Topic: Butterflies and Insects on Display: The New Zoos!

Description: Introduces the new zoos and exhibits that feature the 95% of the animal kingdom that are typically overlooked in traditional zoos. Includes the benefits, importance, and problems of these new zoos.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: Biological Diversity: The little things make the world go round

Description: Are there actually 30 to 100 million species of arthropods, and that many worm species? What about bacteria and viruses? This program talks about the least understood area of science, and yet why diversity is extremely critical to the health of the planet and people.

Audience: Adult, teacher and nature groups, High School classes

Topic: The Role of Zoos in Conservation

Description: What is the purpose of zoos? Why are they increasingly becoming involved in conservation projects worldwide and making conservation research a major part of their budgets. Examples of many types of animals from a number of zoos are discussed.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: African Wildlife and Parks: Conserving the Wild Places

Description: Africa conjures up images of huge parks and reserves with vast herds of antelope and elephants and leopards in every tree. What is the reality of wild Africa? What is being done to save these great places and their wildlife? How are people working together to save this unique heritage? This program will discuss the history of conservation in Africa and its present challenges, opportunities, and strategies.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: Marvelous Mammals

Description: What is a Mammal? They are all around us in the form of people but what about the rest from the diminutive bumblebee bat to the enormous African elephant? This program will describe what is a mammal as well as where they are found, their behavior and lifestyles and their role in ecosystems, their relationship with other species, and in human culture and existence.

Audience: Can be geared for adults or children

Topic: Mammals, Birds, and Fish on Display

Description: This program features a discussion of various groups of animals and how they may be displayed, how exhibits are designed, and how behavioral enhancement helps show an animal behaving naturally.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: Invertebrate Conservation

Description: What are invertebrates and why conserve them? This program focuses on the importance of invertebrates to the ecosystem, other animals and plants, and especially humans. Humans have had a long relationship with invertebrates from cultural to economic. Find out more about the benefits of insects and other invertebrates, what conservation groups, zoos, and butterfly houses are doing, and what you can do.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: An Introduction to Insects and their Relatives

Description: Insects and other Arthropods will be introduced. Their diversity, importance, economic and medical impact will be featured. Hands on with various arthropods can be integrated into this program, along with stories of how they live.

Audience: Adult, teacher and nature groups; most grade levels

Topic: The Elusive Wolf

Description: Wolves are misunderstood predators. This review of the biology and conservation of wolves includes the North American Grey Wolf, but features the highly endangered Mexican Wolf. Wolves usually avoid contact with humans, do not attack, and rarely cause harm to livestock and yet they are still hunted. They have been extirpated in over 90% of their former range in the United States, and the situation is even more dire for the Mexican Wolf

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: Exhibitry: Nature on Display

Description: This program involves discussion of the importance of exhibits to zoos, aquariums, and businesses. How exhibits are designed can enhance eye-appeal, can increase their educational value, or can lead to misunderstanding. Examples are primarily from zoos and museum type settings.

Audience: Adult, teacher, and nature groups

Topic: Nature Tours

Description: This flexible program features the purposes of Nature Tourism, and the adventure, education, and life-changing nature of these tours. Covers some of the basic regions and habitats where Nature Tours commonly visit, but focuses on the Butterfly Nature Tours destinations. Ed Spevak can focus on Africa and Asia, Jaret Daniels also offers this program and can focus on butterflies in Mexico and tropical America.

Audience: Adult, teacher, business, and nature groups