Community Conservation

Engaging The Next Generation

The future is in the hands of our youth, and our Community Engagement team is lighting their path. Our new Native Biodiversity Corps program taught about 100 students the importance of wildlife, and the students worked with landscape experts to design and plant native wildlife gardens on their school campuses.

Local Stewards

We had the honor and privilege of welcoming the San Pasqual Band of Mission Indians as they hosted the second annual Indigenous Peoples’ Celebration at the Safari Park . For thousands of years, members of the Kumeyaay Nation have been stewards of the land and native wildlife across much of Southern California and Mexico, including land where the Safari Park sits today. Community members joined us for storytelling and songs, celebrating—and learning about—the legacy and culture of centuries of wildlife stewardship by their native caretakers.

A HALF-TON OF TRAFFICKED PLANTS

The Safari Park, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Plant Rescue Center Program, received a half-ton of illegally trafficked cactuses and succulents. Our horticulturists inventoried, identified, and are caring for the plants, with the goal of planting them on Safari Park and Zoo grounds .