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There is only a few hours left to order your Pints for Pachyderms T-Shirt! Click the link below and order yours before the end of the campaign tomorrow, July 5th!

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A big thank you to everyone who attended Pints for Pachyderms last night and helped raise funds for Conservation South Luangwa! The event was fantastic and I couldn’t have been more excited with how it all turned out!

Didn’t get a chance to come to the event but still want to support the fundraiser? There is still time to get a t-shirt! Click the link below and order yours before the end of the campaign on July 5th!

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Don't axolotl questions, just stop by our Art Gone Wild booth this Saturday

Today is Endangered Species Day.
Did You Know? - 41% of amphibians, 37% of sharks and rays, 36% of reef building corals, 34% of conifers, 26% of mammals, and 12% of birds are threatened with extinction! To learn more visit: www.iucnredlist.org/about/background-history

Series 6
Pledge Now: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/peppermintnarwhal/endangered-series-6-pins-by-peppermint-narwhal?ref=xbl3k0
Campaign ends June 3, 2024.

Join the Herd: Your Pie Grant Park invite you to support Asian Elephant Support over a slice of pizza, showcasing the strength of unity and compassion.

Don't forget to vote to help name Zoo Atlanta's rhino calf!!

The Rhino Naming Madness bracket is now LIVE! Click the link to choose your Round 1 favorites, and be sure to check back March 27 for the Round 1 winners and Round 2 voting!
https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/5VXB38M

Thank you, Akron AAZK, for going above and beyond to honor Jennifer's legacy! We recently heard a report from Jennifer's colleagues about how her corridor is progressing. They have received wonderful support, but could still use more funds to expand this important habitat-connecting space.

Anyone interesting in donating to Jennifer's Forest Corridor can click here: https://www.savetheliontamarin.org/jennifer-mickelberg-memorial

Thank you to everyone who attended, and thank you even more to our Pi Day Committee members and Pi Day Pi-ees! The Pi Day Committee has been planning this event since January, and our Pi-ees have been haunted by faint whiffs of whipped cream for more than 24 hours now.

With your fantastic support, we sold out on pizza (only turning away a couple of folks, thankfully!) and raised just under $200.00 for professional development funding and hosting fun celebrations like National Zoo Keeper Week and Vet Tech Week!

Check out our new album of photos and videos from the event!

Exciting news! Our red pandas, Ruby and Rose were born at John Ball Zoo.

👏 The John Ball Zoo proudly become a founding member of the red panda program! This initiative, marking our 41st SAFE species program, will use an approach that integrates 📋, campaigns 💡, and efforts 🔎 to increase awareness of and involvement in red panda .

🐾 The John Ball Zoo has a long-standing commitment to red panda conservation, as demonstrated by their work with the Red Panda Network to restore the species' natural habitat 🌳. Joining the SAFE program will allow them to expand their impact! In Connect, you can read more about how the Zoo and other members plan support conservation through the program: https://bit.ly/3T3kMz8.

Happy World Wildlife Day!
This is kinda' every day for us here at Peppermint Narwhal Creative but we are glad there are holidays like these devoted to drawing attention to animals and conservation. So on a day which celebrates all the world's wildlife we have a question for you. What are is your top five favorite animals? Post them in the comments below.

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Talk about a Happy New Year- you can now apply for grants to fund your 2024 AAZK
Conference experience or another professional development opportunity!
Visit https://aazk.org/committee/grants-committee/ for more information

Thinking about goals for the New Year? AAZK is seeking abstracts for Topical Workshops for the 2024 AAZK National Conference in Omaha. Abstract submission deadline: January 15, 2024 (11:59pm EST). Visit https://www.aazkomaha.com/ or email [email protected]

🎁Double-check this handy list before you buy your wrapping materials! The best option is to reuse old wrappings, but if you have to buy new, consider how they will be reused/recycled or if they will end up in the landfill.

Amazing conservation news!!

🎉 Great news: The scimitar-horned oryx has moved from "Extinct in the Wild" to "Endangered" on the IUCN Red List!

Once gone from the wild due to poaching and droughts, this antelope is making comeback.

Thanks to global efforts, 140 mature oryx now roam freely in Chad's Ouadi Rimé-Ouadi Achim Faunal Reserve, with 331 calves born by 2021.

Local communities and national authorities played a crucial role in this success, but the fight against poaching continues.

Learn more in the latest IUCN Red List of Threatened Species update.

https://bit.ly/41fwRVG

Our friends at GRAZE know that the holiday season can be a difficult time for some, and they offer resources to help us get through tough times. Shannon McKinney, Director of Proactive Programming at GRAZE, wrote an article called Gratitude: More than an Attitude, But a Science which gives 5 pointers on how to start or have a gratitude practice/reflection.
Article link:
https://zoomentalhealthsupport.com/2022/11/01/gratitude-more-than-an-attitude-but-a-science/?mc_cid=8e690a098b&mc_eid=9cf2677866

If you are interested in signing up for the GRAZE monthly newsletter to receive updates, resources and articles or want to learn more about GRAZE, visit
https://zoomentalhealthsupport.com

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Thank you to the over 100 people who came to Brazilian Bingo last night! It was great to see so many familiar faces gathering to raise money for Jennifer's Forest Corridor.

We are excited to announce that last night's event raised over $2200!! We were also notified of a generous individual who decided to donate $1000 directly to the Save the Golden Lion Tamarin fund for Jennifer's Forest Corridor.

If you would like to add your support to 's work to connect a population of over 3000 golden lion tamarins in memory of Dr. Jennifer Mickelberg, please donate here: https://www.savetheliontamarin.org/jennifer-mickelberg-memorial

Huge thanks and kudos to Zoo Atlanta's Educators!

Save the Golden Lion Tamarin is the beneficiary of our upcoming fundraiser, Brazilian Bingo, as it has been for quite some time. Jennifer was involved with the organization for over a decade, and we are happy to see the wildlife corridors she cared so much about building become part of the way we can honor her memory. Please see the link below to donate toward the tree corridor being planted in Jennifer's honor.

Honoring Jennifer Mickelberg - 12/22/1975 - 10/31/2023

GLTs have lost a good friend. Dr. Jennifer Mickelberg is a hero in the 75-year struggle to save the golden lion tamarin. Jennifer could galvanize a scientific conference with a presentation on GLT genetics and population biology, and then cheerfully sell GLT t-shirts to conferees to raise money for their conservation.
To honor Jennifer’s legacy of “connectedness,” will plant its most important forest corridor to date—the one that will finally achieve Jennifer’s goal of 2,000 GLTs living in connected forest.
To learn more about Jennifer and to contribute to Jennifer’s Forest Corridor, click here to make a donation: https://www.savetheliontamarin.org/jennifer-mickelberg-memorial

Brazilian Bingo is next Monday! Please join us as we have fun and raise funds for Save the Golden Lion Tamarin!

https://www.savetheliontamarin.org/

Happy National Bison Day!
Now You Know! - Yellowstone National Park is the only place in the U.S. where Bison have continuously lived since prehistoric times.

Bison Enamel Pin:
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If you didn't know it was National Bison Day, then you need the...
2024 Animal Holiday Calendar:
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Support Peppermint Narwhal with STARS!
If you value or appreciate the work we do, you can now give any of our posts Stars. Stars are additional recognition that directly support our efforts to continue to create daily animal education content. Thank you for your support!

Our upcoming event, Brazilian Bingo, is an annual event supporting Save the Golden Lion Tamarin. Dr. Jennifer Mickelberg joined their Board of Directors in 2010 and attended Brazilian Bingo each year to speak about the organization's efforts to protect golden lion tamarins in their native habitat. Her passion for the cause was clear through her words and her actions as she spent more than 20 years working to preserve the species and their home.

We encourage you to attend the event to help us support this organization that meant so much to Jennifer while building and celebrating the community she loved, but if you cannot, please consider making a donation to Save the Golden Lion Tamarin either directly (https://www.savetheliontamarin.org/jennifer-mickelberg-memorial?fbclid=IwAR0PK-STlE-cYuKfsnEXyGHdb5Q5fVWnUQJAmmNtMtAnZgKU7PLhp7EICgk) or by including a note about Jennifer or GLTs as you send a donation at Paypal.me/GAaazk

Photo credit: Save the Golden Lion Tamarin

I AM THANKFUL FOR: Amphibians!
How About You?

Amphibians are cold-blooded, tetrapod vertebrates that are distinguished by having an aquatic gill-breathing larval stage followed (typically) by a terrestrial lung-breathing adult stage.

There are three basic groups:
1. Frogs & Toads
2. Newts & Salamanders
3. Caecilians

Be Thankful And Protect What You Love!

Happy Year of the Amphibian!
2023 the Year of the Amphibian! We will be spotlighting many of your favorite frogs, toads, newts, and salamanders, and we might even introduce you to a caecilian or two along the way. So stay connected with us all year as we highlight the fascinating world of Amphibians.

Start the coming year off right!
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