Doornbos Animal Rescue and Care Center
Building a New Holding and Quarantine Facility
To be completed Fall 2026
The Doornbos Animal Rescue and Care Center (Doornbos ARCC) is a modern, 9,800-square-foot facility designed to support animals in their most vulnerable moments. More than doubling the Zoo’s current holding capacity, it will feature specialized spaces for quarantine, medical observation and recovery. Planned with input from veterinarians and staff, the Doornbos ARCC, alongside the new Veterinary Medical Center, will elevate animal health and welfare across the Zoo while expanding our capacity to assist partners, including the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services and the Wildlife Trafficking Alliance, with urgent calls to help animals rescued from the wild or trafficking.
With your support, this vital center will create a calm, secure environment that reduces stress and supports safe transitions to habitats or partner institutions.
Quarantine is a designated period of time when an animal at the Zoo lives in a separate space. This practice is just one more tool to keep animals safe and healthy.
WHY DO ANIMALS UNDERGO QUARANTINE?
TRANSITION SUPPORT
To help the animal adjust to its new home and surroundings, or to help them get ready to leave for a new home.
HEALTH ASSESMENTS
Allows veterinarians to provide medical assessments to ensure the animal is healthy and free of disease.
RELATIONSHIP BUILDING
Allows keepers to build a relationship with new animals while learning to meet their nutritional, training and behavioral needs.
COLLECTION MANAGEMENT OR PLANNING
To accommodate breeding recommendations requiring short-term holding.
SAFETY MEASURES
To protect the wellbeing of animals at the Zoo by preventing the introduction of contagious diseases.
Our current quarantine and holding spaces are limited and outdated, and the needs of animals continue to grow. A new facility will:
WIN A WILD RIDE RAFFLE
Every raffle entry supports the construction of the Doornbos Animal Rescue and Care Center, a vital new facility that will enhance the Zoo’s ability to care for injured, orphaned and trafficked wildlife.
PROJECT RENDERINGS
THANK YOU TO OUR SUPPORTERS!
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HONOR ROLL OF DONORS
$100,000 and above
| JoEllen Doornbos |
| Sundt Construction Inc. |
| HACI Mechanical Contractors, Inc. |
$50,000 to $99,999
| Kathleen and Steven Ashby |
| In Memory of Eric Eberhard |
| Kay and Fred Fathe |
| Jeff and Dee Gibbons |
| Gary and Andy Harper |
| Diana Herron |
| Colin and Ellen Kennedy |
| Margaret T. Morris Foundation |
| Wayne and Pat Needham |
| Phoenix Zoo Auxiliary |
| Donald and Dorothea Smith |
| Carl and Patricia Weiler |
$25,000 to $49,999
| Lynn Medley Brown |
| Desert Ron |
| Marie and Mike Hoover |
| Mary and Max Palenica |
$10,000 to $24,999
| Arizona Community Foundation |
| Jim and Kathy Arner |
| Barry and Jean Bingham |
| Greg and Jacque Davis |
| Doreen Feldberg |
| James Maetzold |
| Gael N. Parks |
| Adrien and Gabrielle Sanchez |
| Bruce and Sheila Schwartz |
| Deborah Miller and Michael Wallensack |
$5,000 to $9,999
| Abdo Family |
| Dan, JoAnn and Jen Greenzweig |
| Blanny Hagenah |
| Patty Laskoski |
| Bonnie Mendoza and Arnold Mejia |
| The Seeger Family |
| Susan and Ron Telesko |
$2,500 to $4,999
| Andria and Gerald Boat |
| Jacqueline Destremps and Tom Kraby |
| Scott and Jennifer Kruse |
| The Langerman Foundation |
| Rose and Harry Papp |
| Sarianne Rittenhouse |
| Charles and Kimberly Tuomi |
| Mary Ann Wells |
$1,000 to $2,499
| Thomas Ambrose |
| Mary Anderson |
| John and Kathy Baker |
| Joan and Charlie Berry |
| Charles and Sandra Bonstelle |
| Joseph and Rose Circello |
| Robert DeStasio |
| Cindy Eckert-Timm and Damon Timm |
| Patricia L. Gollum |
| Bobette Gorden and Robert Cialdini |
| Denise Andriello-Higgins and David Higgins |
| David and Wendy Howell |
| Christine Jewell |
| Joanne Klebe |
| Stephanie and Chris Maloney |
| Skip and Jan Paschke |
| Kenneth C. Peterson |
| Michele Pitzer |
| Sherry and Robert Pobieglo |
| Angela Reineccius |
| Debbie Robson |
| Patricia Rocha |
| Mary Stefaniak |
| Norman and Millicent Stiefler |
| Susan M. Turner |
Your financial commitment to help build a new quarantine and holding facility will ensure that the Zoo’s impact on and importance to the future of our animals, our children and our world continue growing strong.
THANK YOU!
