Lincoln Park Zoo is working on a variety of special projects to enhance the visitor experience and expand programs for education, conservation and science, and animal care. To find out more about contributing to these projects, please contact Rebecca Borchers at 312-742-2193 or rborchers@lpzoo.org.

Please note that gifts under $5,000 will go to the Annual Fund to support zoo operations. Click here for more information on the Annual Fund.

 

 

  
  ZIP offers 25–30 Chicago public high school students an opportunity to gain valuable work experience while receiving training in public speaking, science and team-building.  
  The south end of the Kovler Lion House has been renovated to provide more space and better habitats for the predators housed there, but opportunities still exist to contribute to the care of the animals housed there.  
  Rachel Santymire, Ph.D., has joined Lincoln Park Zoo as the first endocrinologist at the Davee Center for Epidemiology and Endocrinology.  
 

   
The Malott Family Zoo Intern Program (ZIP) is looking forward to its thirteenth summer at Lincoln Park Zoo. ZIP offers 25–30 Chicago public high school students an opportunity to gain valuable—often their first—work experience while receiving training in public speaking, interpretation, science and team building. All students go through a two-week training period, which is followed by an eight-week paid internship as a summer interpreter at the zoo.

The Malott Family Foundation, the Helen Brach Foundation, the Circle of Service Foundation, the Oscar and Elsa Mayer Family Foundation and other generous donors help support the program, which has served over 300 interns. Your support can help extend this important experience to future students. Look for the ZIP interns on grounds in the summer.
   
Registered as a state historic landmark, the Kovler Lion House has been home to some of Lincoln Park Zoo’s most beloved animals since 1912. A grant from the Illinois Department of Natural Resources has enabled the zoo to expand the Lion House’s southern exhibits to provide more space and better habitats to the big cats (and diminutive red pandas) housed there. The renovation is complete, but additional support is needed for ongoing efforts to meet the animals’ needs, with exhibit-naming opportunities available for gifts of $150,000 and more.
   
Zoo endocrinology Rachel Santymire, Ph.D., studies the hormone levels of animals at the zoo and in the wild. Her research, which relies on noninvasive fecal and urine sampling, will help the zoo better understand animal’s reproductive states and stress levels. Lincoln Park Zoo is building a state-of-the-art endocrinology laboratory in the C.H. “Doc” Searle M.D. Animal Hospital to allow on-site testing and in-depth results analysis. Support for the lab will help advance our understanding of animals.
 
 
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