2015 ZACC Conference Schedule -Denver Zoo
Monday (10/12)
pre-conference workshops
Tuesday (10/13)
Wednesday (10/14)
Friday (10/16)
8:00am - 8:20am
Welcome - Denver Zoo
8:00am - 8:20am
Susie McGuire (Conservation Fusion ) + CSU Students
8:00am - 8:20am
CSU Students
8:30am-8:50am
8:20am-9:00am
Shivani Bhalla, Ewaso Lions
8:20am-9:00am
Wally Van Sickle, IdeaWild
8:20am-9:00am
Peter Knights, Wild AID
8:50am -9:30am
Session: Inspiration from the Field
9:00am-9:20am
9:20am - 9:40am
8:00am - 4:30pm
Pre-Conference Workshop 1
Open Standards for the Practice of
Conservation: A Planning and
Evaluation Toolbox for Field
Conservationists
Thursday (10/15)
Partnership, conservation and beyond: a second chance at a wild life
Alejandro Morales, ARCAS – Guatemala
Twenty years of community based sea turtle conservation in Rekawa
Sanctuary, Sri Lanka
Thushan Kapurusinghe, Sri Lanka Turtle Conservation Project
Session: Conservation Education
9:00am-9:20am
9:20am - 9:40am
Success of Lola ya Bonobo: the role of sanctuaries in conservation
Proyecto Titi: inspiring conservation leaders of tomorrow
Johanna Vega, Fundacion Proyecto Titi
9:00am-9:20am
9:20am - 9:40am
COFFEE BREAK
Supporting YUS rangers to strengthen local ownership of conservation
efforts in Papua New Guinea
Daniel Solomon Okena, Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program
9:50am - 10:10am
How to minimize the negative effects of transport
infrastructure; brown bears vs planned highway in Romania
Csaba Domokos, Milvus Group – Bird and Nature Protection
Association, Romania
Protecting ecological and cultural values through bison restoration in
New Mexico
Luis Ramirez, Denver Zoo
10:00am -10:20am
Elizabeth Ross, Kasiisi Project; Emily Otali, Kibale Forest Schools Program; Zarin
Machanda, Kibale Chimpanzee Project
10:00am -10:20am
Edward E. Louis Jr. DVM, PhD, Omaha Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium from the
Madagascar Biodiversity Partnership, NGO
10:30am -10:50am
Moving to the front lines to help tackle illegal wildlife trade what is our role?
Kym Gopp, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo
10:20am - 10:50am
COFFEE BREAK
10:20am - 10:50am
COFFEE BREAK
10:50am -11:05am
COFFEE BREAK
11:05am -11:15am
Conservation Leadership through Learning program
Graduate Students - Final Wrap Up
Sustainable livelihoods & conservation in Western Uganda: the
community action project
Kemigisa Margaret, New Nature Foundation
11:15am -12:30pm
Panel: Monitoring and evaluating conservation
Women of the wild: a new approach to community- based
conservation
Amy Reaume, Brevard Zoo
12:30 - 1:40pm
LUNCH
9:40am - 10:00am
Five years of conservation collaboration between a zoo and a
palm oil company
Carl Traeholt, Copenhagen Zoo, Southeast Asia Program
9:30am - 9:50am
Kalahari Connections: fostering long-term positive conservation
behaviors in Botswana youth
Kgomotso Mothibi, Kalahari Research and Conservation
Strong wildlife clubs as the engine of strong conservation
programs
10:00am -10:20am
Zoos's Victoria's Connect-Understand-Act change model
Brooke Squires, Zoos Victoria
Francine Madden, HWCC
Session: Human Dimensions of Wildlife
9:40am - 10:00am
Claudine Andre, Lola ya Bonobo
9:40am - 10:00am
Learning in the world community
Chris Myers, Project Dragonfly, Miami University
Session: Conservation as a Vehicle for Change
ZACC Story (Jeff Flocken)
10:10am -10:30am
Understanding human-jaguar conflict: lessons from case
studies across Latin America
Alexandra Zimmermann, Chester Zoo; Oxford University
Conservation credits inspiring conservation participation through
reforestation efforts in Kianjavato, Madagascar
Conservation Leadership through Learning program
10:20am -10:30am
Dr. Brett Bruyere, Colorado State University
Session: Conservation Crisis
10:30am -10:50am
10:50am -11:10am
Community-based strategies for saving Namibia’s critically endangered
black rhinos
Tara Harris and Jeff Muntifering, Minnesota Zoo
Addressing the rapid decline of vultures in Southern Africa
Glyn Maude, Kalahari Research and Conservation
Session: It's All About Relationships
10:50am -11:10am
11:10am -11:30am
Plant.Grow.Fly. A pollinator partnership takes flight
Jessie Lowry, Blank Park Zoo
Blakiston's Fish owl project: strong collaborations for effective
conservation
Jonathan C. Slaght; Wildlife Conservation Society
Session: Communities and Conservation
10:50am -11:10am
11:10am -11:30am
How zoos can help one of the rarest antelope in the world: real
support for the hirola conservation program
Lisa Marie Avendano and Abdullahi Ali, Houston Zoo, Inc.; Hirola Conservation
Program
Session: Keeping the Hope
96 Elephants Campaign
Megan Malaska; Wildlife Conservation Society
11:30am -11:50am
11:30am -11:50am
The Bolivian amphibian initiative in times of amphibian extinction
Arturo Munoz, Ghent University; Museum Alcide d’Orbigny – Bolivia
11:50am -12:10pm
How WCN creates a network for conservation
Jean-Gaël Collomb, Wildlife Conservation Network
11:50pm - 1:00pm
Panel: communities and concessionaires: perspectives on
conservation through commerce
1:40pm -2:00pm
12:10pm -1:30pm
LUNCH
1:00pm -2:00pm
LUNCH
2:00pm -2:20pm
11:50am -12:10pm
Ten years on the frontline against orangutan poaching and wildlife
crime in Western Indonesia
Cathryn Freund, Edi Rahman, Cheryl Knott, Gunang Palung Orangutan
Conservation Program
11:30am -11:50am
Catching Hope: a non-traditional and effective grassroots program to
support conservation of the saola
Dr. Erin Flynn, Henry Vilas Zoo; William Robichaud, IUCN SSC Saola Working Group
11:10am -11:30am
A future for cheetahs: how biofuels and goat cheese can save wildlife
and lead to sustainable development in Namibia
Laurie Marker, Cheetah Conservation Fund
A report on the 22 year effort to establish the American burying beetle
(Nicrophorus americanus Olivier) to Nantucket Island, Massachusetts
Lou Perrotti, Andrew McKenna Foster, Roger Williams Park
Zoo; Maria Mitchell Association
12:10pm -1:30pm
LUNCH
1:30pm -2:40pm
Panel: Improving zoo engagement with conservation
1:30pm -2:40pm
1:00pm - 4:00pm
Pre-Conference Workshop 2
Conservation Education
Session: Innovative Approaches to Conservation
2:40pm - 3:00pm
3:00pm -3:20pm
3:20pm - 3:40pm
Citizen rangers combat snow leopard poaching in Kyrgyzstan
Kubanych Zhumabiuulu, Snow Leopard Foundation-Kyrgyzstan
The TEAM network: delivering conservation and education value
through a global network of camera traps
Jorge A. Ahumada, Conservation International
2:00 - 2:30pm
Buses leave for Denver Zoo
Session: Water-Based Conservation
2:40pm -3:00pm
Applying the secrets of successful aquatic restoration projects to make an
impact with your community-based conservation initiative
3:00pm -3:20pm
Understanding the scope of shark and ray conservation among
AZA institutions, NGOs, government agencies, and academic
institutions
Sandra Elvin Association of Zoos and Aquariums
3:20pm -3:40pm
3:40pm - 4:00pm
2:30pm -5:30pm
Denver Zoo Day
5:30pm -8:30pm
Cocktails, Appetizers, Poster Session and Denver Zoo's
2015 Conservation Award Winner
at Denver Zoo
8:00pm -9:00pm
Buses leave for Hotel
Project SECORE – Coral reefs
Mark Schick, Shedd Aquarium
The distinctive role of zoos in protecting a wild species: the case
of the Spiny Softshell turtle in Quebec, Canada
Louis Lazure, Zoo de Granby
4:00pm -4:20pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:00pm -4:20pm
COFFEE BREAK
4:20pm -4:30pm
Conservation Leadership through Learning program
Graduate Students
4:20pm -4:30pm
Conservation Leadership through Learning program
Gradaute Students
4:30pm - 5:40pm
Panel: One Health: integrating human, wildlife and environmental
health
4:30pm - 4:50pm
How scientific management practices and Masai communities are
conserving east African wild hoof stock in Tanzania
Derek Lee and Monica Bond, Wild Nature Institute
4:50pm -5:10pm
Integrated approach to conservation of Great Apes through
education in Eastern DRC
John Shabani, The Jane Goodall Institute
6:00pm -7:00pm
"ELEVATED" Denver Experience - Hotel Lobby
free cheese and wine tasting
7:30pm - 9:00pm
ZACC Movie Night
2:20pm -2:40pm
2:40pm -3:30pm
Jody Palmer, Brevard Zoo
Emerging technologies contributing to wildlife conservation
Corinne Kendall and Richard Bergl, North Carolina Zoo
3:40pm -4:00pm
5:30pm - 9:00pm
ZACC Welcome
Butterfly Pavilion
A tale of two projects: zoo-led citizen science in Washington and
Colorado
Katie Remine, Amy Masching, Woodland Park Zoo; Denver Zoo
Panel: From here to there: the win-win outcomes of creative
partnerships between U.S. zoos and international field
conservationists.
Session: Voices from the Field
Borneo Futures Initiative: science for a better tomorrow
Marc Ancrenaz, Erik Meijaard, Anthony Sebastian, Amir Yussof,
Borneo Futures Initiative
CLOSING REMARKS