Wildlife conservation requires a diversity of ideas, strong science, effective education, and targeted communications. Often, these efforts are best achieved by creating partnerships in which the strengths of many contributors are combined to achieve multiple levels of success.  [more]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., May 17, 2007 - A team from Operation Migration (OM) recently visited Walt Disney World to celebrate International Migratory Bird Day at Disney's Animal Kingdom. At Rafiki's Planet Watch, Operation Migration displayed one of their ultralight planes and hosted a booth featuring pictorial panels illustrating both OM's history and the whooping crane story. Each year since 2001, as part of a landmark reintroduction effort, Operation Migration's pilots have led a cohort of ca...  [more]

LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., January 23, 2007 - Animal Planetbrought it'ssuccessful television series Backyard Habitat to Central Florida to create backyard habitats. The show hosts, Dave Mizejewski from the National Wildlife Federation, and nature craft specialist Molly Pesce, arrived at Disney's Animal Kingdom® to build a habitat at Rafiki's Planet Watch. They could not do it alone. Children from the Boys and Girls Club of Pine Hills were asked to roll up their sleeves and literally dig in to th...  [more]

Poinciana, FL, June 15, 2006 - Audubon Center for Birds of Prey released a rehabilitated bald eagle back to the Florida skies today at the mitigation bank site in Osceola County. Jerry Montgomery, Sr. Vice President of Public Affairs, Walt Disney World, will release the eagle. "I'm proud of the partnership we have developed with the Audubon Center for Birds of Prey," said Montgomery. "At the Walt Disney World Resort our commitment to conservation drives us to deliver uncompromising exce...  [more]

Scientific Discoveries on Himalayas Expedition to China and Nepal Enhance Environmental Storyline of Disney's Newest Attraction, 'Expedition Everest' LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla., April 7, 2006- Scientists from Conservation International (CI) and Disney's Animal Kingdom found a vast array of exotic wildlife -- including plant and animal species previously unknown to science--during a two-month expedition to little-known regions in the shadow of Mount Everest. The discoveries and observations announ...  [more]