2008 - 2009 Annual Report - Zoos South Australia

CONTENTSYear In ReviewPresident and CEO’s ReportConservation ProgramsAssets and InfrastructureConservation EducationThe AnimalsLiving collectionsThreatened SpeciesOperationsCommunications and PartnershipsVisitor ExperiencesVolunteer ProgramsVisitor ExperienceEvents reportHuman ResourcesFinancial ReportFinalsOffsite guest speaker requests have continued to increase.Guides from the team of Off Site Speakers for Adelaide Zooand Monarto Zoo have presented to a variety of groupsand clubs across the metropolitan area and country areasincluding the Barossa, Fleurieu, Murraylands and AdelaideHills. Donations from these talks are managed through theVRG and go to the VRG Native Conservation Fund.Thank you to Stephanie Eastick for co-ordinating thespeaker engagements.Children’s Zoo Volunteers continue to be a blessing for theKeepers as they assist with the animal encounters in the‘barn’. The Children’s Zoo obtained a new kitchen which wasgenerously supplied and installed by Alby Turner and Sons.Children’s Zoo Volunteer Elizabeth Jordan was instrumental inthis. The Bug Barn is once again very popular.The Adelaide Zoo Members Activity Group and the MonartoZoo Function Team have provided many popular and usuallysell-out functions across both properties for our Members.Although fundraising is not the main aim of the groups theydo raise much-needed funds which are distributed by theVRG to projects within Zoos SA. Well done to both teams, AZcoordinated by Pam Page and MZ coordinated by Pam Scott.The Monarto Catering Group is renowned for their greatfood dishes at Member functions and after years of reciperequests the group produced a recipe book. The MonartoVolunteer Recipe Book is available through the Zoo Shopat both Adelaide Zoo and Monarto Zoo and retails for $20.Funds raised go to the VRG to fund projects within the Zoo.Congratulations all involved with the production of the book,headed up by Jan Tottman and Peter and Marie Senn.The Cadaver group have had some iconic animals to workon this year. While it’s been very sad to lose these animals,they will now be used for educational purposes on the touchtables. The skins include a lion, bear and tiger. Another projectcompleted this year was a Chimpanzee skeleton; the boneswere prepared a few years ago and have been in storagewaiting for someone to assemble them. Along came ElizabethJordan, a new Volunteer to the Cadaver group, who wasparticularly interested in skeletons. She has spent hundredsof hours re-articulating the Chimpanzee skeleton. The nextproject is a complete Cheetah skeleton.A dedicated group of Volunteers with a passion for theTasmanian Devil, called the Devil’s Angels, held a number offundraising activities to assist with the breeding program atMonarto Zoo. The group has raised in excess of $5000.Thank you to Lynda Slesser for the idea and for being ourHead Angel.Volunteers - 1 of 7