{"id":116692,"date":"2026-01-01T23:08:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:08:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116692\/"},"modified":"2026-01-01T23:08:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T23:08:08","slug":"san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-wins-award-at-rose-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/116692\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance wins award at Rose Parade"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/timesofsandiego.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rose-Parade.jpg?ssl=1\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Rose-Parade.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-361821\"  \/><\/a>The float is inspired by the new Elephant Valley opening in March. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance)<\/p>\n<p>San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance\u2019s elephant-themed float won the Grand Marshal Award for most outstanding creative concept and design at the 137th Rose Parade Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The float, title \u201cGiant Strides Together,\u201d showcased African savanna elephants and highlighted the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/sdzsafaripark.org\/elephant-valley\/?utm_source=sdzwa&amp;utm_medium=press_release&amp;utm_campaign=25-EV-annoucement-812&amp;utm_content=EV-spring-2026-announcement\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Denny Sanford Elephant Valley<\/a>, set to open March 5 at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park in Escondido.<\/p>\n<p>Alliance officials said the project is the largest and most transformative in the organization\u2019s 109-year history.<\/p>\n<p>The award recognizes the float\u2019s design and storytelling, which celebrated elephants as keystone species and previewed the immersive new habitat that will allow guests to walk alongside the herd. <\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/email.sdzwa.org\/c\/eJwUys1uwyAMAOCngWOFMebnwGGXvIcDdhMtbaqAOq1PP-3-9ZoirL1ZqZBiQoeFst2qcoHCpIIglLlTFIGcpfTkG0a2e_XORwcOPASifOPEBMo5Q0CfCpjgRv_88O287vao25yvYfDL-MX4ZfTPYOVrf_H1_S-MX-SQ18bP-ebjkF_jF3tVOfYPrzK33QQ394eMUwc_-y7389bOh53VRZ8bJsori1L3lFqWEqjF5GjVYGctGlU5s9PW4toyYEAhbKgBYkO07-r_AgAA__9lKk-r\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">sdzsafaripark.org\/elephantvalley<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>READ NEXT<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The float is inspired by the new Elephant Valley opening in March. (Photo courtesy of San Diego Zoo&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":116693,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[59498,39191,62104,39192,74,76,75,16707],"class_list":["post-116692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-137th-rose-parade","tag-denny-sanford-elephant-valley","tag-grand-marshal-award","tag-safari-park","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116692"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116692\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/116693"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}