projects
Recycling cell phones has both environmental and financial benefits. As an Eco-cell partner, we receive compensation for each phone collected. The funds that we raise are used to support wildlife projects all over the world. Current projects include:
Kenya Project: Wildlife and People in Integrated Landscape
In the South Rift Valley of Kenya, stretching from the Maasai Mara National Reserve through Amboseli National Park, is one of the most spectacular wildlife areas on the planet. Miami University and Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden’s Angel Fund has partnered with the African Conservation Centre to advance community-based conservation in this dynamic landscape...
mbeli bai study
The Saving Species campaign supports numerous gorilla-related conservation efforts. For over eight years one of the primary focuses has been assisting the Wildlife Conservation Society’s Nouabale Ndoki Project (NNP). NNP is located in a vast, largely unspoiled area of rainforest in northern Republic of Congo in the Nouabale Ndoki National Park (NNNP). The focus of this project is a multifaceted approach to conservation including scientific research, education, capacity building, eco tourism and protection, among others. Highlights include the Mbeli Bai Study, Mondika Gorilla tracking and Club Ebobo...
Ape TAG
Project Saving Species Ape TAG funds have been directed towards work with The Bonobo and Congo Biodiversity Initiative. The 21st bonobo conservation field mission occurred in November of 2010. Two months were spent surveying for the presence of Bonobos in Salonga National Park in the Democratic Republic of Congo, as well as training Congolese park and research staff on the use of field equipment, distributing park guard and research salaries and also replenishing food and equipment stocks to park ecoguards at two posts (Etate and Watsi Kengo).
Tiger Conservation
What would the world be like without tigers? The Zoo partners with other zoos on a Tiger Species Survival Plan (SSP) so we never have to find out. In addition to maintaining a healthy tiger population in zoos, the Tiger SSP has launched a Tiger Conservation Campaign to raise awareness and funds for wild tiger conservation. As the Coordinator for the Malayan Tiger SSP, Zoo Curator Mike Dulaney believes that “Working cooperatively with our colleagues both in U.S. Zoos and in tiger range countries provides us with the best chance to ensure that these magnificent cats do not forever disappear.”
kea Conservation project
New Zealand’s beautiful landscape is a biodiversity hotspot containing many plant and animal species found nowhere else on earth. The flora and fauna of New Zealand evolved in geographic isolation without the presence of terrestrial mammals (the only native mammals were bats.) Many birds had adapted to take advantage of the ecological niches left vacant. The arrival of humans with their introduced species had a devastating effect on the native wildlife. One of these species is the kea.
The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden cares for the largest collection of kea in North America (11 of the 41 present in AZA accredited institutions) and is committed to the conservation of this species...