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Most people realize that it takes a lot of humans behind the scenes to keep Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium in tip-top form, which is one of the reasons the Director’s Award was established – to honor zoo staff who completed projects in 2016 that had a notable positive impact on zoo operations and/or the guest experience; or showed significant costs savings or added tangible value to a process or park operation or animal husbandry in general.

Adventure is in store for Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium visitors this summer, and it’s happening this week!

This year, Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium will have the opportunity to spread the word about conservation to more than two million zoo visitors.

“It all started with the fact that I got to pet a penguin,” Mary Skowbo says of the support she and her husband, Don, have provided Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium throughout the years.

There’s no question that coral is beautiful, and that we’re all mesmerized by the stunning coral reef exhibits in The Suzanne and Walter Scott Aquarium, but what does it have to do with us in landlocked Nebraska?

“I have two boys, one who just finished first grade and one going into kindergarten. Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is something that we do outside that is active, and I don’t risk blowing a hamstring,” says Trevor Schade, a single father who shares custody of his sons.

There’s a new bird in town… well, actually, 34 of them, and they are ready for their close-up.

“We wanted to do something that was significant for Omaha, but also significant nationally and internationally,” says Dr. Lee G. Simmons (“Doc”), former director of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium and current chairman of the Omaha Zoo Foundation, of the plan to put a jungle in the middle of the heartland.

Have you been thinking you’d like to increase your support of Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium, but it just keeps falling off the to-do list? Well, May 24^th is your lucky day!

Once again, the Omaha Zoo Foundation will be participating in Omaha Gives!, the 24-hour, citywide event that provides a fun, interactive way for people in our community to support the organizations that matter most to them.

It’s Mother’s Day, and Omaha’s Henry Doorly Zoo and Aquarium is celebrating all of our animal moms.

First, of course, there’s Dottie, mother to our most recent new addition, the still-to-be-named giraffe calf who was born on Sunday here at the zoo. 

The vaquita marina porpoise is the most critically endangered cetacean in the world. In November 2016, it was believed there were only 30 vaquitas left, down from 60 in 2015. Then, last month, three more vaquitas were found dead in illegal gillnets.

When people think of Hawaii, they often conjure the island state’s tropical forests, filled with profusions of brightly colored blooms against lush, green backdrops. Parts of it seem so untouched and primordial, that one might be lulled into believing it is a paradise that will always remain unchanged.