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The Phoenix Zoo is involved with conservation locally, nationally and internationally. Our primary goal of involvement is to make a difference in the conservation of a species or habitat. We seek ways to support field conservation through our work at the zoo. The Arthur L. and Elaine V. Johnson Native Species Conservation Center serves as the hub for our local species conservation efforts. We work with state and federal agencies to help save endangered species such as black-footed ferrets, Chiricahua leopard frogs, narrow-headed gartersnakes and many others.
National and international conservation involvement is a critical part of the Phoenix Zoo’s conservation mission. We support conservation globally through our Conservation and Science Grants Program. We support or initiate conservation efforts throughout the world that are consistent with our organization’s conservation mission: support for field conservation efforts with an emphasis on local community involvement and capacity building. Find out more about native species work and our global conservation efforts by subscribing to the Conservation and Science Newsletter , or by visiting our conservation webpage .
Additionally as an AZA accredited facility, we are intensely involved in species conservation through the AZA Species Survival Plans (SSP) a cooperative population management program that aims to maintain a healthy and self-sustaining population of species.
Below are just a few of the many successful conservation programs that we are proud to participate in here at the Phoenix Zoo.
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The
Arabian oryx once ranged
throughout the desert regions of
the Arabian Peninsula extending
to the Syrian Desert. It had
been hunted since ancient times,
but with the advent of motorized
vehicles and high-powered
weapons, its numbers drastically
declined in the 1940s and ‘50s.
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The Phoenix Zoo is the only zoo in Arizona that houses great apes, and one of only 48 zoos in the United States and Canada that houses orangutans. In April of 2010, the Phoenix Zoo was proud to unveil Orang-Hutan: “People of the Forest.”
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The Sumatran tiger, Panthera tigris sumatrae, is critically endangered with fewer than 400 animals remaining in the wild and is considered to be the most vulnerable of all the remaining tiger subspecies. They tend to inhabit montane forests, peat and freshwater swamp forests and what remains of the island’s lowland forests exclusively on the Indonesian island of Sumatra.
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Grevy’s zebras are endangered with less than 2,500 left in the wild due to loss of habitat, competition with livestock and poaching. As the largest zebra species, Grevy’s can be distinguished from other zebras by their longer legs, narrower stripes, white, stripeless underbelly and large rounded ears. Grevy’s zebras are only found in northern Kenya and south-eastern Ethiopia.
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Black-footed ferrets are one of the most
endangered mammals in the world.
They are a member of a large
group of mammals known as mustelids, or musk-producing
animals.
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