Partnership activities: In the past two years, the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has given nearly $30,000 to Wildlife Trust for projects on three different continents. In Belize the Fund supported a project aimed at countering watercraft- related manatee deaths. In Ethiopia the Fund supported a research and conservation initiative to protect the African wild ass (Equus africanus) and the Grevy’s zebra (Equus grevyi). And, in Brazil the Fund helped Wildlife Trust scientists document and map a “metapopulation” of black lion tamarins (Leontopithecus chrysopygus), among the rarest and most endangered primates in the world.

Partner perspective: “The support we have received from the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund has helped our scientists and educators achieve real conservation success at the local level,” said Mary C. Pearl, President of Wildlife Trust. “Our approach to every wildlife conservation challenge we tackle is to work community by community. The conditions that permit the survival of species and biodiversity are the very same conditions that support human health and prosperity. We’re all in the same boat. We thank the SeaWorld & Busch Gardens Conservation Fund for helping us spread this message in regions of the world that desperately need it.”