Help Animals at the Baghdad Zoo

Thank you for your concern regarding the animals at the Baghdad Zoo. Our accrediting organization, American Zoo and Aquarium Association (AZA) is aware of two zoos in Baghdad, not counting private collections, one of which belonged to Uday Hussein.

One zoo is very small - in an amusement park, and it has some camels and some dogs and possibly a bear. The other zoo is larger, and was not open to the public. This zoo supposedly has tigers, lions, monkeys, dogs, camels -- more than 100 mammals and birds.

The North Carolina Zoo and the North Carolina Zoo Society, which raised and distributed funds for the Kabul Zoo in Afghanistan, is once again accepting funds from those wishing to help the exotic animals in Baghdad.

Anyone wishing to donate may send a check to:
Aid to Baghdad Zoo
c/o North Carolina Zoological Society
4403 Zoo Parkway
Asheboro, NC 27205

The NC Zoo and AZA is working with wildlife conservation organizations and zoos both here in the U.S. and in Europe to determine how contributions will best be used.

To learn more about this project and receive an update of efforts at the Baghdad zoo, visit http://www.nczoo.org/news_events/press_release/2003/05302003.htm.