Year of Dragon celebration held in U.S. wildlife park

STORY: Year of Dragon celebration held in U.S. wildlife park SHOOTING TIME: Feb. 18, 2024 DATELINE: Feb. 20, 2024 LENGTH: 00:01:23 LOCATION: SAN DIEGO, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the event STORYLINE: San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Saturday kicked off a two-day special event to celebrate the Chinese Lunar New Year. Paul Baribault, president and CEO of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, hosted the opening ceremony of the annual event, which was attended by Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles Guo Shaochun. The San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is an international nonprofit conservation organization in California. It has the largest zoological society membership in the world, with more than 250,000 member households and 130,000 child memberships. Besides wishing all visitors and their loved ones good health and prosperity in the Year of the Dragon, Baribault praised the joint efforts of the alliance and its Chinese partners in breeding and protecting giant pandas and other species while

San Diego Zoo celebrates Chinese New Year

STORY: San Diego Zoo celebrates Chinese New Year DATELINE: Feb. 6, 2023 LENGTH: 00:01:39 LOCATION: LOS ANGELES, U.S. CATEGORY: CULTURE SHOTLIST: 1. various of the opening ceremony of the event STORYLINE: The San Diego Zoo, which has the largest number of annual visitors among U.S. zoos, kicked off a two-day special event on Saturday to celebrate the Chinese New Year. Paul Baribault, president and CEO of the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, and Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles Guo Shaochun co-hosted the opening ceremony of the event. "As part of our wishes for the lunar new year, we want to wish joy and prosperity to all of our friends. That includes everybody here today as well as our partners around the globe," Baribault told Xinhua after he wrote his new year wishes on a red blessing card and tied it to a "wishing tree." Interactive activities related to the Chinese New Year surrounded the zoo, he said, adding that "we are really trying to take advantage of the moment of the transition t

U.S.-SAN DIEGO-SAFARI PARK-CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

U.S.-SAN DIEGO-SAFARI PARK-CHINESE NEW YEAR CELEBRATION

(220207) -- SAN DIEGO, Feb. 7, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Paul Baribault (2nd R), president and CEO of San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, and Zhang Ping (1st R), Chinese Consul General in Los Angeles, distribute gifts to guests at San Diego Zoo Safari Park, in Escondido, California, Feb. 5, 2022. San Diego Zoo Safari Park on Saturday kicked off its first Chinese New Year celebration in its 50-year-long history. (Xinhua/Gao Shan)