Jeanne-Marie Pittman (Johannesburg Zoo) wins Bernard Harrison and Friends Award for Best Professional Practice at the recent African Association of Zoos and Aquaria (PAAZAB) 19th conference hosted by uShaka Sea World in May 2008. Since the start of her tenure as coordinator for the Wattled Crane Recovery Project in 2004, the contractual obligations of partnership have been documented amongst the participating parties, a regular schedule of feedback meetings implemented, health screening protocols established and carried out, wild second egg collection coordinated with a 100% chick rearing success rate, and most importantly of all, Wattled Cranes breeding in a South African zoo again for the first time in over a decade.