Zoo education volunteers helping to save wildlife and their habitats as Conservation Ambassadors provide a valuable service to the Zoo, our community and to global conservation efforts.

Every year over 300,000 people visit the El Paso Zoo and Botanical Gardens. Zoo visitors are able to connect with different kinds of wildlife from around the world including African lions, reticulated giraffes, jaguars and peninsular pronghorns. Our City of El Paso Conservation Ambassador program recruits and trains volunteers to host specific wildlife exhibits focused on endangered species. Volunteers help people connect with zoo animals while answering their questions and encouraging them to support specific actions they can take at the Zoo and at home to help save them from extinction.

Education volunteers who sign up through the City Volunteer Program at the Zoo get to pick their own hours, attend special meetings where they get to learn more about what is going on at the Zoo and help with all kinds of conservation education projects that best fit with the volunteer’s interest in wildlife and helping to educate others.

To learn more please complete the form below. Volunteers at the Zoo need to be at least 18 years old.

Our conservation program sent Zoo Keeper Luis Villanueva to Madagascar to help rescue critically endangered radiated tortoises. Learn about his adventure here.