The Saskatoon Zoo Society is a volunteer-driven, non-profit, environmental education organization, dedicated to fostering respect for nature.

Our current fundraising objectives:

• Funding for our new Zoo School initiative
• Support for our numerous educational programs
• New enclosures for many of the zoo animals, particularly hawks and owls.

We are funded through grants, donations, sponsorship, special fundraising events, our membership program, Paws Inn gift shop and concession and our Adopt-a-Critter program.

We encourage you to become a member of the Saskatoon Zoo Society. Members receive free admission to the Saskatoon Zoo, and discounts on many Zoo Society Programs.

Education Programs and Events include:

Discovery Tour Program
Grade One Program
Outreach Program
Children's Zoo & Discovery Centre Interpretive Program
Biofact Box Interpretive Program
Keeping Up With the Keepers
Young Naturalists' Program
Winter Zoo Camp
Animal Antics Pre-School Program
Earth Day
Cameco Family Day at the Zoo Fundraiser
Zoo Run
Zoo Club
Bio-Bits Zoo Camps
Bio-Explorer Camp
…and more!

Explore our website for details.

Each year the staff and volunteers of the Saskatoon Zoo Society conduct over 400 education programs and special events. There is something for everyone.

The success of our programs is due to our wonderful group of volunteers. Call the Zoo Society at (306) 975-3395 for more information on volunteering for the Saskatoon Zoo Society.

The objectives of the Saskatoon Zoo Society are:

• to increase and communicate knowledge and appreciation of animal life;
• to offer assistance in the maintenance and development of high quality exhibits appropriate to the theme of the Forestry Farm;
• to foster and encourage zoological research and conservation;
• to attract visitors to the Forestry Farm, and to make their visits more interesting and pleasant;
• to stimulate and maintain an interest in animals among young people through special projects;
• to secure better protection of wild animal life by education and the advancement of such education for purposes beneficial to the community as a whole;
• to foster the fullest possible cooperation with other organizations with similar objectives;
• to assist the Forestry Farm Committee in carrying out such projects that are commensurate with the objectives noted above;
• to raise funds for these purposes by soliciting membership fees and donations and by other means as the Society, from time to time, shall consider advisable; and
• to prepare, print, publish, sell, distribute, collect, and otherwise deal in all forms of suitable zoological publications.

(Objectives taken from the 1984 constitution of the Saskatoon Zoo Society.)