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Call of the Wild Lecture Series

Houston Zoo Call of the Wild Lecture Series will resume again in September 2009 with an exciting lineup of guest speakers.

The Houston Zoo’s 2009-10 Call of the Wild Lecture Series will begin its new season in September 2009 with an exciting lineup of guest speakers. Enjoy an evening of scrumptious hors d'oeuvres, breathtaking photographs and first-hand stories from conservationists on the frontlines in the battle to help save the world’s wildlife. Proceeds of the Call of the Wild lectures benefit our local and global conservation initiatives at the Zoo.

With conservation and environmental issues becoming hot-button topics for debate across the world, the Houston Zoo’s Call of the Wild Lecture Series offers a forum for global conservation leaders to share their knowledge, concerns and plans for the future. Starting September 10, 2009, four unique lectures will be held at the Brown Education Center over the span of six months.

The Call of the Wild Lecture Series is generously sponsored by the Charles T. Bauer Foundation, the Tapeats Fund, Whole Foods Market and Continental Airlines, the official airline of the Houston Zoo.

Tickets for the lecture series will go on sale in May 2009.

September 10th, 2009
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project: Rwanda

See videos of these mountain gorillas!
Dr. Mike Cranfield, Executive Director
Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project

Brown Education Center
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments
Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m.

There are approximately 740 Mountain Gorillas left on earth; they live only in two small parks, one in Uganda and one that includes a corner of Uganda, Rwanda, and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In order to ensure a healthy future for this special animal, the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project monitor the gorillas on a regular basis, provides life-saving medical care if needed, conduct health studies, and do all they can to build local capacity in veterinary medicine and ecosystem health.

Mountain gorillas are found only in Central Africa and only in two regions: 1) the Virunga Massif mountain range which includes the Volcanoes National Park in Rwanda (Parc National des Volcans), the Virunga National Park in the DRC (Parc National de Virunga) and the Mgahinga National Park in Uganda; and, 2) the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest National Park in Uganda.

For more information on the Mountain Gorilla Veterinary Project, you may go to http://www.mgvp.org/

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October 7th, 2009
Save the Elephants

Iain Douglas-Hamilton, Founder
Save the Elephants
Brown Education Center
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments
Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m.

One of the world's foremost authorities on the African elephant, Iain Douglas-Hamilton pioneered the first in-depth scientific study of elephant social behaviour in Tanzania's Lake Manyara National Park at age 23. During the 1970s he investigated the status of elephants throughout Africa and was the first to alert the world to the ivory poaching and chronicled how Africa's elephant population was halved between 1979 and 1989 and helped bring about the world ivory trade ban.

Dr. Iain Douglas-Hamilton and his wife Oria have co-authored two award-winning books, "Among the Elephants" and "Battle for the Elephants" and have made numerous television films. He founded Save the Elephants in order to create an effective and flexible NGO dedicated specifically to elephants.

For more information on Save the Elephants: http://www.save-the-elephants.org/

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January 28th, 2010
International Rhino Foundation

Dr. Susie Ellis, Executive Director
International Rhino Foundation
Brown Education Center
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments

Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m.

The International Rhino Foundation is dedicated to the survival of the world’s rhino species through conservation and research. While all five rhino species remain in terrible peril poaching, from forest loss and habitat conversion, and from human settlements encroaching on their habitats in Africa, Indonesia, and India – all are in better shape than might be expected because of the International Rhino Foundation’s work. There are now about 19,500 rhinos on the planet – about 14,000 of these are white rhino, which have made a tremendous recovery from low, however, and most rhinos live in small, isolated protected areas surrounded by ever-growing, encroaching human populations with whom they must compete for resources.

In response to the global crisis in rhino conservation, the IRF protects particularly threatened rhino populations in the wild while also supporting management of and research on captive populations to improve the chances for long-term survival. IRF has already made great strides in preventing further declines and stabilizing rhino population trends in the areas in which they work.

For more information on the International Rhino Foundation http://www.rhinos-irf.org

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March 25th, 2010
Cristina Mittermeir Wildlife Photographer

Executive Director International League of Conservation Photographers
Brown Education Center
Doors open at 6:30 p.m. for refreshments
Lecture begins at 7:00 p.m

From the popular to the scientific, Cristina's work has appeared in major magazines around the world including Nature's Best, Latina, Elan, National Geographic, National Geographic Explorer, Organic Connections and American Photo in the United States, Rumbos, Escala and Sale la Foto, in Mexico, Explorador and Terra in Brazil, Man and Biosphere in China, among others.

As a photographer and writer since 1996, Cristina has co-edited 9 books, including a series published with Conservation International and Cemex. Megadiversity: Earth's Wealthiest Countries for Biodiversity (1996), Hotspots: Earth's biologically richest and most endangered ecoregions (1998), Wilderness Areas: Earth's Last Wild Places (2002), Wildlife Spectacles (2003), Hotspots Revisited (2005), and Transboundary Conservation: A New Vision for Protected Areas (2005), and Pantanal: South America’s Wetland Jewel (2005). Her latest book project, The Human Footprint was produced with the Wildlife Conservation Society in New York in conjunction with her own organization, the ILCP.

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