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Oakland Zoo has launched its Conservation Strategic Plan, the first of its kind for the organization. OAKLAND, Calif., March 12, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ -- Oakland Zoo has launched its ...
The zoo's multi-year plan focuses on three specific pillars: species and habitat protection, wildlife trade mitigation, and human-wildlife coexistence. The Oakland Zoo will announce its first ...
The Oakland Zoo last weekend rescued a trio of orphaned mountain lion cubs out of San Mateo County, according a news release Wednesday. The California Department of Fish and Wildlife brought the ...
(KRON) — A baby spider monkey who was rescued during a bizarre DUI traffic stop in California is recovering well at the Oakland Zoo, veterinarians said Friday.
(KRON) — An African elephant who formerly lived at the Oakland Zoo died at an elephant sanctuary in Tennessee this week, the zoo announced Friday. Donna, described as “beloved member of the Oa ...
The Oakland Zoo is saying goodbye to the Bay Area’s last remaining African elephant. People of all ages visited the zoo to bid Osh a final farewell before he heads to a new, and some say ...
The Oakland Zoo threw a goodbye party for Osh the elephant on Saturday afternoon. Osh, 30, is the zoo’s last remaining elephant but will soon be sent to Tennessee’s Elephant Sanctuary ...
"Those of us who know and love him, including our Oakland Zoo community, will miss him terribly," said Colleen Kinzley, the Zoo's VP of Animal Care, Conservation and Research Oakland Zoo/Facebook ...
The Oakland Zoo said Tuesday it will move its 30-year-old African elephant, Osh, to The Elephant Sanctuary in Tennessee this fall, leaving the zoo without any elephants for the first time in 75 years.
OAKLAND, Calif. (KGO) -- For two decades, Osh the elephant has been calling the Oakland Zoo home. But in the fall, the only remaining African elephant living at the zoo and in the Bay Area will ...
You can now watch them at any time on the Oakland Zoo’s live CubCam. On Nov. 14, 2023, two young mountain lion sisters, estimated between 6-10 weeks old, were found wandering near Burlingame ...