From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2005:

New Orleans Audubon Park Zoo president Ron Forman on October
3 told the World Association of Zoos & Aquariums annual conference in
New York that restoring the Audubon facilities would probably cost
$60 million.
“A skeleton staff of 12 struggled to feed and get water to
1,400 hungry and thirsty animals with limited emergency provisions,”
Oscar Corral of the Miami Herald reported on September 5. The crew
worked around “fallen palms, eucalyptus and willow trees blocking
the paths,” but “the animals mostly survived and are secure,”
Corral assured.
“One of the huge alligators is missing,” Corral noted, “and
some birds died,” along with two otters and a raccoon.
The Audubon Aquarium of the Americas fared far worse, Corral
added. About a third of the 6,000 resident fish and other marine
animals died within a week of Katrina, due to loss of electricity to
run the water and air circulation systems. Most of the rest died
during the next week, Associated Press writer Daisy Nguyen reported.
Nineteen penguins and two sea otters were rescued and flown
to the Monterey Bay Aquarium on September 9.

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From ANIMAL PEOPLE, October 2005:

GUILFORD, Ct.–After consulting with the Internal Revenue
Service about how individual rescuers could make their Hurricane
Katrina/Rita rescue expenses tax-deductible, Connecticut Council for
Humane Education/National Institute for Animal Advocacy founder Julie
Lewin distributed to rescuers a three-point plan:
1) Talk to me about volunteering on behalf of CCHE/NIFAA. We
must speak in advance of your trip.
2) Donate to CCHE the amount you expect the trip to cost you
and get a tax deduction for it, thus significantly lowering the net
cost to you.
3) Mail all legitimate receipts to CCHE, which will
reimburse you up to the amount you donated.

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