Where has the time gone? It’s June tomorrow and it hardly feels like May was here! I hope you had a chance to take part in at least one green calendar day activity this past month – I know we got a great response to our World Turtle Day display. Here is your list of [...]
Archive for May, 2009
28 May
World Oceans Day
Hi everyone. I thought I would share an email we received from Bill Mott, the Director of The Ocean Project. I hope you will get involved with us by wearing blue and telling two on June 8th.
For World Oceans Day… Wear Blue, Tell Two!
With the newly official World Oceans Day coming up June 8th, The [...]
27 May
Canadian Environment Week
Canadian Environment Week is held during the first week of June every year. This year’s dates are May 31 – June 6, 2009.
The week-long series of events was established to encourage and celebrate grassroots action to make our environment cleaner and healthier. You can visit the Environment Canada’s web site to learn more, to find [...]
26 May
Understanding Bear Behaviour
Canadian bear expert will be in Winnipeg to explain the emotional side of bears at the Assiniboine Park Zoo
Else Poulsen, author of Smiling Bears: A Zookeeper Explores the Behavior and Emotional Life of Bears, will be speaking about bear behavior at the Assiniboine Park Zoo on Saturday June 6, 2009 from 7 to 9 pm.
Join [...]
25 May
Zoos offer family bonding
Zoos offer great location for family bonding
By: Bonnie C. Hallman and Mary Benbow / Learning Curve / Winnipeg Free Press
The following article was posted on the Winnipeg Free Press online site, www.winnipegfreepress.com on 19/05/2009, 1:00 AM. All rights reserved (by the Wpg. Free Press).
What is a zoo worth to a community and its people?
Zoos are [...]
25 May
Zoo Society AGM
The Zoological Society of Manitoba will be hosting its Annual General Meeting and Member’s Night this year on Monday, June 15, 2009.
There will be a BBQ starting at 5:45 pm followed by a short AGM at 6:15 pm. Animal visits will follow AGM. We hope you will join us for this annual event, as [...]
22 May
Buzzword Biodiversity
By Dr. Robert E. Wrigley, Curator, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg
Biodiversity is a relatively new word in the conservation arena, and as broadly interpreted refers to the number of species in, or biological [...]
22 May
Human Overpopulation, Poverty, and Wildlife Extinction
By Dr. Robert E. Wrigley, Curator, Assiniboine Park Zoo.
This article is based on ones published in CAZA News (Canadian Association of Zoos and Aquariums, Jan-Feb 2000) and International Zoo News, June 2000; 47 (4): 210-214, and is reprinted here in support of International Biodiversity Day, 2009.
Abstract
Incessant human population growth is [...]
19 May
Exotic Animals in Manitoba
By Dr. Robert E. Wrigley, Curator, Assiniboine Park Zoo, Winnipeg
Exotic animals are species inhabiting Manitoba that arrived through the activities of humans, although the line blurs in cases where humans have altered the [...]
18 May
World Turtle Day
The Zoological Society of Manitoba’s Education Department will be celebrating World Turtle Day at the Assiniboine Park Zoo on Saturday May 23, from 10:30 am to 3:30 pm. World Turtle Day was initiated in 2000 by the American Tortoise Rescue, a turtle and tortoise rescue organization founded in 1990 in Malibu, California.
We are profiling these [...]
