{"id":3855,"date":"2017-11-18T10:48:04","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T15:48:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2017-11-29T10:10:36","modified_gmt":"2017-11-29T15:10:36","slug":"grassroots-wildlife-conservation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/2017\/11\/18\/grassroots-wildlife-conservation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conservation Group Working To Save Turtles Merges With Local Zoos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grassrootswildlife.org\/History.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Grassroots Wildlife Conservation<\/a>\u2014a Concord, Massachusetts, nonprofit devoted to ecological education and on-the-ground protection of rare New England species\u2014will merge with Zoo New England, the Boston institution that operates the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham has <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zoonewengland.org\/zoo-news\/2017\/november\/zoo-new-england-announces-merger-with-grassroots-wildlife-conservation\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">announced<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The zoos report that they\u2019ve worked with Grassroots Wildlife Conservation since 2007, including a Blanding\u2019s turtle head-start program (one of the turtles is pictured above) and a marbled salamander reintroduction project in the Middlesex Fells. Grassroots Wildlife Conservation has also worked to conserve the eastern spadefoot toad, bridle shiner and Britton\u2019s violet.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ltG2-IG24HQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are really excited to become part of a larger, much more established organization, which will enable us to greatly expand our work and reach,\u201d Grassroots Wildlife Conservation founder and Executive Director Bryan Windmiller said in a prepared statement. \u201cZoo New England\u2019s Franklin Park Zoo and Stone Zoo see more than 600,000 visitors a year, who visit in large part because they are interested in wildlife and animals. We have an incredible opportunity to reach a much larger audience with our conservation message, as well as potentially engage them in hands-on projects in their own communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The zoos said that after the merger, Windmiller will serve as director of Zoo New England\u2019s conservation department, which is \u201ccommitted to preserving local biodiversity of rare native animals and plants, while also working to save species on a national and international level.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grassroots Wildlife Conservation\u2014a Concord, Massachusetts, nonprofit devoted to ecological education and on-the-ground protection of rare New England species\u2014will merge with Zoo New England, the Boston institution that operates the Franklin Park Zoo in Boston and the Stone Zoo in Stoneham has announced. The zoos report that they\u2019ve worked with Grassroots Wildlife Conservation since 2007, including [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[104],"tags":[37,97],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3855"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3855\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3855"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3855"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gregcookland.com\/wonderland\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3855"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}