Conservation Projects (page 3)

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

Two young children in Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park shirts smile as a staff member in a green uniform holds up a large branching antler in a bright indoor education room, with more antlers and animal skulls laid out on a table behind them.

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Omaha’s Safari Park Clears the Five-Year Inspection

The Lee G. Simmons Wildlife Safari Park in Ashland, Nebraska has kept its ...

A snow leopard cub stands on bare dark ground between rocks, facing the camera with its mouth slightly open, showing a pale smoke-gray coat marked with dark spots and rosettes, round ears and a thick ruff of fur around the face.

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A Snow Leopard Cub Is Out at the Bronx Zoo

There is a snow leopard cub at the Bronx Zoo, she is four ...

A researcher in heavy blue cryogenic gloves lifts a tall rack of labeled sample canes out of a liquid nitrogen storage tank in a laboratory, with white vapor pouring down over the tank and across the floor.

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Cincinnati Zoo Won a Grant to Freeze Oak Trees

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden has won a three-year National Leadership Grant ...

Four hatchling Asian giant tortoises sit in a shallow dish of water, each one small enough to fit in a hand, with pale grey-brown domed shells and darker heads and legs, against a background of bark and leaf litter.

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Four Asian Giant Tortoises Hatch in Cincinnati

Four Asian brown giant tortoises have hatched at the Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical ...

A maned wolf stands on sunlit grass with its head lowered, showing the long black legs, tall upright ears, deep russet coat, dark mane running along the shoulders and back, and a white tip to the tail.

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A Maned Wolf Named Ayla Moves to Louisville

A nearly two-year-old female maned wolf named Ayla has arrived at the Louisville ...

Surrendered wildlife products laid out on a tiger skin: two long elephant tusks, a carved ivory mirror frame on a dark carved wooden stand, scrimshaw whale teeth engraved with sailing ships and mounted on wooden bases, a carved ivory vase, and a California Department of Fish and Wildlife poster headed Ivory Identification.

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What California Does With the Ivory People Hand Over

For two days in September the plaza outside Fresno Chaffee Zoo became a ...

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223 Endangered Frogs Went Back to the San Jacinto Mountains

Birch Aquarium raised them from tadpoles for a year, then released 223 endangered ...

A FedEx Boeing 777 with a giant panda painted across its nose stands on the tarmac at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport under a clear blue sky, with a white shipping crate marked FedEx and Zoo Atlanta loaded on a wheeled dolly in front of the aircraft and a ground handler driving the tug that is towing it.

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Pandas Land in Atlanta: Meet Ping Ping and Fu Shuang

Giant pandas are back in Atlanta. Ping Ping and Fu Shuang landed at ...

A blue and green undersea scene projected across the stone masonry of the Brooklyn Bridge at night, with orange fish shapes across the center, a telescopic lift carrying the projector rig at the left, and two people walking past barriers at the base.

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The Brooklyn Bridge Becomes an Ocean for One Night

For three hours on Friday, September 25, the eastern pylon of the Brooklyn ...

Two trumpeter swans with white plumage and black bills swim on green pond water, with a mallard drake nearby and rain dimpling the surface.

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Trumpeter Swans Return to Lincoln Park Zoo’s Swan Pond

There are swans on Swan Pond again. A pair of trumpeter swans named ...

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