Woodland Park Zoo Press Release

What:
Beginning Thursday, November 1, Woodland Park Zoo’s Draft Annual Plan is available to the public. The Annual Plan is submitted to the Superintendent of Seattle Parks and Recreation as specified by the Zoo Operations and Management Agreement between the City of Seattle and the Woodland Park Zoo Society. The Annual Plan briefly describes programmatic changes, capital improvements or planned fee changes for the upcoming year. The report is due to the Superintendent of Parks in the fourth quarter of each year.

How:
Interested individuals may access the Draft Annual Plan 2008 through Woodland Park Zoo’s website on the Zoo Society main page. Or, at Woodland Park Zoo’s administrative offices in the reception trailer during regular zoo hours 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. The offices are near the zoo’s North Entrance off N. 59th St. & Phinney Ave. N.

Written comments on the Draft Annual Plan 2008 may be mailed to: Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle, WA 98103, “Attention: Jim Bennett, Annual Plan Comments.” Comments may also be submitted electronically, accessible from the Zoo Society main page on the zoo's Web site. Any public comments must be received by midnight, December 1, 2007.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.