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North America

Zoo news and information from the North America.

Five men mounting solar rails on the side of a dark wooden barn, two on ladders and three watching from the ground

Conservation Projects

The Zoo That Buys Solar Panels for Other People

Mr Zoo News

A Przewalski's horse mare and her pale foal standing together in dry steppe grass under a wide blue sky

Conservation Projects

A Wild Horse Was Born Wild Again in Kazakhstan

September 6, 2026

Aerial view of the Elmwood Park Zoo welcome center and veterinary health center with a crowd of visitors on the plaza below

Expansions

A Zoo That Closes for a Month to Get Built

Rendering of the Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails entrance arch with stylized trees and visitors walking through

Conservation Projects

Detroit Zoo’s New Trails Earn a First for the City

Three architectural renderings of a proposed Lion House at Como Park Zoo showing the entrance, roof and attached mesh-covered outdoor yard

Expansions

Minnesota Funds Phase One of Como’s Big Cat Rebuild

The Minnesota Legislature has approved $9.3 million in state bonding funding for Phase ...

Entrance to the Hollenstein Ross Penguin Point habitat at Philadelphia Zoo, with rockwork, a lettered sign and a glass viewing panel onto a turquoise pool

Expansions

Philadelphia Built Its Penguins a Pool No One Can See

Philadelphia Zoo has a colony of Magellanic penguins for the first time in ...

African elephant Asali walking across the dirt yard of her habitat at the Memphis Zoo

Expansions

A $50 Million Gift Comes With a $50 Million Catch

The Memphis Zoo has received a $50 million challenge gift from Diane Smith ...

A young African lion cub stands in grass at the edge of a wooded habitat, looking toward the camera.

Conservation Projects

Pittsburgh’s Lion Cub Kiazi Steps Into the Savanna

The Pittsburgh Zoo & Aquarium‘s four-month-old African lion cub has a name and ...

A tiger lies anesthetized on a treatment table surrounded by a dozen veterinary and dental staff in a clinic room.

North America

Eight Rescued Big Cats Get Root Canals in Two Days

Eight big cats at In-Sync Exotics went under anesthesia over two days in ...

An adult emperor penguin stands on snow beside a much smaller gentoo penguin that is looking up at it with its beak open.

Conservation Projects

The Only Emperor Penguins in the Americas Moved East

The only emperor penguins in the Western Hemisphere no longer live in California. ...

A polar bear swims past an underwater viewing window as a young girl presses both hands to the glass and looks up at it.

Conservation Projects

Orphaned Polar Bear Cub Arrives in Winnipeg

An orphaned polar bear cub from the Churchill area arrived at the Assiniboine ...

The Monterey Bay Aquarium's tide pool deck at sunset, with the open ocean to the right.

Events

Free Admission for Monterey County Residents

Monterey Bay Aquarium is giving Monterey County residents free admission from September 8 ...

A pale Przewalski's horse foal stands beside several dun-coloured adults with dark upright manes in a wooded habitat.

Conservation Projects

A Przewalski’s Horse Foal Is Born at the Bronx Zoo

The Bronx Zoo has an endangered Przewalski’s horse foal, born April 21, 2026. ...

Visitors in silhouette walk past enormous illuminated lantern sculptures of deer-like creatures among glowing green foliage at night.

Events

Asian Lantern Festival Returns to Sanford

Asian Lantern Festival: Into the Wild returns to the Central Florida Zoo & ...

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