From sustainability efforts on zoo grounds to saving endangered species at home and abroad, Woodland Park Zoo is taking direct conservation action around the world.
In just over a decade, the zoo has garnered 17 awards for innovative approaches to global wildlife conservation and in 2009 its international Partners for Wildlife program funded 38 programs in 50 countries.
The zoo works with communities around the world to address the causes of habitat and wildlife decline in countries such as biologically and geographically diverse as Papua New Guinea, Tanzania and Thailand.
"In just over a decade, the zoo has garnered 17 awards for innovative approaches to global wildlife conservation and in 2009 its international Partners for Wildlife program funded 38 programs in 50 countries."
While the zoo collaborates with zoos nationwide to ensure survival for animals---such as elephants, Humboldt penguins and snow leopards---its animal ambassadors teach us about their wild counterparts. Through our participation in Species Survival Plans, we support nearly 40 breeding programs that seek to create genetically healthy and diverse populations of zoo animals that link back to information that can be used to protect threatened and endangered animals in the wild.
The zoo's commitment to practicing sustainabiliy is exemplified by innovative projects such as Zoomazium, the nation's first LEED gold-certified building in a zoo, geothermal heating and cooling in our Humboldt penguin exhibit, and our noted Zoo Doo program that creates compost from the zoo's herbivorous animals, saving thousands in disposal costs and providing rich compost for use by the zoo and the community.