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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2969, 2, '2013-08-21 13:26:23', '2013-08-21 18:26:23', '<strong>AAZK is going paperless!!!  </strong>in order to process member information and to ensure that you receive AAZK E-lerts, Presidential Newsletters, and Membership Renewal Reminders - AAZK will need an email address.  Please Login to your Member account and provide/update your email address.  AAZK will never share your personal information, including your email, to anyone.', 'Member Informaton', 0, '', 'publish', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'aazk-merchandise', '', '', '2013-11-25 16:35:55', '2013-11-25 21:35:55', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=2969', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2970, 2, '2013-08-21 13:25:06', '2013-08-21 18:25:06', 'It\'s time to make your shopping list for the AAZK Conference in North Carolina!  Not every keeper can attend the AAZK Conference so check with your fellow keepers and see if they\'re all stocked up on AAZK Merchandise and publications.  If not - now\'s the time to be a hero and make a shopping list', 'AAZK Merchandise', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2969-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-08-21 13:25:06', '2013-08-21 18:25:06', '', 2969, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2969-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2971, 2, '2013-08-21 13:26:06', '2013-08-21 18:26:06', 'It\'s time to make your shopping list for the AAZK Conference in North Carolina!  Not everyone can attend the AAZK Conference so check with your fellow keepers and see if they\'re all stocked up on AAZK Merchandise and publications.  If not - now\'s the time to be a hero and make a shopping list.  Go to the AAZK Store and see whats available.', 'AAZK Merchandise', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2969-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-08-21 13:26:06', '2013-08-21 18:26:06', '', 2969, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2969-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2842, 2, '2013-05-23 19:14:59', '2013-05-24 00:14:59', 'As the need to protect and preserve our wildlife and vanishing habitats has increased, our role as educators and wildlife ambassadors has become essential. During the third week of July each year, celebrate National Zoo Keeper Week; both you and your animals deserve the recognition.\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2839" title="nzkw_2013_horz" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nzkw_2013_horz.jpg" alt="nzkw_2013_horz" width="705" height="103" /></p>\r\n\r\n<strong>Need ideas for celebrating this week or graphics. Click below.\r\n</strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/National Zoo Keeper Week Ideas.pdf">NZKW ideas</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/NZKW Press release10.doc">NZKW sample press release</a> (Word format)\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nzkwproclamation.doc">NZKW proclamation</a> (Word format)\r\n\r\n<strong>NZKW graphics (some of these files are large)</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2013_logo_horz.jpg">2013 logo horizontal</a> (jpg): For jpgs right click on the graphic to save  once the link has opened in a new window.</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2013_logo_horz.pdf">2013 logo horizontal</a> (pdf)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2013_logo_vert.jpg">2013 logo vertical</a> (jpg): For jpgs right click on the graphic to save  once the link has opened in a  new window.</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2013_logo_vert.pdf">2013 logo vertical</a> (pdf)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>NATIONAL ZOO KEEPER WEEK PROCLAMATION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>WHEREAS,</strong> worldwide animal populations are declining at an alarming rate with many facing extinction; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions have become the final hope for many endangered species recovery programs through conservation research, release programs, and by being a portal through which the general public can view and appreciate disappearing wildlife; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions are also population managers of keystone and cornerstone species, emphasizing the restoration of not just the endangered species, but a restoration of the delicate balance of nature; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers are the frontline soldiers for conservation, participating in the battle for species survival and preservation of the natural homelands of the animals they care for through public awareness, education, and exhibition; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal caretakers devoting their lives to caring for these animals; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become the spokespersons for vanishing wildlife, carrying the conservation message of habitat loss, endangered species, and preservation of nature’s threatened wildlands to the public; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal specialists, as educators, choreographers of animal behaviors through enrichment, behavior managers through operant conditioning, and reproductive specialists through improved observations and husbandry; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, to help increase public awareness about the need to preserve our precious habitats and the animals which inhabit them and to recognize the roles that zookeepers play in animal conservation and education, The American Association of Zoo Keepers invites all AAZK chapters to participate in National Zoo Keeper Week.', 'National Zoo Keeper Week', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1193-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-05-23 19:14:59', '2013-05-24 00:14:59', '', 1193, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1193-revision-21/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2838, 2, '2012-01-18 12:32:00', '2012-01-18 17:32:00', '<strong>2012:</strong> Syracuse - Sept. 23-27\r\n\r\n<strong>2013:</strong> Asheboro, NC - September 22-26\r\n\r\n<strong>2014: </strong>Orlando, FL - September 8-12', 'Upcoming Annual Conferences', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1187-revision-11', '', '', '2012-01-18 12:32:00', '2012-01-18 17:32:00', '', 1187, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1187-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2840, 2, '2013-05-23 18:08:38', '2013-05-23 23:08:38', 'As the need to protect and preserve our wildlife and vanishing habitats has increased, our role as educators and wildlife ambassadors has become essential. During the third week of July each year, celebrate National Zoo Keeper Week; both you and your animals deserve the recognition.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-large wp-image-2435" title="Zoo keeper WEEK.Logo.Horz 2011" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2012_logo_horz-1024x204.jpg" alt="Zoo keeper WEEK.Logo.Horz 2011" width="717" height="143" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Need ideas for celebrating this week or graphics. Click below.\r\n</strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/National Zoo Keeper Week Ideas.pdf">NZKW ideas</a>\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/NZKW Press release10.doc">NZKW sample press release</a> (Word format)\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nzkwproclamation.doc">NZKW proclamation</a> (Word format)\r\n\r\n<strong>NZKW graphics (some of these files are large)</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2012_logo_horz.jpg">2013 logo horizontal</a> (jpg): For jpgs right click on the graphic to save  once the link has opened in a new window.</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2012_logo_horz.pdf">2013 logo horizontal</a> (pdf)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2012_logo_vert.jpg">2013 logo vertical</a> (jpg): For jpgs right click on the graphic to save  once the link has opened in a  new window.</li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2012_logo_vert.pdf">2013 logo vertical</a> (pdf)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong>NATIONAL ZOO KEEPER WEEK PROCLAMATION</strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>WHEREAS,</strong> worldwide animal populations are declining at an alarming rate with many facing extinction; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions have become the final hope for many endangered species recovery programs through conservation research, release programs, and by being a portal through which the general public can view and appreciate disappearing wildlife; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoological institutions are also population managers of keystone and cornerstone species, emphasizing the restoration of not just the endangered species, but a restoration of the delicate balance of nature; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers are the frontline soldiers for conservation, participating in the battle for species survival and preservation of the natural homelands of the animals they care for through public awareness, education, and exhibition; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal caretakers devoting their lives to caring for these animals; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become the spokespersons for vanishing wildlife, carrying the conservation message of habitat loss, endangered species, and preservation of nature’s threatened wildlands to the public; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, zoo keepers have become animal specialists, as educators, choreographers of animal behaviors through enrichment, behavior managers through operant conditioning, and reproductive specialists through improved observations and husbandry; and\r\n\r\nWHEREAS, to help increase public awareness about the need to preserve our precious habitats and the animals which inhabit them and to recognize the roles that zookeepers play in animal conservation and education, The American Association of Zoo Keepers invites all AAZK chapters to participate in National Zoo Keeper Week.', 'National Zoo Keeper Week', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1193-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-05-23 18:08:38', '2013-05-23 23:08:38', '', 1193, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/1193-revision-20/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2708, 2, '2012-12-02 10:09:12', '2012-12-02 15:09:12', '<strong>December 3 - 7, 2012 - <em>Training and Enrichment Workshop for Zoo and Aquarium Animals</em></strong>. Hosted by Moody Gardens in Galveston, TX, Active Environments and Shape of Enrichment are proud to present the Sixth Training and Enrichment Workshop for Zoo and Aquarium Animals. This unique five-day Workshop is designed for keepers, aquarists, managers, supervisors, curators, and veterinarians working with all species of animals held in zoos, aquariums, rescue centers, and sanctuaries. The Workshop will present an array of topics relating to the behavioral management approach to caring for captive animals, with a focus on environmental enrichment, positive reinforcement training techniques, and the problem-solving process. For more information e-mail <a href="mailto:dolsen@moodygardens.com">dolsen@moodygardens.com</a> or go to <a href="http://enrichment.org">enrichment.org</a>.\r\n<h2>2013</h2>\r\n<strong><span>February 27 - March 2, 2013</span><em> - </em></strong><strong><em>21st Annual Conference of the International Association of Avian Trainers and Educators - </em></strong>Hosted by Tampa’s Lowry Park Zoo, Tampa, FL. For more information go to: <a href="http://iaate.org/iaate-annual-conference/2013-conference">iaate.org/iaate-annual-conference/2013-conference</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 14-19, 2013 - <em>ABMA Annual Conference</em> - Toronto, Canada.</strong> The ABMA is heading north, eh! Visit Canada’s cultural, entertainment and financial capital while experiencing the country’s largest zoo!  Don’t miss a keynote address by Ian Stirling of Polar Bears International, an action-packed full day site visit at the Toronto Zoo and fun events including a very Canadian evening at the Hockey Hall of Fame! Stay at the Delta Chelsea Hotel, located in the heart of the city, for only $119 a night (that’s Canadian dollars, of course!).  So grab your toque and your passport and join us for a truly international conference!  For more information, visit <a href="http://theabma.org">theabma.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>April 30 - May 2 2013 -<em>Chimpanzee SSP Meeting and Husbandry Workshop</em></strong> -The Chimpanzee SSP and the Houston Zoo are hosting the next Chimpanzee Husbandry Workshop to take place April 30 – May 2, 2013. The Chimpanzee SSP meeting will precede the workshop on April 29, 2013.  Please visit <a href="https://houstonzoo.doubleknot.com/event/chimp-husbandry-workshop-registration/1250219">https://houstonzoo.doubleknot.com/event/chimp-husbandry-workshop-registration/1250219</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 5-9, 2013 - <em>Eighth Biannual Rhino Keepers’ Workshop</em> -</strong> Hosted by San Diego Zoo Global.  For Call for Papers and more information contact <a href="mailto:laubery@sandiegozoo.org">laubery@sandiegozoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>May 20-23, 2013 - <em>World Crocodile Conference</em></strong> - “Living with Crocodilians” 22nd Working Meeting of the IUCN — SSC, Crocodile Specialist Group. For more information and registration, go to: <a href="http://csgsrilanka.com/">csgsrilanka.com/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>July 8-12, 2013 - <em>Zoos and Aquariums Committing to Conservation (ZACC)</em> -</strong> Hosted by Blank Park Zoo, Des Moines, Iowa.  The conference will bring together colleagues from the field and zoos in an informal setting to network, share ideas and support one another in our shared commitment to conservation.  Registration is available at <a href="http://blankparkzoo.com/index.cfm?nodeID=48429&amp;audienceID=1">blankparkzoo.com/index.cfm?nodeID=48429&amp;audienceID=1</a>.  Contact Jessie Lowry with questions at <a href="mailto:jrlowry@blankparkzoo.org">jrlowry@blankparkzoo.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>August 7-10, 2013 - <em>11th Annual Symposium on the Conservation and Biology of Tortoises and Freshwater Turtles </em>- St. Louis, MO.</strong> Co-hosted by the Turtle Survival Alliance and the IUCN-TFTSG. Please visit <a href="http://turtlesurvival.org/get-involved/conference">turtlesurvival.org/get-involved/conference</a> for more information, or contact Heather Lowe at <a href="mailto:Hlowe@turtlesurvival.org">Hlowe@turtlesurvival.org</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>September 22-26  2013 - <em>AAZK National Conference</em></strong> - Hosted by the North Carolina Zoo and the North Carolina AAZK Chapter.\r\n\r\n<strong>October 13-17, 2013 - <em>WAZA Annual Conference</em></strong> - Hosted by Disney’s Animal Kingdom. 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2652, 2, '2012-12-02 10:19:53', '2012-12-02 15:19:53', '<em>By\nDara Girsch, African Animal Keeper\nThe Living Desert Zoo &amp; Gardens\nPalm Desert, CA</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\n\nFor several years, “Frasier,” a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum), has exhibited frequent aggression towards his keepers. These displays would often culminate in Frasier injuring a keeper or himself. The previous method for managing these behaviors was to bring in a tool for protection or restrain Frasier and place him in a holding area. Neither of these methods was especially effective, as Frasier would attack the tool relentlessly or increase the intensity of aggression upon release from holding areas.\n\nI set out, with a team of two additional keepers, to train Frasier to target to a laser pointer as a method of focusing his attention away from keepers and reduce the number of threatening displays. This became a transition to a routine shifting behavior into a holding area, taking a previously negative situation and positively reinforcing his time in holding. These initial behaviors, coupled with a newfound working relationship between Frasier and myself, led to the ability to begin desensitization and to train station behavior.\n\n<strong>Process</strong>\n\nEstablishing the intended behavior of targeting to the laser pointer (Figure 1) was accomplished using basic positive reinforcement techniques. A notable step in eliciting this behavior was to take a step back, literally. When training first began, I was standing directly at the exhibit perimeter. Because male cranes are highly territorial (Ellis et al., 1996), my position at the fence was likely instigating his aggression and his attention was on me, not the laser point. When I began training from several feet away, he instantly focused his attention towards the laser. Researching specifics of crane behavior and accounting for Frasier’s personality allowed me to adapt training methods to his ability, giving a greater probability for success.\n\nSeveral different colors of lasers were tested to see if Frasier responded more to a certain color. Birds have been hypothesized to see twice as many colors as humans throughout the spectrum, and Gruiformes are known to be able to see into the violet range of wavelengths, down to 406 nm (Odeen and Hastad, 2003). A purple laser (wavelength = 405nm, 5mW) was tested, as well as green (wavelength = 532nm, 5 mW), red-orange (wavelength = 735nm, 5mW) and red (wavelength = 650nm, 5mW). Frasier targeted equally well to all of the colors. The green laser was chosen because it was the brightest for the trainer to see in daylight, to ensure that the trainer knew where it was pointed. In the future, laser colors can be used interchangeably to stimulate visual acuity and sustain novelty.\n\nThe location of the training sessions was kept consistent, a shady area on exhibit where the laser could most easily be seen, for Frasier and the trainer. Also taken into consideration was the fact that this section of the exhibit was not frequented by keepers, so it could be recognized specifically as a training area.  To begin, with the trainer kneeling several feet away (at a pre-determined point, kept consistent) so as to be non-threatening, the laser was pointed approximately a foot away from Frasier’s’ feet on either side. Once he pecked at it, the laser was immediately turned off as the bridge, a verbal ‘good,’ was given. Frasier was then tossed his reinforcement (crickets or mealworms) through the fence.\n\nSix weeks were spent gathering initial data: the number of times Frasier targeted per session and the number of aggressive displays he exhibited during each session. The aggressive behavior under scrutiny was the “ruffle-bow,” a low level threat display, “in which the crane elevates its feathers and slowly, at first, ruffles its plumage until at length the whole body is rapidly shaking” (Ellis et al., 1996). Training sessions were kept very short – under a minute. Frasier was required to target to the laser in less than ten seconds, with five attempts per session. This was to accomplish the desired targeting behavior before any frustration or diverted attention could occur that would lead to belligerent behaviors.\n\nThere was a wide discrepancy in the consistency of executing the targeting behavior between each of the trainers.  Frasier targeted during 100% of the attempts with his primary trainer, and exhibited very few aggressive behaviors – an average of 0.1 aggressive occurrences per session over the six week period. For the second trainer, he targeted during 98% of the attempts, but exhibited the ‘ruffle-bow’ display during every session. For the third trainer, Frasier again showed little aggression but successfully targeted less than 50% of the time. It was known before training began that the levels of aggression from Frasier varied greatly for each trainer, regardless of the situational circumstances. The behaviors and their frequency towards each trainer mirrored those observed during everyday servicing of the exhibit.\n\nBecause of the variation in successful training and aggression, it was decided that in order to effectively eliminate Frasier’s aggression from affecting keepers, he should be trained to shift into a holding area.\n\nThe original method for shifting was simply for Frasier to follow the laser point into a designated holding area. Frasier had shown in training sessions (after the initial data were collected) that he would follow the laser point several feet in any direction when the trainer was stationary.  However, he would not follow the laser from across the exhibit; he needed to be directly in front of the trainer before he would initiate targeting.\n\nThe first several attempts at shifting using a laser pointer (primary trainer only) showed that Frasier would not follow the laser through a doorway. Because he would not complete the shifting behavior using the laser as the only cue, several others were attempted. Frasier responded very well to a variety of sensory cues – calling his name, tapping, walking through holding areas, facing him, walking ahead of him. In retrospect, successive approximations could have been used to shift Frasier into the holding area using only the laser. However, the time lapse between the failed attempt to shift with the laser and successfully using other cues was only one day. Once inside, he could be positively reinforced with insects or his normal diet by performing the original target behavior with the laser pointer. He performed the shifting behavior equally well for each of the trainers. While release from holding areas still caused an elevated amount of excited behaviors, immediate aggression upon release was not seen. When training for the shifting behavior began, Frasier proved that the simplest method would not be the most effective. In actuality, various other sensory cues (auditory and visual) became the primary training tools, while the laser became obsolete for the shifting behavior.\n\nBecause all of the previous training was carried out with a barrier between Frasier and me, desensitization to human contact required…\n\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', '', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2649-revision', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:19:53', '2012-12-02 15:19:53', '', 2649, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2649-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2653, 2, '2012-12-02 10:20:50', '2012-12-02 15:20:50', '<em>By\r\nDara Girsch, African Animal Keeper\r\nThe Living Desert Zoo &amp; Gardens\r\nPalm Desert, CA</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\n\r\nFor several years, “Frasier,” a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum), has exhibited frequent aggression towards his keepers. These displays would often culminate in Frasier injuring a keeper or himself. The previous method for managing these behaviors was to bring in a tool for protection or restrain Frasier and place him in a holding area. Neither of these methods was especially effective, as Frasier would attack the tool relentlessly or increase the intensity of aggression upon release from holding areas.\r\n\r\nI set out, with a team of two additional keepers, to train Frasier to target to a laser pointer as a method of focusing his attention away from keepers and reduce the number of threatening displays. This became a transition to a routine shifting behavior into a holding area, taking a previously negative situation and positively reinforcing his time in holding. These initial behaviors, coupled with a newfound working relationship between Frasier and myself, led to the ability to begin desensitization and to train station behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Process</strong>\r\n\r\nEstablishing the intended behavior of targeting to the laser pointer (Figure 1) was accomplished using basic positive reinforcement techniques. A notable step in eliciting this behavior was to take a step back, literally. When training first began, I was standing directly at the exhibit perimeter. Because male cranes are highly territorial (Ellis et al., 1996), my position at the fence was likely instigating his aggression and his attention was on me, not the laser point. When I began training from several feet away, he instantly focused his attention towards the laser. Researching specifics of crane behavior and accounting for Frasier’s personality allowed me to adapt training methods to his ability, giving a greater probability for success.\r\n\r\nSeveral different colors of lasers were tested to see if Frasier responded more to a certain color. Birds have been hypothesized to see twice as many colors as humans throughout the spectrum, and Gruiformes are known to be able to see into the violet range of wavelengths, down to 406 nm (Odeen and Hastad, 2003). A purple laser (wavelength = 405nm, 5mW) was tested, as well as green (wavelength = 532nm, 5 mW), red-orange (wavelength = 735nm, 5mW) and red (wavelength = 650nm, 5mW). Frasier targeted equally well to all of the colors. The green laser was chosen because it was the brightest for the trainer to see in daylight, to ensure that the trainer knew where it was pointed. In the future, laser colors can be used interchangeably to stimulate visual acuity and sustain novelty.\r\n\r\nThe location of the training sessions was kept consistent, a shady area on exhibit where the laser could most easily be seen, for Frasier and the trainer. Also taken into consideration was the fact that this section of the exhibit was not frequented by keepers, so it could be recognized specifically as a training area.  To begin, with the trainer kneeling several feet away (at a pre-determined point, kept consistent) so as to be non-threatening, the laser was pointed approximately a foot away from Frasier’s’ feet on either side. Once he pecked at it, the laser was immediately turned off as the bridge, a verbal ‘good,’ was given. Frasier was then tossed his reinforcement (crickets or mealworms) through the fence.\r\n\r\nSix weeks were spent gathering initial data: the number of times Frasier targeted per session and the number of aggressive displays he exhibited during each session. The aggressive behavior under scrutiny was the “ruffle-bow,” a low level threat display, “in which the crane elevates its feathers and slowly, at first, ruffles its plumage until at length the whole body is rapidly shaking” (Ellis et al., 1996). Training sessions were kept very short – under a minute. Frasier was required to target to the laser in less than ten seconds, with five attempts per session. This was to accomplish the desired targeting behavior before any frustration or diverted attention could occur that would lead to belligerent behaviors.\r\n\r\nThere was a wide discrepancy in the consistency of executing the targeting behavior between each of the trainers.  Frasier targeted during 100% of the attempts with his primary trainer, and exhibited very few aggressive behaviors – an average of 0.1 aggressive occurrences per session over the six week period. For the second trainer, he targeted during 98% of the attempts, but exhibited the ‘ruffle-bow’ display during every session. For the third trainer, Frasier again showed little aggression but successfully targeted less than 50% of the time. It was known before training began that the levels of aggression from Frasier varied greatly for each trainer, regardless of the situational circumstances. The behaviors and their frequency towards each trainer mirrored those observed during everyday servicing of the exhibit.\r\n\r\nBecause of the variation in successful training and aggression, it was decided that in order to effectively eliminate Frasier’s aggression from affecting keepers, he should be trained to shift into a holding area.\r\n\r\nThe original method for shifting was simply for Frasier to follow the laser point into a designated holding area. Frasier had shown in training sessions (after the initial data were collected) that he would follow the laser point several feet in any direction when the trainer was stationary.  However, he would not follow the laser from across the exhibit; he needed to be directly in front of the trainer before he would initiate targeting.\r\n\r\nThe first several attempts at shifting using a laser pointer (primary trainer only) showed that Frasier would not follow the laser through a doorway. Because he would not<img class="alignright size-large wp-image-2651" title="crane1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/crane1-588x1024.jpg" alt="crane1" width="588" height="1024" /> complete the shifting behavior using the laser as the only cue, several others were attempted. Frasier responded very well to a variety of sensory cues – calling his name, tapping, walking through holding areas, facing him, walking ahead of him. In retrospect, successive approximations could have been used to shift Frasier into the holding area using only the laser. However, the time lapse between the failed attempt to shift with the laser and successfully using other cues was only one day. Once inside, he could be positively reinforced with insects or his normal diet by performing the original target behavior with the laser pointer. He performed the shifting behavior equally well for each of the trainers. While release from holding areas still caused an elevated amount of excited behaviors, immediate aggression upon release was not seen. When training for the shifting behavior began, Frasier proved that the simplest method would not be the most effective. In actuality, various other sensory cues (auditory and visual) became the primary training tools, while the laser became obsolete for the shifting behavior.\r\n\r\nBecause all of the previous training was carried out with a barrier between Frasier and me, desensitization to human contact required…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', '', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2649-revision-2', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:20:50', '2012-12-02 15:20:50', '', 2649, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2649-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2654, 2, '2012-12-02 10:22:11', '2012-12-02 15:22:11', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-378" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="317" height="68" /></p>\r\n\r\n<em>By\r\nDara Girsch, African Animal Keeper\r\nThe Living Desert Zoo &amp; Gardens\r\nPalm Desert, CA</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\n\r\nFor several years, “Frasier,” a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum), has exhibited frequent aggression towards his keepers. These displays would often culminate in Frasier injuring a keeper or himself. The previous method for managing these behaviors was to bring in a tool for protection or restrain Frasier and place him in a holding area. Neither of these methods was especially effective, as Frasier would attack the tool relentlessly or increase the intensity of aggression upon release from holding areas.\r\n\r\nI set out, with a team of two additional keepers, to train Frasier to target to a laser pointer as a method of focusing his attention away from keepers and reduce the number of threatening displays. This became a transition to a routine shifting behavior into a holding area, taking a previously negative situation and positively reinforcing his time in holding. These initial behaviors, coupled with a newfound working relationship between Frasier and myself, led to the ability to begin desensitization and to train station behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Process</strong>\r\n\r\nEstablishing the intended behavior of targeting to the laser pointer (Figure 1) was accomplished using basic positive reinforcement techniques. A notable step in eliciting this behavior was to take a step back, literally. When training first began, I was standing directly at the exhibit perimeter. Because male cranes are highly territorial (Ellis et al., 1996), my position at the fence was likely instigating his aggression and his attention was on me, not the laser point. When I began training from several feet away, he instantly focused his attention towards the laser. Researching specifics of crane behavior and accounting for Frasier’s personality allowed me to adapt training methods to his ability, giving a greater probability for success.\r\n\r\nSeveral different colors of lasers were tested to see if Frasier responded more to a certain color. Birds have been hypothesized to see twice as many colors as humans throughout the spectrum, and Gruiformes are known to be able to see into the violet range of wavelengths, down to 406 nm (Odeen and Hastad, 2003). A purple laser (wavelength = 405nm, 5mW) was tested, as well as green (wavelength = 532nm, 5 mW), red-orange (wavelength = 735nm, 5mW) and red (wavelength = 650nm, 5mW). Frasier targeted equally well to all of the colors. The green laser was chosen because it was the brightest for the trainer to see in daylight, to ensure that the trainer knew where it was pointed. In the future, laser colors can be used interchangeably to stimulate visual acuity and sustain novelty.\r\n\r\nThe location of the training sessions was kept consistent, a shady area on exhibit where the laser could most easily be seen, for Frasier and the trainer. Also taken into consideration was the fact that this section of the exhibit was not frequented by keepers, so it could be recognized specifically as a training area.  To begin, with the trainer kneeling several feet away (at a pre-determined point, kept consistent) so as to be non-threatening, the laser was pointed approximately a foot away from Frasier’s’ feet on either side. Once he pecked at it, the laser was immediately turned off as the bridge, a verbal ‘good,’ was given. Frasier was then tossed his reinforcement (crickets or mealworms) through the fence.\r\n\r\nSix weeks were spent gathering initial data: the number of times Frasier targeted per session and the number of aggressive displays he exhibited during each session. The aggressive behavior under scrutiny was the “ruffle-bow,” a low level threat display, “in which the crane elevates its feathers and slowly, at first, ruffles its plumage until at length the whole body is rapidly shaking” (Ellis et al., 1996). Training sessions were kept very short – under a minute. Frasier was required to target to the laser in less than ten seconds, with five attempts per session. This was to accomplish the desired targeting behavior before any frustration or diverted attention could occur that would lead to belligerent behaviors.\r\n\r\nThere was a wide discrepancy in the consistency of executing the targeting behavior between each of the trainers.  Frasier targeted during 100% of the attempts with his primary trainer, and exhibited very few aggressive behaviors – an average of 0.1 aggressive occurrences per session over the six week period. For the second trainer, he targeted during 98% of the attempts, but exhibited the ‘ruffle-bow’ display during every session. For the third trainer, Frasier again showed little aggression but successfully targeted less than 50% of the time. It was known before training began that the levels of aggression from Frasier varied greatly for each trainer, regardless of the situational circumstances. The behaviors and their frequency towards each trainer mirrored those observed during everyday servicing of the exhibit.\r\n\r\nBecause of the variation in successful training and aggression, it was decided that in order to effectively eliminate Frasier’s aggression from affecting keepers, he should be trained to shift into a holding area.\r\n\r\nThe original method for shifting was simply for Frasier to follow the laser point into a designated holding area. Frasier had shown in training sessions (after the initial data were collected) that he would follow the laser point several feet in any direction when the trainer was stationary.  However, he would not follow the laser from across the exhibit; he needed to be directly in front of the trainer before he would initiate targeting.\r\n\r\nThe first several attempts at shifting using a laser pointer (primary trainer only) showed that Frasier would not follow the laser through a doorway. Because he would not<img class="alignright size-large wp-image-2651" title="crane1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/crane1-588x1024.jpg" alt="crane1" width="588" height="1024" /> complete the shifting behavior using the laser as the only cue, several others were attempted. Frasier responded very well to a variety of sensory cues – calling his name, tapping, walking through holding areas, facing him, walking ahead of him. In retrospect, successive approximations could have been used to shift Frasier into the holding area using only the laser. However, the time lapse between the failed attempt to shift with the laser and successfully using other cues was only one day. Once inside, he could be positively reinforced with insects or his normal diet by performing the original target behavior with the laser pointer. He performed the shifting behavior equally well for each of the trainers. While release from holding areas still caused an elevated amount of excited behaviors, immediate aggression upon release was not seen. When training for the shifting behavior began, Frasier proved that the simplest method would not be the most effective. In actuality, various other sensory cues (auditory and visual) became the primary training tools, while the laser became obsolete for the shifting behavior.\r\n\r\nBecause all of the previous training was carried out with a barrier between Frasier and me, desensitization to human contact required…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Behavioral Management of a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum) Through Laser Pointer Training', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2649-revision-3', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:22:11', '2012-12-02 15:22:11', '', 2649, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2649-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2655, 2, '2012-12-02 10:25:52', '2012-12-02 15:25:52', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-378" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="317" height="68" /></p>\n\n<em>By\nDara Girsch, African Animal Keeper\nThe Living Desert Zoo &amp; Gardens\nPalm Desert, CA</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\n\nFor several years, “Frasier,” a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (<em>Balearica regulorum</em>), has exhibited frequent aggression towards his keepers. These displays would often culminate in Frasier injuring a keeper or himself. The previous method for managing these behaviors was to bring in a tool for protection or restrain Frasier and place him in a holding area. Neither of these methods was especially effective, as Frasier would attack the tool relentlessly or increase the intensity of aggression upon release from holding areas.\n\nI set out, with a team of two additional keepers, to train Frasier to target to a laser pointer as a method of focusing his attention away from keepers and reduce the number of threatening displays. This became a transition to a routine shifting behavior into a holding area, taking a previously negative situation and positively reinforcing his time in holding. These initial behaviors, coupled with a newfound working relationship between Frasier and myself, led to the ability to begin desensitization and to train station behavior.\n\n<strong>Process</strong>\n\nEstablishing the intended behavior of targeting to the laser pointer (Figure 1) was accomplished using basic positive reinforcement techniques. A notable step in eliciting this behavior was to take a step back, literally. When training first began, I was standing directly at the exhibit perimeter. Because male cranes are highly territorial (Ellis et al., 1996), my position at the fence was likely instigating his aggression and his attention was on me, not the laser point. When I began training from several feet away, he instantly focused his attention towards the laser. Researching specifics of crane behavior and accounting for Frasier’s personality allowed me to adapt training methods to his ability, giving a greater probability for success.\n\nSeveral different colors of lasers were tested to see if Frasier responded more to a certain color. Birds have been hypothesized to see twice as many colors as humans throughout the spectrum, and Gruiformes are known to be able to see into the violet range of wavelengths, down to 406 nm (Odeen and Hastad, 2003). A purple laser (wavelength = 405nm, 5mW) was tested, as well as green (wavelength = 532nm, 5 mW), red-orange (wavelength = 735nm, 5mW) and red (wavelength = 650nm, 5mW). Frasier targeted equally well to all of the colors. The green laser was chosen because it was the brightest for the trainer to see in daylight, to ensure that the trainer knew where it was pointed. In the future, laser colors can be used interchangeably to stimulate visual acuity and sustain novelty.\n\nThe location of the training sessions was kept consistent, a shady area on exhibit where the laser could most easily be seen, for Frasier and the trainer. Also taken into consideration was the fact that this section of the exhibit was not frequented by keepers, so it could be recognized specifically as a training area.  To begin, with the trainer kneeling several feet away (at a pre-determined point, kept consistent) so as to be non-threatening, the laser was pointed approximately a foot away from Frasier’s’ feet on either side. Once he pecked at it, the laser was immediately turned off as the bridge, a verbal ‘good,’ was given. Frasier was then tossed his reinforcement (crickets or mealworms) through the fence.\n\nSix weeks were spent gathering initial data: the number of times Frasier targeted per session and the number of aggressive displays he exhibited during each session. The aggressive behavior under scrutiny was the “ruffle-bow,” a low level threat display, “in which the crane elevates its feathers and slowly, at first, ruffles its plumage until at length the whole body is rapidly shaking” (Ellis et al., 1996). Training sessions were kept very short – under a minute. Frasier was required to target to the laser in less than ten seconds, with five attempts per session. This was to accomplish the desired targeting behavior before any frustration or diverted attention could occur that would lead to belligerent behaviors.\n\nThere was a wide discrepancy in the consistency of executing the targeting behavior between each of the trainers.  Frasier targeted during 100% of the attempts with his primary trainer, and exhibited very few aggressive behaviors – an average of 0.1 aggressive occurrences per session over the six week period. For the second trainer, he targeted during 98% of the attempts, but exhibited the ‘ruffle-bow’ display during every session. For the third trainer, Frasier again showed little aggression but successfully targeted less than 50% of the time. It was known before training began that the levels of aggression from Frasier varied greatly for each trainer, regardless of the situational circumstances. The behaviors and their frequency towards each trainer mirrored those observed during everyday servicing of the exhibit.\n\nBecause of the variation in successful training and aggression, it was decided that in order to effectively eliminate Frasier’s aggression from affecting keepers, he should be trained to shift into a holding area.\n\nThe original method for shifting was simply for Frasier to follow the laser point into a designated holding area. Frasier had shown in training sessions (after the initial data were collected) that he would follow the laser point several feet in any direction when the trainer was stationary.  However, he would not follow the laser from across the exhibit; he needed to be directly in front of the trainer before he would initiate targeting.\n\nThe first several attempts at shifting using a laser pointer (primary trainer only) showed that Frasier would not follow the laser through a doorway. Because he would not<img class="alignright size-large wp-image-2651" title="crane1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/crane1-588x1024.jpg" alt="crane1" width="411" height="716" /> complete the shifting behavior using the laser as the only cue, several others were attempted. Frasier responded very well to a variety of sensory cues – calling his name, tapping, walking through holding areas, facing him, walking ahead of him. In retrospect, successive approximations could have been used to shift Frasier into the holding area using only the laser. However, the time lapse between the failed attempt to shift with the laser and successfully using other cues was only one day. Once inside, he could be positively reinforced with insects or his normal diet by performing the original target behavior with the laser pointer. He performed the shifting behavior equally well for each of the trainers. While release from holding areas still caused an elevated amount of excited behaviors, immediate aggression upon release was not seen. When training for the shifting behavior began, Frasier proved that the simplest method would not be the most effective. In actuality, various other sensory cues (auditory and visual) became the primary training tools, while the laser became obsolete for the shifting behavior.\n\nBecause all of the previous training was carried out with a barrier between Frasier and me, desensitization to human contact required…\n\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Behavioral Management of a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum) Through Laser Pointer Training', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2649-autosave', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:25:52', '2012-12-02 15:25:52', '', 2649, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2649-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2656, 2, '2012-12-02 10:22:54', '2012-12-02 15:22:54', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-378" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="317" height="68" /></p>\r\n\r\n<em>By\r\nDara Girsch, African Animal Keeper\r\nThe Living Desert Zoo &amp; Gardens\r\nPalm Desert, CA</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction</strong>\r\n\r\nFor several years, “Frasier,” a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (<em>Balearica regulorum</em>), has exhibited frequent aggression towards his keepers. These displays would often culminate in Frasier injuring a keeper or himself. The previous method for managing these behaviors was to bring in a tool for protection or restrain Frasier and place him in a holding area. Neither of these methods was especially effective, as Frasier would attack the tool relentlessly or increase the intensity of aggression upon release from holding areas.\r\n\r\nI set out, with a team of two additional keepers, to train Frasier to target to a laser pointer as a method of focusing his attention away from keepers and reduce the number of threatening displays. This became a transition to a routine shifting behavior into a holding area, taking a previously negative situation and positively reinforcing his time in holding. These initial behaviors, coupled with a newfound working relationship between Frasier and myself, led to the ability to begin desensitization and to train station behavior.\r\n\r\n<strong>Process</strong>\r\n\r\nEstablishing the intended behavior of targeting to the laser pointer (Figure 1) was accomplished using basic positive reinforcement techniques. A notable step in eliciting this behavior was to take a step back, literally. When training first began, I was standing directly at the exhibit perimeter. Because male cranes are highly territorial (Ellis et al., 1996), my position at the fence was likely instigating his aggression and his attention was on me, not the laser point. When I began training from several feet away, he instantly focused his attention towards the laser. Researching specifics of crane behavior and accounting for Frasier’s personality allowed me to adapt training methods to his ability, giving a greater probability for success.\r\n\r\nSeveral different colors of lasers were tested to see if Frasier responded more to a certain color. Birds have been hypothesized to see twice as many colors as humans throughout the spectrum, and Gruiformes are known to be able to see into the violet range of wavelengths, down to 406 nm (Odeen and Hastad, 2003). A purple laser (wavelength = 405nm, 5mW) was tested, as well as green (wavelength = 532nm, 5 mW), red-orange (wavelength = 735nm, 5mW) and red (wavelength = 650nm, 5mW). Frasier targeted equally well to all of the colors. The green laser was chosen because it was the brightest for the trainer to see in daylight, to ensure that the trainer knew where it was pointed. In the future, laser colors can be used interchangeably to stimulate visual acuity and sustain novelty.\r\n\r\nThe location of the training sessions was kept consistent, a shady area on exhibit where the laser could most easily be seen, for Frasier and the trainer. Also taken into consideration was the fact that this section of the exhibit was not frequented by keepers, so it could be recognized specifically as a training area.  To begin, with the trainer kneeling several feet away (at a pre-determined point, kept consistent) so as to be non-threatening, the laser was pointed approximately a foot away from Frasier’s’ feet on either side. Once he pecked at it, the laser was immediately turned off as the bridge, a verbal ‘good,’ was given. Frasier was then tossed his reinforcement (crickets or mealworms) through the fence.\r\n\r\nSix weeks were spent gathering initial data: the number of times Frasier targeted per session and the number of aggressive displays he exhibited during each session. The aggressive behavior under scrutiny was the “ruffle-bow,” a low level threat display, “in which the crane elevates its feathers and slowly, at first, ruffles its plumage until at length the whole body is rapidly shaking” (Ellis et al., 1996). Training sessions were kept very short – under a minute. Frasier was required to target to the laser in less than ten seconds, with five attempts per session. This was to accomplish the desired targeting behavior before any frustration or diverted attention could occur that would lead to belligerent behaviors.\r\n\r\nThere was a wide discrepancy in the consistency of executing the targeting behavior between each of the trainers.  Frasier targeted during 100% of the attempts with his primary trainer, and exhibited very few aggressive behaviors – an average of 0.1 aggressive occurrences per session over the six week period. For the second trainer, he targeted during 98% of the attempts, but exhibited the ‘ruffle-bow’ display during every session. For the third trainer, Frasier again showed little aggression but successfully targeted less than 50% of the time. It was known before training began that the levels of aggression from Frasier varied greatly for each trainer, regardless of the situational circumstances. The behaviors and their frequency towards each trainer mirrored those observed during everyday servicing of the exhibit.\r\n\r\nBecause of the variation in successful training and aggression, it was decided that in order to effectively eliminate Frasier’s aggression from affecting keepers, he should be trained to shift into a holding area.\r\n\r\nThe original method for shifting was simply for Frasier to follow the laser point into a designated holding area. Frasier had shown in training sessions (after the initial data were collected) that he would follow the laser point several feet in any direction when the trainer was stationary.  However, he would not follow the laser from across the exhibit; he needed to be directly in front of the trainer before he would initiate targeting.\r\n\r\nThe first several attempts at shifting using a laser pointer (primary trainer only) showed that Frasier would not follow the laser through a doorway. Because he would not<img class="alignright size-large wp-image-2651" title="crane1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/crane1-588x1024.jpg" alt="crane1" width="588" height="1024" /> complete the shifting behavior using the laser as the only cue, several others were attempted. Frasier responded very well to a variety of sensory cues – calling his name, tapping, walking through holding areas, facing him, walking ahead of him. In retrospect, successive approximations could have been used to shift Frasier into the holding area using only the laser. However, the time lapse between the failed attempt to shift with the laser and successfully using other cues was only one day. Once inside, he could be positively reinforced with insects or his normal diet by performing the original target behavior with the laser pointer. He performed the shifting behavior equally well for each of the trainers. While release from holding areas still caused an elevated amount of excited behaviors, immediate aggression upon release was not seen. When training for the shifting behavior began, Frasier proved that the simplest method would not be the most effective. In actuality, various other sensory cues (auditory and visual) became the primary training tools, while the laser became obsolete for the shifting behavior.\r\n\r\nBecause all of the previous training was carried out with a barrier between Frasier and me, desensitization to human contact required…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Behavioral Management of a 1.0 East African Crowned Crane (Balearica regulorum) Through Laser Pointer Training', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2649-revision-4', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:22:54', '2012-12-02 15:22:54', '', 2649, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2649-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2657, 2, '2012-12-02 10:41:34', '2012-12-02 15:41:34', '<em>By\r\nCaitlin Capistron\r\nAnimal Keeper I\r\nHonolulu Zoo, Honolulu, HI</em>\r\n\r\n<strong> Introduction and Background</strong>\r\n\r\nFoot problems are a relatively common occurrence in captive rhinoceros, and while vertical nail cracks can resolve on their own, intervention can decrease the healing time, prevent further problems from developing, and provide for a positive training interaction for the animal (Jacobsen, 2002).\r\n\r\nThe Honolulu Zoo houses 1.1 black rhinoceros and recently housed 1.0 white rhinoceros (<em>Ceratotherium simum</em>). The black rhinoceroses are exhibited together year-round in a 1,022 square meter [11,000 square foot] compact dirt yard, and were housed separately overnight in 56 square meter [600 square foot] barns with concrete flooring.  The white rhinoceros was exhibited in a 3,057 square meter [32,900 square foot] compact dirt mixed-species exhibit with 2.2 reticulated giraffe (<em>Giraffa camelopardalis</em>) and 1.1 Grant’s zebra (<em>Equus burchelli</em>), and had access overnight to a 53 square meter [570 square foot] barn with concrete flooring, a 73 square meter [780 square foot] pen with compact dirt, and the exhibit.\r\n\r\nSince acquisition of the male black rhino, Corky, in 1999, he has had periodic foot problems, specifically vertical cracking of the lateral nails. Foot problems have not been noted in the female black rhino, Satsuki, or the male white rhino, Kruger. Treatment of Corky’s feet was opportunistic at best, and involved application of antiseptic solutions. Nail cracks would appear to grow out, though reoccur frequently. When cracks occurred again in June 2010 on the lateral nails of Corky’s front right and rear left feet, the splitting was more extensive, and extended the full length of the nails up to the coronary band (see Photos 1 &amp; 2). Honolulu Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Ben Okimoto consulted with veterinary staff at the White Oak Conservation Center, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and St. Louis Zoo to determine a treatment plan.\r\n\r\n<img class="size-full wp-image-2658 alignleft" title="rhino_feet" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/rhino_feet.jpg" alt="rhino_feet" width="700" height="282" />\r\n\r\nIt was hypothesized that a primary reason that Corky was experiencing foot problems, and the other rhinos were not, was related to Corky’s overnight housing. In contrast to our other two rhinos, Corky defecated in his barn then appeared to pace in his barn overnight, thereby covering his feet in wet fecal matter. Nail cracks can develop when the natural waterproof layer of the hooves (periople) is disrupted by excess moisture or dryness. We believe that excess moisture, in combination with a thinning of the nail walls caused by lying on concrete and compact dirt surfaces, compromised Corky’s nails. Mineral deficiencies were also considered, but because Corky was not yet trained to accept voluntary blood draws, we were unable to pursue this possibility in the short-term.\r\n\r\n<strong>Husbandry and Treatment</strong>\r\n\r\nStarting in November 2010, Corky’s overnight routine was changed. He was given access to one 28 square meter [300 square foot] barn stall, but rather than locking him into the barn, he was given overnight access to the exhibit yard and a 40 square meter [485 square foot] pen with compact sand. It was noted immediately that not only was Corky not pacing overnight in fecal matter in the barn, but also he was calmer overall.\r\n\r\nFor all foot treatments, a minimum of two people was utilized. Usually, a volunteer focused on feeding Corky his daily produce ration while a keeper worked on Corky’s nails. In most cases a third person, usually a volunteer, fed Satsuki at some distance from Corky and attempted to keep her from interrupting with Corky’s treatment. Our set-up to work with the black rhinos consisted of nine meters [30 feet] of vertical bars placed about 0.2 meter [nine inches] apart at the rear of the exhibit (see Photo 3). While we had some success with stationing Satsuki perpendicular to the bars at one end and stationing Corky parallel to the bars at the other end, this arrangement required the rhinos to be in close proximity to one another. Additionally, in order to access both sides of Corky, he was required to turn around and reposition, and brought him in even closer proximity to Satsuki. This often resulted in Satsuki bullying Corky away from the area to monopolize treats and attention. To address this issue, the decision was made to repair a door to a four square meter [41 square feet] chute that up until this point had not been utilized by rhino keeper staff. Once the chute door was repaired, Corky could then enter the chute from the rear of the exhibit, and a set of vertical bars placed 0.3 meter [one foot] apart on both sides would allow staff to access both sides of Corky’s body (see Photo 4). Additionally, since there was no need for Corky to reposition and be near Satsuki, it reduced negative interactions with Satsuki and the overall time the treatment took. While Corky was nervous at first to enter the chute, staff was careful to work at Corky’s pace and keep his experience with the chute a positive one. Once Corky was comfortable entering and stationing calmly in the chute, one person fed Satsuki at one end of the exhibit bars while another two people worked with Corky positioned in the chute.\r\n\r\nOur foot care routine consisted of cleaning the nail cracks at least once daily: rinsing any mud and fecal matter off with water, then flushing the crack with hydrogen peroxide, then flushing the crack with Nolvasan®, then applying Betadine® to the crack and surrounding area. Approximately every two weeks, or as staff time allowed, corrective trimming was used to relieve pressure on the crack and to facilitate its correct growth. 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2659, 2, '2012-12-02 10:29:00', '2012-12-02 15:29:00', '<em>By\nCaitlin Capistron\nAnimal Keeper I\nHonolulu Zoo, Honolulu, HI</em>\n\n<strong> Introduction and Background</strong>\n\nFoot problems are a relatively common occurrence in captive rhinoceros, and while vertical nail cracks can resolve on their own, intervention can decrease the healing time, prevent further problems from developing, and provide for a positive training interaction for the animal (Jacobsen, 2002).\n\nThe Honolulu Zoo houses 1.1 black rhinoceros and recently housed 1.0 white rhinoceros (<em>Ceratotherium simum</em>). The black rhinoceroses are exhibited together year-round in a 1,022 square meter [11,000 square foot] compact dirt yard, and were housed separately overnight in 56 square meter [600 square foot] barns with concrete flooring.  The white rhinoceros was exhibited in a 3,057 square meter [32,900 square foot] compact dirt mixed-species exhibit with 2.2 reticulated giraffe (<em>Giraffa camelopardalis</em>) and 1.1 Grant’s zebra (<em>Equus burchelli</em>), and had access overnight to a 53 square meter [570 square foot] barn with concrete flooring, a 73 square meter [780 square foot] pen with compact dirt, and the exhibit.\n\nSince acquisition of the male black rhino, Corky, in 1999, he has had periodic foot problems, specifically vertical cracking of the lateral nails. Foot problems have not been noted in the female black rhino, Satsuki, or the male white rhino, Kruger. Treatment of Corky’s feet was opportunistic at best, and involved application of antiseptic solutions. Nail cracks would appear to grow out, though reoccur frequently. When cracks occurred again in June 2010 on the lateral nails of Corky’s front right and rear left feet, the splitting was more extensive, and extended the full length of the nails up to the coronary band (see Photos 1 &amp; 2). Honolulu Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Ben Okimoto consulted with veterinary staff at the White Oak Conservation Center, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and St. Louis Zoo to determine a treatment plan.\n\nIt was hypothesized that a primary reason that Corky was experiencing foot problems, and the other rhinos were not, was related to Corky’s overnight housing. In contrast to our other two rhinos, Corky defecated in his barn then appeared to pace in his barn overnight, thereby covering his feet in wet fecal matter. Nail cracks can develop when the natural waterproof layer of the hooves (periople) is disrupted by excess moisture or dryness. We believe that excess moisture, in combination with a thinning of the nail walls caused by lying on concrete and compact dirt surfaces, compromised Corky’s nails. Mineral deficiencies were also considered, but because Corky was not yet trained to accept voluntary blood draws, we were unable to pursue this possibility in the short-term.\n\n<strong>Husbandry and Treatment</strong>\n\nStarting in November 2010, Corky’s overnight routine was changed. He was given access to one 28 square meter [300 square foot] barn stall, but rather than locking him into the barn, he was given overnight access to the exhibit yard and a 40 square meter [485 square foot] pen with compact sand. It was noted immediately that not only was Corky not pacing overnight in fecal matter in the barn, but also he was calmer overall.\n\nFor all foot treatments, a minimum of two people was utilized. Usually, a volunteer focused on feeding Corky his daily produce ration while a keeper worked on Corky’s nails. In most cases a third person, usually a volunteer, fed Satsuki at some distance from Corky and attempted to keep her from interrupting with Corky’s treatment. Our set-up to work with the black rhinos consisted of nine meters [30 feet] of vertical bars placed about 0.2 meter [nine inches] apart at the rear of the exhibit (see Photo 3). While we had some success with stationing Satsuki perpendicular to the bars at one end and stationing Corky parallel to the bars at the other end, this arrangement required the rhinos to be in close proximity to one another. Additionally, in order to access both sides of Corky, he was required to turn around and reposition, and brought him in even closer proximity to Satsuki. This often resulted in Satsuki bullying Corky away from the area to monopolize treats and attention. To address this issue, the decision was made to repair a door to a four square meter [41 square feet] chute that up until this point had not been utilized by rhino keeper staff. Once the chute door was repaired, Corky could then enter the chute from the rear of the exhibit, and a set of vertical bars placed 0.3 meter [one foot] apart on both sides would allow staff to access both sides of Corky’s body (see Photo 4). Additionally, since there was no need for Corky to reposition and be near Satsuki, it reduced negative interactions with Satsuki and the overall time the treatment took. While Corky was nervous at first to enter the chute, staff was careful to work at Corky’s pace and keep his experience with the chute a positive one. Once Corky was comfortable entering and stationing calmly in the chute, one person fed Satsuki at one end of the exhibit bars while another two people worked with Corky positioned in the chute.\n\nOur foot care routine consisted of cleaning the nail cracks at least once daily: rinsing any mud and fecal matter off with water, then flushing the crack with hydrogen peroxide, then flushing the crack with Nolvasan®, then applying Betadine® to the crack and surrounding area. Approximately every two weeks, or as staff time allowed, corrective trimming was used to relieve pressure on the crack and to facilitate its correct growth. Fortunately, one of our Mammal Department supervisors…\n<div><strong><em><span>Want to read the rest of this article?  For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. </span><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong></div>', 'Successful Treatment of Nail Cracks for a Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2657-revision', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:29:00', '2012-12-02 15:29:00', '', 2657, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2657-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2660, 2, '2012-12-02 10:42:39', '2012-12-02 15:42:39', '<em>By\nCaitlin Capistron\nAnimal Keeper I\nHonolulu Zoo, Honolulu, HI</em>\n\n<strong> Introduction and Background</strong>\n\nFoot problems are a relatively common occurrence in captive rhinoceros, and while vertical nail cracks can resolve on their own, intervention can decrease the healing time, prevent further problems from developing, and provide for a positive training interaction for the animal (Jacobsen, 2002).\n\nThe Honolulu Zoo houses 1.1 black rhinoceros and recently housed 1.0 white rhinoceros (<em>Ceratotherium simum</em>). The black rhinoceroses are exhibited together year-round in a 1,022 square meter [11,000 square foot] compact dirt yard, and were housed separately overnight in 56 square meter [600 square foot] barns with concrete flooring.  The white rhinoceros was exhibited in a 3,057 square meter [32,900 square foot] compact dirt mixed-species exhibit with 2.2 reticulated giraffe (<em>Giraffa camelopardalis</em>) and 1.1 Grant’s zebra (<em>Equus burchelli</em>), and had access overnight to a 53 square meter [570 square foot] barn with concrete flooring, a 73 square meter [780 square foot] pen with compact dirt, and the exhibit.\n\nSince acquisition of the male black rhino, Corky, in 1999, he has had periodic foot problems, specifically vertical cracking of the lateral nails. Foot problems have not been noted in the female black rhino, Satsuki, or the male white rhino, Kruger. Treatment of Corky’s feet was opportunistic at best, and involved application of antiseptic solutions. Nail cracks would appear to grow out, though reoccur frequently. When cracks occurred again in June 2010 on the lateral nails of Corky’s front right and rear left feet, the splitting was more extensive, and extended the full length of the nails up to the coronary band (see Photos 1 &amp; 2). Honolulu Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Ben Okimoto consulted with veterinary staff at the White Oak Conservation Center, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and St. Louis Zoo to determine a treatment plan.\n\n<img class="size-full wp-image-2658 alignleft" title="rhino_feet" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/rhino_feet.jpg" alt="rhino_feet" width="1000" height="282" />\n\nIt was hypothesized that a primary reason that Corky was experiencing foot problems, and the other rhinos were not, was related to Corky’s overnight housing. In contrast to our other two rhinos, Corky defecated in his barn then appeared to pace in his barn overnight, thereby covering his feet in wet fecal matter. Nail cracks can develop when the natural waterproof layer of the hooves (periople) is disrupted by excess moisture or dryness. We believe that excess moisture, in combination with a thinning of the nail walls caused by lying on concrete and compact dirt surfaces, compromised Corky’s nails. Mineral deficiencies were also considered, but because Corky was not yet trained to accept voluntary blood draws, we were unable to pursue this possibility in the short-term.\n\n<strong>Husbandry and Treatment</strong>\n\nStarting in November 2010, Corky’s overnight routine was changed. He was given access to one 28 square meter [300 square foot] barn stall, but rather than locking him into the barn, he was given overnight access to the exhibit yard and a 40 square meter [485 square foot] pen with compact sand. It was noted immediately that not only was Corky not pacing overnight in fecal matter in the barn, but also he was calmer overall.\n\nFor all foot treatments, a minimum of two people was utilized. Usually, a volunteer focused on feeding Corky his daily produce ration while a keeper worked on Corky’s nails. In most cases a third person, usually a volunteer, fed Satsuki at some distance from Corky and attempted to keep her from interrupting with Corky’s treatment. Our set-up to work with the black rhinos consisted of nine meters [30 feet] of vertical bars placed about 0.2 meter [nine inches] apart at the rear of the exhibit (see Photo 3). While we had some success with stationing Satsuki perpendicular to the bars at one end and stationing Corky parallel to the bars at the other end, this arrangement required the rhinos to be in close proximity to one another. Additionally, in order to access both sides of Corky, he was required to turn around and reposition, and brought him in even closer proximity to Satsuki. This often resulted in Satsuki bullying Corky away from the area to monopolize treats and attention. To address this issue, the decision was made to repair a door to a four square meter [41 square feet] chute that up until this point had not been utilized by rhino keeper staff. Once the chute door was repaired, Corky could then enter the chute from the rear of the exhibit, and a set of vertical bars placed 0.3 meter [one foot] apart on both sides would allow staff to access both sides of Corky’s body (see Photo 4). Additionally, since there was no need for Corky to reposition and be near Satsuki, it reduced negative interactions with Satsuki and the overall time the treatment took. While Corky was nervous at first to enter the chute, staff was careful to work at Corky’s pace and keep his experience with the chute a positive one. Once Corky was comfortable entering and stationing calmly in the chute, one person fed Satsuki at one end of the exhibit bars while another two people worked with Corky positioned in the chute.\n\nOur foot care routine consisted of cleaning the nail cracks at least once daily: rinsing any mud and fecal matter off with water, then flushing the crack with hydrogen peroxide, then flushing the crack with Nolvasan®, then applying Betadine® to the crack and surrounding area. Approximately every two weeks, or as staff time allowed, corrective trimming was used to relieve pressure on the crack and to facilitate its correct growth. Fortunately, one of our Mammal Department supervisors…\n<div><strong><em><span>Want to read the rest of this article?  For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. </span><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong></div>', 'Successful Treatment of Nail Cracks for a Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2657-autosave', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:42:39', '2012-12-02 15:42:39', '', 2657, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2657-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2661, 2, '2012-12-02 10:41:34', '2012-12-02 15:41:34', '<em>By\r\nCaitlin Capistron\r\nAnimal Keeper I\r\nHonolulu Zoo, Honolulu, HI</em>\r\n\r\n<strong> Introduction and Background</strong>\r\n\r\nFoot problems are a relatively common occurrence in captive rhinoceros, and while vertical nail cracks can resolve on their own, intervention can decrease the healing time, prevent further problems from developing, and provide for a positive training interaction for the animal (Jacobsen, 2002).\r\n\r\nThe Honolulu Zoo houses 1.1 black rhinoceros and recently housed 1.0 white rhinoceros (<em>Ceratotherium simum</em>). The black rhinoceroses are exhibited together year-round in a 1,022 square meter [11,000 square foot] compact dirt yard, and were housed separately overnight in 56 square meter [600 square foot] barns with concrete flooring.  The white rhinoceros was exhibited in a 3,057 square meter [32,900 square foot] compact dirt mixed-species exhibit with 2.2 reticulated giraffe (<em>Giraffa camelopardalis</em>) and 1.1 Grant’s zebra (<em>Equus burchelli</em>), and had access overnight to a 53 square meter [570 square foot] barn with concrete flooring, a 73 square meter [780 square foot] pen with compact dirt, and the exhibit.\r\n\r\nSince acquisition of the male black rhino, Corky, in 1999, he has had periodic foot problems, specifically vertical cracking of the lateral nails. Foot problems have not been noted in the female black rhino, Satsuki, or the male white rhino, Kruger. Treatment of Corky’s feet was opportunistic at best, and involved application of antiseptic solutions. Nail cracks would appear to grow out, though reoccur frequently. When cracks occurred again in June 2010 on the lateral nails of Corky’s front right and rear left feet, the splitting was more extensive, and extended the full length of the nails up to the coronary band (see Photos 1 &amp; 2). Honolulu Zoo Veterinarian Dr. Ben Okimoto consulted with veterinary staff at the White Oak Conservation Center, San Diego Wild Animal Park, and St. Louis Zoo to determine a treatment plan.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2658" title="rhino_feet" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/rhino_feet.jpg" alt="rhino_feet" width="1000" height="404" />\r\n\r\nIt was hypothesized that a primary reason that Corky was experiencing foot problems, and the other rhinos were not, was related to Corky’s overnight housing. In contrast to our other two rhinos, Corky defecated in his barn then appeared to pace in his barn overnight, thereby covering his feet in wet fecal matter. Nail cracks can develop when the natural waterproof layer of the hooves (periople) is disrupted by excess moisture or dryness. We believe that excess moisture, in combination with a thinning of the nail walls caused by lying on concrete and compact dirt surfaces, compromised Corky’s nails. Mineral deficiencies were also considered, but because Corky was not yet trained to accept voluntary blood draws, we were unable to pursue this possibility in the short-term.\r\n\r\n<strong>Husbandry and Treatment</strong>\r\n\r\nStarting in November 2010, Corky’s overnight routine was changed. He was given access to one 28 square meter [300 square foot] barn stall, but rather than locking him into the barn, he was given overnight access to the exhibit yard and a 40 square meter [485 square foot] pen with compact sand. It was noted immediately that not only was Corky not pacing overnight in fecal matter in the barn, but also he was calmer overall.\r\n\r\nFor all foot treatments, a minimum of two people was utilized. Usually, a volunteer focused on feeding Corky his daily produce ration while a keeper worked on Corky’s nails. In most cases a third person, usually a volunteer, fed Satsuki at some distance from Corky and attempted to keep her from interrupting with Corky’s treatment. Our set-up to work with the black rhinos consisted of nine meters [30 feet] of vertical bars placed about 0.2 meter [nine inches] apart at the rear of the exhibit (see Photo 3). While we had some success with stationing Satsuki perpendicular to the bars at one end and stationing Corky parallel to the bars at the other end, this arrangement required the rhinos to be in close proximity to one another. Additionally, in order to access both sides of Corky, he was required to turn around and reposition, and brought him in even closer proximity to Satsuki. This often resulted in Satsuki bullying Corky away from the area to monopolize treats and attention. To address this issue, the decision was made to repair a door to a four square meter [41 square feet] chute that up until this point had not been utilized by rhino keeper staff. Once the chute door was repaired, Corky could then enter the chute from the rear of the exhibit, and a set of vertical bars placed 0.3 meter [one foot] apart on both sides would allow staff to access both sides of Corky’s body (see Photo 4). Additionally, since there was no need for Corky to reposition and be near Satsuki, it reduced negative interactions with Satsuki and the overall time the treatment took. While Corky was nervous at first to enter the chute, staff was careful to work at Corky’s pace and keep his experience with the chute a positive one. Once Corky was comfortable entering and stationing calmly in the chute, one person fed Satsuki at one end of the exhibit bars while another two people worked with Corky positioned in the chute.\r\n\r\nOur foot care routine consisted of cleaning the nail cracks at least once daily: rinsing any mud and fecal matter off with water, then flushing the crack with hydrogen peroxide, then flushing the crack with Nolvasan®, then applying Betadine® to the crack and surrounding area. Approximately every two weeks, or as staff time allowed, corrective trimming was used to relieve pressure on the crack and to facilitate its correct growth. Fortunately, one of our Mammal Department supervisors…\r\n<div><strong><em><span>Want to read the rest of this article?  For this and many more fascinating articles every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum.  AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. </span><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join/">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong></div>', 'Successful Treatment of Nail Cracks for a Black Rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2657-revision-2', '', '', '2012-12-02 10:41:34', '2012-12-02 15:41:34', '', 2657, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2657-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2662, 2, '2011-11-11 10:14:26', '2011-11-11 15:14:26', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2012</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\n<em>The AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award, The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award, The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (LA), the Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award, The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE), The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER), the Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA), and The Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award(CMC). </em>\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2012 AAZK National Conference in Syracuse, NY. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May 2012</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May 2012</strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2011 awards.pdf">2011 Award Recipients</a></strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2011-11-11 10:14:26', '2011-11-11 15:14:26', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-47/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2756, 2, '2013-01-18 17:38:18', '2013-01-18 22:38:18', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\nCheck the calendar below to see if there is a local event in your area.\r\n\r\n<iframe src="https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?showTz=0&amp;height=480&amp;wkst=1&amp;bgcolor=%23996633&amp;src=i632h1mj6669n3peqanca9mjmo%40group.calendar.google.com&amp;color=%23B1440E&amp;ctz=America%2FPhoenix" style=" border:solid 1px #777 " width="640" height="480" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe>\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so <a href="http://flexlists.com/key/UoUJMn9eR794LYxcc9jnQzPY3fBSal1FgCoOrKS3">here</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:38:18', '2013-01-18 22:38:18', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-56/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2682, 2, '2012-12-03 11:20:24', '2012-12-03 16:20:24', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2013</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Awards Committee recognizes excellence in the field of animal care through its awards. The Committee develops the awards\' criteria, nominating procedure, qualifications for nominees, selection procedure and recognizes award\'s recipients each year at the National Conference.\r\n\r\n<strong>Nominations</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>The AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award, The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award, The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (LA), the Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award, The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE), The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER), the Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA), and The Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award(CMC). </em>\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2012 AAZK National Conference in Syracuse, NY. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May </strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2011 awards.pdf">2011 Award Recipients</a></strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-03 11:20:24', '2012-12-03 16:20:24', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-48/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2683, 2, '2010-05-06 15:36:15', '2010-05-06 20:36:15', '<h3>Grants Committee Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1257" title="shelly-roach" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/shelly-roach-150x150.jpg" alt="shelly-roach" width="150" height="150" /> Shelly Roach - <em>Columbus Zoo and Aquarium</em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe purpose of the AAZK Grants Committee is to encourage and support the professional development and conservation involvement of AAZK members. Additionally, AAZK is committed to supporting and encouraging research conducted by members in zoological parks and aquariums.\r\n<h3>Grants Offered</h3>\r\n<strong><em>(Deadlines for all grants is 01 March)</em></strong>\r\n<h4>The AAZK  Professional Travel Grant</h4>\r\nThe AAZK Professional Travel Grant is designed to assist AAZK members with costs associated with attending professional meetings or workshops, or, participating in field research.\r\n<h4>The AAZK/AZA Advances in Animal Keeping Course Grant</h4>\r\n<dd>The AAZK/AZA Advances in Animal Keeping Course Grant is designed to assist AAZK members with costs associated with attending the Advances in Animal Keeping Course offered through AZA.</dd>\r\n<h4>The AAZK Conservation, Preservation and Restoration Grant</h4>\r\nThe purpose of the AAZK CPR Committee\'s Zoo Keeper Grant in Conservation is to encourage and support efforts in conservation conducted by AAZK members in zoological parks and aquariums around the world.\r\n<h4>The AAZK Research Grant</h4>\r\nThe purpose of the AAZK Research Committee\'s Zoo Keeper Grant in Research is to encourage and support efforts in non-invasive research conducted by AAZK members in zoological parks and aquariums around the world.\r\n<h3>Qualifications</h3>\r\nFull-time keepers/aquarists in zoological parks and aquariums, who are  professional members of AAZK, INC. in good standing, are eligible to receive grants. Researchers other than zoo keepers may participate in the funded studies. The principal investigator, however, must be a keeper/aquarist.\r\n\r\nApplication instructions and the grant applications can be found in the <a href="/members/">Members Only section</a> of the website. Examples of past grants are listed below to give members a better idea of the types of projects that have been funded in the past.\r\n<h3>Examples of Past Grants</h3>\r\n<h4>Research Grants</h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/grant_blood_typing.pdf">Cataloguing Blood Types for SSP Populations of Great Apes</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/grant_project_penguin.pdf">Project Penguin: Semen Collection</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h4>Conservation, Restoration, and Preservation Grants</h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/grant_river_otter_survey.pdf">North American River Otter Latrine Site Survey</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h4>Travel Grants</h4>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/grant_amphibian_keeper_course.pdf">Amphibians, their current status, and an important AZA course for any amphibian keeper</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/grant_awards-_2008.pdf">2008 Grant Awards</a></strong>\r\n<h3>Restrictions</h3>\r\nThe Grants Committee will not fund any invasive biological studies, or any study that may cause an animal undue or prolonged discomfort or harm. Travel grants are awarded based on the applicant\'s experience and dedication to the zoo/aquarium field, the value of the travel objective to the member and their institution, as well as the Grant Committee\'s assessment of the  conservation/research value of the program the applicant will be participating in.\r\n\r\nThe Research Grant Database is in Adobe PDF format. If you do not have\r\nAdobe Acrobat Reader, please download the free software <a href="http://get.adobe.com/reader/">here</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/research_grant_database.pdf">Research Grant Database</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>The purpose of this international database is to provide information on organizations that offer outside grants for animal related research, conservation, and educational purposes. The database will be updated annually and new information added as it arises.</strong>', 'Grants', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '14-revision-v1', '', '', '2010-05-06 15:36:15', '2010-05-06 20:36:15', '', 14, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/14-revision-19/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2684, 2, '2012-04-05 16:22:14', '2012-04-05 21:22:14', '<h4><img class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-1602" title="pbi_logo" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pbi_logo-300x247.jpg" alt="pbi_logo" width="144" height="118" />The American Association of Zoo Keepers and Polar Bears International are working together as Conservation Partners towards the conservation of polar bears, the Arctic ecosystem, and spreading our conservation <img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-1606" title="polar_bears" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/polar_bears-300x194.jpg" alt="polar_bears" width="300" height="194" />messages on the effects of climate change.  Our Associations have developed three key programs towards these goals, Leadership Camp, Acres for the Atmosphere, and Trees for You and Me.  AAZK, PBI, and the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources have also teamed together to create the Polar Bear Forest.  Why are forests so important to polar bears?</h4>\r\n<!--more-->\r\n<strong>Reforestation:</strong>\r\n\r\nThough it might not seem obvious at first, planting trees helps conserve polar bear habitat in the arctic. Trees act as "carbon sinks" and absorb carbon out of the air and convert it into plant material. Trees sequester this carbon in roots, trunks, stems and leaves while they grow, and in wood products after they are harvested. That means planting trees, whether in a rural or an urban setting, helps reduce carbon in the atmosphere. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain Arctic ice longer and to improve polar bear habitat and survival.   Reforestation positively affects climate change and provides wildlife habitat, helping all of the species that AAZK members are so passionate to conserve.  Referenced from <a href="http://dnr.wi.gov/forestry/PolarBear/">http://dnr.wi.gov/forestry/PolarBear/</a>.\r\n\r\n<strong>Zoo Keeper Leadership camp:</strong>\r\n\r\nThis week-long camp brings together a motivated group of keepers who reach a wide audience with AAZK’s  conservation messages.  Keepers carry a unique cachet with zoo guests. Zoo industry research indicates that zoo visitors consider the conservation messages conveyed by<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1768" title="pbi_leadership_camp11" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pbi_leadership_camp11.jpg" alt="pbi_leadership_camp11" width="247" height="378" /> Keepers to be the preferred and most credible sources of conservation education.  Through education programs that are current, scientifically-based, fun, informative, retainable, and action-shaping, keepers inspire their public to pitch in to reduce carbon emissions.  This camp is open to keepers affiliated with PBI’s Arctic Ambassador Centers around the world, and professional members of AAZK.  It is designed to inform, inspire, and empower keepers with information and tools to motivate their constituents.  This camp is focused on communication and presentation skills, creative planning, and program execution especially with regard to climate change and its effects on polar bears.  The camp enhances professional skills and promotes networking with peers while providing access to renowned field scientists, educators, and community members.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://campaign.r20.constantcontact.com/render?llr=kkcxmrdab&amp;v=001Msfh5C4b-aeFh2IiqMjGHJoJfQHI1Y5J8aCz9C_Xl04vgMHlaztDS6BWRlS4may8eQhoEtyd_8A-CaAHNNaVZkl7ZZbK6D4PHoNxykJ7iF1fyZ6alSCdPJlhRdqw92CdcUsM4Ar-As_e0iNUN2z43Q%3D%3D">PBI October 2010 newsletter.</a>\r\n\r\nFor more information, contact <a href="mailto:shane.good@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">shane.good@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n<a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/pbi-leadership-camps/zoo-keeper-leadership-camp">http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/pbi-leadership-camps/zoo-keeper-leadership-camp</a>.\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n\r\n<em>\r\n</em>\r\n<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1623" title="ASquaredFinal" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/acres_atmos-300x288.jpg" alt="ASquaredFinal" width="180" height="173" /></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"></p>\r\n<p style="text-align: left;"><strong>Acres for the Atmosphere:</strong><strong></strong></p>\r\n\r\nGraduates of the 2009 Zoo Keeper Leadership Camp in Churchill, Manitoba created the initiative Acres for the Atmosphere (AFTA), both for <img class="alignleft size-medium wp-image-1649" title="marissa1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/marissa1-251x300.jpg" alt="marissa1" width="176" height="210" />conservation education and to take immediate action. With the continued support of PBI and AAZK, we intend to reduce the prevalence of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the earth’s atmosphere. Our initiative is designed around three objectives that will enable us to accomplish this goal. We will increase carbon sequestration by greening areas with vegetative plantings or trees, decrease CO2 emissions within our local communities, and raise awareness in our communities in order to curb our carbon addiction. Our program launches year to year in correspondence with each year’s Zoo Keeper Leadership Camp.  Keepers can get involved on both the individual and AAZK Chapter level.  Join us and lead your communities to a more sustainable future!  Please contact:  <a href="mailto:marissa.krouse@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">marissa.krouse@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information.\r\n\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1647" title="nc_group2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/nc_group2.jpg" alt="nc_group2" width="467" height="393" /><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1656" title="bagbear" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bagbear.jpg" alt="bagbear" width="479" height="396" />\r\n\r\n<img class="aligncenter size-full wp-image-1654" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Trees for You and Me:</strong>\r\n\r\nFor the second year, Trees for You and Me will be challenging AAZK chapters to raise money to plant trees. The initiative is an ongoing effort to help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, reduce individuals\' carbon footprints, and help polar bears by reversing the effects of global warming.\r\nThe highest-earning AAZK chapter will once again have a tree planted in its zoo or community for winning the competition.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-1661" title="brookfield" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/brookfield.jpg" alt="brookfield" width="357" height="535" /> But the heart and soul of the competition is really about the chapters\' dedication to conservation and stewardship. Not only will the funds help polar bears; Polar Bear Forests benefit wildlife habitat in the area and bring beauty to the landscape.\r\nYou can help! This year’s competition runs September 1, 2010 to March 1, 2011, and any DONATION you make will go directly to purchasing seedlings from the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (WDNR).  Polar Bears International (PBI) and WDNR are working together on the Polar Bear Forest campaign.\r\n<img class="size-medium wp-image-1658 alignleft" title="christy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/christy-270x300.jpg" alt="christy" width="216" height="240" />This year your $1 donation will actually plant more trees than last year! $1 = 3 seedlings, $5 = 15 seedlings. Planting a single tree can help, but planting a lot of trees can make a big difference. Imagine. You could support the planting of 150 trees for only $50! And on the donation form, you\'ll have the opportunity to identify which AAZK chapter you wish to support. No doubt, it will be the one affiliated with your favorite zoo!  For more information, please contact <a href="mailto:christy.mazrimas-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">christy.mazrimas-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\nTo donate or for more information, click here:<a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/trees-you-and-me-model-nation"> http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/programs/trees-you-and-me-model-nation</a>.\r\n\r\n“Trees for You and Me” AAZK Chapter Challenge Final Totals 2012\r\n\r\n<span style="font-size: small;">\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396"></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Milwaukee County Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$4,077.15<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Brookfield AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$4,060.53<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Columbus AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$3,175.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Philadelphia AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$2,000.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater New Jersey AAZK Alliance Chapter<span> </span>$1,535.80<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Cleveland - Cleveland Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$1,530.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Battle Creek AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$1,500.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Detroit AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$1,222.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Lincoln Park AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$1,139.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Tucson AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$1,000.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Baltimore Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$550.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Galveston Chapter fo the AAZK<span> </span>$500.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Lion Country Safari AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$500.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Birmingham Zoo Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$423.62<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">San Antonio Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$328.31<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Tampa Bay AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$325.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Tulsa AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$260.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Portland AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$255.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Orange County Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$250.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Houston AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$206.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Roger Williams Park Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$200.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Kansas City AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$180.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Chesapeake AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$175.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Southern Ontario Zoo Keepers AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$160.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Louisville Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$155.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Little Turtle AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$124.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">North Carolina AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$100.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">New England Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$94.50<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">North Carolina Piedmont AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$55.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Fort Worth Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$50.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Saint Louis AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$50.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">AAZK-Knoxville Zoo Chapter<span> </span>$30.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">AAZK of Cheyenne Mountain Zoo<span> </span>$25.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Memphis Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$25.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Minnesota Zoo AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$25.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Dallas Zoo Chapter of AAZK<span> </span>$20.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<table class="MsoNormalTable" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="396">Greater Orlando AAZK Chapter<span> </span>$20.00<span> </span></table>\r\n<div><strong><span>\r\n</span><span> </span><span>$26,325.91</span><span> </span><span> raised in total</span></strong></div>\r\n</span>\r\n<div>The AAZK competition ran through 1 March 2012.</div>', 'AAZK and Polar Bears International', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '1589-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-04-05 16:22:14', '2012-04-05 21:22:14', '', 1589, 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2686, 2, '2012-12-28 09:51:11', '2012-12-28 14:51:11', '<h1><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1654" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\n<div><strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong></div>\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International&amp;#174 gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\n<div></div>\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\n<div></div>\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:51:11', '2012-12-28 14:51:11', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2687, 2, '2012-12-28 09:51:21', '2012-12-28 14:51:21', '<h1><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1654" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<div><strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International&amp;#174 gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:51:21', '2012-12-28 14:51:21', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2690, 2, '2012-12-28 09:53:00', '2012-12-28 14:53:00', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International&amp;#174 gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:53:00', '2012-12-28 14:53:00', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2688, 2, '2014-08-18 17:17:39', '2014-08-18 22:17:39', '<h2>2015 Challenge</h2>\n<h4>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</h4>\n<img class="alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="180" /> Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition among AAZK Chapters.  It was launched by former PBI Ambassadors as a fundraising challenge to plant trees.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How does the Tree Planting Work?</h4>\nLocal AAZK Chapters compete with each other to raise funds. Each Chapter then has three options on how to apply the money they raise:\n<ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>They can use the funds in their own communities, by planting on the grounds of their own zoo or aquarium or by supporting a local tree-planting project. (If selected, this option should be coordinated with the <strong>Acres for the Atmosphere</strong> program).</li>\n	<li>They can donate the funds to <a href="http://Savenature.org">SaveNature.org</a>, an international tree-planting organization that works with tropical rainforests. With this option, the Chapter should talk about the importance of rainforests in combatting climate change as part of the fundraising process.</li>\n	<li>They can donate the funds to Polar Bear International in support of <strong>Acres for the Atmosphere</strong> projects.</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\nWhichever option is chosen, the funds must be spent on planting trees or on a related greening effort. The effort must also include an educational event that invites others to take part in additional conservation behaviors that reduce CO². Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but the most important is that it brings together in a green activity.  Community engagement - c<em>itizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future</em> - is a critical step in creating movement to stop our dependence on fossil fuels and stop global warming.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How will the Challenge Work?</h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>AAZK Chapters should register between October 1, 2014 and January 1, 2015 by sending the following information to <a href="http://acc@polarbearsinternational.org">ACC@polarbearsinternational.org</a>: the coordinator\'s name, the AAZK Chapter name, the affiliated zoo or aquarium, and the phone number and email address of the coordinator.</li>\n	<li>PBI will send communications about the Trees for You and Me effort to each Chapter\'s coordinator throughout the Challenge.</li>\n	<li>Chapters will report their results to PBI; periodic emails from PBI will announce the standings.</li>\n	<li>Chapters may follow the progress and results on the PBI and AAZK websites.</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\nFollowing the fundraising effort, Chapters will report on how they used the funds.  This includes sharing the effort with others through PBI\'s SOS Community Page (<a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/saveourseaice">http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/saveourseaice</a>) and by reporting through the Chapter re-chartering process.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start?</h4>\nThe Challenge will begin October 1, 2014.  The last date to register is January 1, 2015.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</h4>\nThe Challenge will end at midnight MST on March 2, 2015. Results will be reported shortly thereafter when all the donations have been recorded by PBI.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How can chapters raise and gather Challenge funds?</h4>\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, a night at a local hangout that allows a 50/50 raffle, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</h4>\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on December 31, and March 2, 2015.\n\nPBI will report on the status of the different chapters through an email sent to the AAZK Chapters and their coordinator.\n\nAAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media.\n\nPBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on December 31, 2014.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>What are the prizes?</h4>\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds donated by <strong>Midnight MST</strong> <strong>March 2, 2015</strong>, and were reported to PBI no later than March 4, 2015. The winning team receives a native  tree to plant in a public location with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100.\n\nIn addition,  challenge prize will be awarded to the team with most  funds donated by <strong>Midnight MST December 31, 2014</strong>  and reported to PBI by January 5, 2015, That  will receive a native bush to plant in a public location with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How do I start?</h4>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ol>\n	<li>Find a group and become a champion.</li>\n	<li>Make plans for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the Challenge, which officially runs from October 1, 2014 - March 2, 2015. (Although the competition begins on October 1, 2014, we\'ll do a second push and close the registration on January 1, 2015 since so many Chapters participate only in the spring.</li>\n	<li>Define roles and responsibilities including:</li>\n</ol>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>procedures for handling donations for your Chapter and Institution</li>\n	<li>reporting  to AAZK and PBI during the course of the Challenge.</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n<p style="padding-left: 150px;">Good luck on your efforts.</p>\n\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How will reporting work?</h4>\nEach participating AAZK Chapter is responsible for following National AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation as outlined in the re-chartering packet.\nPBI requests that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, the PBI community page, SOS Community Page.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>What is an example of an  <a href="http://www.acresfor%20the atmosphere.org">Acres for the Atmosphere</a> project?</h4>\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. Funds donated will support grant money for Acres for the Atmosphere plantings. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</h4>\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component. Saving tropical rainforest habitat, for example, impacts species and global climate change. AAZK recommends <a href="http://www.SaveNature.org">SaveNature.org </a> for tropical reforestation projects.\n<div class="hr"></div>\n<h4>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</h4>\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested.\n\nReducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival.\n\nConservation actions that reduce the production of greenhouse gases are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. Saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\n<ul>\n<ul>\n<ul>\n	<li>Don’t buy products with palm oil</li>\n	<li>Purchase shade-grown coffee</li>\n	<li>Eat less meat or purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</li>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n</ul>\n&nbsp;\n<h4>For More Information Contact:</h4>\n<strong>Trees for You and Me:</strong>\n\nChristy <a href="http://christy.mazrimus-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">christy.mazrimas-ott@aecetia.net/gws/aazk </a>or <a href="http://christy.mazrimus-ott@czs.org">christy.mazrimas-ott@czs.org</a>\n\nAAZK: Wendy Lenhart, Conservation Committee (Oversight) at Wendy.Lenhartaecetia.net/gws/aazk or lenhart.wendy@phillyzoo.org', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-autosave-v1', '', '', '2014-08-18 17:17:39', '2014-08-18 22:17:39', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2895, 2, '2012-12-28 10:25:42', '2012-12-28 15:25:42', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1></br></br>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n• Don’t buy products with palm oil\r\n• Purchase shade-grown coffee\r\n• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:25:42', '2012-12-28 15:25:42', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-18/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2700, 2, '2012-12-28 10:18:26', '2012-12-28 15:18:26', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n• Don’t buy products with palm oil\r\n• Purchase shade-grown coffee\r\n• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:18:26', '2012-12-28 15:18:26', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-14/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2694, 2, '2012-12-28 10:07:03', '2012-12-28 15:07:03', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n<strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>\r\n</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:07:03', '2012-12-28 15:07:03', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-8/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2693, 2, '2012-12-28 10:00:37', '2012-12-28 15:00:37', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:00:37', '2012-12-28 15:00:37', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-7/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2689, 2, '2012-12-28 09:52:05', '2012-12-28 14:52:05', '<h1><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1654" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International&amp;#174 gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:52:05', '2012-12-28 14:52:05', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2691, 2, '2012-12-28 09:54:09', '2012-12-28 14:54:09', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International&reg gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:54:09', '2012-12-28 14:54:09', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-5/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2692, 2, '2012-12-28 09:57:01', '2012-12-28 14:57:01', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" />2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Planting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the campaign work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong></div>\r\n<div><strong></strong>The campaign will begin January 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong></div>\r\n<div>The campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong></div>\r\n<div>We invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What are the prizes?</strong></div>\r\n<div>First place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How do I start?</strong></div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">1.  Find a group and become a champion</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">4. Good luck on your efforts.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;"></div>\r\n<div><strong>How will reporting work?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Each participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.</div>\r\n<div>PBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)</div>\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  <span style="font-family: mceinline;">Acres for the Atmosphere</span> project?</strong>\r\n<div>The Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div><em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em></div>\r\n<div>The primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Your Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.</div>\r\n<div></div>\r\n<div><strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong></div>\r\n<div>Trees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 09:57:01', '2012-12-28 14:57:01', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-6/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2695, 2, '2012-12-28 10:10:28', '2012-12-28 15:10:28', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</strong>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:10:28', '2012-12-28 15:10:28', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-9/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2696, 2, '2012-12-28 10:13:41', '2012-12-28 15:13:41', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:13:41', '2012-12-28 15:13:41', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-10/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2697, 2, '2012-12-28 10:14:23', '2012-12-28 15:14:23', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:14:23', '2012-12-28 15:14:23', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-11/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2699, 2, '2012-12-28 10:16:58', '2012-12-28 15:16:58', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:16:58', '2012-12-28 15:16:58', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-13/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2698, 2, '2012-12-28 10:14:59', '2012-12-28 15:14:59', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1></br>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.</div>\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Don’t buy products with palm oil</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase shade-grown coffee</div>\r\n<div style="padding-left: 30px;">• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests</div>', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:14:59', '2012-12-28 15:14:59', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-12/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2701, 2, '2012-12-28 10:19:00', '2012-12-28 15:19:00', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n• Don’t buy products with palm oil\r\n• Purchase shade-grown coffee\r\n• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:19:00', '2012-12-28 15:19:00', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-15/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2703, 2, '2012-12-28 10:24:54', '2012-12-28 15:24:54', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1>\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n• Don’t buy products with palm oil\r\n• Purchase shade-grown coffee\r\n• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:24:54', '2012-12-28 15:24:54', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-17/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2702, 2, '2012-12-28 10:19:38', '2012-12-28 15:19:38', '<h1><img class="size-full wp-image-1654 alignleft" title="trees_u_me" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/trees_u_me.jpg" alt="trees_u_me" width="286" height="284" /></h1>\r\n<h1>2013 Campaign</h1></br></br>\r\n\r\n\r\n<strong>What is “Trees for You &amp; Me”?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is a friendly competition launched by former PBI Field Ambassadors as a financial campaign to fund tree-planting. This year, the effort has a local focus. Rather than Polar Bears International® gathering the funds for a large tree planting with our partner, Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources-Forestry Division, we believe this year is a good year to draw attention to the benefits of urban tree-planting and the associated educational programming and awareness such events create.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is the “local effort”?</strong>\r\nPlanting trees in urban areas has distinct benefits, but most important is bringing the community together through engagement. Community engagement—citizens working collaboratively, through inspired action and learning, to create and realize bold visions for their common future, is a critical step in creating a movement to stop our dependence upon fossil fuels and stop global warming.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the campaign work?</strong>\r\nTrees for You &amp; Me is still a campaign to raise financial resources to plant trees.\r\n• The funding raised will stay in your local community, with your own insititution.\r\n• The funds must be spent on a tree-planting (or appropriate greening effort) and educational event to invite others to join you in additional conservation behaviors.\r\n• The effort should coordinate with Acres with the Atmosphere or it can be part of an international tree planting effort associated with another conservation program.\r\n• And finally, that effort should be shared with others through <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">PBI’s My Planet, My Part</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>When will Trees For You &amp; Me start? </strong>\r\nThe campaign will begin January 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">When will Trees For You &amp; Me end?</span>\r\nThe campaign will end midnight, PST on March 1, 2013.\r\n\r\n<span style="font-weight: bold;">How can chapters raise and gather campaign funds?</span>\r\nEach AAZK chapter can determine the way they want to raise money. Projects in the past have included bake sales, polar plunges, miniature golf events, garage sales, silent auctions, fun runs, spaghetti dinners, car washes, recycling programs, and more. The actual cash handling procedures will be the same you follow for other campaigns for your Chapter at your institution and reporting to AAZK similarly to Bowling for Rhinos in the re-charter packet.\r\n\r\n<strong>How will the winners be awarded and announced?</strong>\r\nWe invite teams to report the amount of funds raised to PBI on January 31, February 16 and March 2. PBI will report on the status of the different chapters by sharing a website with updates at the half- way point and at the end. AAZK will report on the status of the different chapters on its website and through social media. PBI will provide $25 towards the purchase of a bush for the team leading the charge at the half-way point on Febrauary 15, 2013.  PBI will give a $100 prize to the winning chapter to plant a tree. (A plaque is up to the institution.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What are the prizes?</strong>\r\nFirst place is awarded to the team with the most funds reported to PBI on March 2, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST March 1, 2013. The team receives a tree to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $100. A challenge prize is awarded to the team with highest amount of funds reported to PBI by February 16, 2013, that were donated by Midnight MST February 15, 2013. The team receives a bush to plant in a public location that is a native species to that area with a purchase value from a commercial nursery of no more than $25.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How do I start?</strong>\r\n1.  Find a group and become a champion\r\n2.  Make plan for events and strategies to raise the funds over the course of the two months.\r\n3.  Define roles and responsibilities including confirming procedures for handling donations for your chapter and Institution and who will report to AAZK and PBI during the course of the campaign.\r\n4. Good luck on your efforts.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How will reporting work?</strong>\r\nEach participating AAZK chapter is responsible for following AAZK National’s requirements for reporting on funds raised for conservation in the re-chartering packet.\r\nPBI requires that each AAZK Chapter report about the planting activity with a photo and description on PBI\'s new community, <a href="http://www.polarbearsinternational.org/myplanetmypart">My Planet, My Part</a>. Acres for the Atmosphere projects or donations to tropical forests planting should be completed within six months of the campaign fundraiser close. (Reports to My Planet, My Part would occur between April-November, 2013.)\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an  Acres for the Atmosphere project?</strong>\r\nThe Acres program involves tree planting, learning, and FUN! Participants plant trees in local communities and also help educate the public about the benefits of tree planting to counteract a warming climate. For more information, contact Heather or Marissa at  <a href="mailto:Acres@pbears.org">Acres@pbears.org</a>.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What is an example of an urban tree planting?</strong>\r\n<em>City of Sparta, Wisconsin</em>\r\nThe primary goal of this project is to plant a diverse mixture of 1.5" caliper saplings before Emerald Ash Borer infestations destroy the city’s tree canopy. This project has a strong educational component. The proposal includes working with the local school\'s Earth Club, the county extension office, and Master Gardeners. City residents and homeowners plan to be engaged in watering and mulching the project trees adjacent to their homes. The hope is this will inspire individuals to plant additional trees on their own personal property. The community is willing to develop and place signage in their city parks highlighting the donor.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>What other projects are eligible for tree planting?</strong>\r\nYour Chapter or Institution may participate in other conservation programs where tree planting is an important component, no matter the taxon, saving tropical forest habitat impacts species and global climate change.\r\n<strong></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong>How Does  Planting Trees Help Polar Bears?</strong>\r\nTrees act as “carbon sinks” that absorb CO2 from the air. They store this carbon in roots, trunks, stems, and leaves while they grow and in wood products after they\'re harvested. Reducing the build-up of carbon in the atmosphere is necessary to reverse climate change. Polar bears depend on the sea ice to hunt, breed, and in some cases to den. Less carbon in the atmosphere means better conditions to retain arctic sea ice and improve polar bear habitat and survival. Conservation actions that reduce the production of GHGs are the most impactful efforts to save polar bears. Planting trees in North America is one of the few tools that we have to sequester carbon. For other forestation efforts, saving tropical rainforests is even more impactful for sequestering CO2. As an individual and group you can make difference:\r\n• Don’t buy products with palm oil\r\n• Purchase shade-grown coffee\r\n• Purchase local meat rather than meat produced in deforested tropical rain forests', 'Trees for You and Me', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2685-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-28 10:19:38', '2012-12-28 15:19:38', '', 2685, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2685-revision-16/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2712, 2, '2012-12-29 10:03:04', '2012-12-29 15:03:04', 'About the Cover/Information for Contributors<span> </span>\r\n\r\nFrom the President<span> </span>\r\n\r\nComing Events<span> </span>\r\n\r\nNew Members<span> </span>\r\n\r\nCall for Papers<span> </span>\r\n\r\nAAZK National Conference Recap<span> </span>\r\n\r\nAAZK Board of Directors Call for Nominations<span> </span>\r\n\r\nInternational Congress of Zoo Keepers: Singapore 2012<span> </span>\r\n\r\nThe Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments Have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters<span> </span>\r\n\r\nTrees for You and Me<span> </span>\r\n\r\nEnrichment Options: Flying Fox Artists at Work<span> </span>\r\n\r\nLion Fun Days; Conservation Connects Mozambique to Texas<span> </span>\r\n\r\nMy AAZK: A Tale of How This Zoo Keeper Attended an AAZK/AZA Class…FOR FREE!<span> </span>\r\n\r\nTraining Tales: Using Training as a Distraction to Ensure a Low-Stress Knockdown on a Sloth Bear\r\n\r\nAnimal Keepers’ Forum 2012 Index', 'January 2013', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2709-autosave', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:03:04', '2012-12-29 15:03:04', '', 2709, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2709-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2714, 2, '2012-12-29 10:10:59', '2012-12-29 15:10:59', '<em>Carolina Segarra, Animal Conservation &amp; Research Intern\r\nAshley Yates, Animal Keeper III\r\nPalm Beach Zoo\r\nWest Palm Beach, Florida</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\r\n\r\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2717" title="71" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/71.jpg" alt="71" width="444" height="364" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\r\n\r\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'The Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters', 0, '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'the-influence-habitat-type-and-environmental-enrichments-have-on-the-stereotypic-behaviors-of-north-american-river-otters', '', '', '2013-10-15 17:49:15', '2013-10-15 22:49:15', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=2714', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2715, 2, '2012-12-29 10:06:13', '2012-12-29 15:06:13', '<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\r\n\r\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2713" title="7" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/7-300x246.jpg" alt="7" width="300" height="246" />both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.\r\n\r\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\r\n\r\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…', '', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2714-revision', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:06:13', '2012-12-29 15:06:13', '', 2714, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2714-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2716, 2, '2012-12-29 10:06:50', '2012-12-29 15:06:50', '<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\r\n\r\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2713" title="7" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/7-300x246.jpg" alt="7" width="300" height="246" />both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.\r\n\r\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\r\n\r\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…', 'The Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2714-revision-2', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:06:50', '2012-12-29 15:06:50', '', 2714, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2714-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2718, 2, '2012-12-29 10:07:44', '2012-12-29 15:07:44', '<em>Carolina Segarra, Animal Conservation &amp; Research Intern\r\nAshley Yates, Animal Keeper III\r\nPalm Beach Zoo\r\nWest Palm Beach, Florida</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\r\n\r\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including<img class="alignright size-medium wp-image-2713" title="7" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/7-300x246.jpg" alt="7" width="300" height="246" />both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.\r\n\r\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\r\n\r\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…', 'The Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2714-revision-3', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:07:44', '2012-12-29 15:07:44', '', 2714, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2714-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2719, 2, '2012-12-29 10:13:34', '2012-12-29 15:13:34', '<em>Carolina Segarra, Animal Conservation &amp; Research Intern\nAshley Yates, Animal Keeper III\nPalm Beach Zoo\nWest Palm Beach, Florida</em>\n\n<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\n\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2717" title="71" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/71.jpg" alt="71" width="444" height="364" />\n\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\n\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…\n\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'The Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2714-autosave', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:13:34', '2012-12-29 15:13:34', '', 2714, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2714-autosave/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2720, 2, '2012-12-29 10:10:59', '2012-12-29 15:10:59', '<em>Carolina Segarra, Animal Conservation &amp; Research Intern\r\nAshley Yates, Animal Keeper III\r\nPalm Beach Zoo\r\nWest Palm Beach, Florida</em>\r\n\r\n<strong>Introduction/Background: </strong>\r\n\r\nThe North American river otter (<em>Lontra canadensis</em>) is an animal that can be found in numerous zoos and aquariums around North America and is a popular exhibit with guests. In the past, this species of otter was distributed from Canada to Mexico and though they once inhabited most of the major waterways in this region, they are now almost exclusively found in Canada, Alaska, California, and along the East coast. The drastic reduction in their numbers is due to the popular sport of hunting them for their fur back in the mid 1900’s (AZA, 2009). Where found in the wild, they usually stay near a water source including freshwater and coastal marine habitats where food is abundant. This species of otter can survive in rivers, lakes, marshes, swamps, and even estuaries. These otters can also tolerate a variety of environments, including both cold and warm latitudes as well as high elevations which allow them to adapt to most captive settings (Dewey &amp; Ellis, 2003). Usually solitary, males and females will socialize during mating season in late winter through early spring. If successful impregnation occurs, the mother will raise the pups in a den. Despite the fact that this species of otter is usually solitary, males have been found to form large groups of eight or more individuals in environments where resources are abundant (World Association of Zoos and Aquariums, n.d.). These large groups have been placed and managed successfully in zoos and aquariums and show the species’ adaptability (AZA, 2009). This study will focus on two separated pairs of otters (1.3) at the Palm Beach Zoo and the effect certain environmental factors have on their interaction with enrichment items and impact on stereotypical behaviors. The otters were categorized as a mating pair (Sully and Rudder) and a female sibling pair (Thelma and Louise). Because otters are semi-aquatic, they vary the time they spend on land and in water and therefore this study will compare the same enrichment items in a mostly aquatic habitat versus a mostly terrestrial habitat to see how each area affects the use of each enrichment item. The goals of this study are to correlate specific factors that will help identify which type of enrichment is most effective and the areas they will be better used in to help decrease abnormal behaviors which could then lead to better welfare for these animals.<img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2717" title="71" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/71.jpg" alt="71" width="444" height="364" />\r\n\r\n<strong>Materials and Methods:</strong>\r\n\r\nThe materials used in this study were a time source (one-minute stop watch, cell-phone or wrist watch) and the observational sheet for recording data.  The enrichment methods that were studied were provided by the keeper, Ashley Yates, who also had the decision of choosing how complex each enrichment would be. A schedule was developed so the otters would get an enrichment method they’ve previously received (labeled “old”) as the control, one day and then an enrichment method that they’d never received, (labeled “new”) the day following each study session for comparison. Each session was over a span of two weeks where the otters received the same old enrichment method in their respective habitat one day, the new enrichment method in that same habitat the next day, and then the following week be given the old enrichment in the opposite habitat and new enrichment in that same habitat the day after. Every two weeks the session was repeated with the next set of enrichments scheduled. During each of the study days, the behaviors were observed in the morning (8:00 AM - 11:30 AM), mid-day (11:31 AM – 1:30 PM) and afternoon (1:31 PM – 4:00 PM) for each pair of otters in their respective habitats. This study took eight weeks, during which a total of four enrichment setups were studied and each otter was observed a total of 720 times…', 'The Influence Habitat Type and Environmental Enrichments have on the Stereotypic Behaviors of North American River Otters', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2714-revision-4', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:10:59', '2012-12-29 15:10:59', '', 2714, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2714-revision-4/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2721, 2, '2012-12-29 10:27:00', '2012-12-29 15:27:00', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-378 aligncenter" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails-300x64.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="300" height="64" /></p>\r\n\r\n<em>By Jenna Schmidt\r\nKeeper\r\nRolling Hills Wildlife Adventure\r\nSalina, Kansas</em>\r\n\r\nJaffna, a sloth bear (<em>Melursus ursinus</em>), arrived at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in May of 2003. It was quickly established that she was not happy on exhibit and would be much more comfortable away from the public’s eye, so she was moved down to off-exhibit holding (called the Main Barn) in October of the same year.\r\n\r\nThe Main Barn is a huge horse barn and show arena left over from before the zoo was established, when the founder of the zoo bred Belgian horses. Over many years the barn has slowly been converted into off-exhibit animal holding, among many other things, by retrofitting the spacious horse stalls in different ways. The four stalls that have been converted into spaces that can handle dangerous animals are split in two, each with a north and south side, so the animal can be shifted away from the keeper. The south sides have small keeper areas that also act as secondary containment (Figure 1). All the stalls in the barn have long narrow fenced-in runs so animals can have outside access.\r\n\r\nI joined the Rolling Hills Keeper Team in late July 2011. The only training Jaffna had received before my arrival was target training, started in July 2010, to assist with shifting issues that sometimes arose during her false pregnancy behaviors and the sleepy winter months. I was eager to start training Jaffna and by October I was training her almost every day. By the end of October we had covered target, sit, stand and open. Even though I was technically the trainer in these sessions, it became readily apparent to me that Jaffna was a very patient teacher and I learned a lot from the finicky sloth bear I had only known for four months.\r\n\r\nJaffna was on a surplus list and in October the Sloth Bear SSP approved to move her to Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thoughts were turned to how we could make this transition as stress-free as possible. We devised a plan that had Jaffna walking into the crate Little Rock was sending to us with no knockdown needed. Time was an important factor in this, so it was disappointing when the crate delivery date was delayed a few times. The crate finally arrived a week or so before the big move.\r\n\r\nOnce the crate arrived, we measured the dimensions of both it and the doors to the stall. It was not going to fit. Even if we did somehow get it into the stall, we would have the problem of hand-carrying a 226 kg (500 lbs.) crate in and then carrying it back out with an added 118 kg (260 lbs.) of sloth bear.\r\n\r\nAfter coming to this realization, our efforts shifted from planning to crate train Jaffna to coming up with ideas to minimize stress for her upcoming knockdown and move. I was eager to utilize her new training behaviors to help us, and after a short meeting with our veterinarian Dr. Danelle Okeson and our vet tech Sara McGinnis we had a game plan: I would train Jaffna on the south side of her stall and our tech, Sara, would blow-dart her while she was focused on the session. Sara would be the one darting her as Jaffna still had ill feelings towards Dr. Okeson since the pre-ship knockdown a month earlier. Sara also works as a relief keeper, so it was an added bonus that Jaffna knew her and was comfortable with her being around the stall and working her.\r\n\r\nWorking in a time crunch once our plan was established, and knowing from previous experience that other people and noises were huge distractions for Jaffna, Sara began standing outside Jaffna’s stall as I did training sessions to desensitize her to Sara’s presence. Our first desensitization and training session took place just six days before Jaffna was scheduled to depart. I trained Jaffna while Sara stood outside the stall, holding a broom loosely by her side to represent the blow dart gun. Jaffna’s entire focus was on Sara for the first 5 minutes of that session and I finally had to bring in the “big guns,” peanut butter, to get a response. We stayed with targeting as I slowly moved her the length of the stall away from Sara. I cued for a stand and as Jaffna responded she noticed the broom Sara was holding. She rushed the wall. I attempted to call her back twice as she ran, paced, charged, and huffed at Sara. Sara moved away and I sat calmly for a few minutes before officially ending the session with our “okay, done, thank you.” Sara and I wanted to get as many sessions in as possible before move day so we tried again that evening in a more casual setting. Instead of locking her over and training from the north side, I trained from the keeper area with the coveted peanut butter. I received perfect responses with no attention paid to the broom-less Sara.\r\n\r\nThe next day I was scheduled to come in late so, not wanting to miss an opportunity for desensitizing, Sara stood by with a broom as my partner Zack Marks did the regular cleaning for the day. Jaffna charged the fence once half-heartedly. We were making progress already.\r\n\r\nThe next two days were our weekend off, so that left us with one day of desensitizing/training before Jaffna’s big day. To compound the time crunch, Jaffna was acting slow and disinterested, characteristics common when she was about to go through one of her false pregnancies. This meant we had to go all out in finding a motivating reinforcer. On the day before Jaffna’s move, peanut butter barely worked in the morning, but Sara was able to raise the broom (“dart gun”) three times for a “shot” as I trained our sloth bear. Knowing peanut butter wasn’t going to be enough of a motivator for long, I consulted Jaffna’s previous keepers and found that blueberry muffin mix was historically a very special treat for her. We needed something that we would only have to give a little of for a reward since ideally she would have an empty stomach for her knockdown. We procured some muffin mix by that evening for our last dry run before the next morning’s move. Jaffna was incredibly slow to get up and going for our session, again showing signs of her false pregnancy sequence of behaviors. Once she realized I had muffin mix, a treat not had for years, she was willing to train. She targeted great with solid hits. Sara got four practice shots lined up with the actual blow dart gun. We were as ready as we could be for the next morning.\r\n\r\nThe next morning, as soon as the Little Rock Zoo van pulled in, we shut down the barn for all personnel except Sara and me to eliminate distractions. As planned, I targeted Jaffna down the stall wall, me down the south side and her on the north (Figure 2). <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2722" title="jaffna" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/jaffna.jpg" alt="jaffna" width="465" height="352" />\r\n\r\nI started with offering peanut butter but she refused to accept it and looked pointedly at the muffin mix. She targeted solidly five times with…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Using Training as a Distraction to Ensure a Low-Stress Knockdown On a Sloth Bear ', 0, '', 'draft', 'closed', 'closed', '', 'using-training-as-a-distraction-to-ensure-a-low-stress-knockdown-on-a-sloth-bear', '', '', '2013-10-15 17:49:15', '2013-10-15 22:49:15', '', 0, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/?p=2721', 0, 'post', '', 0) ; 
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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2723, 2, '2012-12-29 10:24:42', '2012-12-29 15:24:42', '<em>By Jenna Schmidt\nKeeper\nRolling Hills Wildlife Adventure\nSalina, Kansas</em>\n\nJaffna, a sloth bear (<em>Melursus ursinus</em>), arrived at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in May of 2003. It was quickly established that she was not happy on exhibit and would be much more comfortable away from the public’s eye, so she was moved down to off-exhibit holding (called the Main Barn) in October of the same year.\n\nThe Main Barn is a huge horse barn and show arena left over from before the zoo was established, when the founder of the zoo bred Belgian horses. Over many years the barn has slowly been converted into off-exhibit animal holding, among many other things, by retrofitting the spacious horse stalls in different ways. The four stalls that have been converted into spaces that can handle dangerous animals are split in two, each with a north and south side, so the animal can be shifted away from the keeper. The south sides have small keeper areas that also act as secondary containment (Figure 1). All the stalls in the barn have long narrow fenced-in runs so animals can have outside access.\n\nI joined the Rolling Hills Keeper Team in late July 2011. The only training Jaffna had received before my arrival was target training, started in July 2010, to assist with shifting issues that sometimes arose during her false pregnancy behaviors and the sleepy winter months. I was eager to start training Jaffna and by October I was training her almost every day. By the end of October we had covered target, sit, stand and open. Even though I was technically the trainer in these sessions, it became readily apparent to me that Jaffna was a very patient teacher and I learned a lot from the finicky sloth bear I had only known for four months.\n\nJaffna was on a surplus list and in October the Sloth Bear SSP approved to move her to Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thoughts were turned to how we could make this transition as stress-free as possible. We devised a plan that had Jaffna walking into the crate Little Rock was sending to us with no knockdown needed. Time was an important factor in this, so it was disappointing when the crate delivery date was delayed a few times. The crate finally arrived a week or so before the big move.\n\nOnce the crate arrived, we measured the dimensions of both it and the doors to the stall. It was not going to fit. Even if we did somehow get it into the stall, we would have the problem of hand-carrying a 226 kg (500 lbs.) crate in and then carrying it back out with an added 118 kg (260 lbs.) of sloth bear.\n\nAfter coming to this realization, our efforts shifted from planning to crate train Jaffna to coming up with ideas to minimize stress for her upcoming knockdown and move. I was eager to utilize her new training behaviors to help us, and after a short meeting with our veterinarian Dr. Danelle Okeson and our vet tech Sara McGinnis we had a game plan: I would train Jaffna on the south side of her stall and our tech, Sara, would blow-dart her while she was focused on the session. Sara would be the one darting her as Jaffna still had ill feelings towards Dr. Okeson since the pre-ship knockdown a month earlier. Sara also works as a relief keeper, so it was an added bonus that Jaffna knew her and was comfortable with her being around the stall and working her.\n\nWorking in a time crunch once our plan was established, and knowing from previous experience that other people and noises were huge distractions for Jaffna, Sara began standing outside Jaffna’s stall as I did training sessions to desensitize her to Sara’s presence. Our first desensitization and training session took place just six days before Jaffna was scheduled to depart. I trained Jaffna while Sara stood outside the stall, holding a broom loosely by her side to represent the blow dart gun. Jaffna’s entire focus was on Sara for the first 5 minutes of that session and I finally had to bring in the “big guns,” peanut butter, to get a response. We stayed with targeting as I slowly moved her the length of the stall away from Sara. I cued for a stand and as Jaffna responded she noticed the broom Sara was holding. She rushed the wall. I attempted to call her back twice as she ran, paced, charged, and huffed at Sara. Sara moved away and I sat calmly for a few minutes before officially ending the session with our “okay, done, thank you.” Sara and I wanted to get as many sessions in as possible before move day so we tried again that evening in a more casual setting. Instead of locking her over and training from the north side, I trained from the keeper area with the coveted peanut butter. I received perfect responses with no attention paid to the broom-less Sara.\n\nThe next day I was scheduled to come in late so, not wanting to miss an opportunity for desensitizing, Sara stood by with a broom as my partner Zack Marks did the regular cleaning for the day. Jaffna charged the fence once half-heartedly. We were making progress already.\n\nThe next two days were our weekend off, so that left us with one day of desensitizing/training before Jaffna’s big day. To compound the time crunch, Jaffna was acting slow and disinterested, characteristics common when she was about to go through one of her false pregnancies. This meant we had to go all out in finding a motivating reinforcer. On the day before Jaffna’s move, peanut butter barely worked in the morning, but Sara was able to raise the broom (“dart gun”) three times for a “shot” as I trained our sloth bear. Knowing peanut butter wasn’t going to be enough of a motivator for long, I consulted Jaffna’s previous keepers and found that blueberry muffin mix was historically a very special treat for her. We needed something that we would only have to give a little of for a reward since ideally she would have an empty stomach for her knockdown. We procured some muffin mix by that evening for our last dry run before the next morning’s move. Jaffna was incredibly slow to get up and going for our session, again showing signs of her false pregnancy sequence of behaviors. Once she realized I had muffin mix, a treat not had for years, she was willing to train. She targeted great with solid hits. Sara got four practice shots lined up with the actual blow dart gun. We were as ready as we could be for the next morning.\n\nThe next morning, as soon as the Little Rock Zoo van pulled in, we shut down the barn for all personnel except Sara and me to eliminate distractions. As planned, I targeted Jaffna down the stall wall, me down the south side and her on the north (Figure 2). <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2722" title="jaffna" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/jaffna.jpg" alt="jaffna" width="465" height="352" />\n\nI started with offering peanut butter but she refused to accept it and looked pointedly at the muffin mix. She targeted solidly five times with…\n\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', '', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2721-revision', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:24:42', '2012-12-29 15:24:42', '', 2721, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2721-revision/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2724, 2, '2012-12-29 10:26:12', '2012-12-29 15:26:12', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-378 aligncenter" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails-300x64.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="300" height="64" /></p>\r\n\r\n<em>By Jenna Schmidt\r\nKeeper\r\nRolling Hills Wildlife Adventure\r\nSalina, Kansas</em>\r\n\r\nJaffna, a sloth bear (<em>Melursus ursinus</em>), arrived at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in May of 2003. It was quickly established that she was not happy on exhibit and would be much more comfortable away from the public’s eye, so she was moved down to off-exhibit holding (called the Main Barn) in October of the same year.\r\n\r\nThe Main Barn is a huge horse barn and show arena left over from before the zoo was established, when the founder of the zoo bred Belgian horses. Over many years the barn has slowly been converted into off-exhibit animal holding, among many other things, by retrofitting the spacious horse stalls in different ways. The four stalls that have been converted into spaces that can handle dangerous animals are split in two, each with a north and south side, so the animal can be shifted away from the keeper. The south sides have small keeper areas that also act as secondary containment (Figure 1). All the stalls in the barn have long narrow fenced-in runs so animals can have outside access.\r\n\r\nI joined the Rolling Hills Keeper Team in late July 2011. The only training Jaffna had received before my arrival was target training, started in July 2010, to assist with shifting issues that sometimes arose during her false pregnancy behaviors and the sleepy winter months. I was eager to start training Jaffna and by October I was training her almost every day. By the end of October we had covered target, sit, stand and open. Even though I was technically the trainer in these sessions, it became readily apparent to me that Jaffna was a very patient teacher and I learned a lot from the finicky sloth bear I had only known for four months.\r\n\r\nJaffna was on a surplus list and in October the Sloth Bear SSP approved to move her to Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thoughts were turned to how we could make this transition as stress-free as possible. We devised a plan that had Jaffna walking into the crate Little Rock was sending to us with no knockdown needed. Time was an important factor in this, so it was disappointing when the crate delivery date was delayed a few times. The crate finally arrived a week or so before the big move.\r\n\r\nOnce the crate arrived, we measured the dimensions of both it and the doors to the stall. It was not going to fit. Even if we did somehow get it into the stall, we would have the problem of hand-carrying a 226 kg (500 lbs.) crate in and then carrying it back out with an added 118 kg (260 lbs.) of sloth bear.\r\n\r\nAfter coming to this realization, our efforts shifted from planning to crate train Jaffna to coming up with ideas to minimize stress for her upcoming knockdown and move. I was eager to utilize her new training behaviors to help us, and after a short meeting with our veterinarian Dr. Danelle Okeson and our vet tech Sara McGinnis we had a game plan: I would train Jaffna on the south side of her stall and our tech, Sara, would blow-dart her while she was focused on the session. Sara would be the one darting her as Jaffna still had ill feelings towards Dr. Okeson since the pre-ship knockdown a month earlier. Sara also works as a relief keeper, so it was an added bonus that Jaffna knew her and was comfortable with her being around the stall and working her.\r\n\r\nWorking in a time crunch once our plan was established, and knowing from previous experience that other people and noises were huge distractions for Jaffna, Sara began standing outside Jaffna’s stall as I did training sessions to desensitize her to Sara’s presence. Our first desensitization and training session took place just six days before Jaffna was scheduled to depart. I trained Jaffna while Sara stood outside the stall, holding a broom loosely by her side to represent the blow dart gun. Jaffna’s entire focus was on Sara for the first 5 minutes of that session and I finally had to bring in the “big guns,” peanut butter, to get a response. We stayed with targeting as I slowly moved her the length of the stall away from Sara. I cued for a stand and as Jaffna responded she noticed the broom Sara was holding. She rushed the wall. I attempted to call her back twice as she ran, paced, charged, and huffed at Sara. Sara moved away and I sat calmly for a few minutes before officially ending the session with our “okay, done, thank you.” Sara and I wanted to get as many sessions in as possible before move day so we tried again that evening in a more casual setting. Instead of locking her over and training from the north side, I trained from the keeper area with the coveted peanut butter. I received perfect responses with no attention paid to the broom-less Sara.\r\n\r\nThe next day I was scheduled to come in late so, not wanting to miss an opportunity for desensitizing, Sara stood by with a broom as my partner Zack Marks did the regular cleaning for the day. Jaffna charged the fence once half-heartedly. We were making progress already.\r\n\r\nThe next two days were our weekend off, so that left us with one day of desensitizing/training before Jaffna’s big day. To compound the time crunch, Jaffna was acting slow and disinterested, characteristics common when she was about to go through one of her false pregnancies. This meant we had to go all out in finding a motivating reinforcer. On the day before Jaffna’s move, peanut butter barely worked in the morning, but Sara was able to raise the broom (“dart gun”) three times for a “shot” as I trained our sloth bear. Knowing peanut butter wasn’t going to be enough of a motivator for long, I consulted Jaffna’s previous keepers and found that blueberry muffin mix was historically a very special treat for her. We needed something that we would only have to give a little of for a reward since ideally she would have an empty stomach for her knockdown. We procured some muffin mix by that evening for our last dry run before the next morning’s move. Jaffna was incredibly slow to get up and going for our session, again showing signs of her false pregnancy sequence of behaviors. Once she realized I had muffin mix, a treat not had for years, she was willing to train. She targeted great with solid hits. Sara got four practice shots lined up with the actual blow dart gun. We were as ready as we could be for the next morning.\r\n\r\nThe next morning, as soon as the Little Rock Zoo van pulled in, we shut down the barn for all personnel except Sara and me to eliminate distractions. As planned, I targeted Jaffna down the stall wall, me down the south side and her on the north (Figure 2). <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2722" title="jaffna" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/jaffna.jpg" alt="jaffna" width="465" height="352" />\r\n\r\nI started with offering peanut butter but she refused to accept it and looked pointedly at the muffin mix. She targeted solidly five times with…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Using Training as a Distraction to Ensure a Low-Stress Knockdown On a Sloth Bear ', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2721-revision-2', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:26:12', '2012-12-29 15:26:12', '', 2721, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2721-revision-2/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2725, 2, '2012-12-29 10:26:34', '2012-12-29 15:26:34', '<p style="text-align: center;"><img class="size-medium wp-image-378 aligncenter" title="training_tails" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/header_training_tails-300x64.jpg" alt="training_tails" width="300" height="64" /></p>\r\n\r\n<em>By Jenna Schmidt\r\nKeeper\r\nRolling Hills Wildlife Adventure\r\nSalina, Kansas</em>\r\n\r\nJaffna, a sloth bear (<em>Melursus ursinus</em>), arrived at Rolling Hills Wildlife Adventure in May of 2003. It was quickly established that she was not happy on exhibit and would be much more comfortable away from the public’s eye, so she was moved down to off-exhibit holding (called the Main Barn) in October of the same year.\r\n\r\nThe Main Barn is a huge horse barn and show arena left over from before the zoo was established, when the founder of the zoo bred Belgian horses. Over many years the barn has slowly been converted into off-exhibit animal holding, among many other things, by retrofitting the spacious horse stalls in different ways. The four stalls that have been converted into spaces that can handle dangerous animals are split in two, each with a north and south side, so the animal can be shifted away from the keeper. The south sides have small keeper areas that also act as secondary containment (Figure 1). All the stalls in the barn have long narrow fenced-in runs so animals can have outside access.\r\n\r\nI joined the Rolling Hills Keeper Team in late July 2011. The only training Jaffna had received before my arrival was target training, started in July 2010, to assist with shifting issues that sometimes arose during her false pregnancy behaviors and the sleepy winter months. I was eager to start training Jaffna and by October I was training her almost every day. By the end of October we had covered target, sit, stand and open. Even though I was technically the trainer in these sessions, it became readily apparent to me that Jaffna was a very patient teacher and I learned a lot from the finicky sloth bear I had only known for four months.\r\n\r\nJaffna was on a surplus list and in October the Sloth Bear SSP approved to move her to Little Rock Zoo in Little Rock, Arkansas. Thoughts were turned to how we could make this transition as stress-free as possible. We devised a plan that had Jaffna walking into the crate Little Rock was sending to us with no knockdown needed. Time was an important factor in this, so it was disappointing when the crate delivery date was delayed a few times. The crate finally arrived a week or so before the big move.\r\n\r\nOnce the crate arrived, we measured the dimensions of both it and the doors to the stall. It was not going to fit. Even if we did somehow get it into the stall, we would have the problem of hand-carrying a 226 kg (500 lbs.) crate in and then carrying it back out with an added 118 kg (260 lbs.) of sloth bear.\r\n\r\nAfter coming to this realization, our efforts shifted from planning to crate train Jaffna to coming up with ideas to minimize stress for her upcoming knockdown and move. I was eager to utilize her new training behaviors to help us, and after a short meeting with our veterinarian Dr. Danelle Okeson and our vet tech Sara McGinnis we had a game plan: I would train Jaffna on the south side of her stall and our tech, Sara, would blow-dart her while she was focused on the session. Sara would be the one darting her as Jaffna still had ill feelings towards Dr. Okeson since the pre-ship knockdown a month earlier. Sara also works as a relief keeper, so it was an added bonus that Jaffna knew her and was comfortable with her being around the stall and working her.\r\n\r\nWorking in a time crunch once our plan was established, and knowing from previous experience that other people and noises were huge distractions for Jaffna, Sara began standing outside Jaffna’s stall as I did training sessions to desensitize her to Sara’s presence. Our first desensitization and training session took place just six days before Jaffna was scheduled to depart. I trained Jaffna while Sara stood outside the stall, holding a broom loosely by her side to represent the blow dart gun. Jaffna’s entire focus was on Sara for the first 5 minutes of that session and I finally had to bring in the “big guns,” peanut butter, to get a response. We stayed with targeting as I slowly moved her the length of the stall away from Sara. I cued for a stand and as Jaffna responded she noticed the broom Sara was holding. She rushed the wall. I attempted to call her back twice as she ran, paced, charged, and huffed at Sara. Sara moved away and I sat calmly for a few minutes before officially ending the session with our “okay, done, thank you.” Sara and I wanted to get as many sessions in as possible before move day so we tried again that evening in a more casual setting. Instead of locking her over and training from the north side, I trained from the keeper area with the coveted peanut butter. I received perfect responses with no attention paid to the broom-less Sara.\r\n\r\nThe next day I was scheduled to come in late so, not wanting to miss an opportunity for desensitizing, Sara stood by with a broom as my partner Zack Marks did the regular cleaning for the day. Jaffna charged the fence once half-heartedly. We were making progress already.\r\n\r\nThe next two days were our weekend off, so that left us with one day of desensitizing/training before Jaffna’s big day. To compound the time crunch, Jaffna was acting slow and disinterested, characteristics common when she was about to go through one of her false pregnancies. This meant we had to go all out in finding a motivating reinforcer. On the day before Jaffna’s move, peanut butter barely worked in the morning, but Sara was able to raise the broom (“dart gun”) three times for a “shot” as I trained our sloth bear. Knowing peanut butter wasn’t going to be enough of a motivator for long, I consulted Jaffna’s previous keepers and found that blueberry muffin mix was historically a very special treat for her. We needed something that we would only have to give a little of for a reward since ideally she would have an empty stomach for her knockdown. We procured some muffin mix by that evening for our last dry run before the next morning’s move. Jaffna was incredibly slow to get up and going for our session, again showing signs of her false pregnancy sequence of behaviors. Once she realized I had muffin mix, a treat not had for years, she was willing to train. She targeted great with solid hits. Sara got four practice shots lined up with the actual blow dart gun. We were as ready as we could be for the next morning.\r\n\r\nThe next morning, as soon as the Little Rock Zoo van pulled in, we shut down the barn for all personnel except Sara and me to eliminate distractions. As planned, I targeted Jaffna down the stall wall, me down the south side and her on the north (Figure 2). <img class="alignright size-full wp-image-2722" title="jaffna" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/jaffna.jpg" alt="jaffna" width="465" height="352" />\r\n\r\nI started with offering peanut butter but she refused to accept it and looked pointedly at the muffin mix. She targeted solidly five times with…\r\n\r\n<strong><em>For this and much more every month, see Animal Keepers’ Forum. AKF is available only by being a member of AAZK. <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/join">JOIN NOW!</a></em></strong>', 'Using Training as a Distraction to Ensure a Low-Stress Knockdown On a Sloth Bear ', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '2721-revision-3', '', '', '2012-12-29 10:26:34', '2012-12-29 15:26:34', '', 2721, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/2721-revision-3/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2731, 2, '2013-01-09 09:56:55', '2013-01-09 14:56:55', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2729" title="julie" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/julie.jpg" alt="julie" width="250" height="293" /> Julie Hartell De-Nardo - St. Louis Zoo\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Behavioral Husbandry Committee exists to serve our AAZK members by providing access to up to date resources relevant to Behavioral Husbandry topics including: training, enrichment and animal welfare.  The committee strives to encourage, educate, share knowledge and share techniques typified in zoo and aquarium settings.\r\n<h3>Resources produced:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ADTF, Animal Training Section (AAZK, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>List of Training Terminology (AAZK/AZA Behavioral Advisory Group, 2003)</li>\r\n	<li>Training &amp; Enrichment Bibliography (AAZK ATC &amp; Enrichment Committees, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>Training Workshops on Various Training Topics (AAZK National Conference Proceedings, 2001-2004)</li>\r\n	<li>Articles and Committee Updates (Animal Keeper\'s Forum)</li>\r\n	<li>www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk committee web pages (2002)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Projects:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Partner with other committees to streamline resources and efforts</li>\r\n	<li>Development of new workshops for the annual conference</li>\r\n	<li>Development of training behavior lists for taxonomic groups</li>\r\n	<li>Update the bibliography and resource lists over time</li>\r\n	<li>Surveying the membership to meet needs</li>\r\n	<li>Enhancement of this website</li>\r\n	<li>A database of bibliographies</li>\r\n	<li> Enrichment guidelines for marine mammals and elephants</li>\r\n	<li> AAZK Enrichment Notebook, 2nd edition translation into Spanish, French and Chinese languages</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Additional Information</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/what_is_animal_training.pdf">What is Training?</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/health_and_safety_considerations.pdf">Health and Safety Considerations</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_enrichment_bibliography.pdf">Training and Enrichment Bibliography</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_terms_glossary.pdf">Glossary of Training Terms</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/aazk_animal_data_transfer.pdf">Animal Data Transfer Form</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://www.enrichment.org/miniwebfile.php?Region=Video_Library&amp;File2=video_library_sb.html&amp;File=video_library.html&amp;NotFlag=1">Training and Enrichment Video Library</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/resources/">Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/risk_assessment_and_safety.pdf">Risk Assessment and Safety</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Suggested Guidelines for Enrichment</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/printed-resources">Printed Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/suppliers/">Enrichment Suppliers</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Enrichment Day Examples</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/related-sites/">Related Sites</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Behavioral Husbandry', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '192-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-09 09:56:55', '2013-01-09 14:56:55', '', 192, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/192-revision-27/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2732, 2, '2013-01-09 10:02:00', '2013-01-09 15:02:00', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2729" title="julie" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/julie.jpg" alt="julie" width="250" height="293" /> <em>Julie Hartell De-Nardo - St. Louis Zoo</em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Behavioral Husbandry Committee exists to serve our AAZK members by providing access to up to date resources relevant to Behavioral Husbandry topics including: training, enrichment and animal welfare.  The committee strives to encourage, educate, share knowledge and share techniques typified in zoo and aquarium settings.\r\n<h3>Resources produced:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ADTF, Animal Training Section (AAZK, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>List of Training Terminology (AAZK/AZA Behavioral Advisory Group, 2003)</li>\r\n	<li>Training &amp; Enrichment Bibliography (AAZK ATC &amp; Enrichment Committees, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>Training Workshops on Various Training Topics (AAZK National Conference Proceedings, 2001-2004)</li>\r\n	<li>Articles and Committee Updates (Animal Keeper\'s Forum)</li>\r\n	<li>www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk committee web pages (2002)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Projects:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Partner with other committees to streamline resources and efforts</li>\r\n	<li>Development of new workshops for the annual conference</li>\r\n	<li>Development of training behavior lists for taxonomic groups</li>\r\n	<li>Update the bibliography and resource lists over time</li>\r\n	<li>Surveying the membership to meet needs</li>\r\n	<li>Enhancement of this website</li>\r\n	<li>A database of bibliographies</li>\r\n	<li> Enrichment guidelines for marine mammals and elephants</li>\r\n	<li> AAZK Enrichment Notebook, 2nd edition translation into Spanish, French and Chinese languages</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Additional Information</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/what_is_animal_training.pdf">What is Training?</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/health_and_safety_considerations.pdf">Health and Safety Considerations</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_enrichment_bibliography.pdf">Training and Enrichment Bibliography</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_terms_glossary.pdf">Glossary of Training Terms</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/aazk_animal_data_transfer.pdf">Animal Data Transfer Form</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://www.enrichment.org/miniwebfile.php?Region=Video_Library&amp;File2=video_library_sb.html&amp;File=video_library.html&amp;NotFlag=1">Training and Enrichment Video Library</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/resources/">Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/risk_assessment_and_safety.pdf">Risk Assessment and Safety</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Suggested Guidelines for Enrichment</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/printed-resources">Printed Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/suppliers/">Enrichment Suppliers</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Enrichment Day Examples</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/related-sites/">Related Sites</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Behavioral Husbandry', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '192-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-09 10:02:00', '2013-01-09 15:02:00', '', 192, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/192-revision-28/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2736, 2, '2013-01-09 10:09:43', '2013-01-09 15:09:43', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-2729" title="julie" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/julie.jpg" alt="julie" width="125" height="146" /> <em><strong>Julie Hartell De-Nardo<em> - St. Louis Zoo</em></strong></em>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Behavioral Husbandry Committee exists to serve our AAZK members by providing access to up to date resources relevant to Behavioral Husbandry topics including: training, enrichment and animal welfare.  The committee strives to encourage, educate, share knowledge and share techniques typified in zoo and aquarium settings.\r\n<h3>Resources produced:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>ADTF, Animal Training Section (AAZK, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>List of Training Terminology (AAZK/AZA Behavioral Advisory Group, 2003)</li>\r\n	<li>Training &amp; Enrichment Bibliography (AAZK ATC &amp; Enrichment Committees, 2001)</li>\r\n	<li>Training Workshops on Various Training Topics (AAZK National Conference Proceedings, 2001-2004)</li>\r\n	<li>Articles and Committee Updates (Animal Keeper\'s Forum)</li>\r\n	<li>www.aecetia.net/gws/aazk committee web pages (2002)</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Projects:</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li>Partner with other committees to streamline resources and efforts</li>\r\n	<li>Development of new workshops for the annual conference</li>\r\n	<li>Development of training behavior lists for taxonomic groups</li>\r\n	<li>Update the bibliography and resource lists over time</li>\r\n	<li>Surveying the membership to meet needs</li>\r\n	<li>Enhancement of this website</li>\r\n	<li>A database of bibliographies</li>\r\n	<li> Enrichment guidelines for marine mammals and elephants</li>\r\n	<li> AAZK Enrichment Notebook, 2nd edition translation into Spanish, French and Chinese languages</li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<h3>Additional Information</h3>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/what_is_animal_training.pdf">What is Training?</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/health_and_safety_considerations.pdf">Health and Safety Considerations</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_enrichment_bibliography.pdf">Training and Enrichment Bibliography</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/training_terms_glossary.pdf">Glossary of Training Terms</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/aazk_animal_data_transfer.pdf">Animal Data Transfer Form</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="http://www.enrichment.org/miniwebfile.php?Region=Video_Library&amp;File2=video_library_sb.html&amp;File=video_library.html&amp;NotFlag=1">Training and Enrichment Video Library</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/resources/">Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/wp-content/uploads/risk_assessment_and_safety.pdf">Risk Assessment and Safety</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Suggested Guidelines for Enrichment</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/printed-resources">Printed Resources</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/suppliers/">Enrichment Suppliers</a></li>\r\n	<li><a href="/members/bhc.php">Enrichment Day Examples</a> (Available only to AAZK Members!)</li>\r\n	<li><a href="/about/committee/behavioral-husbandry/related-sites/">Related Sites</a></li>\r\n</ul>', 'Behavioral Husbandry', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '192-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-09 10:09:43', '2013-01-09 15:09:43', '', 192, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/192-revision-29/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2737, 2, '2013-01-02 11:51:08', '2013-01-02 16:51:08', '<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/international-congress-zookeepers/">International Congress of Zookeepers\r\n</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1498" title="norah" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/norah-150x150.jpg" alt="norah" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="email">Norah Farnham</div>\r\n<div class="email">AAZK representative</div>\r\n<div class="email">Woodland Park Zoo</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:norah.farnham@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">norah.farnham@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n<div class="email">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="size-full wp-image-2529 alignnone" title="sara_wunder2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/sara_wunder2.jpg" alt="sara_wunder2" width="150" height="171" /></div>\r\n<div class="email">Sara Wunder Steward</div>\r\n<div class="email">AAZK representative</div>\r\n<div class="email">Busch Gardens Tampa</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:sara.steward@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">sara.steward@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/membership-resources/">Membership Resources</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1251" title="jacque1" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/jacque1-150x150.jpg" alt="jacque1" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Jacque Blessington</div>\r\n<div class="affiliated_zoo">Kansas City Zoo</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:jacque.blessington@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">jacque.blessington@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/annual-aazk-conferences/">Annual AAZK Conferences</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1504 alignnone" title="ed_hansen" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/ed_hansen-150x150.jpg" alt="ed_hansen" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Ed Hansen</div>\r\n<div class="title">Conference Program Chair</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:ed.hansen@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">ed.hansen@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/grants-committee/">Grants Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1257" title="shelly-roach" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/shelly-roach-150x150.jpg" alt="shelly-roach" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Shelly Roach</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="affiliated_zoo">Columbus Zoo</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:shelly.roach@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">shelly.roach@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/">Bowling for Rhinos</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Patty Pearthree</div>\r\n<div class="title">Coordinator</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/ethics-committee/">Ethics Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-845" title="bob-mug2" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/bob-mug2-150x150.jpg" alt="bob-mug2" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Bob Cisneros</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="affiliated_zoo">San Diego Zoo</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:bob.cisneros@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">bob.cisneros@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/bylaws-committee/">Bylaws Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-full wp-image-1937" title="rickotarsky" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/rickotarsky.jpg" alt="rickotarsky" width="131" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Ric Kotarsky</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="title">Tulsa Zoo</div>\r\n<div class="title"><a href="mailto:ric.kotarsky@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">ric.kotarsky@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/behavioral-husbandry/">Behavioral Husbandry</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name">Julie Hartell De-Nardo</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:julie.hartell.de-nardo@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">julie.hartell.de-nardo@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/awards-committee/">Awards Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="size-thumbnail wp-image-1249 alignnone" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Janet McCoy</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/professional-development-committee/">Professional Development Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-2550" title="melaina3" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/melaina3-150x150.jpg" alt="melaina3" width="150" height="150" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Melaina Wallace</div>\r\n<div class="title">Chair</div>\r\n<div class="affiliated_zoo">Disney\'s Animal Kingdom</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a href="mailto:melaina.wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">melaina.wallace@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a></div>\r\n</div>\r\n</div>\r\n<div class="committee">\r\n<h3><a href="/committee/conservation-committee/">Conservation Committee</a></h3>\r\n<div class="chairman">\r\n<div class="name"><img class="size-full wp-image-841 alignnone" title="kamradt" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/kamradt.jpg" alt="kamradt" width="111" height="134" /></div>\r\n<div class="name">Amanda Kamradt</div>\r\n<div class="title">Co-chair</div>\r\n<div class="affiliated_zoo">Zoo New England</div>\r\n<div class="email"><a 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INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2738, 1, '2012-12-09 12:02:40', '2012-12-09 17:02:40', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2013</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Awards Committee recognizes excellence in the field of animal care through its awards. The Committee develops the awards\' criteria, nominating procedure, qualifications for nominees, selection procedure and recognizes award\'s recipients each year at the National Conference.\r\n\r\n<strong>Nominations</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>The AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award, The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award, The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (LA), the Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award, The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE), The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER), the Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA), and The Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award(CMC). </em>\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the 2012 AAZK National Conference in Syracuse, NY. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). 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Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2011 awards.pdf">2011 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/awards2012.pdf">2012 Award Recipients</a></strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2012-12-09 12:02:40', '2012-12-09 17:02:40', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-49/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2739, 2, '2013-01-14 06:39:46', '2013-01-14 11:39:46', '<h3>Chair</h3>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-1249" title="janmccoy" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/janmccoy-150x150.jpg" alt="janmccoy" width="150" height="150" /> Janet McCoy\r\n\r\n<strong><em>AAZK Award Nominations Are Now Being Accepted for 2013</em></strong>\r\n<h3>Purpose</h3>\r\nThe Awards Committee recognizes excellence in the field of animal care through its awards. The Committee develops the awards\' criteria, nominating procedure, qualifications for nominees, selection procedure and recognizes award\'s recipients each year at the National Conference.\r\n\r\n<strong>Nominations</strong>\r\n\r\n<em>The AAZK Awards Committee is accepting nominations for the Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award, The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award, The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award, Lifetime Achievement Award (LA), the Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment(LHEE) Award, The Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE), The Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER), the Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA), and The Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award(CMC). </em>\r\n\r\nNomination criteria for these nine awards are listed below. These awards will be presented at the AAZK National Conference. The deadline for all award nominations is <strong>1 May</strong>. Information concerning the qualifications, nomination procedure, selection procedure and an explanation of the awards may be obtained by contacting:\r\n\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\nOr, send Janet an email at <a href="mailto:janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">janet.mccoy@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a>.\r\n\r\nThe character of the AAZK awards includes either a plaque or certificate, letter of notification to the institution\'s  director and national recognition by professional journals. Such journals include: the American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) and the Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums (CAZA) Newsletters, and the Animal Keepers\' Forum (AAZK). Some categories may include monetary awards.\r\n\r\n<strong>Award Nominations should be submitted to:</strong>\r\nJanet McCoy, Chair, AAZK Awards Committee\r\n846 NW 170th Dr.\r\nBeaverton, OR 97006\r\n\r\n<strong>Deadline for Nominations is 1 May </strong>\r\n<ul>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lifetime-achievement-la-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lifetime Achievement (LA) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/lee-houts-excellence-in-enrichment-lhee-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Lee Houts Excellence in Enrichment (LHEE) Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-for-zoo-keeper-education-cmze/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit for Zoo Keeper Education (CMZE)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-excellence-in-exhibit-design-renovation-ceer/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Excellence in Exhibit Design Renovation (CEER)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/mazuri-animal-nutrition-award-mana/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Mazuri Animal Nutrition Award (MANA)</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/jean-m-hromadka-aazk-excellence-in-animal-care-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Jean M. Hromadka AAZK Excellence in Animal Care Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-lutz-ruhe-meritorious-achievement-aazk-professional-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The Lutz Ruhe Meritorious Achievement - AAZK Professional of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/certificate-of-merit-in-conservation-cmc/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">Certificate of Merit in Conservation Award</a></li>\r\n	<li><a class="thickbox" href="/committee/awards-committee/the-aazk-chapter-of-the-year-award/?KeepThis=true&amp;TB_iframe=true&amp;height=400&amp;width=700">The AAZK Chapter of the Year Award</a></li>\r\n</ul>\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2008_awards_recipients.pdf">2008 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="/wp-content/uploads/2009awards.pdf">2009 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2010_awards.pdf">2010 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/2011 awards.pdf">2011 Award Recipients</a></strong>\r\n\r\n<strong><a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/awards2012.pdf">2012 Award Recipients</a></strong>', 'Awards Committee', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '224-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-14 06:39:46', '2013-01-14 11:39:46', '', 224, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/224-revision-50/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2748, 2, '2013-01-18 17:17:12', '2013-01-18 22:17:12', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so <a href="http://flexlists.com/key/UoUJMn9eR794LYxcc9jnQzPY3fBSal1FgCoOrKS3">here</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:17:12', '2013-01-18 22:17:12', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-50/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2743, 2, '2013-01-18 17:02:50', '2013-01-18 22:02:50', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so here.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:02:50', '2013-01-18 22:02:50', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-48/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2747, 2, '2013-01-18 17:08:32', '2013-01-18 22:08:32', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/bfr-chapter-amounts">here</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:08:32', '2013-01-18 22:08:32', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-49/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2749, 2, '2013-01-18 17:23:23', '2013-01-18 22:23:23', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\n<strong><span style="text-decoration: underline;">Bowling for Rhinos Event Calendar</span></strong>\r\n\r\nCheck the calendar below to see if there is an event in your local area.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so <a href="http://flexlists.com/key/UoUJMn9eR794LYxcc9jnQzPY3fBSal1FgCoOrKS3">here</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:23:23', '2013-01-18 22:23:23', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-51/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
INSERT INTO `wp_posts` VALUES (2753, 2, '2013-01-18 17:35:15', '2013-01-18 22:35:15', '<h2>Coordinator</h2>\r\n<img class="alignnone size-thumbnail wp-image-861" title="pearthreejpg" src="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/wp-content/uploads/pearthreejpg-150x150.jpg" alt="pearthreejpg" width="150" height="150" /> Patty Pearthree\r\n<h2>Total Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;">$4,321,808.48</span></h2>\r\n<h2><strong><strong>2012 Funds Raised to Date: <span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>$337,191.09- this is a new record for amount raised in a year!</em></span></strong></strong></h2>\r\n"AAZK\'s Bowling for Rhinos" fund  raiser began on a small scale and is now an AAZK-sponsored North American event  raising between $200,000- $300,000 annually. <strong><em>Our goal now is to raise at least $500,000 annually</em>.</strong> In 1990, we began by supporting the Lewa  Wildlife Conservancy (formerly Ngare Sergoi Rhino Sanctuary) in Kenya.\r\n\r\nAAZK realized that the zoo keepers of the world were extremely conservation oriented and wanted to help save rhinos and their habitats, yet did not have the financial resources themselves to make any significant impact. That\'s when the idea came to start a national bowl-a-thon called Bowling For Rhinos.\r\n\r\nThe beauty of the idea is that these fundraisers are organized by volunteers, who donate their time and organizational skills to help raise money to send directly to the places in need. Since all the people involved are volunteers, <strong>100% of all donations</strong> are sent directly to these in situ rhino conservation areas!\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/slides/blackrhinos_004.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/lewa/thumbs/blackrhinos_004.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="left" /></a> In Kenya Africa BFR supports the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/lewa-wildlife-conservancy-lwc/">Lewa Wildlife Conservancy</a> where our donations help protect both black and white rhinos and most of the other species native to East Africa.\r\n\r\n<a href="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/slides/sumatranrhino.jpg"> <img src="http://aazkbfr.org/images/indonesia/thumbs/sumatranrhino.jpg" border="1" alt="" hspace="10" vspace="10" align="right" /></a> In Indonesia BFR supports the remaining Javan Rhinos at Ujung Kulon National Park and the Sumatran Rhinos in Bukit Barisan Selatan and Way Kambas National Parks through the <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/international-rhino-foundation-irf/">International Rhino Foundation</a>.\r\n\r\nBFR also supports <a href="http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/committee/bowling-for-rhinos/action-for-cheetahs-in-kenya-ack/">Action for Cheetahs in Kenya</a>. Cheetahs share much of the same habitat as rhinos and by working to conserve cheetahs we are also saving rhinos and the countless other species that call that habitat home.\r\n\r\nMany organizations participate in these events, and have added the Rocking For Rhinos, Rummage For Rhinos, and Recycling For Rhinos projects as other ways to raise funds for this very worthwhile project.\r\n\r\n<em><strong>Bowling For Rhinos has broken the $4 million mark and we continue to reach towards attaining our goal of $500,000/year!</strong></em> Together with you AAZK can do it. We have and will continue to make a difference in the conservation world. Please send  your organization\'s contact person/contact info ASAP along with the date of your event to our  national BFR Coordinator. Please  contact Patty Pearthree: <a href="mailto:patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk">patty.pearthree@aecetia.net/gws/aazk</a> for more information. Reminder, there is a $25 registration fee for BFR events which covers administrative costs so that 100% of all donation can go directly to rhino conservation.\r\n\r\nThere is a new Yahoo groups email for Bowling For Rhino Coordinators. If you would like to be part of this email group, please email Barbie Wilson at <a href="mailto:rhinobarbie@hotmail.com">rhinobarbie@hotmail.com</a>. This will let you communicate with each other on questions about t-shirts, bowling alley prices, how to get more support from your zoo, etc. with other BFR local coordinators.\r\n\r\nCheck the calendar below to see if there is a local event in your area.\r\n\r\n<span style="text-decoration: underline;">Chapter Totals</span>\r\n\r\nIf your chapter would like to check their yearly totals you can do so <a href="http://flexlists.com/key/UoUJMn9eR794LYxcc9jnQzPY3fBSal1FgCoOrKS3">here</a>.', 'Bowling for Rhinos (BFR)', 0, '', 'inherit', 'closed', 'closed', '', '168-revision-v1', '', '', '2013-01-18 17:35:15', '2013-01-18 22:35:15', '', 168, 'http://aecetia.net/gws/aazk/uncategorized/168-revision-55/', 0, 'revision', '', 0) ; 
