The Story of how the Coati Kids Club began...
In
1994, a club was established especially for children interested in the Sonoran
Desert and its animals, plants, geology and history.
The Coati Kids
Club was founded in memory of Ari Yehiel Blattstein (May 14, 1983 - August 12,
1991). Ari had been a frequent visitor to the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum which
he called "the Mazoo", a term well-suited to this living museum-zoo. Ari was
very interested in conservation. He had a special love and attachment to animals
and they seemed to have sensed this love and responded. Ari was fascinated with
his desert (he was convinced from the day he arrived in Tucson that the "A" on
'A Mountain' was a welcome specifically directed to him) and his animals.
He would have totally approved of and been the first member of the Coati Kids
Club. It reflects his views and aims to protect this wonderful unique area of
the world.
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