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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...

May 23, 2021

Conservation Creeping Toward Survival

It’s World Turtle Day! The Zoo has more than a dozen species of turtles and tortoises, from program animal ambassadors who live...

May 23, 2021

Tales of the Tails The Fastest Tortoise

We’re likely all familiar with the story of the tortoise and the hare, and while the tale is vague on which species of tortoise the hare...

April 21, 2021

Volunteer Appreciation Sue The Zoo Crew Volunteer

“I came to volunteer here at the Zoo in 2016 with the hope of becoming a husbandry volunteer in the ZooFarm. Since there was a requirement of...

April 19, 2021

Volunteer Appreciation Gill’s Decades As A Zoo Volunteer

Gill has been volunteering for the Master Gardeners at the Virginia Zoo since 1991. Yep, he’s been a volunteer here for 30 years officially on...

April 9, 2021

Tales of the Tails We’re Stumped On A Title For This Blog

Just kidding, we knew exactly what we wanted to call this month’s Tales of the Tails blog, featuring one of our coolest bird species, but we...

March 20, 2021

Tales of the Tails Pure Mint Gold

There are more than 100 different species of poison dart frogs. These types of frogs didn’t earn their name from speed, but rather from...

March 17, 2021

Animeals Sweet And Salty

Clover is one of the Zoo’s two miniature zebu, a smaller breed of cattle. Recently, on March 11, Clover turned five years old! Chef Yohn...

March 4, 2021

Animeals The Chef’s Special

Meet Chef Yohn, the Keeper who is primarily responsible for slicing, dicing, chopping and preparing the food for the Virginia Zoo’s animals,...

February 17, 2021

Tales of the Tails Mellow Yellow

What is a duiker? “Duiker” is most likely an unfamiliar term in your animal vocabulary but fear not, we can clarify what this animal is...