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Preserving the Earth’s biodiversity – on Earth Day and every day
Welcome to our Member Spotlight Q&A series, where we turn the spotlight on the vibrant individuals and businesses that drive innovation and excellence in our Greater Boston region. Join us as we delve into the journeys, inspirations, and impact of our diverse members, highlighting the unique contributions they make to our thriving community.
Zoo New England has taken a true leadership role in saving wildlife and helping our audience to join us in this effort, while also taking leadership in reinterpreting the role of zoos and aquariums for the 21st century as comprehensive, integrated conservation organizations.
We lead and support projects that protect wildlife and their landscapes here in Massachusetts and around the world, recovering populations of threatened species, partnering with local people, and inspiring others to join us. We envision a world where people understand, value, and protect ecosystems and the species that live there to ensure a healthy and sustainable future.
Zoo New England is leading a long-term One Health study in Madagascar to assess how community-based conservation and reforestation efforts impact biodiversity, wildlife health, and forest health over time. Working with rainforest communities and our international partners, scientists from Zoo New England and Madagascar are working together to lead biodiversity surveys in the Manombo region of southeast Madagascar, conducting health assessments of wild lemurs, and looking for evidence of “spillover” infections between wildlife and people. As this project continues over many years, it will demonstrate how restoring natural ecosystems can lead to healthier people, coexisting with healthy wildlife.
At our zoos here in Massachusetts – Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and Stone Zoo in Stoneham – the animals in our care serve as ambassadors for their wild counterparts. As a conservation organization based at two zoos, Zoo New England has a unique opportunity to bring the stories of the wildlife conservation we support around the world directly to our visitors. With roughly 30 conservation projects both locally and globally, our animal ambassadors help to educate visitors about the threats to these species, what Zoo New England is doing to save them, and inspire our audience to join us in taking conservation actions at home.
Whether in the rainforests of Madagascar, or the suburbs of New England, local communities are key to conservation success. Long-term, sustainable conservation requires that local communities lead in the design and implementation of conservation activities. In the Greater Boston area, we enlist the help of thousands of school children annually in helping to restore local populations of threatened turtle species.
Through our nationally award-winning HATCH (Hatchling and Turtle Conservation through Headstarting) program, students and teachers from Massachusetts schools have the opportunity to actively and significantly participate in a real-world rare species conservation program by raising hatchling turtles to greatly increase their chances of survival in the wild.
Inspiring others to take conservation action will always be a big part of our work. Whether it is in a Boston classroom, local communities around the world, or working with partners to provide graduate scholarships to young conservation leaders from lower income countries, we are committed to building the next generation of conservationists, as we work with them to help save the amazing wildlife that they live alongside.
To date, over 20,000 students have taken part in the program, releasing approximately 1,000 rare Blanding’s, wood, and spotted turtles. At each school, classrooms raise newborn turtle hatchlings over the course of the school year and then release the turtles back into the wild during field trips to local conservation areas. By giving them this “headstart,” students directly help conserve dwindling turtle populations by dramatically increasing the odds that each turtle cared for will survive to adulthood. At the same time, students collect and analyze data on hatchlings’ growth while learning about the ecology and importance of our freshwater wetlands. By helping protect native biodiversity and restoring healthy wetlands in their communities, students learn that they can be agents of change in a significant way.
Much of what we do is done through a One Health approach. One Health is the understanding that human health, wildlife health, and ecosystem health are connected and reliant on each other. It is the understanding that preserving biodiversity is preserving ourselves.
One Health connects us all.
Intact ecosystems and healthy wildlife provide natural barriers against disease, guard against climate change, and provide clean air and water. These natural protections break down when ecosystems are disrupted through unsustainable logging, clearing forests for agriculture or development, mining, overhunting, and the killing or capture of wildlife for illegal trade. With natural barriers eroded, we create new interactions between people and wildlife, lowering the threshold for zoonotic spillover events and the potential for global pandemics.
On this Earth Day, we hope people of all ages will get involved and take an active role in helping to preserve and protect wildlife and habitats right in their own back yards and communities. Together, we can all ensure a healthy, thriving planet for generations to come.
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