Students become botanists for a day at the local zoo

Volunteer UCF members removed weeds, spread pine straw for the zoo’s dragonfly pond and learned how to identify the wide variety of vegetation they would be picking at the Central Florida Zoo. Photo by Nikki Namdar/Central Florida Future.

By Nikki Namdar
centralfloridafuture.com
July 24, 2011

The animal division of Volunteer UCF took their first trip to the zoo and became botanists for the day to help maintain the environment for the zoo’s wildlife.

“We have a very diverse group of people,” Chelsea Balkam, director of the animal unit of VUCF, said. “Everyone is doing different majors, studying different things, but just love animals.”
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