New York City AAZK

01/20/2025

Join us for Pints for Penguins on Friday February 7th!🐧🍻 Profits go towards Little Blue Penguin Conservation efforts.

01/16/2025

01/05/2025

Join us for Skating for Seals! Wednesday 1/15 at 6:00pm at Wollman Rink. Help us raise money for monk seal conservation🦭 Tickets are available in the link in our bio!⛸️❄️

12/08/2024

Join us this Tuesday evening for an AAZK presentation night featuring a variety of WCS departments and parks. Topics include medical case studies, training, enrichment, conservation, the AIP Masters Program and incubation and propagation. Pizza and light refreshments will be provided. Event is open to WCS staff and volunteers. The presentations will also be streamed over Zoom. Please check your WCS email for the Zoom link or reach out to [email protected] to be sent the link if you are a WCS staff member. Hope to see you there!

11/29/2024

Join NYC AAZK for a presentation night featuring various topics from around the different WCS parks and departments! The events will be held in the Flaherty Leaning Center (Bronx Zoo Congo Classrooms). Open to WCS staff and volunteers only. A zoom link will be sent out via email. Pizza and light refreshments will be served, hope to see you there!

11/21/2024

Due to inclement weather the Coney Island beach clean up will be postponed until further notice.

11/21/2024

Thank you to everyone who came out to Ales for Apes last night!🦍🍺 We raffled off three beautiful gorilla paintings and raised money for the Pan African Sanctuary Alliance and the Gibbon Conservation Society. What a success!👏🏼👏🏼

11/20/2024

TONIGHT!! Join us for Ales for Apes at Penny Farthing in Manhattan. See you there!

11/16/2024

Join us to hear guest speaker Tiffany Mayo, who is the vice president of the Trumpeter Swan Society. Tiffany is a full time keeper at the Cleveland Metroparks Zoo and focuses on avian incubation and hand rearing. She is also the AZA Trumpeter Swan SSP coordinator and has partnered with the Bronx Zoo to release several cygnets into the wild that were born at the zoo. After the presentation we will have a short members meeting to discuss the last events of the year, all are welcome to attend.

11/13/2024

🚨Time Change!!!🚨 The beach clean up will now begin at 4:45pm instead of 5:15! We will meet at the aquarium’s entrance on the boardwalk at 4:45. See you there!

11/09/2024

Ales for Apes 🦍T-shirt’s and sweatshirts available NOW! You can place your order using the link in our bio🤗

11/09/2024

Join us on Wednesday November 20th for Ales for Apes. The event starts at 6pm and will be held at Penny Farthing in Manhattan. See you there!🦍🍻

11/08/2024

NYC AAZK presents Ales for Apes! Join us on Wednesday, November 20th in Manhattan to support ape conservation! 🦍

10/31/2024

Join us on Friday November 22nd for a beach clean up in Coney Island! We will meet at the New York Aquarium’s boardwalk entrance at 5:15 and head west on the beach.

10/22/2024

Thank you to all who came out for our history and ghost walk! And a special thank you to Billy for bringing his paranormal expertise 👻

10/14/2024

Join NYC AAZK on Monday October 21st as we take an after work stroll around the Bronx Zoo grounds and discuss the various architectural history as well as recount spooky stories from the zoo’s ‘haunted’ locations with the zoo’s own paranormal aficionado Billy DeToma. This walk is only open to WCS staff. We will meet in front of the sea lion pool at 5:45. Hope to see you there!

10/12/2024

We still have Croctoberfest pint glasses left! $12 each🍺

10/12/2024

Thanks to everyone who joined us at Croctoberfest and for participating in our silent auction!🐊