In 2020 I learned of victims of a lucrative illegal wildlife trade intercepted by U.S. Fish and Wildlife and brought to the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden for refuge. The survivors of the smuggling ...

The Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden is celebrating a $60 million gift from the estate of Cincinnati businessman Hugh Hoffman.Hoffman died in March 2023 at the age of 91 and his estate has left ...

The Cincinnati Zoo has made strides in sustainability, boasting three of the country’s largest solar arrays and a 1.5-million-gallon rainwater capture system. From 2006 to 2024, the zoo’s water usage ...

Clearing out the poop from the animals’ enclosures is a significant part of the zoo’s daily energy usage. Here are the Cincinnati Zoo’s most productive poopers. Giraffes: 300 pounds per day. America’s ...

Hippo mama Bibi gave birth six weeks early Jan. 24, 2017, to the first Nile hippo born at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden in 75 years. No one could've imagined what a stir this underdeveloped, ...

Shortly after the Zoo’s opening, a six-foot alligator escapes its enclosure and takes refuge in Swan Lake. Sol Stephan was paid $25 for its recapture days later. The zoo brought in a firing squad to ...

Kate Rechtsteiner, director of visitor experience at the Cincinnati Zoo, considers herself the zookeeper for the people. She’s there to make sure you get parked, ride rides, and enjoy everything the ...

The Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden, now in its 150th anniversary year, makes five times as much power as it uses, according to Mark Fisher, the zoo’s vice president of facilities and sustainability ...

The Central Florida Zoo has launched a new virtual reality experience called the Wild Explorer, providing visitors with an immersive opportunity to see extraordinary animal encounters. The Wild ...

Tri-State Trails' Wade Johnston led a pack of 700 riders on a road less traveled on Saturday.“They’re seeing the big vision of how we are working to expand the trail to creak a 34-mile loop around the ...