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With the new year comes a new you, usually. And with 2020 having finally come to an end, I’m sure we are all hoping for a transformation to set us on the right path. Animals may not be able to recognize the turning of a year as we do (maybe our pets at home can … Continue reading "The salamander’s amazing transformation"

Now that the red, blue, silver, and gold of the holiday season has faded, it’s time to focus on the best color of all: GREEN! As the color of renewal, green reminds us to make conscious choices to help protect ourselves, our planet, and all of our fellow living things. We’ve pulled together some of our favorite ways to turn … Continue reading "How to have a green New Year"

COVID-19 brought an extraordinarily challenging year for Zoo Atlanta and other zoos and wildlife organizations around the world, but the Zoo’s commitment to its animal programs never wavered. Even in the midst of a difficult 2020, Zoo Atlanta celebrated many memorable milestones in the lives of the animal population. Welcome Baloo and Bramble the binturongs … Continue reading "A year of animal highlights"

COVID-19 brought an extraordinarily challenging year for Zoo Atlanta and other zoos and wildlife organizations around the world, but the Zoo’s commitment to its animal programs never wavered. Even in the midst of a difficult 2020, Zoo Atlanta celebrated many memorable milestones in the lives of the animal population. Welcome Baloo and Bramble the binturongs … Continue reading "A year of animal highlights"

Hello.  This is Kenn Harwood, Associate Curator of Mammals at Zoo Atlanta, and I am the Quarters for Conservation Champion for Save the Giants. Save the Giants is one of three projects supported in Zoo Atlanta’s 2020-2021 Quarters for Conservation program year.  This initiative contributes 25 cents of every general admission ticket to programs for wildlife.  … Continue reading "Quarters for Conservation: Save the Giants"

Hi Zoo Atlanta fans! Primate keepers and Quarters for Conservation Champions Brittney and Mike here. We wanted to give a field update from the Borneo Orangutan Survival Foundation (BOS), one of the three programs supported by our 2020-2021 Quarters for Conservation initiative, which donates 25 cents of every Zoo Atlanta admission to programs for wildlife. … Continue reading "Quarters for Conservation: BOSF"

Hooray holiday season! I wanted to have a little extra fun with my Keeper Stories blog this time around and theme it to something so many people know very well, which is the story “Twas the Night Before Christmas.” Christmas is my favorite holiday, and this story is one of my mom’s favorite things about … Continue reading "‘Twas the day before Zoo-mas"

The holiday season is already here. It’s a wonderful time of year full of baking, gift-giving, decorating, shopping, traditions, and celebrating with friends and family. Not surprisingly, we all produce extra waste during this time … but it’s a whopping 25% increase in waste every week in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and New Year’s! Some … Continue reading "The most wonderful time of the year (to go green!)"

The holiday season is already here. It’s a wonderful time of year full of baking, gift-giving, decorating, shopping, traditions, and celebrating with friends and family. Not surprisingly, we all produce extra waste during this time … but it’s a whopping 25% increase in waste every week in the U.S. between Thanksgiving and New Year’s! Some … Continue reading "The most wonderful time of the year (to go green!)"

Zoo Atlanta is thrilled to welcome one of its most beloved species, the red panda, back to Atlanta. Jackie, a 3-year-old male red panda from Smithsonian’s National Zoo, is now exploring his new home in the Zoo’s Asian Forest complex. Jackie’s debut balances happy news with what had been one of Zoo Atlanta’s sadder announcements … Continue reading "Welcome Jackie the red panda!"