In a successful effort to save the species from extinction, the Bronx Zoo loaded up 15 bison at the Fordham railroad station and shipped them to the new Wichita Reserve Bison Refuge in Cache, Oklahoma in 1907.

This New York City public school, located in the Bronx, teaches all subjects through the prism of conservation.

 

The Bronx Zoo exhibited the country’s first snow leopard more than a hundred years ago.

 

 

 

A study done by the AZA found that just 10% of people learned anything from their visit to the zoo. (PDF download)