QUARTERS FOR CONSERVATION
How it works
As you enter the zoo, you'll receive a token. Your token represents 25 cents of your admission fee (or a percentage of your membership). We use that 25 cents to strengthen our commitment to conservation projects in the Pacific Northwest and around the world.
Half of your quarter goes to help fund all the field conservation projects we are involved in; the other half is applied to the project you choose! Your vote, combined with the votes and coins from our 1 million plus visitors each year, helps the zoo save endangered animals and their habitats.
Woodland Park Zoo is committed to wildlife conservation projects that also protect habitats and bring benefits to people. Your token tells us which projects you care about most--every time you visit.
Together we are making a difference for wildlife and people!
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Cast Your Vote on Your Next Visit
We regularly rotate our Quarters for Conservation featured conservation programs. When you next visit Woodland Park Zoo, you’ll have the opportunity to cast your vote for one of these six conservation programs:
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Saving Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest
For more than 20 years Woodland Park Zoo has worked to protect habitats and recover endangered animals of the Pacific Northwest. Help us continue to save Oregon spotted frogs, western pond turtles, Oregon silverspot butterflies, raptors of the shrub steppe, and Washington's carnivores: bears, wolves and cougars.
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Defending Tiger Survival
Tigers in the wild have dropped to an alarmingly low number of 3,200. Throughout their Asian range, tigers are critically endangered by loss of habitat, overhunting of their prey and poaching for folk medicine. Help Woodland Park Zoo raise funds to launch a new tiger conservation project in Malaysia.
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Securing Snow Leopards in Kyrgyzstan
Kyrgyzstan has been identified as a critical landscape for snow leopards. Help Woodland Park Zoo partner with the Snow Leopard Trust on grassroots conservation, research, and education programs designed to reduce threats to the big cats.
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Ensuring Survival of Borneo's Asian Elephants
Bornean elephants are often called "pygmy elephants" because of their small size. Found only in the Malaysian state of Sabah in northern Borneo, about 1,500 of these endangered elephants live in fragmented populations. Help us support conservation along the Kinabatangan River for these elephants, and endangered orangutans and hornbills.
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Restoring Crane Populations of the Russian Far East
Hooded, white-naped and red crowned cranes are among the many wetland birds that benefit from our support of Muraviovka Park for Sustainable Land Use and the Cranes of Asia Project. The park consists of 15,000 acres of wetlands with 1,700 acres of adjacent crop fields that together provide a living landscape for wildlife and people.
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Protecting Gorillas in the African Congo
Western lowland gorillas are studied and protected in this project, led by Dr. Thomas Breuer of the Wildlife Conservation Society in the lowland tropical forest in the Nouabale-Ndoki National Park, Republic of Congo. This incredible park consists of 1 million acres of virgin forest and is the home of countless species of African fauna and flora.
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2011 Results
Of the more than $1 million Woodland Park Zoo plans to spend on field conservation programs in 2012, YOUR votes cast between September 7, 2011 and December 31, 2011 have already contributed $43,000 to saving animals and habitat. $23,000 will go directly to the projects YOU voted on, and $20,000 will go to general field conservation projects. Thank you!
Here are the results of your votes in 2011:
Tracking Snow Leopards: The “Ghosts of Mongolia”: 29%
Ensuring Survival of African Elephants: Parks without Borders: 20%
Protecting the Orangutans of Borneo: 15%
Saving Wildlife in the Pacific Northwest: 14%
Conserving Papua New Guinea Forests and Tree Kangaroos: 13%
Discovering Conservation Solutions for Asian Hornbills: 8%