We know it wasn’t easy dedicating National Zoo Keeper Week into a selfless fundraiser to conserve wildlife, but our dedication to protecting species no matter what time of the year is what makes us passionate animal professionals.<\/p>\n
Thank you for kicking rhino poacher butt and helping us surpass our $3,000 goal for “Kicking for Rhinos!” \u00c2\u00a0Our week-long fundraiser actually reached $3,300! \u00c2\u00a0All of the proceeds from this event will go to the\u00c2\u00a0Lewa Wildlife Conservancy<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0Action for Cheetahs<\/a>\u00c2\u00a0in Kenya to protect habitat, support its rangers, and purchase equipment.<\/p>\n The participation in this fundraiser really speaks volumes about our chapter and the amazing professionals that helped us reach this point. \u00c2\u00a0Thank you again for making time for conservation and helping us not only reach our monetary goal, but also our collective goal as animal keepers to protect wildlife.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We know it wasn’t easy dedicating National Zoo Keeper Week into a selfless fundraiser to conserve wildlife, but our dedication to protecting species no matter what time of the year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-799","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":802,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bayareaaazk.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}