{"id":4387,"date":"2015-03-30T19:13:22","date_gmt":"2015-03-30T23:13:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/?p=4387"},"modified":"2016-12-03T18:28:45","modified_gmt":"2016-12-03T23:28:45","slug":"lehigh-valley-zoo-local-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=4387","title":{"rendered":"Lehigh Valley Zoo | Local Non-Profit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As a non-profit organization, Lehigh Valley Zoo is eleven years young, but as a treasured community landmark, our history spans over a century.\u00a0 Lehigh Valley Zoo, located in the heart of the Trexler Nature Preserve, is home to more than 325 animal ambassadors representing over 125 species.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 The Zoo\u2019s animal collection includes 23 species collectively managed through a Species Survival Plan\u00ae, or SSP, administered by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA).\u00a0 As a means to share important conservation messaging with Zoo guests and contribute to field conservation, the Zoo contributes to, participates in, and initiates wildlife conservation programs at home and in the field.\u00a0 The Zoo\u2019s full-circle conservation projects spotlight the Eastern Spadefoot Toad (local), Mexican Gray Wolf (national), and African Penguin (international).<\/p>\n<p>Accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA), the Zoo hosts year-round family-friendly events and activities, educational programs, and camps.\u00a0 During calendar year, attendance reached over 175,000.\u00a0 Lehigh Valley Zoo is proud to be listed as an educational improvement organization under the Educational Improvement Tax Credit Program (EITC).\u00a0 Open year-round, the Zoo was voted Best Family Day Trip in The Morning Call\u2019s Readers\u2019 Choice Awards 2009-2014 and Best Family-Friendly Outing in Lehigh Valley Style\u2019s Best of the Lehigh Valley 2014!\u00a0 To learn more about Lehigh Valley Zoo, we invite you to visit our website, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvzoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">www.lvzoo.org<\/a>, or follow us on:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/lvzoo\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4391\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/facebook_hover.png\" alt=\"facebook_hover\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>facebook.com\/lvzoo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/lvzoo\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4392\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/twitter_hover.png\" alt=\"twitter_hover\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/>twitter.com\/lvzoo<\/a><\/p>\n<h3>Lehigh Valley Zoo<\/h3>\n<p>5150 Game Preserve Road<\/p>\n<p>P.O. Box 519<\/p>\n<p>Schnecksville, PA 18078<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"tel:%28610%29%20799-4171\" target=\"_blank\">(610) 799-4171<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lvzoo.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.lvzoo.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As a non-profit organization, Lehigh Valley Zoo is eleven years young, but as a treasured community landmark, our history spans over a century.\u00a0 Lehigh Valley Zoo, located in the heart &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/?p=4387\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Lehigh Valley Zoo | Local Non-Profit<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[69,707,5061,5060],"tags":[1527,1522,1531,1526,1529,1528,1525,1519,1521,1523,1520,1530,1524],"class_list":["post-4387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-valley","category-local-business-2","category-non-profit-organizations","category-places-entertainment","tag-activities","tag-african-penguin","tag-association-of-zoos","tag-association-of-zoos-and-aquariums","tag-camps","tag-educational-programs","tag-family-friendly","tag-lehigh-valley-zoo","tag-mexican-gray-wolf","tag-non-profit-organization","tag-spadefoot-toad","tag-species-survival-plan","tag-trexler-nature-preserve"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/LVZoo_650.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thevalleyledger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}