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San Diego Zoo Highlights Elephant Conservation in Africa

The San Diego Zoo is highlighting its Project Elephant Footprint campaign, in partnership with Botswana-based Elephants Without Borders.

Mountain Yellow Legged Frog Eggs Released Into Native Habitat

For the first time ever, endangered mountain yellow-legged frog eggs are reintroduced into a stream where they historically lived. U.S. Geological Survey wildlife biologist Elizabeth Gallegos and ecologist Adam Backlin use a funnel to gently slide the mountain yellow-legged frog eggs into a cage in a creek on the James San Jacinto Mountains Reserve Thursday afternoon. Frogs at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research had produced the eggs after scientists removed them from chilling units where they had been hibernating. It was the first time scientists had chilled the mountain yellow-legged frog in an effort to induce breeding, and it was wildly successful, allowing yesterday’s release.

Conservation Research Collaborations on the Polar Bear

The San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, in collaboration with, and with support from Polar Bears International, continues to delve into the sensory world of the polar bear in hopes that a better understanding of how bears perceive the ever-changing, icy world around them, will help us guide management of human activities in sensitive polar bear habitat.

Primate Conservation in Asia

Maximizing the sustainability of critically endangered species requires a fundamental understanding of their biology, translating that knowledge base into workable conservation solutions, and training the next generation of in-country scientists and reserve managers.

Zoo Researcher’s Elephant “Language” Study Highlighted in Article

North County Times newspaper featured an article about the African elephant herd at the Wild Animal Park, and the way the pachyderms communicate. Dr. Matt Anderson, the Park’s acting director of behavioral biology, is interviewed in a video illustrating sonograms of elephants “talking.”

Mountain Yellow-legged Frog Update

2009 has been a great year for the adult population of Mountain Yellow-Legged Frogs at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research.

Name that Bellow: Koala Conservation Update

Those iconic fuzzy marsupials from Down Under are getting much-needed conservation efforts in both their native land and at the San Diego Zoo.

Conservation Showcase for 2010

Each year the Zoological Society of San Diego takes a long hard look at its conservation projects around the world – in 35 countries, with 8 projects in California – and selects 10 that will be highlighted in Development and Marketing efforts throughout the year.

Low-cost Health Screening for Amphibians in Zoo Collections

Wildlife Disease Laboratories at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research are pleased to be able to offer low-cost testing for the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Ranaviruses in zoo collections.

Influenza and Wildlife: Who Is Most Likely to Get the Flu?

Mark Schrenzel and Bruce Rideout, two experts on wildlife diseases who work at San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research, have been looking at which species might act as reservoirs for influenza viruses and—worse, from the human point of view—which might act as “mixing vessels” in which new strains of virus are generated.

Students and Scientists Help Cactus Wren Conservation

San Diego Zoo’s Wild Animal Park Unveils New Learning Tool for Conservation Research of Native Bird

Kangaroo Rats Relocated to New Digs

San Diego Zoo field biologist makes a living searching for the 4-inch-long Stephen’s kangaroo rat…

Biologists Rediscover Endangered Frog Population

Zoo, Museum, State and Federal Agencies Collaborate To Save Mountain Yellow-Legged Frog.

Become a Sponsor: Project Elephant Footprint

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Low-cost Health Screening for Amphibians in Zoo Collections

Wildlife Disease Laboratories at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research are pleased to be able to offer low-cost testing for the amphibian chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis and Ranaviruses in zoo collections.

San Diego Science Festival Wildly Successful

The San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research was excited to be a collaborator in the inaugural San Diego Science Festival.

Tortoise Conservation Coming out of Its Shell

The San Diego Zoo has joined the United States Fish and Wildlife Service in operating the Desert Tortoise Conservation Center located in Las Vegas, Nevada.

Polar Bear Partnership

The plight of the polar bear is becoming critical. Climate change is taking a toll on polar bears and their habitat, endangering their long-term survival. We need to share the polar bears’ challenges and educate people on this growing conservation crisis. Here is our first step.

Alarming Amphibian Decline Prompts Health Screening Protocol

Scientists from around the globe work to address issues of amphibian extinction with funding from the Institute of Museum And Library Services.