San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance

If you’ve ever wanted to be part of a wild animal’s life, a handful of organizations in San Diego County allow just that via sponsorship and symbolic adoption programs.

As an ambassador for rats, it’s never easy to win over the public. But Runa at the San Diego Zoo has been charged with teaching people the virtues of rats.

While you can’t take a koala or lion home, there are several programs in San Diego County that allow you to symbolically adopt or sponsor wildlife to help them thrive.

It only took two decades, but a rare and endangered turtle species has finally bred at the San Diego Zoo.

Neville can be seen running at top speed around the habitat, frequently stopping to splash around and roll in mud wallows.

A southern white rhino calf has been born at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park’s Nikita Rhino Rescue Center!

A new study led by San Diego conservationists found that marine mammals eaten by the critically endangered California Condors contain such high levels of now-banned contaminants it may be harming their birds’ reproductive systems.

Officials said new executive director Erika Kohler was critical in the opening of new habitats, including Africa Rocks in 2017, Komodo Kingdom and the Hummingbird Habitat in 2021 and the Denny Sanford Wildlife Explorers Basecamp in March 2022.

Wildlife conservationists in the United States and Mexico can now track the peninsular pronghorn for the first time.

Wildlife conservationists in the United States and Mexico can now track the peninsular pronghorn for the first time. NBC 7’s Ana Cristina Sanchez has the story.

Settling into a new home can be tough for anyone. So scientists have come up with some tricks to make transplanted burrowing owls feel like they are not alone in their new digs.

Orangutan infant Kaja was born less than two weeks following his father’s death at the San Diego Zoo

A giraffe calf born Monday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park was the perfect gift to the late actress and wildlife advocate, Betty White, on what would have been her 100th birthday.