What You Can Do

• Your visit to the North Carolina Zoo helps to support our conservation efforts  in North Carolina and around the world.
• When you purchase food at the zoo you can round your purchase up to the next dollar to help protect endangered species.
• At our gift shops you can purchase buttons from which the proceeds go towards our conservation work.
• Select the “Support Endangered species” option when you purchase a zoo membership.

By donating your old phones to the North Carolina Zoo, you

• Keep toxic chemicals out of our environment.
• Provide vital emergency services to those in need.
• Help support the education efforts of impoverished peoples of Uganda.

Cell phone donation locations can be found at the Zoo's North America and Africa entrances.

Taking actions, even small ones, has great potential for protection of the Earth for animals and for people.  The list of opportunities is practically unlimited, but a few very general guidelines will give you some direction:

• Take an honest look at the quantity of fuel, water and energy your household uses, and pick out one way to use a little less of any of these resources.
• Participate in a community clean-up project at least once each year.
• Support locally produced food products or plant a small garden to grow a little bit of your own food.
• As long as it is safe to do so, drink tap water.
• Support the Zoo or another conservation organization.
• Learn more about your favorite Zoo animal.
• Establish a Monarch Waystation to help this increasingly rare butterfly and other pollinators.
• Recycle everything you can.
• Volunteer at the Zoo.