Ocelot fest going virtual for 2021
BROWNSVILLE — Like their namesake, the popular annual Ocelot Conservation Festival is having to adapt, but thanks to the Friends of the Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge, this year’s celebration will go on as a virtual event.
The three-day festival traditionally is held at the Gladys Porter Zoo in Brownsville. But this year it’s going to be three days of virtual ocelots online, and will include the Ocelot Run.
Blame you-know-what for the changes.
“This year with the pandemic, we’re not going to be hosting it live like we usually do at Gladys Porter Zoo,” Chris Quezada, visitors services park ranger at Laguna Atascosa, said Tuesday.
“There are going to be a series of speakers and we’re going to be talking about pretty much everything that goes toward ocelot conservation on behalf of the (U.S. Fish and Wildlife) Service,” he said. “We’ve got a few speakers lined up. We’ve got speakers from the Cincinnati Zoo talking about some science innovation and sampling with sperm, you know to freeze some and hopefully use some in the future. And then we’ve got something a little less gross, just land acquisition, what goes on in land acquisition, how it affects our neighbors here around the refuge.”
Read more: https://myrgv.com/life/2021/02/10/ocelot-fest-going-virtual-for-2021/
Sihil, an ocelot from the Cincinnati Zoo, is viewed as nature photographers and enthusiasts view the cat Thursday April 19, 2012 at Santa Ana National Refuge in San Juan. (Monitor photo)
(McAllen Monitor)
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