Vanishing Species was founded in 1998 as an education program to inform children of all ages about the natural world around them. As word of our interactive, hands-on programs has spread, we have grown into a multifaceted organization serving the public in many ways:

Vanishing Species serves as home to over 300 animals including tigers, lions, leopards, cougars, servals, bobcats, bears, wolves, alligators, snakes, monkeys, and more. Please browse our website, help us if you can, and take our founding principle to heart:

"In the end we will all conserve only what we love,
love only what we understand, and we will
only understand what we are taught."

-Baba Dioum, Conservationist