Denver Zoo harnesses our reputation as a trusted leader in the Denver community for over 120 years to mobilize the public to engage in wildlife research and conservation across Colorado. Building on our successful model of multi-stakeholder collaboration at Rio Mora National Wildlife Refuge (learn more here), we work closely with city, state, and federal agencies to understand real-time threats to wildlife and their ecosystems such as expanding human populations and climate change. Then we help those agencies implement land management strategies needed to promote the conservation and resiliency of wildlife, ecosystems, and natural resources across the Front Range.
We apply the following approaches to conserve and build the resiliency of alpine and shortgrass prairie ecosystems and to restore wildlife connectivity along the mountain-plains interface across the Front Range.