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March 12, 2026

Zoo News Virginia Zoo Conservation Youth Team Representatives Attended Conservation Lobby Day

The Virginia Zoo Conservation Youth Team (CYT) program is a high school volunteer and youth development program which gives teens the opportunity to...

February 20, 2026

Zoo News Observing The 3c’s Of Conservation In The Mongolian Steppe

The Virginia Zoo Conservation and Research Grant offers staff the opportunity to engage in field conservation projects and community science...

November 20, 2017

Animeals Season’s Feedings Recipes

“Season’s Greetings” takes a twist this week as Chef Yohn, with the help of our awesome ZooFarm Keepers, give some of our animals...

November 7, 2017

Animal Arrivals Welcome Sibindi: Third Endangered White Rhino

The Virginia Zoo is excited to welcome a male rhino. The 11-year-old male, Sibindi, arrived at the Zoo this weekend from White Oak Conservation...

November 6, 2017

Tales of the Tails The People Of The Forest

We’re not monkeying around…. Orangutans aren’t monkeys! They are primates, but orangutans, gibbons, siamangs, chimpanzees and...

October 25, 2017

Plant Donations Friendly Foliage

Reptile Keepers at the Virginia Zoo are still looking for your unwanted indoor plants to create habitats in the Zoo’s World of Reptiles. This time...

October 11, 2017

National Fossil Day Can You Dig It?

Today is National Fossil Day, an annual holiday that helps promote the scientific and educational values of fossils! What is a fossil? A fossil is...

September 22, 2017

Tales of the Tails That’s All Rhino

Even though unicorns are mythical creatures, there is a real animal that is just as majestic that humans can actually see. Known as “unicorns with...

September 12, 2017

Conservation International Coastal Cleanup Day

Litter isn’t just a big deal in Hampton Roads, but across the world. Plastics and other trash aren’t easily decomposable, and end up in...

August 30, 2017

Conservation Hands-on As A Cyt

Every summer, the Virginia Zoo offers youth a chance to get involved at the Zoo, to become more hands on with conservation efforts and learn to be an...

August 18, 2017

Recipes for the Animals Animeals For Bora And Zina

Bora and Zina, our Southern White rhinos, are two of the Zoo’s largest animals – weighing in between 2,200 and 2,700 pounds each. With...