Bornean Sun Bear Conservation

Category: BSBCC, Fund raising, Siew Te Wong, conservation, education | Date: Jun 22 2009 | By: Siew Te Wong

In the next few days I will embark a trip to eastern US to give talks on sun bear and their plights at different zoos that supported my sun bears works for the past many years.

The title of my talks will be:  

“The ecology, conservation, and plights of the sun bear: how are we going to save this little bear?”         

The followings are the information of these talks: 

Minnesota Zoo www.mnzoo.org:

Date: Monday, June 29^th, 2009.

Time: 12 pm – 1 pm

Venue: Minnesota Zoo’s Indoor Theater (located next to Guest Services). 
          13000 Zoo Boulevard, Apple Valley, MN 55124 

Brookfield Zoo http://www.czs.org/czs/Brookfield/Zoo-Home

Date: Thursday, July 2, 2009

Time: 12:00 – 1:00 p.m.

Venue:   Discovery Center Orientation Theater, Chicago Zoological Society (for zoo staffs volunteer only) 

Bronx Zoo- WCS http://www.bronxzoo.com/

Date: Wednesday July 8^th, 2009.  

Time: 12:00 – 1:00 pm

Venue: 2^nd Floor conference room at – Center for Global Conservation 

Columbus Zoo http://www.columbuszoo.org/default.aspx:

Date: Thursday, July 16^th, 2009

Time: 4:30 pm, Venue: Pavilion 3, Columbus Zoo

Menu: hamburgers; veggie burgers; sides; dessert; drinks

RSVP to Becky at 3409 or Rebecca.Rose@columbuszoo.orgby July 9th - space is limited. 

In addition of these 4 talks, Alexander Abraham Foundation and LEAP have co-organize a fund raising for Bornean Sun Bear Conservation Center on Thursday, July 9 -8 pm, hosted by Nancy and Arnold Moss in New York City. Please RSVP or get more information from Brienne Walsh brienne@aabrahamfoundation.org.

Tags: conservation talks, sun bear, zoos