Learn about exciting Zoo developments, including animal updates, events, expert perspectives, and field reports on our conservation initiatives at the Zoo and around the world.
This year, a total of ten California condor (Gymnogyps californianus) chicks hatched at the L.A. Zoo and two additional chicks hatched at other facilities—one at the Oregon Zoo and the other at the Peregrine Fund’s World Center for Birds of Prey in Idaho.
News in the Zoo, July 2021 Read more
Butterflies may be more popular with people, but their nocturnal cousins are prime pollinators.
Happy hatchings continue, rare turtle eggs are laid, and one of the world’s most endangered amphibians returns to the LAIR.
News in the Zoo June 2021 Read more
Climate change is familiarizing many of us with the carbon cycle, but nitrogen also makes the rounds.
Something in the Water Read more
Important advances in water quality science make it possible for Zoo staff to care for an even wider range of aquatic wildlife.
June conservation observances highlight water, a precious resource around the planet and at the Los Angeles Zoo.
This time last year, our Zoo was faced with an uncertain economic outlook as we remained closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The last 15 months have been difficult, challenging, and even disheartening at times. Zoos, aquariums, and wildlife conservation organizations from all over the world were forced to thin their operating budgets and staffing to offset the deficits caused by the pandemic. However, hope does spring eternal, and I am confident
Zoo Update with Denise Verret, Zoo Director and CEO – June 2021 Read more
Finding feathered friends is easy—learn how to invite them to visit you.
Bird-ify Your Garden, Yard, or Balcony Read more
Dragon’s in the house, frogs hop into breeding season, and spring is in the air at the Avian Conservation Center.
News in the Zoo – May 2021 Read more
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