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NC Zoo gets an international award for long-running sustainability work

Image courtesy of the North Carolina Zoo.

The North Carolina Zoo has received international recognition for its sustainability efforts.

The Zoo earned the 2021 Environmental Sustainability Award from the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums. The organization represents nearly 400 facilities around the world and designates only one such winner each year.

The Zoo began its green practices in the late 1980s. Minimizing plastics, using energy-efficient lighting and heating and cooling systems, and offering electric charging stations are part of the sustainability effort.

Beyond its boundaries though, the North Carolina Zoo is also credited with showing visitors how they can make an environmental difference in their own communities.

The North Carolina Zoo is the largest natural habitat wildlife park in the world.

Paul Garber is a Winston-Salem native and an award-winning reporter who began his journalism career with an internship at The High Point Enterprise in 1993. He has previously worked at The Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle, The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The News and Record of Greensboro and the Winston-Salem Journal, where he was the newspaper's first full-time multimedia reporter. He won the statewide Media and the Law award in 2000 and has also been recognized for his business, investigative and multimedia reporting. Paul earned a BA from Wake Forest University and has a Master's of Liberal Arts degree from Johns Hopkins University and a Master's of Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He lives in Lewisville.

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