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The Power of Connections: Endangered Species Day

Ratu and her newborn calf (Photo: Stephen Belcher)

Guest blogger: Kristina Meek, Wild Encounters There are currently 16,306 plants and animals listed as endangered by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN). That’s more people than visit our Zoo on a [...]

Celebrate Endangered Species Day!

There must have been more than 40 elephants in this herd! (Photo: Shasta Bray)

Declared by U.S. Congress in 2006, every third Friday in May is Endangered Species Day, a day to celebrate and protect our wildlife and wild places. Here at the Cincinnati Zoo, however, every [...]