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(April 15, 2024) – Seventy critically endangered Mojave desert tortoises have successfully
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Public Relations 619-685-3291 publicrelations@sdzwa.org sdzwa.org NEWS RELEASE San Diego Zoo Safari Park Announces Elephant Valley, Largest Transformative Project in 50-year History Wildlife Conservation Leader Will Bring Guests Closer to Elephants Through New Immersive Experience
of the herd passing through, guests will learn about the crucial role elephants have
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Rattlesnake movement and behavior have historically been difficult to study, and
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE CONTACT: San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance Public Relations 619-685-3291 publicrelations@sdzwa.org sdzwa.org NEWS RELEASE China Bids a Fond Farewell to Panda Pair Heading to San Diego Zoo Zoo is Set to Receive the First Panda Pair to Enter the U.S. in 21 Years
After the pandas have safely arrived in San Diego, they will not be viewable to the
SAN DIEGO (May 29, 2025) – A new scientific study, led by San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance, Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, and additional researchers, offers a unique lens for understanding the unprecedented extinction crisis of native Hawaiian forest birds. Just 17 out of approximately 60 species of the iconic honeycreeper remain, most of which are facing rapid decline due to avian malaria.
Warming temperatures have enabled non-native mosquitos, the vectors of avian malaria
SAN DIEGO (Oct. 11, 2025) – San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance has for the first time unveiled milestone progress in its effort to facilitate the development of a network of globally distributed biobanks. Announced today at the IUCN World Conservation Congress in Abu Dhabi, San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance is on a mission to protect the future of our planet’s biodiversity by helping grow biobanking capacity worldwide—starting with pilot sites in four biodiversity hotspots: Kenya, Vietnam, Hawai‘i, and Peru.
“Advances in science and technology bring us hope and these innovations have brought
SAN DIEGO (Aug. 21, 2025) – Endangered Pacific pocket mice, native to Southern California, were once thought to be extinct until a tiny remnant population was rediscovered in the mid-1990s. San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance established a conservation breeding and reintroduction program to save the species from extinction. Though there has been significant success with breeding and reintroduction, the species is still at risk of losing genetic diversity, which reduces its survival and reproduction.
the risk of incompatibilities in the mixed breeding program, the non-mixed mice have
SAN DIEGO (April 30, 2025) – Many are aware of the dire challenges with plastic waste polluting the ocean, but new research shows it may harm wildlife in ways not previously understood.
While researchers have long suspected plastics might trigger such effects, by using
Study Reveals Influence Behind Illegal Bear Bile Consumption in Việt NamFindings Highlight the Role of Gift-Giving in Sustaining Demand; Offer Strategies for Conservation Campaigns
consumption and suggests that targeting key individuals within these networks could have
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The new center is the first ever to have a strategy focus rather than a taxonomic
