When you visit the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens your admission ticket is helping the Zoo save endangered species and wildlife habitats around the world. During your visit when you round up your purchases at the gift shop and food service outlets you also help support a wide variety of conservation programs. But what…
Month: December 2022
Meet Brittany, the Zoo’s new Zoo Adventure Coordinator
Brittany hopes to continue learning and helping students celebrate the value of animals and conservation efforts in order to help El Pasoans rediscover their connection to nature! Brittany Knight is our new Zoo Adventure Coordinator. Zoo Adventure Curriculum Programs are fun Field Trip Upgrades. These outdoor classroom programs last approximately 45 minutes in either the…
Ibu is our amazing “Artist in Residence” and a super mom
Ibu and her newborn Zaini at 4 months old. Ibu, our female Sumatran orangutan, arrived at the El Paso Zoo on June 16, 1997 when she was just six years old. She was born at the Audubon Zoo in New Orleans. The handful of zoo employees who have known her over the past 25 years,…
Baby tortoises hatched at the Zoo will help New Mexico conservation efforts
Two baby endangered bolson tortoises hatched at the Zoo earlier this year have been sent to the Turner Endangered Species Fund (TESF) in New Mexico. For many years the Zoo has supported TESF efforts to reintroduce bolson tortoises to desert areas in southern New Mexico. Our baby tortoises will be allowed to grow large enough…
Largest wildlife refuge near El Paso responding to climate change
The Wetland Roost is a prime candidate for water-efficient restructuring. Snow Geese in flight and hundreds of Sandhill Cranes on the water at Wetlands Roost, Bosque del Apache National Wildlife Refuge. Photo by Phil, Wikimedia Creative Commons Upgrading an iconic wetland Each December morning, hundreds of spectators travel to witness the wonder of winter bird…
Undeveloped places under increasing threats
Join the Zoo in making a difference, sign up to become a conservation ambassador. Eighty five percent of wetlands have disappeared, and critical tropical forests continue to burn. Humanity is pushing against the planet’s boundaries. But there are fewer and fewer places left to go. Some of the few, undeveloped places left in the world…
Our world needs more leaders like Judy
She will always be my El Paso conservation hero. Judy Ackerman pointing out a packrat nest in the Franklin Mountains. Remembering El Paso conservation leaders and dedicated volunteers who left us in 2022 by Rick LoBello, Education Curator Last month El Paso said its good-byes to Judy Ackerman, one of the greatest conservation leaders our…
This week: UN Biodiversity Conference in Montreal, Canada December 7-10
Despite on-going efforts, biodiversity is deteriorating worldwide and this decline is projected to worsen with business-as-usual scenarios. The UN Biodiversity Conference will convene governments from around the world to agree to a new set of goals for nature over the next decade through the Convention on Biological Diversity post-2020 framework process. The framework sets out an ambitious plan to…
Ukraine war is keeping Misha from leaving Minnesota for Russia
Misha is a critically endangered Przewalski’s wild horse born at the El Paso Zoo in 2018. For the past three years she has been waiting for a trip to Russia to be released into the wild, but the project has been canceled because of the war between Russia and Ukraine. Over the past twelve years…
Conservation Education 