It’s hard not to love them. They’re really just a big ol’ dog out there trying to survive in the wild and watching them hunt is fascinating. They work as a team like no other… skill, speed, power, teamwork… it’s amazing. Jacob Dillon, whiskeyriff.com Silver Anniversary: Celebrating 25 Years of Mexican Gray Wolves Back in…
Month: March 2023
El Paso celebrates Castner Range National Monument
Castner Range and Trans Mountain Road The Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition (CDEC) is pleased to announce the creation of the Castner Range National Monument in the Franklin Mountains. Over the past twenty years CDEC in collaboration with the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens and thousands of citizens in El Paso and across the country…
Orangutan SAFE: Saving wild orangutans through collaboration
Sumatran orangutan mother Ibu and Zaini, her new baby born on June 2, 2022. The El Paso Zoo is a proud supporter of Orangutan SAFE The Association of Zoos and Aquarium’s (AZA) Saving Animals from Extinction (SAFE) with the support of the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens focuses on the collective expertise within AZA-accredited…
You can volunteer at the Zoo as a Conservation Ambassador
Conservation Ambassadors help the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens with its mission of celebrating the value of animals and natural resources and in creating opportunities for people to rediscover their connection to nature. The Zoo has a new Chihuahuan Desert Exhibit and the City of El Paso Volunteer Program offers numerous opportunities to engage…
Galapagos tortoise movement ecology program update
Together with GCT, we were very pleased to release the Tessa book, and conducted a number of local activities with students. Tessa has been a great success already and we are planning to continue our outreach and education sessions in different islands! The El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens supports this important conservation effort to…
Wildlife Conservation Bloggers
El Paso Bloggers Unite! Over the past two years the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens has been blogging about our animals and conservation programs. The end result has been 550 blog posts reaching tens of thousands of people with news about the Zoo and more. If you love to write and be creative you…
Meet your neighbors: the Pyrrhuloxia
Pyhruloxia courtesy of Mark Cunningham Spring is in the air and now is a great time to watch for local birds getting ready to nest and sing away all across our city and the surrounding desert. One of our most beautiful resident birds is the Pyrrhuloxia, a very close relative of the Northern Cardinal often…
Call for Abstracts for Oral Presentations and Posters at the 2023 Chihuahuan Desert Conference
The Chisos Mountains, Big Bend National Park. Photo by Gary Nored, Wikimedia Creative Commons The Chihuahuan Desert Education Coalition and the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens are teaming up to host a third Chihuahuan Desert Conference in El Paso on November 15-17, 2023. To learn more about the meeting visit the conference website at http://chihuahuandesertconference.org. …
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