{"id":294317,"date":"2026-09-26T07:04:22","date_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294317\/"},"modified":"2026-09-26T07:04:22","modified_gmt":"2026-09-26T07:04:22","slug":"the-ambitious-plan-that-could-reshape-the-erie-zoo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/294317\/","title":{"rendered":"The ambitious plan that could reshape the Erie Zoo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Updated Sept. 25, 2026, 8:48 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Summer brought plenty of changes at the Erie Zoo, including an improved llama exhibit, boardwalk updates and a new percussion garden in the children&#8217;s section.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The zoo also had a successful <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/11\/erie-gives-event-millions-fundraising-support-546-nonprofits\/91260585007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Erie Gives<\/a> campaign, collecting $154,000 in pledges. That was the fifth-highest total out of more than 500 participating nonprofits, said Melissa &#8220;Roo&#8221; Kojancie, the zoo&#8217;s CEO.<\/p>\n<p>More: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.goerie.com\/story\/news\/local\/2026\/08\/14\/new-baby-alligators-erie-zoo-education-outreach-programs\/91286791007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-t-l=\":b|e|spike click:3|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\">Baby alligators are two of newest Erie Zoo ambassadors<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated Sept. 25, 2026, 8:48 a.m. ET Summer brought plenty of changes at the Erie Zoo, including an&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294318,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[532,3950,136,138,137,539,82371,646,647,1770,7919,1143,1844,3948,90089,2516,651,542,1140,3949,535],"class_list":["post-294317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-erie","tag-accesspremium","tag-aquariums-preserves","tag-erie","tag-erie-headlines","tag-erie-news","tag-pa","tag-sourceerie-times-news","tag-sstsnewslocal","tag-sstsnlocal","tag-taganimal-welfare","tag-tagassociation-of-zoos-aquariums","tag-tagerie","tag-tagerie-county","tag-tagerie-zoo","tag-tagexclusive-labeling","tag-taglocal-affiliate-travel","tag-taglocal-news","tag-tagoverall-positive","tag-tagstory-highlights-ai-enabled","tag-tagzoos","tag-typestory"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294317"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294317\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294318"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}