Last year, we sent funding to help bonobos in the Democratic Republic of Congo, and the organization we donated to recently updated us on all of the great work they’re doing!

The Zoo’s initiative that allows guests to vote on conservation projects, Quarters for Conservation, is transforming in the new year.

This fall, cast your vote for Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, an organization dedicated to helping increase the black rhino population in Zimbabwe.

This fall, one of your Q4C choices is Okapi Conservation Project, which works to monitor okapi in the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Learn more about the work that Q4C project Elephant Connection Research Project does to help save diminishing giraffe and elephant populations!

Our leaves may not change in the fall, but our Quarters for Conservation projects do! For the next three months, cast your vote for reconnecting elephants and giraffe, protecting okapis’ homes or increasing the population of black rhinos.

African Wildlife Conservation Fund—one of your Q4C choices this summer—works to increase the population of endangered African wild dogs.

This summer, you can cast your vote for African People & Wildlife—an organization that aims to protect lions, leopards and cheetahs in northern Tanzania.