We Generate Community Support & Fundraising For Animal Care, Education, & Conservation At
Point Defiance Zoo & Aquarium.

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$100 covers annual vaccines for penguin chicks

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Illustration of a shark.

$250 feeds all our sharks for a day

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Illustration of a goat.

$500 Purchases a heavy duty enrichment toy for our goats

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$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?

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Give the Gift of the Wild!

Shop Our Holiday Adopt Special
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Includes:
A Full Size Plush
Photo
Species Fact Sheet
Adoption Certificate
2 Society Face Masks
A Surprise Mini Plush!

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Two facemasks, gift package decorative image, and a picture of the plush adoption set

What We Support

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An elephant

Animal Care

We Support the Needs of All of Our Animal Ambassadors at the Zoo & Aquarium

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Conservation

We Support Species Survival Plans, Environmental, and Conservation Initiatives

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Education

We Support Programs That Connect the Community with Nature and Animals

Ways To Give

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.

Connect With Us

Follow us for the cute animals and impact, but stay for the journey.

Only the luckiest are chosen to be cleaned by our Pacific cleaner shrimps 🦐 

#pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiance #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #zoolife #animalconservation #pacificcleanershrimp #shrimp #findingnemo #aquarium #touchtank

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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!

#sharkweek #blacktipreefshark #aquarium #pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiance #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #zoolife #animalconservation #sharks #sharkconservation #shark

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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 ✨

#pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiance #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #nonprofit #auction #auctioneer #tacoma #zoolife #liveauction #animals #savetheanimals

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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 ✨

#pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiance #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #walrus #animalconservation #enrichment #animalenrichment

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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 ☀️

#ume #tapir #babyanimals #pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #zoolife

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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! 🪸

#pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #pointdefiance #aquarium #fish #razorfish #coral

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One of our tiny Pacific spiny lumpsuckers! Isn’t he the cutest, just bobbing along? 

#pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #pointdefiance #fish #aquarium

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Pack up our plushie of the month, the Green Sea Turtle (ASMR edition)! 🐢

If you want to learn more about our Adopt-A-Species Program and get your own adorable plushie, head on over to the LinkTree in our bio ✨

#pointdefiancezooandaquarium #pointdefiance #pointdefiancezoo #plushie #packingorders #seaturtles #endangeredspecies #turtle #asmrpackaging

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Thank you, thank you, thank you! 🐾

Through both the "Celebrating Ume" and "Ume's Debut" shirt fundraisers, we sold 717 shirts and raised $9,980 for animal care @ptdefiancezoo !

We are so grateful for supporters like you, and can't wait to see you sporting your Ume merch this summer ✨

#pointdefiance #pointdefiancezoo #pointdefiancezooandaquarium #tacomawa #malayantapir #tapir #endangeredspecies #ume

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Celebrate Ume's Debut and Support Animal Care

Get your exclusive Ume merchandise now through May 30. All proceeds support animal care.