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THE CANADIAN STATESMAN, APRIL 5, 2000 PAGE 5 CLOCA wish list tops $546,000 The Central Lake Ontario Conservation Conservation Authority is asking lor more money this year to help it properly look alter loeal watersheds. CLOCA's board of directors approved approved a budget of $2,851,000 for the year. That includes a request for a special special capital levy from Durham Region of $546,000 to conduct watershed plans, develop a regional groundwater strategy and conservation area planning planning and development.. . The authority has also requested a base funding increase of 3.9 per cent to assist in core programs related to natural hazard and heritage issues, federal fisheries concerns and land management. "The inescapable conclusion from reviewing CLOCA's operations is that we arc doing about all we can given the current level of financing," said chief administrative officer Russ Powell. "The authority will continue to do what it does now and do it very well, but there is no way it can cope in a timely manner with issues such as groundwater, watershed planning and insuring adequate public open space for the Durham residents, current and future." He said the annual cost to deliver CLOCA projects and programs is estimated estimated at a bit more than $5 per person. person. The authority has asked local municipalities municipalities to consider taking over the management, but not ownership, of some of CLOCA's conservation areas. CLOCA's 2000 projects' include Hood forecasting and warning, completion completion of the Bowmanville aquatic resource management plan, Bow- manvillc Creek géomorphologie study, Oshawa Creek aquatic management management plan and bio-map, natural hazard hazard policy and mapping, outdoor and classroom environmental education for more than 12,000 students, sediment sediment monitoring study and the 3rd annual annual Children's Groundwater Festival. Jungle Cat World says goodbye to leopards This time, the cat won't come back BY JACQUIE MclNNES Staff Writer ORONO - They're not so little anymore and now its time for three endangered Amur leopards to say goodbye goodbye to their mom and dad and go out in the world to help save the species. "They're part of a species survival program," says Peter Klosc, curator of Jungle Jungle Cat World. "We are the owner of the cats but we're lending them out." Already Sasha, a male Amur-born in May 1999, has left for the Granby Zoo in Quebec to be mated. His siblings siblings will soon follow in his footsteps. Kalinka, a female, is scheduled to go to the Fort Wayne Children's Zoo in Indiana Indiana in a couple of weeks and Shogun, a male, will leave soon for the Minnesota Zoo. It's hard to say goodbye to the cubs which were all born at Cal World but Mr. Klose points out, the zoo is a partner in an international program for species survival. "As a zoological park ' you're almost obligated to say yes. It's considered a loan but it could be indefinite." indefinite." In fact, the cubs' parents came to Cal World the same way. A zoo in Helsinki donated donated the father, Dimitri, after he successfully mated at Cat World while he was on loan. The mother, Umi, remains remains at Cat World although she belongs to a Manitoba zoo. The importance of the work is the inspiration for . the time and effort Jungle Cat World has given to species survival in recent years, says Mr. Klosc. The zoo is working on changing the entire zoo.into a collection collection of pedigreed animals which can be used to further the repopulation of some of the world's rarest species. "Ten to 15 years ago zoos were in their infancy in working with endangered species. Then it was more entertainment than educa tion," explains Mr. Klosc. Now, while entertainment is still an important component for the zoo, the enjoyment children experience being up close with the animals is used to educate them, he says. By populating the zoo with pedigreed animals, the zoo will take one step further by improving the species chances at survival. "The Amur wasn't even expected to survive (extinction) (extinction) into the new millennium. millennium. Two years ago, we didn't didn't even know they existed and we're a zoological park," says Mr. Klose. Now, there are approximately 200 Amur leopards in parks worldwide but only 23 that arc genetically important, including including the three which arc leaving Cat World. But as they go, there is hope there might soon be more little ones to take their place. Umi and Dimitri arc still very close and after all, points out Mr. Klose, "It's springtime. We'll keep our fingers crossed." Jungle Cat World zookeeper Tanya Galea with Sasha, a male Amur leopard that's left for a Quebec zoo. Proper shoes for problem fit. new balance =& K4MEK4 FOOTWEAR Whitby Mall 728-4197 1970- WIDTHS FOR ALL YOUR LIFESTYLE NEEDS, FROM RUNNING, WALKING 4 CROSS TRAINING TO USUAL W 30 years of excellence NEW BALANCE DAY - SAT. APRIL 8 The New Balance tech representative will be available Sat., April 8 from 10 am till 3 pm to offer his expertise. 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