Conservation Projects (page 3) - ZooReviews

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

Three infant spider monkeys sit together in a small hanging fabric hammock, looking toward the camera.

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Three Confiscated Spider Monkeys Arrive in Nashville

Three infant Mexican spider monkeys confiscated from the illegal pet trade have arrived ...

A young Florida panther walks toward the camera across a pale concrete floor, ears forward and mouth slightly open.

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Rescued Panther Kitten Peppercorn Finds a Home

A Florida panther kitten who was found abandoned in the wild at eight ...

A Somali wild ass foal standing beside adult animals in a sandy enclosure

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Maybe 200 Left in the Wild, and Three Born in Berlin

There may be 200 Somali wild asses left in the wild. There may ...

A keeper in a wetsuit and mask standing waist deep in a shallow aquarium of seagrass and rock, with grow lights hanging above

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The Hardest Thing in This Aquarium Is the Grass

Koninklijke Burgers’ Zoo in Arnhem is building the largest seagrass aquarium in the ...

A newborn pygmy hippo calf lies on straw bedding in front of its much larger mother, who stands watching over it.

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Toronto Zoo Names Its Pygmy Hippo Calf Maple

Toronto Zoo has a pygmy hippo calf, and after three weeks of Canada ...

A Northern Leopard Frog, green with dark spots and a pale dorsal ridge, sitting on wet sand and gravel

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One Wild Population Left, and 2,500 New Tadpoles

In British Columbia there is exactly one wild population of Northern Leopard Frogs ...

A timestamped habitat camera view of a Florida black bear cub resting on a raised wooden platform in an outdoor rehabilitation enclosure.

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A Fifth Orphaned Bear Cub Arrives at Brevard Zoo

A Florida black bear cub named Avocado is being raised for release at ...

Dozens of numbered white artificial penguin nest domes set into red earth on a Peruvian headland above the sea at dusk, with a penguin decoy in the foreground.

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Kansas Keepers Built 200 Penguin Nests in Peru

Two Sedgwick County Zoo bird keepers spent two weeks on the coast of ...

An olive and brown Wyoming toad, covered in raised bumps, sits on a wet concrete surface facing the camera.

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Como Zoo Ships 3,000 Toads to Wyoming

This summer Como Park Zoo & Conservatory in Saint Paul shipped nearly 3,000 ...

A red-collared brown lemur infant with large amber eyes peers out from between the arms of its russet-furred mother.

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The Tennessee Aquarium’s First Lemur Is Named Soleil

The Tennessee Aquarium has raised turtles, fish, lizards and penguins for decades. In ...

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