Conservation in Action: Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project

Here at the Los Angeles Zoo, we care and we are deeply committed to keeping this planet's amazing wildlife around for future generations. One example of our commitment to conservation is our involvement and leadership role in the Peninsular Pronghorn Recovery Project. Experienced Zoo animal care staff and Espacios Naturales staff in Mexico are working together to hand rear baby Peninsular pronghorn antelopes in the El Vizcaino Biosphere Preserve in Baja California Sur, Mexico to create an insurance population for the dwindling species. Hand-reared fawns will be transferred to the Los Angeles Zoo and Chapultepec Zoo in Mexico City.
Espacios Naturales brought the Los Angeles Zoo in on this project in 2002 because they saw the population of Peninsular pronghorn was declining. With a very small population remaining in the wild and the only captive herd of this subspecies located at one facility, we felt there should be a back-up captive population in the U.S. in case a disease outbreak affected that one population.
The Los Angeles Zoo is currently home to nine pronghorn, three male and six female, and has successfully bred and produced 34 offspring.

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Thank you for taking care of the antelope. Hopefully we will see some in southern California someday. Maybe area surrounding Anza..