SEATTLE - Show how much you care and support conservation efforts of Woodland Park Zoo by purchasing a holiday adoption package from the Zoo Parent Animal Adoption Program for your child or anyone who loves animals. Funds from the Zoo Parent go toward the care and support of the zoo’s animals, conservation projects all over the world and education programs.

Each special $49 holiday adoption package includes: a personalized adoption certificate; a Hansa the elephant plush toy; a beautiful color photo of your chosen animal; a Zoo Parent t-shirt (available in adult large only); Zoo Parent window cling sticker; one year’s subscription to @thezoo magazine (a quarterly publication of Woodland Park Zoo.); and an invitation for two to the annual Zoo Parent reunion. Some of the animals available for adoption are: African elephant; gray wolf; Malayan sun bear; western lowland gorilla; Sumatran tiger; bald eagle; peregrine falcon; Komodo dragon and many more. The holiday adoption package runs now through December 17, 2004. To order online, log onto the Zoo Parent Holiday Adoption page on the zoo's Web site.

For more information about the zoo’s worldwide conservation efforts, check out Woodland Park Zoo’s Web site at www.zoo.org. Zoo winter hours are 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. daily. For general zoo information, log on the zoo’s Web site or call 206.684.4800.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, top award-winning Woodland ParkZoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.