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ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

Sunset for the Zoo: Bringing the Mission Home will take viewers on an unforgettable behind-the-scenes journey, highlighting animal care and rescue by the Detroit Zoological Society (DZS), when it premieres on Thursday, September 17. From the rescue and around-the-clock rearing of a newborn chimpanzee, to the storm-induced need to grab endangered Great Lakes piping plover eggs […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

Sunset at the Zoo is always metro-Detroit’s wildest party of the year —and this year, the guests get to host! The Detroit Zoological Society (DZS) has re-imagined this popular and vitally important fundraising event for 2020. With behind-the-scenes stories about animal care, wildlife conservation and environmental sustainability, Sunset for the Zoo: Bringing the Mission Home will […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

The year 2020 has quite literally gone to the birds. Even during the COVID-19 pandemic, which has impacted people and wildlife around the world, 2020 is a milestone for endangered Great Lakes piping plovers — marking the most successful outcome of the Detroit Zoological Society’s Piping Plover Captive Rearing Program since it began nearly 20 […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

An American white pelican believed to have survived last Michigan’s winter with fractures in both wings and an injured right foot has now found refuge at the Detroit Zoo after she was left behind by her scoop in Monroe, Michigan. “It is uncommon that American white pelicans migrate through Michigan, but it happens from time […]

ROYAL OAK, Mich., 

When you have a salamander species at risk, who are you going to call? Detroit Zoological Society’s Dr. Ruth Marcec-Greaves. Affectionately referred to as the “salamander love doctor,” Marcec-Greaves has helped bolster salamander populations, as well as other amphibian populations, around the world — with the latest success story unfolding with the Edwards Aquifer Refugia […]