Conservation Projects
In addition to the revenue generated by our annual Bowling for Rhinos and Sailing for Rhinos events, funds raised by other Dallas AAZK events go to support a number of other animal conservation causes.
Each year our Dallas AAZK members vote on a species to focus our conservation efforts on in addition to our Bowling and Sailing Rhinos funds. After weeks of voting our 2018 featured conservation species is the Scimitar Horned Oryx! Stay tuned to our facebook and website for information on the Scimitar Horned Oryx conservation story and how our local AAZK chapter plans on contributing!
Each year our Dallas AAZK members vote on a species to focus our conservation efforts on in addition to our Bowling and Sailing Rhinos funds. After weeks of voting our 2018 featured conservation species is the Scimitar Horned Oryx! Stay tuned to our facebook and website for information on the Scimitar Horned Oryx conservation story and how our local AAZK chapter plans on contributing!
Our 2016 Labor Day Book Sale was a record-setter this year, raising a total of $2,044.30! $500 each will go to the Okapi Conservation Project in the DRC and the Bat World Sanctuary here in Texas! The remainder goes into our AAZK Conservation Fund and can be allocated to animal conservation or welfare programs as voted on by Dallas AAZK members.
Thank you to everyone who donated, attended, purchased items, helped volunteer, and plan our book sale this year! We could not have done it without support from a huge network of people and we look forward to seeing you all next Labor Day when we do it again!
Thank you to everyone who donated, attended, purchased items, helped volunteer, and plan our book sale this year! We could not have done it without support from a huge network of people and we look forward to seeing you all next Labor Day when we do it again!
Here are just a few of the projects we have donated to in the past:
- Donations to Coral Reef Alliance and Coral Reef Restoration Foundation (Dallas AAZK's 2017 featured conservation species).
- Donation to the Foundation for the Conservation of Salamanders for Salamander Saturday 2017.
- Donation Okapi Conservation Project in the DRC (Dallas AAZK's 2016 featured conservation species).
- Donation Bat World Sanctuary.
- Donation to local Blackland Prairie Raptor Center.
- Donation to Save Vietnam Wildlife to help support Pangolin conservation (Dallas AAZK's 2015 featured conservation species).
- Donation to the Giraffe Conservation Foundation for World Giraffe Day 2015.
- Donation to help rebuild the Nature Store at Fossil Rim Wildlife Center.
- We sponsored a camera trap through the Ruaha Carnivore Project! See some the amazing images here.
- North African ostrich conservation in Niger, through Sahara Conservation Fund.
- Trees for You and Me program, through Polar Bears International.
- Our featured project for 2013 was the Tiger Conservation Campaign.
- Helping wildlife here in the Metroplex through the DFW Wildlife Coalition.
- Donation to Wild Earth Guardians.
- We send funds for emergency relief to the New York Aquarium in the aftermath of Superstorm Sandy.
- Supporting an iconic native species, the Texas Horned Lizard.
- We adopted a hornbill nest through the Hornbill Research Foundation.
- Donation to the Bongo Surveillance Project to help an iconic antelope species.
- Relief funds to the Okapi Conservation Project in wake of the Epulu tragedy.
- Assistance for vital scavenger species through the Cambodia Vulture Project.
- Donation to the Cheetah Conservation Fund.
- Supporting the future of veterinary medicine with Texas A&M University.
- Helping native Texas ocelots at the Laguna Atacosa National Wildlife Refuge
- Donation to Care for Karamoja and their efforts to protect the only remaining ostriches in Uganda
