by Mike Loomis
February 27, 1999
The fourth Saturday of every month, Rod Hackney, the public relations manager for the North Carolina Zoo, travels to Raleigh for a live segment on WRAL TV 5. This segment is usually about a unique animal we have at the zoo or a new project that is up and coming. I was fortunate enough to speak to Rod yesterday when I called the Zoo. He invited me to be a part of the WRAL TV show today. Rod has an extensive background with the project because he accompanied me last May on the first installment of the elephant collaring project. Today, I was able to share my views of elephant conservation with a live audience that was over 6,500 miles from where I am standing. As I answered some of the questions Rod had to ask me, I found myself in awe of the fact that what I was doing was really happening. I am standing in a large open area just south of Waza National Park in Cameroon, Africa and people just waking up, sitting around their televisions, eating their cereal in North carolina are hearing me describe my efforts to help save an endangered species, the African Elephant. To date, we have been visited by people in some 81 countries! George Jetson has certainly arrived! I hope that you have been able to learn something by visiting our site, whether you have stumbled onto it for the first time or if you are one of our repeat customers. Thanks for tuning in, from Qatar to Mexico to Hong Kong and New Zeland or where ever you may be from. Thank You, Dr. Mike
About the author:Dr. Mike Loomis is Chief Veterinarian at the North Carolina Zoological Park.
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