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Conservation Projects

News and information about conservation projects by zoological facilities in North and South America

An empty stretch of beach on South Padre Island under a cloudy sky, with surf breaking on the left, eroded grass-topped dunes rising on the right, and a line of pelicans flying low over the sand

Conservation Projects

New England Aquarium Follows Its Turtles to Texas

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Nine people in orange and tan waders stand smiling on the deck of a boat on Long Island Sound behind a stack of encrusted lobster traps recovered from the seafloor, with a wooded shoreline behind them

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4,000 Ghost Lobster Traps Out of Long Island Sound

September 9, 2026

Four young gharials rest against one another on a mesh floor, their long narrow snouts lined with fine teeth and their tan bodies marked with dark bands

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Eight Gharials Hatch in Fort Worth, a Fourth Straight Year

A scimitar-horned oryx standing in a grassy paddock

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Eighteen Oryx in Virginia, and Why They Matter

A staff member in a blue shirt and a student kneel together on bare ground, planting a desert shrub from a pot.

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A Zoo Buys 2,100 Students a Field Trip

The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens in Palm Desert is providing more than ...

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

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The Zoo That Buys Solar Panels for Other People

A homeless services agency in Bond Hill is about to stop paying for ...

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

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A Wild Horse Was Born Wild Again in Kazakhstan

On August 22, 2026, a Przewalski’s horse foal was born on the steppe ...

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

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

The Detroit Zoo‘s Fred and Barbara Erb Discovery Trails opened over Memorial Day ...

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

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Pittsburgh’s Lion Cub Kiazi Steps Into the Savanna

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

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

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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.

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Orphaned Polar Bear Cub Arrives in Winnipeg

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

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

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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. ...

Three Hartmann's mountain zebra stand together in a habitat beside a mesh fence and palm fronds.

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Audubon Zoo Adds a Zebra Almost No One Has Seen

Audubon Zoo in New Orleans has three Hartmann’s mountain zebra, a species the ...

A person holds a patterned Louisiana pine snake in both hands in front of green forest undergrowth.

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Audubon Zoo Releases 14 Rare Snakes in Louisiana

On June 3, 2026, representatives from Audubon Zoo released 14 Louisiana pine snakes ...

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