Together, We Do Anything for Animals
The Seattle Aquarium and Woodland Park Zoo team up for October’s Wild at Heart collaboration. Learn more about how together, we both do anything for animals, and then visit www.zoo.org/together for more.
Category: Animals
This category is dedicated to animal related topics
Changes Coming to Polar Bear Watch This Fall
This fall, both of the polar bears currently living at the Maryland Zoo will be moving to other zoos as a result of recommendations from the Association of Zoos & Aquariums (AZA) Polar Bear Species Survival Plan (SSP). The bears, Neva and Amelia Gray, came to the Maryland Zoo as two-year-olds in 2018 from the Columbus Zoo & Aquarium and are half-sisters.
Everything You Need to Know About the Cackling Goose
If you’ve lived in or traveled around the United States, it’s very likely that you’ve seen or heard a…Canada Goose…or at least you think you have. Some of those birds you remember might not be Canada Geese at all, but the very similar but slightly smaller cackling goose. So, what’s so special about this Canada Goose look-alike? Surprisingly, a lot! Here is everything you need to know about Branta hutchinsii, or The Cackling Goose.
The Cackling Goose is a short, compact bird with a short … Continue
Nature Positive by 2030: the race is on!
Nature is in crisis, placing human and planetary health at risk. This decade must be the turning point where we recognize the value of nature, place it on the path to recovery and transform our world to one where people, economies and nature thrive
It’s time to end plastic pollution
We should not be making new plastics out of fossil fuels.
ZSL’s Head of Marine and freshwater conservations, Heather Koldewey, told us “Our new paper shows that the issues of plastic pollution and climate change are fundamentally linked.