Institute News

August 23, 2019

San Diego Zoo Global scientists are celebrating a major conservation milestone for the organization’s Burrowing Owl Recovery Program. One of two burrowing owls released into their native range have...

July 29, 2019

San Diego Zoo Global is excited to announce a historic, successful birth of a southern white rhino calf at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park—the conservation organization’s first rhino born following...

June 20, 2019

Biological Research Station in Peru Helps Conserve a Remarkable Ecosystem

For 50 years, the staff at Cocha Cashu Biological Station in Peru has been working to protect an irreplaceable ecosystem in the...

June 13, 2019

Study Cites Elephant Reintroduction Programs as a Model for Wildlife Releases

Increasing the success of wildlife translocations is critical, given the escalating global threats to wildlife. A study...

May 22, 2019

Sharp Decline in Palila Population Prompts Relocation

(MAUNAKEA, HAWAI‘I)—On Sunday and Monday (May 19 and 20, 2019), a half-dozen palila, critically endangered Hawaiian birds...

May 22, 2019

Three orphaned elephant calves from Reteti Elephant Sanctuary have been successfully translocated to a holding area in Sera Wildlife Conservancy, in Kenya’s Samburu County—the first such rewilding...

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