Los Angeles American Association of Zoo Keepers Chapter

Going to make a purchase on Amazon? Wait! You can buy what you want and help support our chapter just by going though this link. So easy! https://smile.amazon.com/ch/26-0681131

The Fall Classic is here and our Los Angeles Dodgers are facing the Tampa Bay Rays! We couldn't pass up the opportunity to place a wager with our friends and colleges at the Tampa Bay AAZK Chapter. If the Rays win, we will make a donation to the Mote Marine Laboratory & Aquarium in Sarasota FL. or...WHEN the Dodgers win, TB AAZK will make a donation to our own local Gibbon Conservation Center in Santa Clarita, CA! We look forward to a great series between two great teams and encourage you to check out both of these wonderful organizations and make a donation yourself if you are able. #gododgers

This year in the Congo, we will be celebrating World Okapi Day over the radio waves. Stations all around the Reserve will be broadcasting messaging on okapi, pr...otecting the forest, the connection of the environment to human health, and different ways people can protect the forest for okapi and communities for generations to come! Help us spread the message by sharing World Okapi Day with your friends! #WorldOkapiDay #OkapiConservation

Happy International Zookeeper Day!!! We want to send our appreciation out to zookeepers all over the globe who are passionate about their work and go above and beyond the call of duty to provide the best care for their animals, to educate the visitors at their zoos, and who are committed to promoting wildlife conservation on a daily basis. We salute you!

Animal Keeper Debbie Sears shares some great insights about California condord and Dolly, our California condor ambassador! https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=mbG_62ovuyU

Lights, Camera...Take Action! The red carpet is set for our arrival in Hollywood next year... We hope you plan to join us 29 August- 2 September for the 2021 AAZK National Conference hosted by Los Angeles AAZK Chapter!

As we wrap up National Zookeeper Appreciation Week, we would love to see if we can reach out goal of $2,000. Please donate and share.

Thank you everyone for all of your donation so far. Can we reach $1,000 by the end of today? Edit: We reached $1k! Thanks to all our donors so far. How close can we get to $2,000 before today ends?

Happy #NationalZooKeeperWeek! During our closure, #LAZoo keepers and other staff have worked hard not only to care for our animals and facilities, but also to c...apture many of the incredible photos and videos that we've been sharing with all of you. Thanks to our keepers, we've been able to continue to show unique views of the work they do every day to keep our animals happy and healthy. This week, look for *even more* keeper stories and POVs. Stay tuned! : L.A. Zoo Keepers See more

It's National Zoo Keeper Week! This photo of our chapter, taken in February, was intended to help promote the 2020 AAZK National Conference that we had been selected to host. The conference has been postponed until 2021. This was the last time that we met as a group in person. Since this moment, we have been practicing physical distancing. We still come to work everyday and provide the highest quality care to our animals, seeing each other only in passing, at a distance, with... masks covering our faces. Meetings have been taking place in front of computers or on our phones. Several planned fundraisers for our chapter, our conference, and for wildlife conservation have been cancelled. We all look forward to the day where we can once again talk to large groups about the animals that we care for so passionately. We look forward to seeing you at our fundraisers when we can all eat, drink, laugh, and bowl together. We also look forward to hosting zoo keepers from all over the country at the 2021 AAZK National Conference. Until then, we would appreciate it from the bottom of our hearts if you could help support to us with a donation and by sharing this fundraiser. See more

Two of the birds sighted were hatched at the L.A. Zoo; the female (#866) was one of the "Anyapa twins"the first chicks raised using the "double-brood" protocol where two chicks are raised simultaneously by parents. Great news!

Thanks to everyone who came to Laughs for Giraffes and to all the people who stuck their necks out for Giraffe this past weekend!

Today is #worldgiraffeday With only approximately 111,000 giraffe remaining in the wild, giraffe were listed as Vulnerable to Extinction on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species in 2016. Giraffe numbers in Africa have plummeted by a staggering 30% over the last 30 years alone, and likely more than 90% in the last century. This silent extinction is happening before our eyes, but we can still turn this around if we start acting now! This day was created to raise attention and... knowledge about giraffes. LA/AAZK is hosting an online comedy show tonight, thanks to @nowherecomedy All proceeds raised from this event will support the @giraffe_conservation foundation. Ticket link is in bio. By LA/AAZK President Mike Bona in the Namib dessert in North West Namibia. This giraffe just had a GPS tracker placed on his ossicone. The information obtained from the GPS unit will provide valuable data to GCF that will help protect these magnificent animals from going extinct. #aazk #conservation #giraffe #giraffes #stickyourneckout #laughsforgiraffes #comedy

Laughs for Giraffes support important conservation efforts like Operation Twiga. Get your tickets for this Sunday's virtual comedy show. *link in comments