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Meerkat Makeover!

With the help of friends, the Staten Island Zoo
has undertaken to make over our meerkat home.

Meerkat Habitat Project
The objective of the project is an improved habitat for our beautiful meerkats, complete with deep sandy soil suitable for burrow digging, glass walls so our visitors can get up close and personal with our meerkats, and with variety of enrichment activities so the meerkats can display their fascinating cooperative behavior.

The East Coast Meerkat Society (www.meerkatsrule.org) has offered to help the zoo raise the funds to rebuild our meerkat enclosure. This volunteer group, formed by people from all walks of life with an intense interest in meerkats, works to improve the lives of meerkats in zoos and the researchers who study these animals in their home in the Kalahari Desert, Africa, and to promote conservation for meerkats in the wild. They have raised one-third of the funds needed, and are partnering with the zoo for this fund-raising drive.

Our Partnership
The Staten Island Zoo curators, keepers, zoologists and architects are working with the East Coast Meerkat Society volunteers to develop a new enrichment-based environment for the meerkat exhibit where visitors will be able to observe the fascinating, communal, cooperative behavior of meerkats at close range.

We ask for your donation to assist in giving our wonderful meerkats a better place to live.

The East Coast Meerkat Society is donating some beautiful premiums for contributors:

For a $10 contribution and above:

You will receive a thank-you letter from the Staten Island Zoo, and from the East Coast

Meerkat Society special photographs of our zoo meerkats, plus several beautiful stories
describing meerkat families and their complex, cooperative life in the Kalahari Desert, Africa.

For a $50 contribution and above:

In addition to the items above, you will receive the beautiful 2007 Meerkat Color Desktop
Calender created for the Staten Island Zoo by the East Coast Meerkat Society.

For a $100 contribution and above:

You will receive the letter from the zoo, photographs of the Staten Island meerkats, the meerkat
stories described above, the 2007 Meerkat Color Desktop Calender, and as a special thank-you,
your choice of either of these items:

» Stained glass suncatcher, a beautiful standing meerkat.

Handmade original work, each numbered and signed by the artist.

» Cuddly 8-inch tall meerkat plush toy.

To go to our secure donation page click here . If you have questions, or perhaps wish to make a
donation by mail, please call the zoo at (718) 442-6868.

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