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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 Director of Strategic Partnerships Kimberly Montroy at 312-742-2175 or kmontroy@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.
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A local conservation effort, the Nature Boardwalk will transform Lincoln Park's South Pond into an urban oasis, providing natural homes for local wildlife and green landscapes for visitors |
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Lincoln Park Zoo population biologists are helping jaguar specialists to develop a standardized method for assessing the species' status in the wild. |
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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. |
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Lincoln Park Zoo is committed to conservation. For decades, the zoo has conducted conservation programs in places ranging from Africa to South America. Now the zoo is focusing on its own back yard by leading a local conservation initiative aimed at creating a wonderful urban oasis. A comprehensive environmental and educational effort, the Nature Boardwalk Campaign will revitalize an essential water source—Lincoln Park’s South Pond—and create acres of restored prairie grasses and wetlands to protect native wildlife.
Learn how you can contribute to the South Pond Campaign. Individuals should contact Elizabeth Gillette at 312-742-2332 or egillette@lpzoo.org. Corporations and foundations looking for opportunities to make a difference should contact Director of Strategic Partnerships Kimberly Montroy at 312-742-2175 or kmontroy@lpzoo.org
Click here for more information. |
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| Quick, agile and powerful, the jaguar once ranged from Arizona to Argentina. Today, however, the species is decreasing rapidly due to deforestation, habitat fragmentation and illegal hunting. At the request of the Argentinean government, Lincoln Park Zoo is assisting jaguar specialists in developing a standardized assessment of jaguar population status. The zoo’s population-modeling expertise is being combined with remote-triggered “camera traps” to assess jaguar viability. By collaborating with scientists involved in long-term camera trapping studies in Belize, Guatemala, Brazil, and Argentina, the zoo’s population biologists are standardizing jaguar monitoring throughout the species’ range. |
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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.
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