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The Alliance for...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003eA few tiny herds of African antelope have a new home on ranges in New Orleans, and zookeepers hope they will take advantage of the extra space away from curious crowds of humans to relax and reproduce.\u003cbr/\u003e              The Alliance for Sustainable Wildlife breeding center has developed 88 acres (35 hectares) of its 1,000-acre (400-hectare) parcel of land, on the other side of the Mississippi River from the much smaller Audubon Zoo, where about 2,000 animals are on display.\u003cbr/\u003e              In addition to 22 antelope - eight elands, six sable antelope, six Eastern bongos and two yellow-backed duiker (pronounced DIKE-er) - the area also will serve as home for seven giraffes and two okapi, a close relation to the giraffe that stands out from the rest because of its black-and-white-striped legs. Most of the animals have been moved here from the San Diego Zoo and its safari park.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We're letting them be animals, letting them do their thing,\" said Michelle Hatwood, curator for the center, which was jointly established by the Audubon Nature Institute, an umbrella organization that includes the Audubon Zoo, and the San Diego Zoo Global Wildlife Conservancy.\u003cbr/\u003e              The land, owned by The Audubon Institute and the Coast Guard, was used for 20 years by an Audubon project that focused on cloning and artificial insemination of endangered animals. The San Diego Zoo covered the $5.2 million cost for new site work, including the paddocks with solar-powered double gates, zoo spokesman Frank Donze said. The two zoos are sharing a little more than $1 million a year in operating costs, Hatwood said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Officials from both zoos planned a news conference Thursday, about 4½ years after announcing the project, to celebrate its official opening.\u003cbr/\u003e              In the new facility, six Eastern bongo, nearly chest-high to Hatwood, and a pair of yellow-backed duiker about half their size share 3 acres (1 hectare).\u003cbr/\u003e              The bongo are from what Hatwood described as a critically endangered subspecies with fewer than 100 in the wild, though North American zoos hold about 550.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Bongo are water-loving forest antelope, so this is their dream,\" Hatwood said Tuesday, as she and zoo curator Joel Hamilton took journalists on a preview tour through the paddocks on a low flatbed trailer with hay bale seats.\u003cbr/\u003e              The duiker were delighted with their new environment, she said: \"They immediately started to breed. They were excited by all the space.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              The bongo and duiker will move into a 12-acre (5-hectare) enclosure when its current occupants - eight eland and six sable antelope - move into a 45-acre (18-hectare) enclosure with the seven giraffes, including two who arrived pregnant.\u003cbr/\u003e              \"The exciting thing about the whole project is that in these large spaces, we're really able to increase the population sizes so they're much more sustainable for the future,\" Robert \"Bob\" Wiese, chief life sciences officer at San Diego Global, said in a phone interview Tuesday.\u003cbr/\u003e              While most of the animals have explored all their new territory, the giraffe - sentinels of the savannah and browsers along the forest's edge - are cautious beasts and have stayed at the perimeter near their barn, Hatwood said. \"They're the drama queens,\" she said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Giraffe aren't currently considered threatened or endangered, but that's likely to change after scientists fully study recent genetic and population work, Hatwood said.\u003cbr/\u003e              The eland aren't endangered either, but are great for teaching people about relationships between people and wild animals, Hatwood said. They're the world's largest antelope - weighing up to 1 ton (1,000 kilograms) each - and are often poached. But they're also being studied for farming because they're easier on the environment than cattle and are calmer than most antelope, she said.\u003cbr/\u003e              Two male okapi, endangered because of poaching and habitat loss, are being kept in separate 1-acre (0.4-hectare) enclosures. That's because, unlike their female counterparts, they don't play nicely together. Omar, a bottle-raised animal, quickly came forward for treats of carrot and yam on Tuesday, but Kikari stayed distant and camouflaged, barely visible among close-spaced trees.\u003cbr/\u003e              The staff have set aside 22 acres (9 hectares) for females to share, with the first one expected to arrive in October, Hatwood said. Females of all the species will be fairly permanent residents of the center, but males will be rotated so they don't mate with their daughters.\u003cbr/\u003e              The two zoos have decided on a number of Asian and African mammals for Phase 2, which could begin in a couple of years: wild pigs called babirusa and wild cattle called banteng, both from Indonesia; barasingha deer, an Indian species; and two more African antelope species - lechwe and sitatunga.\u003cbr/\u003e              The breeding facility's dual aim is to provide stock for zoos, which no longer collect hoofed stock from the wild, and to inspire other zoos to form similar collaborations, both curators said.\u003cbr/\u003e            \u003cbr/\u003e\u003cbr/\u003e              New Orleans, Louisiana – September 26, 2017\u003cbr/\u003e              1. wide of open trailer with media getting first look at new breeding center for some endangered species\u003cbr/\u003e              2. various of antelope \u003cbr/\u003e              +++SOT partially covered by shots 1-2+++\u003cbr/\u003e              3. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hatwood, Curator, Alliance for Sustainable Wildllife:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"So, Audubon Nature Institute and San Diego Zoo Global came together and created the Alliance for Sustainable Wildlife. This is a first-of-its-kind partnership to help the sustainability of some populations of wildlife in zoos that are not doing well. We only have so much room in zoos to hold animals, and you need a lot of animals to make sure your genetics are healthy, your demographics of those animals are healthy, and the alliance is a large piece of property that we're going to be housing and breeding a lot of these animals that really need the help.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              4. various of endangered Eastern bongo\u003cbr/\u003e              5. wide of endangered okapi through fence\u003cbr/\u003e              +++SOT partially covered by shots 4-5+++\u003cbr/\u003e              6. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hatwood, Curator, Alliance for Sustainable Wildllife:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"We have Eastern bongo which are a critically endangered subspecies of bongo from Africa. We also have some sable antelope, common eland, giraffe, okapi – which, if you've never seen an okapi look up a picture. It's the most beautiful animal – and we also have some yellow-backed duikers.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              7. various of giraffe inside 45-acre enclosure\u003cbr/\u003e              +++SOT partially covered with 7+++\u003cbr/\u003e              8. SOUNDBITE (English) Michelle Hatwood, Curator, Alliance for Sustainable Wildllife:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"Yeah, so our giraffe enclosure, which also is going to have some antelope in it, is about 45 acres, so it's a very large space. Typical zoos, usually your giraffe enclosures have 10 acres or less, and you can't have as many giraffes when you have the smaller enclosures. But we can have a lot of giraffe in a 45-acre enclosure. They have to work a little bit harder because to get to their giraffe barn if, say, there's a storm coming, they have to walk a lot farther, so it's a little more work on the giraffe, but overall, it's going to be a great environment for them.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              9. various of giraffe in 45-acre enclosure\u003cbr/\u003e              +++SOT partially covered by 9 and 11+++\u003cbr/\u003e              10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joel Hamilton, Curator, Audubon Zoo:\u003cbr/\u003e              \"To really change the long-term sustainability of the population, we're looking at what species we can work with to produce a greater number of good genetic, viable breeders for the future, to ensure that these populations are here for many decades to come.\"\u003cbr/\u003e              11. 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