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Shop at Kroger and Support the Houston Zoo

Posted by in Supporting Your Zoo,Zoo News

Did you know that simply by shopping at Kroger you can help provide tasty meals for more than 6,000 animals at the Houston Zoo? Each year, Kroger donates $1 million through the Neighbor to Neighbor Donation Program. Every participating organization earns a percentage of the $1 million based on the total customer spending connected to that organization.  

 

 

What does that mean to you? When you buy groceries at Kroger now through April 30, 2012, a percentage of your purchases will be designated to support the Zoo. To link your Kroger card to the Houston Zoo, follow these three easy steps: 

  1. Visit our website to print the Zoo’s organizational letter

  2. Take the letter with you next time you shop at Kroger

  3. At checkout, give the cashier your Kroger card and the letter to have a portion of your eligible purchases automatically recorded to the Houston Zoo’s account.

This is a very simple way to make a profound impact for your Houston Zoo! For more information about the program or to print your Zoo’s Neighbor to Neighbor letter, please click here.

Best of Houston Press Award to The African Forest

Posted by in African Forest,Zoo News

A Houston Zoo roar of thanks and a tip of our safari hat to the Houston Press which has named The African Forest at the Houston Zoo  ‘Best New Ecosystem’  in its 2011 Best of Houston edition.

The Press is imPRESSed with The African Forest’s “charismatic families of chimpanzees, giraffes and white rhinos’” and the fact that the newest addition to the Houston Zoo is a “high-tech forest”  -  a reference to the 24-hour Webcams allowing visitors to the Zoo’s website to “watch the rhinos’ antics from the air-conditioned comfort of your home or office.”

 

The other residents of The African Forest – chimpanzees and giraffes – may also be viewed via Webcam.  Check them out when you visit The African Forest website.

And thanks again Houston Press for honoring The African Forest at the Houston Zoo as one of the Best of Houston.   See all the winners at http://www.houstonpress.com/bestof/
Written by Brian Hill

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