Worldwide Conservation

The Department of Conservation Biology's mission is to engage in scientific programs which make meaningful contributions to the conservation of animals and their ecosystems. This department oversees the support of in situ (in the wild) and ex situ (at the Zoo) conservation projects. Since the inception of the Department, the Denver Zoo has been involved in more than 300 conservation and research projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America, Central America, and South America.

Since 1996, Denver Zoo has been involved in 495 conservation and research projects in 54 countries. In 2008 alone, Denver Zoo was involved in 94 projects in 28 countries on five continents and more than $1 million in funds was spent by the zoo in support of animal conservation in the field. Denver Zoo’s conservation projects focus on key species and landscape conservation planning, a widely-accepted method of conserving larger ecological systems.  These projects currently focus on the habitat renewal and safeguarding of the Southern Rockies Ecosystem, Northern and Southern Great Plains, Gobi Desert, New Mexican grey wolves, jaguars in Mexico, tigers in Asia, African wild dogs, sun bears in Malaysia, argali sheep in Mongolia, Asian elephants, prairie dogs, black footed ferrets, green macaws in Central and South America, lemurs in Madagascar, golden frogs in Panama and many more.

List of Worldwide Conservation Projects

Map of Projects