PRESS RELEASE / June 17, 2025 Planning Our Future: Woodland Park Zoo Embarks on New Long-Range Facilities Plan Community survey launching in July—help shape the future! SEATTLE—Woodland Park Zoo is embarking on a new Long-Range Facilities Plan planning process with a vision…
CALENDAR ADVISORY / June 16, 2025 Cheers to Conservation! OktoBEARfest Roars Back This Fall! Tickets go on sale June 20 for Woodland Park Zoo’s beary fun adults-only event WHAT:After a sellout event in its first year, OktoBEARfest presented by Alaska…
PRESS RELEASE / June 9, 2025 Class of 2025 turtles released to the wild Zoo and partners saving endangered turtles one shell at a time SEATTLE—One shell at a time, Woodland Park Zoo and partners are saving Washington state’s endangered…
PRESS RELEASE / May 27, 2025 Zoo loses Helen, its matriarch snow leopard and grandmother to cubs SEATTLE— Woodland Park Zoo is mourning the passing of snow leopard Helen, its 20-year-old matriarch and grandmother to three cubs born exactly one…
PRESS RELEASE / May 19, 2025 A Bear-y Special Brunch! Celebrate Father’s Day with Papa Bear Brunch Tickets for Grazing at the Zoo event series on sale now! WHAT:Woodland Park Zoo is sharing more delicious dates for its new and…
PRESS RELEASE / May 16, 2025 Survivors: One of the World’s Rarest Birds Lives at Woodland Park Zoo The Socorro dove, extinct in the wild, only survives in zoos around the world SEATTLE—This summer, Woodland Park Zoo is highlighting survivors…
CALENDAR ADVISORY / May 12, 2025 Public invited: graduation preparation for class of 2025 turtles for release to the wild WHAT:As college, high school, and middle school students prepare for graduation commencement, Woodland Park Zoo is getting its own class…
PRESS RELEASE / May 9, 2025 Zoo loses elderly sloth bear, Tasha, to cancer Tasha is the grandma of baby Bowie SEATTLE—Woodland Park Zoo is mourning the loss of Tasha, a 20-year-old, female sloth bear. The elderly bear was humanely…
CALENDAR ADVISORY / April 30, 2025 Summer fun at the zoo…where every day is the 4th of July! #WoodlandParkZoo Loads of fun and memories to be made will be happening throughout the summer at Woodland Park Zoo where every day…
CALENDAR ADVISORY / April 25, 2025 Happy World Penguin Day! Zoo Shares Precious Photos of Newly Hatched Humboldt Penguin! SEATTLE—Today, April 25, is World Penguin Day and Woodland Park Zoo is sharing precious photos of its perfectly punctual Humboldt penguin…
