Category: Press Room
Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Testimony
of
DAN ASHE
PRESIDENT & CEO
ASSOCIATION OF ZOOS AND AQUARIUMS
before the
COMMITTEE ON ENVIRONMENT AND PUBLIC WORKS
U.S. SENATE
on
“Stopping the Spread: Examining the Increased Risk of Zoonotic Disease from Illegal Wildlife Trafficking.”
July 22, 2020
Watch the recorded Committee Hearing here: ...
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at Wednesday, July 22, 2020
Tuesday, July 14, 2020
In framing their policy on the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, the Interior Department has created what debaters and negotiators call a “strawman fallacy.” It made an argument that the MBTA’s strict liability was making criminals of farmers who tear down dilapidated barns, or homeowners who trimmed trees, or automobile drivers who accidentally hit birds. In fact, this argument is hollow. There is no evidence of such enforcement occurring, because it hasn’t.
The history of...
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at Tuesday, July 14, 2020
Friday, June 12, 2020
Silver Spring, MD ( June 12, 2020) – In 1956, four years before Jane Goodall ventured into the world of chimpanzees, and seven years before Dian Fossey left to work with the mountain gorillas, 23-year-old biologist Anne Innis Dagg made an unprecedented solo journey to Africa to study giraffes in the wild. Now 86 and the subject of the documentary film, “The Woman Who Loves Giraffes,” the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) and the AZA SAFE: Saving Animals From...
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at Friday, June 12, 2020
Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Statement of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums Board of Directors
On Social and Racial Justice, Inclusion and Equity
Adopted June 2, 2020
The killing of George Floyd is shockingly and disturbingly evil. And Ahmaud Arbery. And Breonna Taylor. And Eric Garner. And on and on. It is often said that the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good people to do nothing. The evil behind these tragedies is grounded in privilege, and in prejudice and callous indifference...
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at Wednesday, June 3, 2020
Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Dan Ashe, President and CEO
Association of Zoos and Aquariums
Virtual Democratic Roundtable on Wildlife Disease Prevention
May 19, 2020
Good afternoon Chairman Grijalva, and greetings from Reid Park Zoo and Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum, two exemplary AZA-accredited facilities, in Tucson, Arizona. Thank you for convening this roundtable and inviting me to participate.
I’ll begin with the punch line: As a former U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Director and career...
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at Tuesday, May 19, 2020