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1. 1. Zoo Outreach Organisation - Board Members

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   Published on: 7/4/2008   Last Visited: 7/4/2008

   Ms. Sally R. Walker - Secretary
   
   Ms. Sally Walker is a renowned wildlifer and zoo conservationist and founder of the Zoo Outreach Organisation.She works voluntarily and has been working in this field in India for the past 17 years.She is supported by her parents in USA as her father is a keen animal lover with a passion for wildlife and anything in the natural world.

2. 2. Zoo Outreach Organisation - Staffs

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   Sally Walker, Founder/Chief Executive Officer, (Since 1985)
   
   Sally came to India in the1975 to study yoga and was planning to leave 7 years later when she got involved with zoos.After observing some problems with standards in zoos, and founding Friends of Mysore Zoo in 1981 she was asked to start a national level organization along the same lines, that was Zoo Outreach organization.About the same time she moved to Coimbatore in 1987 to advise businessmen starting a modern zoo in the city.Her combined interest in animal welfare generally as well as wildlife conservation and public education has served her well in developing and sustaining a variety of innovative programmes and international relationships in conservation for Zoo Outreach Organisation.She has also followed up her first interest - improving zoo standards - by catalyzing and nursing an initiative for the organized zoo community to take the lead in improving substandard zoos under the auspices and guidance of the prestigious World Association of Zoos and Aquaria WAZA.She received the Heini Heidigger Award for her contribution to the zoo profession in2003, the first woman, the first non-academic and the first focused on non-western zoos.She has numerous links with IUCN SSC, having designed and convened the first CBSG national / regional network programme.She heads CBSG, South Asia and co-chairs RSG, South Asia; she is Regional Representative for the International Zoo Educator Association.She coordinates the regional specialist group for Primates, Chiroptera and Rodents maintaining links with the SSC Chair or focal point.

3. 3. Zoo Outreach Organisation - Networks

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   Published on: 1/7/2008   Last Visited: 7/4/2008

   Sally Walker is the Regional Representative for this region and it is hosted by Zoo Outreach Organisation (www.zooreach.org) and assisted by our sponsors Columbus Zoo and Wildlife Conservation Society and ZOO's networks.