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
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.
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.
Past Quarters for Conservation Programs
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.