$100 covers annual vaccines for penguin chicks
$250 feeds all our sharks for a day
$500 Purchases a heavy duty enrichment toy for our goats
$100 covers annual vaccines for penguin chicks
$250 feeds all our sharks for a day
$500 purchases a heavy duty enrichment toy for our polar bear
$1,000 feeds our elephant for one week
All donations help. Will you consider giving today?
Includes:
A Full Size Plush
Photo
Species Fact Sheet
Adoption Certificate
2 Society Face Masks
A Surprise Mini Plush!
We Support Species Survival Plans, Environmental, and Conservation Initiatives
Your contributions, whether they be financial, your time, or your influence, all directly impact the animals and their keepers at Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium. You are part of a movement that keeps the Zoo alive.
Balzak needed to say something important. Everybody LISTEN 🎤🤫
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You might have to turn up your brightness to see this little ballerina 🩰
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POV: Your tour guide is a polar bear.
If you want to grab your own plushie and support our Zoo, click the LinkTree in our bio and Adopt-A-Species ✨
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Only the luckiest are chosen to be cleaned by our Pacific cleaner shrimps 🦐
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These are kids on a field trip, most for the first time, building their love for animals and planet. 🐾🌎
With the help of our donors throughout the year and those who gave at the Long Table, our Field Trip Scholarship Program brings thousands of children each year to the Zoo. Trips to the Zoo help connect them to their broader community, and gives the important opportunity to be immersed in nature.
If you’d like to donate to help more kids go on field trips to our Zoo, head on over to the LinkTree in our bio ✨
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Pivot on the putt-putt! 🐢⛳️
Some more photos (all animals, because really, they were the best part) from such an amazing night!! Thanks to all who had fun and raised money for such a worthy cause with us ✨
📷: Jeff Carlson, Dana Farrell
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It’s Shark Week, and we are not biased in the slightest. 🦈
Did you know these sharks can only breathe if they are continuously swimming? This aquarium was built large enough to allow just that!
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Our 2025 Long Table Event, Wild Greens, was a hole in one! ⛳️ We want to thank everyone who attended and helped us raise over $132,000! This money will go directly towards our field trip scholarship program at @ptdefiancezoo to increase access to the Zoo for all kids.
The night started with happy hour and mini golf, an incredible putt-off, and later as guests participated in our live auction, they enjoyed a three-course meal cooked up by incredible, local chefs.
Thank you everyone for your continued support of our organization! We hope to see you at the Zoo soon ✨
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Although they don’t always agree on everything, one thing Balzak and Lakina ALWAYS agree on is their love for enrichment!
Through our Adopt-A-Species program, you can adopt your own walrus, and the donation will go towards enrichment just like this seafood box! 🐙
Click the LinkTree in our bio for more information ✨
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Baby Ume discovering a whole new world in the large waterfall habitat with mom, Yuna, for the first time! ❤️
Don’t miss Ume and Yuna explore the waterfall habitat again this Saturday and Sunday, July 12 & 13 @ptdefiancezoo ☀️
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A hot new bombshell has entered the villa…the razorfish in the Coral Reef Up-Close exhibit in the TRA!
Thanks in part to generous donors, this gorgeous exhibit opened a few weeks ago. This gives us a rare opportunity to see the coral change, develop, and grow—and also to see the interesting creatures who live among it, like the vertical swimming razorfish! 🪸
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Meet the chefs of Wild Greens, this year’s Long Table Dinner & Auction! We are so excited to feature food created by Chef Shawn (Tibbitts) @tibbittsfernhill, Chef Kyle @subtleapproachcatering, Chef Brandon (Marie) @table47_gigharbor, and Chef Luis (Carrillo) @lancerhospitality. These masters of the kitchen will create mouth watering dishes to delight your tastebuds at this truly unique event supporting Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.
Don’t miss out on this unforgettable evening supporting the Zoo you love! Go to the Linktree in our bio and click on Wild Greens – 2025 Long Table Dinner & Auction to secure your place at the table.
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