Conservation Projects (page 17)

Conservation Projects

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

Two chimpanzees rest on a tall wooden climbing frame in a sunlit, leafy outdoor habitat at Tulsa Zoo while three guests watch from a path behind a low wooden fence.

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Fifty Years Accredited, and Tulsa Was in the First 11

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Schoolchildren step off a yellow school bus and walk toward the entrance of The Florida Aquarium in Tampa, past a stingray sculpture beneath the building glass atrium.

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Tampa Voters Bought 13,000 Kids an Aquarium Trip

October 21, 2026

A blue tree monitor lizard with gray-blue scales and pale blue markings rests along a log in its habitat, facing the camera with one clawed front foot extended over the bark.

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Three Lizards In, Two Out, and a First Clutch of Eggs

Children and adults lean over the rim of the shark and ray touch tank at the New England Aquarium, reaching into shallow water as a stingray glides past beneath their hands.

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Boston Kids Get the Aquarium Free, Two Sundays a Month

Five Zoo Miami keepers stand in a row outdoors, each cradling one African painted dog puppy in gloved hands; the puppies are dark with pale muzzles and mottled markings, and a chain-link fence and vegetation are behind the group.

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Five Painted Dog Pups, Two Months Out of Sight

Five African painted dog pups were born at Zoo Miami on November 20, ...

A young pygmy hippo with wet dark gray skin and a pink muzzle walks through green grass, its mouth slightly open

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Poppy Turns One, and $50,000 Goes to Wild Hippos

Poppy the pygmy hippo turned one on December 9, 2025, and the Metro ...

A cheetah lies on straw bedding in a den while four small cubs nurse against her side, seen from an overhead camera.

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Four Cheetah Cubs Make Front Royal’s 20th Litter

Four cheetah cubs were born on October 17 and 18, 2025 at the ...

A Diana monkey sits on bare packed earth, seen from the side with its head turned to the camera, showing a black face, a cream-white throat and beard, a grizzled gray body and a dark chestnut patch across the lower back

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A ZAA Award for 39 Diana Monkeys in Virginia

The Metro Richmond Zoo took the Zoological Association of America’s 2025 Long-Term Commitment ...

Two black-footed ferrets with dark facial masks and black feet look up from white bedding inside a blue plastic enclosure tray.

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Cloned Black-Footed Ferrets Produce Three Litters

A black-footed ferret cloned from tissue frozen more than thirty years ago has ...

A young white rhino calf walks beside tall grass in a grassy field with an adult rhino grazing behind her.

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Second-Generation Rhino Calf Born at Gulf Breeze Zoo

A southern white rhinoceros calf named Kipenzi was born at the Gulf Breeze ...

A western toad sits among grass and sand at its release site in southern Utah.

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Aquarium-Raised Western Toads Released in Southern Utah

Six western toads raised at the Loveland Living Planet Aquarium have been released ...

An adult female cheetah sits upright in tall green grass with five spotted cubs gathered around her, a chain-link habitat fence and trees behind them

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Six Cheetah Cubs, and 167 Born at This Virginia Zoo

Six cheetah cubs walked out onto the public habitat at the Metro Richmond ...

A newborn African elephant calf stands beneath its mother, dwarfed by her legs.

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Sedgwick County Zoo’s Fourth Calf Caps a Record Year

Sedgwick County Zoo’s fourth elephant calf of the year was born at 7:24 ...

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Safari West Names Its New White Rhino Calf Ozzy

A southern white rhinoceros calf was born at Safari West on the morning ...

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