Conservation Resouces

Your Vote can Change the World.

Quarters for Conservation is an exciting initiative to greatly enhance our wildlife conservation work. Through the collection of quarters, we’ll provide funding for new and existing wildlife conservation projects. This program provides an opportunity to engage our staff and our community in the effort while also significantly expanding our contribution to wildlife conservation in our region and around the globe.

How it Works

  1. Funding is allocated to biodiversity conservation.

    From the fees you pay to the Zoo, we will allocate the following amounts to conservation projects:

  • $0.25 from each admission fee
  • $2.50 from each family membership
  • A portion of each education and animal program
  1. Learn about each project and vote for the project you'd like to fund.

    On every visit, you'll receive a "quarter" token that enables you to vote for a conservation project that inspires you. Learn all you can about the six projects we’re supporting this year, because your vote can change the world. Your vote is important and helps us determine how much funding each project receives. Project information and the voting stations are the entry plaza near the admissions booth. Additional votes can be made with real quarters - 100% of any added contributions will go toward the voted project. Total contributions are calculated annually from May through April.

 

Projects that will receive 2011-2012 funding:

 

  • Help Protect Wild African Vultures.

    African vulture populations are in jeopardy. They are declining due to powerline collisions, poisoning from consuming medicated cattle carcasses and lack of adequate food. Vultures play a vital role in the environment by cleaning up carcasses and preventing the spread of disease. Quarters for Conservation supports The Vulture Programme’s field research, rehabilitation and release projects to safeguard a future for Cape Griffon Vultures.
    Learn more at www.vultureconservation.co.za/. Join us for International Vulture Awareness Day and discover how you can help save vultures and take action!

 

 

 

  • Help Rescue Amphibians in Panama.

    Frogs and salamanders are dying around the world.  Habitat loss, pollution and the spread of chytrid fungus threaten almost half of all amphibian species. Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is a founding partner of an international conservation effort to prevent amphibian extinctions in Eastern Panama. Funding from Quarters for Conservation supports efforts to rescue amphibians, develop a cure for chytrid and return vanishing amphibians to nature.
    Learn more at www.amphibianrescue.org. Check out Amphibian Ark's 2012 Calendar, available now!

 

 

 

  • Help Raise and Protect Wild African Penguins.

    Black-footed penguins and other South African Coastal birds are threatened by commercial fishing, human disturbance and oils spills. The South African Foundation for the Conservation of Coastal Birds (SANCCOB) works to protect and rehabilitate South Africa’s seabird populations. Quarters for Conservation funds will support their efforts to rescue, hand raise and release orphaned and abandoned chicks back into the wild.
    Learn more at www.Sanccob.co.za. International Penguin Awareness Day at CMZoo, Saturday, October 2, 2010 - details!

 

 

 

  • Help Release Endangered Gibbons Back to the Wild.

    Habitat loss has caused lar gibbons and white-cheeked gibbons to become endangered. Their tropical forest home is being destroyed for agriculture and to produce lumber and craft wood. The rise in illegal hunting and trapping of adults to take their young for the pet trade is also a problem. Quarters for Conservation supports Wildlife Friends of Thailand. They are playing a direct role in both restoring forest habitat and rehabilitating and releasing gibbons into protected forests.

 

 

 

 

  • Help Save Wild Amur Leopards and Tigers.

    Poaching for wildlife trade and habitat destruction are pushing Amur leopards and tigers toward extinction. The Amur Leopard and Tiger Alliance (ALTA) is working with local communities to protect the few remaining cats in the Russian Far East. Quarters for Conservation funding will support ALTA’s anti-poaching teams and livestock reimbursement program, helping ensure future generations of these endangered cats.
    Learn more at www.amur-leopard.org.

 

 

 

 

  • Help Wild Orangutans and Their Forest Habitat.

    Clearing of forests in Borneo & Sumatra for exotic wood and palm oil plantations is continuing to devastate orangutan habitat.  Cheyenne Mountain Zoo is focusing on this issue and everyday ways people can help reduce the rainforest destruction.  Funding from Quarters for Conservation supports our efforts to inform people with our Palm Oil Awareness campaign to help protect wild orangutans’ remaining habitat.
    Learn more about the Palm Oil Crisis.

 

 

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Ongoing flagship conservation programs that will receive funding in 2011-2012:

For more ideas about how you can make a difference in safeguarding our planet's wildlife and wildplaces, see the informative graphics about each project located throughout the Zoo. Maybe you and your family and friends will get inspired to take some conservation action to have a real impact. Thank you for caring!

Through Quarters for Conservation, you'll be directly
supporting critical conservation projects every time you visit the Zoo!



2010-2011 Quarters for Conservation Project Summary

Since the beginning of the program in the spring of 2008, Quarters for Conservation has cultivated hundreds of thousands of dollars with guests voting one quarter at a time, that went to fund designated conservation programs both regionally and globally. The dollar amount collected for the just completed third year of the program, which runs annually May through April, is $110,367.75. Of this amount, 50% is designated for on-going flagship conservation programs at the Zoo. The other half is earmarked for the six Quarters for Conservation programs that guests have been voting on for the past 12 months.

Here’s how the money raised for the six Quarters for Conservation programs was distributed based upon your votes:

  • To help save wild Amur leopards and tigers:  $9,069.81
  • To help protect wild African vultures:  $7,654.71
  • To help raise and protect wild African penguins:  $11,881.79
  • To help rescue frogs in Panama:  $8,421.86
  • To help protect endangered wild orangutans and their forest habitat:  $12,521.36
  • To help protect wild snow leopards:  $17,666.01

These projects are putting these significant funds to work to save species in peril of extinction.
Thank you for making this possible for the future of wildlife and wildplaces.

Every Vote Matters.