Brevard Zoo Announces Projects to Receive Funding Through Quarters for Conservation Program
By Elliot Zirulnik, Brevard Zoo Communications Manager // December 27, 2018
More than $100,000 was raised thus far this year
BREVARD COUNTY • MELBOURNE, FLORIDA – Brevard Zoo has selected 12 conservation projects to receive funding through its Quarters for Conservation (Q4C) grant program.
Seventy-four applications were received, from which the following initiatives were chosen:
- African People and Wildlife (focused on big cats in northern Tanzania)
- African Wildlife Conservation Fund (focused on endangered African wild dogs)
- Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust (focused on critically endangered Madagascar pochards)
- Elephant Connection Research Project (focused on elephants and giraffe in Zambia)
- Florida Bat Conservancy
- Florida Wildlife Hospital
- Institute for Development, Ecology, Conservation & Cooperation (focused on critically endangered Nubian flapshell turtles in South Sudan)
- International Otter Survival Fund
- Little Fireface Project (focused on critically endangered Javan slow lorises)
- Okapi Conservation Project (located in the Democratic Republic of Congo)
- Saving Species (focused on orangutans, tigers and other animals in Sumatra)
Upon entry, each Zoo guest is given a token representing 25 cents and asked to “vote” for their favorite project. Three projects are featured at a time, rotating quarterly.
More than $100,000 has been raised thus far this year, with an average of $7,000 donated to each initiative.
Guests especially passionate about a particular project are encouraged to deposit “real” coins or bills.
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