Conservation Projects (page 5)

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

Mr Zoo News

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

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

A coalition that includes The Maritime Aquarium at Norwalk has pulled more than ...

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

Eight gharials hatched at the Fort Worth Zoo this summer, between June 3 ...

A scimitar-horned oryx standing in a grassy paddock

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Eighteen Oryx in Virginia, and Why They Matter

There are eighteen scimitar-horned oryx at the Smithsonian’s Conservation Biology Institute in Front ...

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 ...

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. ...

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