Conservation Projects (page 2)

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

Cassandra Costello, Rochelle Stiles and Dan Ashe stand in front of an Association of Zoos and Aquariums backdrop, with Stiles holding the 2026 North American Conservation Award certificate for San Francisco Zoo and Gardens.

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The Frogs San Francisco Zoo Released Are Breeding Now

San Francisco Zoo & Gardens took top honors in the Association of Zoos ...

An Asian elephant with short tusks walks across a bare earth yard beside a pool and rockwork, in front of a large two-story timber pavilion with steep shingled gables and orange and teal paintwork, where about twenty visitors watch from a shaded deck.

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Cincinnati’s Elephant Trek Wins AZA’s Top Exhibit Award

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden has won Top Honors in the Association ...

An award certificate printed with a row of animal photographs along the top, reading 2026 Marketing Excellence Award, Top Honors, given to Dino Park Zoo, Blank Park Zoo, with a gold Association of Zoos and Aquariums seal and the signature of Dan Ashe.

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The Zoo That Renamed Itself for Dinosaurs Won an Award

For one summer, Blank Park Zoo stopped being Blank Park Zoo. It rebranded ...

A curving paved path runs through the Wild Utah habitat between timber fencing and young trees, with a tall mesh aviary on the right and dry foothills rising behind.

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Three Acres of Utah Wins a National Exhibit Award

Utah’s Hogle Zoo has won a Significant Achievement Exhibit Award from the Association ...

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The Aquarium That Helped Pass a Horseshoe Crab Law

The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has won Top Honors in the 2026 Advocacy ...

A small gray-green eyelash viper, heavily speckled, coiled around a thin bare branch inside a glass-fronted enclosure, with pale driftwood and dark foliage behind it.

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Five Eyelash Vipers and a First for Houston Zoo

The Houston Zoo has announced a run of reptile births and hatchings this ...

Two people in wetsuits, dive masks and snorkels stand chest deep in open water beside a white frame marker, both looking down at a handful of green seagrass shoots one of them is holding up out of the water.

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Two National Awards for Brevard Zoo’s Work in the Lagoon

The East Coast Zoological Foundation, the organization behind Brevard Zoo, took two national ...

Two Grevy’s zebras stand side by side facing the camera, their narrow black and white stripes, large rounded ears and brown muzzles clearly visible in their outdoor habitat.

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Honey and Louise Are Leaving Wichita on a Breeding Plan

Honey and Louise, the two Grevy’s zebras at the Sedgwick County Zoo in ...

$Two bright yellow frogs marked with black bands sit side by side against a white background. A tiny dark juvenile frog, a fraction of their size, rests on the back of the larger one.$

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Mapping Where Panama’s Frogs Can Outrun a Fungus

Scientists at the Smithsonian’s National Zoo and Conservation Biology Institute and the Smithsonian ...

A bright green emerald tree boa draped in even coils over a dark curved branch, its head resting on top of the coils, a row of white markings running along its back and a broad green leaf rising behind it.

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Milwaukee’s Newest Snake Was Born the Wrong Color

The Milwaukee County Zoo has an emerald tree boa on exhibit for the ...

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