Volunteer Project Catalog

Red River Zoo

Thank you for your interest in volunteering at the Zoo! As a reminder -- you must be 18 years or older to volunteer at the Zoo. New Volunteer Orientation is your opportunity to learn more about the Red River Zoo and our volunteer program. It's also your opportunity to pay your one-time $25 volunteer fee and receive your volunteer shirt. New Volunteer Orientations are held the first Tuesday of each month at 6:00 p.m. prior to our regularly scheduled Volunteer Meeting. (Unless otherwise noted.) In the event that these dates/times don't work for you, we can try to make other arrangements. E-mail alison@redriverzoo.org

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Our volunteer meetings are generally held at 7 p.m. on the first Tuesday of a given month. Meetings are generally held at the Red River Zoo, unless specified otherwise. Each volunteer meeting is an opportunity to learn what's happening at the Zoo, what volunteer opportunities are available, and visit with your fellow volunteers. We also try to have guest speakers.

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Providing top-notch Animal Care is one of the things we do best at the Red River Zoo. To sign up for these shifts, you must have the Animal Care credential. What is the Animal Care credential? Great question. Once you've volunteered at least 100 hours at the Zoo in other volunteer areas, you can apply with our General Curator for an Animal Care credential. Questions? E-mail Alison at alison@redriverzoo.org These shifts default to 8 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. & 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m., but you can check in/out from the Dashboard once you're signed up for something. For example, you're only volunteering from 8:30 to 11:30, you'd sign up for that and leave a comment to that effect and then check in/out when volunteering.

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Diet Prep shifts are an excellent way to get involved with directly supporting our Zookeepers and animals at the Zoo. Diet Prep shifts involve preparing diets for the animals under the supervision of Marcy Thompson, one of our Zookeepers. No prior experience is necessary.

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Are you handy with tools? Do you enjoy fixing things? We've got plenty of miscellaneous projects to work on in our Grounds & Facilities department. If you're interested in helping out with these projects, you can sign up for a position here and then e-mail Matt at matt@redriverzoo.org to coordinate a time to come in and get started.