Each year, the Detroit Zoo relies on the generosity of individuals, businesses and foundations to help support our mission.

With each dollar raised, we are able to make a real difference in providing the very finest to both our animals and our visitors! Our resident population receives exceptional care and our guests have the opportunity to take advantage of award-winning habitats, programs and attractions every time they come.

Please join us in making lasting impressions and memorable experience for our visitors from generation to generation, as we protect and conserve some of the most remarkable creatures on earth. You will be Celebrating and Saving Wildlife!

Celebrating wildlife daily with some amazing numbers:

• Your Detroit Zoo is sanctuary for more than 3,000 animals representing more than 250 species.
• Last year, nearly 1.3 million people visited our main campus, with an additional 53,000 enjoying the Belle Isle Nature Zoo.
• 56,000+ member households make us the top membership program in this region.

Saving wildlife extends to some unexpected places:

• Outstanding members of our staff were in Texas for two months, assisting in the care of 27,000 animals seized in a raid on an exotic animal dealer. We are providing a home for more than 1,000 of the confiscated animals, including wallabies, sloths, ring-tailed lemurs, lizards, turtles, snakes, spiders and amphibians. We helped place hundreds more in other accredited zoos and sanctuaries throughout the country.
• When it was determined that a harp seal rescued off the coast of Massachusetts could not be returned to the wild because it was blind, the Detroit Zoo was happy to welcome him to our Arctic Ring of Life, the largest polar exhibit of its kind in North America. Today “Pequot” can be seen from the 70-foot Frederick and Barbara Erb Polar Passage, enjoying the safety of this highly acclaimed habitat with four other rescued seals.
• With more than one-third of the planet’s 6,000 amphibian species threatened with extinction due to habitat loss, climate change, pollution, infectious diseases and other factors, we are extremely proud of our National Amphibian Conservation Center’s success in breeding the critically endangered Puerto Rican crested toad. Our decade-long effort climaxed in 2009 with 3,701endangered tadpoles returning to their Caribbean home.

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