Quarters for Conservation
Your visit to Roger Williams Park Zoo isn’t just an adventure, it’s an investment in the future of wildlife. 25 cents from every general admission tickets is directly contributed to conservation efforts, both locally and globally. Thank you for helping making a difference!
Here’s a look at the current and past projects that your visit helps support.
Current Projects
Pollinator Partnership
A non-profit 501(c)3 organization– the largest in the world dedicated exclusively to the protection and promotion of pollinators and their ecosystems. Mission is to promote the health of pollinators, critical to food and ecosystems, through conservation, education, and research.
The Turtle Survival Alliance
Dedicated to protecting and restoring wild populations of tortoises and freshwater turtles. Its mission is to ensure zero turtle extinctions in the 21st century through science-based conservation, captive breeding programs, habitat protection, and local community partnerships.
APOPO
Training rats to save lives. APOPO’s Wildlife detection rats are being trained to detect the scent of some of the world’s most heavily trafficked wildlife products. By identifying and intercepting these products, our rats help support global conservation efforts and disrupt wildlife trafficking networks.
Project Piaba
Focuses on promoting the sustainable aquarium fish trade in the Amazon, particularly along Brazil’s Rio Negro. Its mission is to show that responsibly harvesting wild ornamental fish- like the cardinal tetra- can help support local communities as well as help conserve sensitive rainforest ecosystems by providing an economic alternative to destructive industries such as logging or mining.
Past Quarters for Conservation Programs
ABConservation: The world’s only association dedicated entirely to the study and protection of a charming little mammal from Southeast Asia: the binturong. Working both in Europe and in the field in Asia to promote, inform, raise awareness, transmit, study and protect this fascinating animal.
Animals Asia: The world’s leading bear rescue and rehabilitation organization focusing on bears farmed for their bile, and dedicated to improving the welfare of all animals across Asia.
The Giant Otter Project: Founded with the aim of strengthening the conservation of the species and the ecosystem, seeking to improve human coexistence with the species and the engagement of stakeholders in conservation actions and decisions.
The Wildlife Clinic of Rhode Island: An emergency wildlife veterinary hospital dedicated to providing comprehensive medical care and long-term rehabilitation for wild animals. Licensed by the Rhode Island DEM and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, they collaborate with these agencies to help maintain our state’s biodiversity. We track and report wildlife diseases to safeguard public health, and we partner with fellow organizations to advance conservation efforts.
Katie Adamson Conservation Fund: Uses a multifaceted approach to help empower and educate the people of our planet to work together to save our remaining ecosystems in across the globe. Their reach includes conflict mitigation with elephants in Tanzania, jaguar, sea turtle, and tapir research in Costa Rica, and the sharing of expertise in elephant footcare Nepal.
Punta San Juan Program: Through knowledge and scientific research, the Punta San Juan Program aims to better understand the marine ecosystem of the Humbolt current including resident species of pinniped, various marine invertebrates, and Humbolt penguin.
Gibbon Rehabilitation Project: Combats the illegal use of gibbons through tourism awareness and aims to return them back to where they were previously poached to extinction over 40 years ago.
PVD Tree Plan: A community-led initiative to plant and care for trees in low-income neighborhoods of color across Providence, so that everyone in the city has equal access to the health, climate, and economic benefits of our urban trees.
Monitoring Threatened Turtles with Newt the Dog: Newt, a Labrador retriever, has been trained to sniff at-risk turtle species in hard-to-reach places. With Newt’s help, New England zoo staff and biologists can collect the data needed to create important turtle conservation plans.
Wild Nature Institute: Wild Nature Institute studies wild Masai giraffes, a savannah ecosystem keystone species, in Tanzania using a computer program that can recognize each individual giraffe by their unique spot patterns.
Project Selva: As an alternative to the sale of Amazonian timber and land, Project Selva helps indigenous communities in South America earn money by selling their handmade artisan goods through zoo gift shops.
New Nature Foundation: By building efficient stoves, sharing clean-burning fuel, planting trees, and providing ecological education, the New Nature Foundation helps communities in Uganda and Vietnam live in harmony with nature.