SAN DIEGO – For more than a decade, the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance’s entomology team collaborated with Australia’s Melbourne Zoo to maintain populations of the critically endangered Lord Howe Island stick insect. For the first time in North America, visitors to the San Diego Zoo will have the opportunity to see these rare, nocturnal insects in a specialized habitat at the Zoo’s Wildlife Explorers Basecamp.“We are honored to partner with Zoos Victoria on the conservation of the Lord Howe Island stick insect and beyond thrilled to be finally able to share these animals with our guests,” Paige Howorth, McKinney Family director of invertebrate care and conservation with San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, said. “San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is committed to invertebrate c
