Texas Wildlife-saving Highlights & Successes

Saving Texas Wildlife

The Houston Zoo continued to save Texas wildlife throughout the pandemic. The Zoo worked with the US Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) to rescue migratory native birds from the local pet trade. We provided native songbird identification guides and cared for rescued native songbirds for USFWS.

The Zoo’s Texas breeding and reintroduction work to prevent the extinction of Houston toads and Attwater’s prairie chickens also continued. The Zoo reintroduced 57 Attwater’s prairie chickens and 899,700 Houston toad eggs back into the Texas wild in 2020.

Houston Zoo staff have worked diligently to support the recovery of endangered species by providing veterinary care and rehabilitation for sea turtles and facilitating threat reduction efforts with communities on the upper Texas coast.

Houston toad, saved from the brink of extinction