Woodland Park Zoo Press Release

What:
The Snow Leopard Trust and Woodland Park Zoo are celebrating 25 years of saving snow leopards with Snow Leopard Day at Woodland Park Zoo. Enjoy cultural entertainment, zookeeper talks and enrichment for the snow leopard, face painting, crafts, and more to learn about snow leopards, conservation commerce, and what you can do to help ensure that snow leopards remain in the wild into the future. Staff from the Snow Leopard Trust and Woodland Park Zoo will be on hand to talk about partnership efforts to save the endangered snow leopard and how you can support their initiatives.

When:
Saturday, August 18, 9:30 am-3:00 pm

Where:
Near Woodland Park Zoo’s snow leopard exhibit, including keeper talks at the exhibit and puppet shows and programs at Zoomazium. Enter the zoo through the South Entrance at N. 50th St. & Fremont Ave. N., West Entrance at N. 55th St. & Phinney Ave. N. or North Entrance off N. 59th St. & Phinney Ave. N.

Info:
Snow Leopard Day is free with zoo admission. Admission through September 30: Adult (13-64) $15; Child (3-12) $10. Free for children 2 and under year round. Seniors and people with disabilities receive a discount and zoo members receive free zoo admission year round. For more information, visit www.zoo.org or call 206.684.4800.

Summer hours: 9:30 a.m.-6:00 p.m. daily.

Woodland Park Zoo has had a special connection with snow leopards since 1972, when the zoo’s first leopards arrived from the USSR. The Snow Leopard Trust was created by former Woodland Park Zoo staff member Helen Freeman in 1981. Since then, the Trust has been protecting the snow leopard and its mountain habitat through successful community-led conservation programs, such as Snow Leopard Enterprises. With programs and staff in key range countries, a global network of researchers and partnerships with local communities in the cats’ habitat, the Snow Leopard Trust is leading the effort to ensure the mountains will shelter these cats for years to come.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo 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.