The Metro Richmond Zoo is the recipient of the 2021 ZAA Long Term Commitment and Significant Propagation of a Single Species Award for our work in African penguin conservation.
At the ceremony, a representative from the Zoological Association of America (ZAA) stated, “Metro Richmond Zoo has demonstrated a strong commitment to the preservation of the African penguin with a successful breeding program that has hatched 271 penguin chicks since 1996. Metro Richmond Zoo has shared their management techniques and years of collected data and experience with zoos around the country…
The zoo has also welcomed other facilities to shadow their penguin keepers to learn how to provide proper care and husbandry techniques for a successful breeding program…
Congratulations to Metro Richmond Zoo for more than a quarter of a century of tremendous success in propagation and dedication to the conservation of the African penguin.”