Just days after the terrible tragedy at the Krefeld Zoo blaze, PETA pushes their anti-zoo agenda, once again making it well known that PETA wants to kill off all zoo’s.

A rapidly urbanizing world means that people are less likely to live near fields or woods, and an increase in scheduled activities means less time to wander through vacant lots. Thus “managed” encounters with nature, like visits to zoos and aquariums, provide an increasingly important opportunity for contact with other species.

There’s a new twist in the strange tale of Dan Ashe, CEO of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, a private accreditor of many of the major zoos and aquariums in the U.S. When we checked in on Ashe last year, he was allowing PETA to have a booth at AZA’s annual meeting.

The Rolling Hills Zoo in Salina announced the births of three Amur tiger cubs born on Aug. 14. Amur tigers are classified as an endangered species on the IUCN list. The cubs' parents, Andrea and Dhenuka, came to Rolling Hills Zoo on a breeding recommendation by the Tiger Species Survival Plan developed by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, of which Rolling Hills Zoo is an accredited member.

The pride of lions at the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium is growing, as three new cubs were born August 16 through August 17th. Mother Naomi is taking care of the cubs behind-the-scenes, and zoo veterinary teams say the cubs all appear to be healthy.

Two baby Amur leopard cubs born in June made their public debut on Wednesday morning at the Rosamond Gifford Zoo. The cubs were born June 19 as part of the Species Survival Plan for this critically endangered species.

Back in 2010, India sought to double its tiger population by 2022. But on International Tiger Day, the country announced it met its goal four years earlier than expected. Nearly 3,000 tigers now reside in India, that's more than 70% of the world's tiger population.

International Tiger Day was first established in 2010 at Saint Petersburg Tiger Summit in Russia to raise awareness about the decline of wild tiger numbers and to encourage the work of Tiger conservation.

New Mexico police are searching for vandals who cut locks and made holes in zoo enclosures over the weekend, allowing four animals, including a bobcat, to escape before they were quickly wrangled nearby.

There’s a new face at The Buffalo Zoo. The zoo tweeted photos of a baby greater one-horned rhino born late Monday evening.