You can make the world better for wildlife
Support any of these programs and you will improve the lives of animals living here, at the Zoo, or in the wild.
Your gift will underwrite conservation and education programs that protect animals and teach people to value nature and all its components.
In all cases, these programs receive little or no funding from the State of North Carolina. These good works depend entirely on the generosity of people like you to continue. Thank you for helping the Zoo's staff carry out their most important work—to protect life on Earth.
Project: Polar Bears
Both of the Zoo's Polar Bears are aging and wild Polar Bears are under assault from global climate change. Your gift will help the Zoo upgrade its Polar Bear exhibit both to meet newly written welfare standards for the species and to provide adequate space for the Zoo to initiate a Polar Bear breeding program.
Cross River Gorillas
Help the N.C. Zoo save the world's rarest and least understood ape—the Cross River Gorilla. Only about 250 of these poorly understood gorillas remain, and the Zoo's own Dr. Rich Bergl is working with other scientists to bring them back from the brink.
Saving Wild Elephants
Support the Zoo's work in Cameroon, where our research team is saving the lives of elephants every day! In some places we have reduced elephant deaths by more than 90 percent!
Honor & Remember
Commemorate important milestones or an entire lifetime with a gift to the N.C. Zoo Society. There are several options that you can choose as a way to honor or remember a friend or family member.
Care for Native Animals
Help injured and orphaned native wildlife by supporting The Valerie H. Schindler Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.
Leave a Legacy (Planned Giving)
The Zoo's future should not be left to chance...It must be protected by the people who value the Zoo's contributions to wildlife and who share the Zoo's commitment to excellence in education, conservation and recreation. Learn how you can include the Zoo in your will or your estate plans.
Unrestricted Donation
Give an unrestricted donation and the Zoo Society will use your gift to support the Zoo's most pressing needs.
Wills and Bequests
There are many ways that you can include the Zoo in your long-range financial plans, but bequests are the simplest choice you can make.
Other Zoo Programs
The Zoo Society funds a variety of animal welfare, conservation and other programs that will benefit from your support.
Corporate Partners
The North Carolina Zoo is a premier marketing venue for corporations. With an attendance of over half a million and over 21,000 Society member households, the Zoo is a great place to get your company’s name out while also knowing that you are supporting the country’s best natural habitat zoo.
Josh Linder & Martha Bomar Wedding
This gift is made to honor the wedding of Josh Linder & Martha Bomar. Donations celebrating their union will support field conservation programs undertaken by the N.C. Zoological Park.
The Kendall Project
Educating People About Apes and How They are Affected by the Entertainment Industry.
Donations support programs that rescue Great Apes from confinement in unnatural social and physical settings and that place the rescued animals in retirement situations that provide for their physical and psychological well being.
Donations also support education programs that explain the complex biological and social needs of chimpanzees and that advocate for the humane treatment of these animals.
What's Up Doc?
Recently, one of the Zoo Veterinary Hospital’s most important and most specialized endoscopes stopped working. It can’t be fixed. It is just too old and too worn out. But our veterinarians can’t do their job without that scope. Now, when they need the scope, our veterinarians have to call the veterinary school in Raleigh to arrange for its staff to pack up an endoscope and drive it to Asheboro. The cost for transporting the equipment is huge, and the time it takes to arrange the trip makes this solution unworkable in an emergency.
Every donation no matter now small, will move us closer to replacing this endoscope. Donors giving $1,000 or more will be invited to meet a Zoo veterinarian behind the scenes to tour the hospital.
Frog Rescue
Help the Zoo join International efforts to protect the world's disappearing frogs, toads and other amphibians.
Field research shows that 1/3 to 1/2 of the world's amphibian species are heading toward extinction, and no one knows why.
The loses are so widespread and mysterious that conservation organizations are calling on zoos to take at-risk frogs out of the wild and hold them in secure, breeding facilities until science can make the wild safe for them again.
The N.C. Zoo is the only institution in the state with the land, the research expertise, the experience and the husbandry skills required to offer a safe haven and a secure future to the state’s amphibians.
We are asking all of our members to make a donation, no matter how small, to help the Zoo build an amphibian conservation, breeding and research center. The center will enable the Zoo to buffer North Carolina’s amphibians against the disasters that are killing other amphibians around the world.
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01/28/2009 07:29am.
