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Kids for Nature:

Cast Your Vote

Every time you visit the Zoo, you can make a difference for wildlife conservation.

Whenever you receive a recycled metal washer at the ticket booth, make sure you stop by the Kids for Nature kiosk
just inside the front gates and vote for your favorite conservation project by dropping the washer in the wishing
well. At the end of the season, we tally up the votes and determine how much funding each project will receive.

This year, our three featured projects will support Reticulated Giraffe, African Black-footed Penguins, and Eastern
Hellbenders. Additional votes can be made with real quarters, nickels, and dimes, and 100% of these contributions
will help support the featured projects. Every vote matters; what will you vote for?

Kids for Nature programs are sponsored by:

RETICULATED GIRAFFE
Recreate PMS
The tallest animal on earth needs our help.
Reticulated Giraffe populations have declined by
50% in the past 30 years and they are now listed
as Endangered. Your Kids for Nature vote supports
field research, tracking, and mapping giraffe
movements and human conflict.

AFRICAN BLACK-FOOTED PENGUIN

Help us turn the tide on African Penguin
extinction. Kids for Nature votes will help with
rescue, rehabilitation, and release of ill, injured,
abandoned, and oiled seabirds.

EASTERN HELLBENDER
In our state, these two-foot-long salamanders
live only in the clear, clean rivers of southern
Indiana. Your Kids for Nature vote helps the Zoo
rear baby hellbenders until they are 3 years old.
When released into wild rivers, these juvenile
hellbenders have a greater chance of survival.

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