Oakland Zoo hosts - Save Our Wild Salmon Road Show for Salmon Recovery
7/2/2007
EXTINCTION STOPS HERE 2007 Salmon Road Show Rolls into the Bay Area A Campaign to Restore Endangered Wild Salmon & Steelhead To the Columbia & Snake Rivers
WHO:
FIN, a giant 25-foot King Salmon, and his handlers from the Save Our Wild Salmon Coalition
WHAT:
Wild Salmon Road Show Stops at the Oakland Zoo
With the support of a dozen business and organizational sponsors, Save Our Wild Salmon is hitting the road this summer with the 2007 Extinction Stops Here! Road Show for Salmon Recovery, with its inaugural Bay Area stop at the Oakland Zoo.
From there, the Road Show, which started in Oregon and Washington, will make its way south through California, Arizona, and Nevada during June and July to raise visibility for the plight of endangered salmon and steelhead in the Columbia and Snake Rivers and build support for removing the four lower Snake River dams in Washington State.
A traffic-stopping, 25-foot-long, hand-crafted King Salmon, FIN is the star of the Extinction Stops Here tour. Children can climb aboard and explore interactive exhibits about the life cycle of salmon, while adults can learn about what it will take to recover endangered Northwest salmon and steelhead to healthy, abundant and sustainable populations and restore declining West Coast fisheries.
WHEN: Sunday, July 1 - 9:00 am to close / Monday, July 2 – 2:30 pm to close (4:00 pm)
WHERE:
Oakland Zoo
WHY:
Fewer wild salmon are returning each year to key western watersheds like the Klamath and Columbia-Snake river basins. Habitat destruction, poor water management, and dams on the Klamath and lower Snake Rivers have caused wild salmon populations to drop dramatically. Declining runs have curtailed fisheries and hurt regional economies throughout the Pacific salmon states of California, Oregon, Washington, Idaho.
INFORMATION Bobby Hayden – Save Our Wild Salmon - (503) 781-3383 Therese Wells – Save Our Wild Salmon – (206) 286-4455 x107
The award-winning Oakland Zoo is home to over 440 native and exotic animals. Nestled in the Oakland Hills, in 525 acre Knowland Park, the Zoo is located at 9777 Golf Links Road, off Highway 580. Visit our web site at www.oaklandzoo.org.
