Zoo Conservation Outreach Group

Zoo Conservation Outreach Group (ZCOG) is a non-profit coalition of North American zoological facilities dedicated to assisting Latin American zoos and aquariums in their regional wildlife and habitat conservation efforts. The group’s main focus areas are building conservation leadership capacity in Latin American zoological institutions and promoting the development of collaborative zoo and aquarium –based wildlife and habitat conservation programs throughout the Americas. The former is achieved by providing access to information and training opportunities through a well-coordinated International Training Scholarship Program, while the latter is accomplished by pooling technical, material, and financial support from North American zoological institutions and delivering these resources to our counterparts in Latin America and the Caribbean Basin.