painted Dog Conservation Scimitar-Horned Oryx Conservation Assurance Population Faleme Chimpanzee Conservation Pharmacokinetics of Enrofloxacin in Project Headstarted Houston Toads (Bufo Southern Black Rhinoceros houstonensis) Conservation Assurance Population First Action Planning Session for the Critically Endangered Blue-Billed Philippine Eagle Foundation Curassow (Crax alberti) Gladys Porter Zoo Red Panda Network 2012 Christmas Croc Fest Fragment Size, Edge Effects, and Sahara Conservation Fund Anthropogenic Factors and their 2012 Summer BBQ for Crocodilian Influence on Proboscis Monkeys Saola Conservation Project Conservation

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51 Snow Leopard Trust The Dallas World Aquarium Black-Footed Ferret Kansas Reintroduction Program Amazon Rescue Center Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program Boreal Toad Surveys Andean Birds Turtle Survival Alliance Defenders of Wildlife Caribbean Manatee Conservation Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) El Valle Amphibian Conservation Costa Rican Sloth Conservation Center (EVACC) Harpy Eagle Conservation SeaWorld San Antonio FrogWatch USA Bat Ambassadors: Education and Hornbill Conservation Grand Canyon Trust Outreach Horned Guan Conservation Grevy’s Zebra Trust Bracken Bat Cave Orinoco Crocodile Conservation HawkWatch International EDGE Coral Reefs: Building Capacity Project for Conservation in the Coral Triangle International Elephant Foundation Region Red Uakari Monkey Conservation International Rhino Foundation Engaging Central New York Students Resplendent Quetzal Conservation and Volunteers in Native Trout IUCN/SSC Conservation Breeding Turtle Survival Alliance Conservation Specialist Group (CBSG)

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52 VIRGINIA Yayasan Ulin Foundation – Field Survey Aerial Surveys of Sea Otters in in Support of Conservation Project in Washington Mill Mountain Zoo Mesangat, Borneo Assessment of the Impact of Hunting Snow Leopard Trust on the Clouded Leopard Virginia Living Museum Bornean Clouded Leopard Programme: Virginia Aquarium & Marine Science AZA Red Wolf SSP Center Ecology and Conservation of a Sea Turtle Head Start Program Sympatric Tropical Forest Felid Guild Evaluation of Marine Mammal Strandings for Signs of Human Turtle Census Clouded Leopard Breeding in Khao Interactions Kheow Zoo

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53 Survey for Small Felid Species in Select Amphibian Monitoring Tarangire National Park Elephant Thailand Reserves and Evidence for Project Competitive Exclusion by Larger Felids AZA Amphibian Biology, Conservation and Management Course Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program The Bornean Wild Cat Veterinary Project – Identification of Disease AZA-Endorsed SSP / TAG Projects Western Pond Turtle Recovery Project Threats – WPZ Conservation and Education Grants Wild Wise: Coexisting with Carnivores The Impact of Habitat Disturbance on Wildlife and People in Kenya: the Sunda Clouded Leopard in Wehea Budo Hornbill Conservation & Waterholes Project Forest, Borneo Education Center, Tapoh Village, Narathiwat Province, Thailand WPZ-Panthera Malayan Tiger Project Tiger Conservation in the Greater Leuser Landscape and the Greater Elephant Health Camp at Sonpur Mela Bukit Baresan Selatan Landscape of Field Conservation Grant Management Sumatra WEST VIRGINIA Forterra C3 Partnership Oglebay’s Good Zoo Seattle Aquarium Grizzly Bear Outreach Project Captive-Rearing of Eastern Beach Naturalist Program Hellbenders Destined for Hornbill Nest Adoptions in Thailand Reintroduction Cedar River Naturalist Program Hutan (KOCP) Elephant Conservation Install and Monitor Eastern Bluebird Coastal Ecosystem Responses to Nestboxes Influences from Land and Sea International Snow Leopard Trust Monarch Watch Harbor Seal Surveys Licton Springs Conservation and Restoration Project Participate in West Virginia Winter Bird Hawaii Reef Study Count Mbeli Bai Gorilla Study Mussel Watch Raptor Rehabilitation Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Neah Bay Reef Video Survey Use Status Assessment of the Eastern Hellbender in West Virginia NOAA Ocean Acidification Report Northern Spotted Owl Species Recovery Program Northern Fur Seals Surveillance for White-Nose Syndrome in West Virginia NW Amphibian Recovery Project Olympic Sculpture Park Monitoring Orangutan Habitat Protection and Puget Sound – Sixgill Shark Research Patrolling in Gunung Palung National and Conservation Project WISCONSIN Park

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55 © C. Harrington A DISEASE–FREE FUTURE FOR ETHIOPIAN WOLVES A Wolf Vaccine in Sheep’s Clothing

By Chris Gordon Originally published in CONNECT November 2013

Huddled in the Land Rover, I stared out through the frosted So why was I so helpfully placing food at the den for any windscreen at the wolf den hidden amongst the rocks in front. hungry wolves to find? It was all part of a ground-breaking trial It was difficult to see anything given the early hour. I wiped the to test oral rabies vaccines on this endangered species. eye pieces of my binoculars, the condensation from my breath Ethiopian wolf populations are effectively stranded on islands clouding the lenses. I could just make out the young wolf in a sea of domestic dogs that act as a reservoir for the rabies outlined on the rocky outcrop, “wolfing” down a piece of meat virus. It only takes one rabid dog to pass the disease to the that I had conveniently left there. From the faint scar on his left wolves. Once transmitted, the social pack nature of the wolves thigh, I could identify that this was Tarura 07, part of the Tarura and the overlapping territories between packs enhances the pack, one of several wolf packs in the Bale Mountains I have rapid transmission of the virus from wolf to wolf. In 1991, a come to know intimately in the last few years. He repeatedly major rabies outbreak devastated the Bale Mountains wolf chewed on the chunk of sheep meat, seemingly oblivious of population, with three-quarters of known wolves dying or the rabies vaccine sachet concealed within. When he was disappearing in affected areas. With only 500 Ethiopian wolves finished, he licked his muzzle before briefly looking up in my remaining today across six isolated populations, losing 80 direction as if to say “More?” He then padded frantically individuals at one time is disastrous. around the den, his head low, his nose trying to detect a hint of meat. When he’d satisfied himself that there was nothing left Since these first dramatic losses to rabies were reported, the to find, he settled down at the mouth of the den, reassuming Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme (EWCP) has become his baby-sitting duties for the next few hours. a key player in protecting these rare wolves, and as part of its activities, it has been vaccinating the domestic dog reservoir

A DISEASE–FREE FUTURE FOR ETHIOPIAN WOLVES 56 against rabies for nearly two decades. The idea is to create a also be tried, hence the current oral vaccine trial and the wolf barrier of vaccinated dogs in and around wolf territory through with the full belly lying in front of his den. Three weeks after which the virus cannot pass. Unfortunately, there are just too delivering the vaccine to five of eight Tarura wolves, we many dogs in the highlands with a constant turnover of new captured five of them, and their samples provided evidence individuals. Despite vaccinating over 70,000 dogs to date, that the vaccine had sero-converted into rabies-neutralising rabies has managed to break through this vaccination barrier antibodies, indicating success. The next phase is a larger trial on two further occasions, in 2003 and 2008–09. During both on more wolves to definitively prove the safety of this vaccine outbreaks, EWCP secured the necessary government before it can be widely used to proactively vaccinate wolves in permissions to reactively hand vaccinate wolves against rabies, all six populations throughout the country. These exciting but this strategy is costly, both financially and in terms of results offer a glimmer of hope that the threat of rabies might wolves that die before the intervention starts. Regularly be reduced to the mere inconvenience of regularly throwing a vaccinating wolves by hand is not feasible due to the financial load of vaccine baits for the wolves to indulge. It was largely and human resource costs, not to mention the stresses in thanks to the support of Saint Louis Zoo that we were able to constantly handling such an endangered species. move this plan forward. Hopefully other AZA institutions can play a similar role in helping to eradicate the threat of And it is not just rabies that affects this species. Canine disease and protect the last populations of the rarest canid distemper virus (CDV) has also caused large population in the world. declines in the Bale wolf population twice in the past eight years. These endangered carnivores face a very real threat of EWCP extinction from disease, or at the very least, extirpation of the smaller populations, several of which number below 30 The Ethiopian Wolf Conservation Programme is a partnership individuals. Despite all our vaccination efforts, disease remains between the University of Oxford’s Wildlife Conservation the number one immediate threat to wolf existence. A new Research Unit (WildCRU) and the Ethiopian Wildlife plan was obviously needed. Conservation Authority (EWCA). Our work involves many facets, including research, wolf monitoring, disease control, In 2011, the Saint Louis Zoo financially supported the education and capacity building within the Ethiopian development of a ten-year conservation strategy for Ethiopian conservation community, in order to save the endangered wolves. This process included a review of our knowledge of Ethiopian wolf from extinction. EWCP is funded predominantly disease and control measures that we had tried so far, by the Born Free Foundation, the Wildlife Conservation culminating in a disease management plan. A direct result was Network and many other generous donors. to start CDV vaccinations of domestic dogs to try to reduce the incidence of CDV, and a request to trial these CDV vaccines Chris Gordon is the Technical Coordinator of the Ethiopian Wolf on a handful of wolves. Should such a trial prove successful, we Conservation Programme will at least have an emergency reactive strategy if we see Websites another CDV outbreak in the wolves. www.ethiopianwolf.org While we are adamant that we need to continue to vaccinate www.wildcru.org dogs against rabies, a proactive, non-invasive strategy should

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A DISEASE–FREE FUTURE FOR ETHIOPIAN WOLVES 57 Photos © Jeff Holland, Los Angeles Zoo JAVAN WARTY PIG Conservation and Recovery

By Jeff Holland Originally published in CONNECT October 2013

The Javan warty pig, of which there are two recognized In 1982 Blouch conducted a survey for the species on both subspecies, is endemic to the islands of Java, Madura and Java and Bawean. Madura island was excluded as the species Bawean in Indonesia. The species is classified as Endangered was already presumed extinct there. The survey located 32 by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) populations across Java and at that time the species was and is now restricted to a few small isolated areas on Java. The considered reasonably secure. A few years later Blouch and Bawean island subspecies, S.v.blouchi, only occurs on Bawean Groves (1990) pointed out that hybridization with S. scrofa and is very rare, and most probably already extirpated from posed an unknown yet potentially serious threat to the survival the island. The nominate race, S.v.verrucosus, is found only on of S. verrucosus. Java after having been extirpated from Madura. In 1993 the IUCN/Species Survival Commission (SSC) Pigs, Its ancestry is traced to several fossil pig species of Java and Peccaries and Hippo Specialist Group published its Action Plan this, together with phylogenetic data (Randi et. al., 1996), and accorded the Javan warty pig high conservation priority, suggests isolation on Java for about two million years. and stressed the urgency of implementing relevant S. verrucosus occurs in cultivated landscapes and teak conservation measures, including another survey. (Tectona grandis) forest plantations, interspersed with lalang grasslands (Imperata cylindrica), brush and secondary forest Ten years after being given high conservation priority by the patches. It is found living alongside a subspecies of the IUCN/SSC Pigs, Peccaries and Hippo Specialist Group no Eurasian wild boar (Sus scrofa). significant conservation action had taken place on behalf of the Javan warty pig and the species remained unprotected Believed to be extinct in the late 1970s (J.MacKinnon, pers. under Indonesian law. At the urging of the Los Angeles Zoo comm. to W. Oliver) a small population was found in 1981. and in coordination with Gono Semiadi of the Indonesian

JAVAN WARTY PIG 58 Institute of Sciences (LIPI) and Erik Meijaard of the Nature Conservancy-East Kalimantan Program a survey was planned and funded to determine the status of S. verrucosus in order to implement necessary conservation strategies for the species survival. Funding for the survey was secured from the Gibbon Foundation, Los Angeles Zoo and Oregon Zoo.

The 2003 survey was a first step towards assessing the status of the species and all populations that were recorded by Blouch in his 1982 survey were revisited. The survey indicated that between 1982 and 2003, 17 of the 32 (53 percent) populations identified by Blouch had either been extirpated or dropped to such low levels that local hunters had failed to encounter the species in recent years (Semiadi et. al., 2006). The survey data suggested that there are about ten populations remaining on Java and Bawean where S. verrucosus survives and these populations are small and isolated from one another.

The majority of the evidence from the survey suggests that S. verrucosus is in decline throughout its range. This decline is most likely caused by a decline in suitable habitat and by high hunting pressures. The hybridization of S.v.verrucosus with S.scrofa is a third pressure that also has serious consequences for the survival of the Javan warty pig.

As a result of this survey a workshop conducted in early 2006 involving scientists, government officials and representatives After a long year of trying to of the zoo community, including staff from the Los Angeles Zoo, addressed the various options for effective in-situ and ex-situ conservation programs for S. verrucosus. It was decided find such a site, it was agreed at this workshop that the implementation of a captive breeding program for S.v.verrucosus on Java was needed immediately if after a meeting with Resit the species was to be saved from extinction. Sozer, director of Cikananga, Indonesian ornithologist Didi Indrawan, Gono Semiadi, Roland Wirth and Walter Schulz both of ZGAP (Zoological Society that the captive breeding for the Conservation of Species and Populations), a German NGO, took the lead role in locating a suitable site for the facility would be established establishment of a captive breeding facility. After a long year of trying to find such a site, it was agreed after a meeting with Resit Sozer, director of Cikananga, that the captive breeding at Cikananga Wild Animal facility would be established at Cikananga Wild Animal Rescue Center in West Java. Cikananga is the largest of the nine Rescue Center in West Java. Rescue Centers that were built with funding from the Gibbon Foundation in 2000. With the location secured it was now time to get the necessary funding to build the facilities for the warty In March 2008, the facilities were completed and the first pigs. In this instance, the Los Angeles Zoo and ZGAP partnered Javan warty pigs for the breeding program were acquired from to provide the necessary funding for the facilities. Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta. An old male of 25 years, a younger In early 2008, the funding was secured and advice from several male known to have been wild caught and two piglets that Zoo experts from around the globe (Singapore Zoo, Wroclaw were suspicious of being possible hybrids. Additional animals Zoo, Sharja Wildlife Center, University of Edinburgh) provided were known to be at the Surabaya Zoo, Yogyakarta Zoo and input into the facility design and proper management and other private owners around Java. The potential that many of husbandry of the warty pig. Pavel Hospodarsky, former keeper these animals were hybrids with Sus scrofa was high and at the Plzen Zoo in the Czech Republic, provided on-site funding was provided to have samples taken and sent to the assistance in setting up the infrastructure for the captive U.S. for DNA analysis. facility and now Stephan Bulk of ZGAP assists Resit Sozer with day to day operations.

JAVAN WARTY PIG 59 At the end of 2010, eleven Javan warty pigs had been As of this writing there are 17 pure Javan warty pigs at secured for the Captive Breeding Program. Although several Cikananga Wild Animal Rescue Center, which includes the were of hybrid origin they played a significant role in the three piglets born in April and an additional two piglets born program in that they provided potential mates for the pure in March 2013. Future goals for the survival of the Javan warty warty pigs until such time mates of pure origin could pig will be to educate the local population in the hopes that be secured. the capture of the warty pigs for the dog fights can be stopped and to secure suitable habitat in which the captive As the program has grown we have become increasingly born warty pigs can be released. aware of how closely this species is living on the edge of extinction. As staff goes out into the field in search of pure Many thanks to the following individuals without whose wild S.verrucosus they are finding more and more evidence of support this project would not have been feasible. hybridized Javan warty pigs indicating that the hybridization problem is very serious for the survival of the species. In Erik Meijard – Nature Conservancy communication with local hunters, it is being reported that Gono Simadi – LIPI fewer pure wild warty pigs are being found for the pig and dog Roland Wirth – ZGAP fights that the warty pigs have been traditionally used for. As the human population steadily grows (already 1,000 people/ Walter Schulz – ZGAP sq. km), the competition for space between humans and Stephan Bulk – ZGAP wildlife becomes more intense. As competition for space Pavel Hospodarsky – Plzen Zoo opens up the forests for development, this allows hunters access into areas that were not previously accessible and thus Didi Indrawan – Indonesia the pigs are captured for the dog fights or hunted to protect Resit Sozer – Cikananga Wild Animal Rescue Center crops. At the same time as new villages are built into the newly open forests, domestic pigs come with the village and Radoslaw Ratajszczak – Wroclaw Zoo ultimately some escape and join up with the warty pigs to produce hybridized offspring. At the same time, in the heavily Jeff Holland disturbed and fragmented habitat, the warty pigs are forced into closer contact with the other wild pig species in Java and Curator of Mammals domestic pigs to produce hybrids. A vicious cycle that all AZA Caprinae TAG Chair AZA Wild Pig, Peccary and Hippo TAG Acting Chair begins with an uncontrolled growing human population. AZA Red River Hog SSP Coordinator Despite what seems to be overwhelming odds to protect a AZA Yellow-footed Rock Wallaby SSP Coordinator Los Angeles Zoo little known species half way across the globe, success finally 323-644-4220 came in April of 2012 with the news that three Javan warty [email protected] piglets had been born to one of the captive females at Cikananga. The significance of this event is on par with the first hatching of the California condor in captivity that lead to that species being saved from extinction. The only difference is that the Javan warty pig is not on the world’s radar or in the media to grab the spotlight. A few dedicated individuals and the support from the institutions they work for provided the needed resources to hopefully prevent the extinction of a very rare and remarkable animal that is unknown to the rest of the world.

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