Coming Face-to-Face with a Desert Black Rhino

Josh Le, Minnesota Zoo’s Communications Manager, is currently in Namibia to help further the Zoo’s mission of connecting people, animals and the natural world to Read More


From the Deserts of Namibia

Josh Le, Minnesota Zoo’s Communications Manager, is currently in Namibia to help further the Zoo’s mission of connecting people, animals and the natural world to Read More


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    What’s a girl from Minnesota Zoo’s Bird Show doing in a ger in Mongolia?

What’s a girl from Minnesota Zoo’s Bird Show doing in a ger in Mongolia?

Taylor Steger, Interpretive Naturalist at the Minnesota Zoo, just returned from Mongolia where she assisted with research to help save the Asian wild horse (also Read More


How to Catch a Takhi

The weather in Mongolia is unpredictable at worst and constantly-changing at best.  We can wake up in the morning to no wind, and then run Read More


Saving the Whooping Crane

Recently Emily Endert, a bird trainer of the Wings Financial World of Birds Show, had the opportunity to travel to Austwell, Texas to participate in Read More

Thursday, April 28, 2016|Conservation, In The Field, Zoo News|

Off to the Wilds of Mongolia

I brace my hand against a cold window, smearing a palm print onto the foggy glass as I try to keep myself from bouncing around.  Read More


Building Local Value for Critically Endangered Rhinos

Jeff Muntifering, Conservation Biologist at the Minnesota Zoo, is in Namibia where he works with the Namibian government, a local conservation organization (Save the Rhino Read More

Friday, March 25, 2016|In The Field|

“Sheep Selfies” to Save Asian Wild Horses

I woke up to the wind howling fierce and battering the side of my ger (a traditional Mongolian round house).  The cloudless blue sky was Read More