What we do!

2008 is our 32nd year and one of the most exciting yet!

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

 Our current fundraising objectives

  • A new year-round Education Centre
  • 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 Interpretive Program
Wild Weekends
Biofact Box Interpretive Program
Keeping Up With The Keepers
Young Naturalists' Program
Lobsterfest
Winter Zoo Camp
Junior Zookeepers
Animal Antics Zoo Camps
Earth Day
StarPhoenix Family Day
Kinsmen Day
Zoo Run
Zoo Club
Kits 'n Cubs Zoo Camps
Bio-Bits Zoo Camps
Bio-Explorer Camp
and more.  Explore our web site for details.

Each year the staff and volunteers of the Saskatoon Zoo Society conduct over 450 education programs and special events.  There is something for everyone.
The success of our programs is due to our wonderful corps of volunteers.  Call the Zoo Society at 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.
  • 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).