The Chihuahuan is the largest desert in North America Click here to test your desert IQ The Chihuahuan Desert stretches all the way from the southwestern United States deep into the Central Mexican Highlands. Because of the region’s high altitude – 3,000 to 5,000 feet – winters and nights are cool while summer days can…
Month: September 2022
Can a circular economy help save our planet?
Who are the movers and shakers in our community helping to build a circular economy? Our California sea lion, LB, is the Zoo’s most notable ambassador for the conservation of our oceans. Everyday around the world our oceans are impacted by plastic pollution, overfishing and climate change. LB helps the Zoo remind our guests that…
Join the Chihuahuan Desert Nature Club
This coming Saturday on September 24 the Zoo will be hosting day one of the Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta. Everyone who attends will receive a free Chihuahuan Desert Nature Club sticker at the Front Gate Ticket booth or at the El Paso Zoological Society Office. The Nature Club is a collaborative effort between the El Paso…
Desert Fiesta helps people connect with our big backyard
Over the past 18 years the Chihuahuan Desert Fiesta in El Paso has been focused on helping people connect with one of the largest and least known deserts in North America, the Chihuahuan Desert located right here in El Paso’s backyard. This year’s event at the Zoo and in the Franklin Mountains promises to be…
Meet Tyrion, one of our Education Animals
Tyrion is a male 5-year old degu. He is one of 70 different wildlife species living behind the scenes at the Zoo as part of our Education Animal collection. Education animals are featured in up close and personal animal encounters where staff and volunteers tell their stories during informal programs in the Wildlife Amphitheater (weekends…
Meet Tucker, one of our Education Animals
Tucker is a 17-year old female blue-tongued skink. Blue tongued skinks live in Australia, Tasmania, New Guinea and are very big weighing up to 18 ounces and up to 22 inches in length. For comparison the largest skink in North America is the Great Plains skink weighing less than 2 ounces. Tucker is one of…
If you don’t know it, you don’t love it.
Why are some people passionate about saving wildlife and protecting the natural world and the complex ecosystem that holds everything together, while others are not? Matt Kowalski of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation hit the nail on the head when he was quoted in the September, 2022 issue of National Geographic. He says “If you don’t…
Savannah is our connection to a lost world
If you have not been by to see Savannah, our 70-year-old Asian elephant, now would be a great time as the Zoo makes plans to celebrate her birthday later this year. Savannah is not only the oldest Asian elephant living in North America, but she is also our biggest connection to the lost world of…
The Zoo’s most significant conservation achievement
Over the past 100 plus years that the El Paso Zoo has been in existence there have been a number of noteworthy conservation achievements. They included the successful breeding of critically endangered species like the Przewalski’s wild horse, Amur leopard and Sumatran orangutan. Each successful effort involved dedicated zoo staff and healthy animals none of…
Conservation Education 