Partner Spotlight
International Iguana
Foundation
Giant Armadillo
Project
Cheetah
Outreach
On the Honduran Bay Island of
Roatán, the Zoo’s grant funds have
helped the International Iguana
Foundation perform research on
the nesting habitats of endangered,
endemic Roatán spiny-tailed
iguanas. Radio telemetry and
ground-penetrating radar have been
used to identify and protect critical
nesting habitat.
Our support has helped fund
monthly field expeditions, GPS
tracking units and veterinary
supplies for the 2015 Whitley
Award-winning Giant Armadillo
Project, the very first long-term
ecological study intended to
protect elusive, nocturnal,
burrow-dwelling giant armadillos
in Brazil’s Pantanal wetlands.
Grant funds that are provided
to Cheetah Outreach are used to
protect South Africa’s wild cheetahs
by promoting livestock guard
dogs as an alternative to lethal
predator control via poaching.
This initiative has already resulted
in about 250,000 hectares of newly
cheetah-safe farmland in South
Africa since 2005.
Sarasota Dolphin
Research Program
Coral Restoration
Foundation
Hornbill Research
Foundation
Sarasota Dolphin Research Program
is the world's longest-running study
of a dolphin population. Studying
dolphins throughout seasons and
throughout their lives has helped
provide insight on how to protect
them. These studies aid conservation
efforts, not only for dolphins in
Sarasota Bay, but for dolphin
populations around the world.
Due to multiple stressors in
the late 1970s and early 1980s,
dominant reef building corals in
the Florida Keys and Caribbean
declined dramatically and faced
local extinction. Coral Restoration
Foundation creates offshore
nurseries and restoration
programs. Through pioneering
propagation techniques, tens of
thousands of corals are grown and
maintained before strate