{"id":486063,"date":"2026-01-02T02:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486063\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T02:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T02:06:10","slug":"san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance-wins-award-at-rose-parade","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/486063\/","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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"780\" height=\"520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/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\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">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>\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\">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":3,"featured_media":486064,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5134],"tags":[215597,5229,1582,276,219628,219629,42202,3549,219630,7264,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-486063","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-san-diego","8":"tag-137th-rose-parade","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-california","12":"tag-denny-sanford-elephant-valley","13":"tag-grand-marshal-award","14":"tag-safari-park","15":"tag-san-diego","16":"tag-san-diego-zoo-wildlife-alliance","17":"tag-sandiego","18":"tag-united-states","19":"tag-united-states-of-america","20":"tag-unitedstates","21":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","22":"tag-us","23":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115823063049585690","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=486063"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/486063\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/486064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=486063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=486063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=486063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}