About Photography Month The month of May is Photo Month - dedicated to celebrating the invention of photography. Interestingly, the earliest surviving photo of nature was taken in 1827 by the French inventor Nicéphore Niépce. At that time, it took…
Faces of Species360 - Elisabeth Hunt Our next Faces of Species360 introduction is Director of Member Support and Training Elisabeth Hunt, who has been fascinated by bats ever since her college days when she cared for a rescue bat named…
Faces of Species360 – Alex Kantorovich Our next Faces of Species360 introduction is Regional Coordinator, Alex Kantorovich. He has been a fan of zoos since his childhood and is also an excellent photographer. For Zoo Lovers Day (April 8), he…
Faces of Species360 - Nannette Driver-Ruiz Our next Faces of Species360 introduction is Member Support Representative Nannette Driver-Ruiz, who enjoys reading to her daughter as a way of inspiring her to care about nature and wildlife. National Read Across America…
Faces of Species360 - Adrienne Miller Holidays and awareness days tend to be popular topics - one source even has downloadable calendar of more than 2,300 of them! While they aren't all focused on animals, there are enough of them…
Zoos and Aquariums Committed to Conservation - ZACC conference When our Director of Science, Dalia Conde, passed along information about the 2018 ZACC conference, (thanks to our Board and Onnie Byers letting us know about it), I quickly volunteered to…
Do you love your day job? I spent most of my early career in retail IT. It was a great learning experience and I met and learned from some great people. We did some cool stuff, built some awesome systems…
Dr. Dalia Conde’s incredible journey from wildlife biology to zoo data champion I met Dr. Dalia Conde for the first time in July at our staff retreat in Minnesota. Her personality is as big as her passion for her work.…