Wildlife Conservation

To save wildlife, we must save wild places.  With humanity’s footprint encroaching on nature everywhere, the need for action is urgent.  The best zoos, wildlife parks, and botanical gardens cause us to fall in love with animals and plants.  They entertain, educate, inspire and can ignite the spark of conservation. They take us inside the world of animals and plants—in zoological and botanical habitats, but also in the wild where field-based conservation initiatives protect their home places.  They champion a culture of conservation—from the local to the global scale.  

Practice Areas

Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort/National Botanical Garden

Abu Dhabi Emirate, United Arab Emirates

Al Ain Wildlife park and Resort

The purpose of the Al Ain Wildlife Park and Resort/National Botanical Garden is to create an emotional connection between visitors, animals, and their habitats. more

Los Angeles Zoo Campo Gorilla Reserve

Los Angeles

Los Angeles Zoo

The Campo Gorilla Reserve-Los Angeles Zoo's new western lowland gorilla habitat-spirits zoo visitors on a trek of discovery to witness the social structure and behavior of these magnificent endangered primates. more

Dublin Zoo Kaziranga Forest Trail

Dublin, Ireland
Dublin Zoo

A family of five Asian Elephants is enjoying a new natural habitat at a time when their native rainforest habitat is diminishing. The exhibit, designed by Jones & Jones, and its associated breeding program are linked to conservation efforts in India’s Kaziranga National Park, a World Heritage Site. more

Fota Wildlife Park Master Plan

Fota Island, Ireland

Jones & Jones is developing a master plan for the renowned Fota Wildlife Park near Cork, Ireland. An expanded wildlife park will include new educational facilities and exhibits of habitats from Asia and Africa. more

Miami Metrozoo Amazon and Beyond

Miami, Florida
Zoological Society of Florida and Miami Metrozoo

Opening in December 2008, Amazon and Beyond is an experience of the world's most diverse ecosystem—the tropical American rainforest—second only to the real thing. more

Detroit Zoo Arctic Ring of Life

Royal Oak, Michigan
Detroit Zoological Park

The Arctic Ring of Life presents the story of species adaptation in the extreme arctic landscape through the eyes of the Inuit people. more

Detroit Zoo National Amphibian Center

Royal Oak, Michigan

Detroit Zoological Park

The National Amphibian Conservation Center is a national leader in Amphibian research, and a model of environmentally responsible design in zoological parks. more

San Antonio Zoo Africa Live!

San Antonio, Texas
San Antonio Zoological Gardens

San Antonio Zoo is set among historic canals, towering trees and exposed hillsides with rock bluffs. Africa Live! will encompass these wet and dry, hilly environments, and display the ways that plants and animals have adapted to both the abundance and scarcity of water. more

Arizona Sonora Desert Museum Long-Range Development Plan and Exhibits

Tuscon, Arizona
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum

For desert habitats, the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum is the finest regional landscape interpretive center in the world. more

Busch Gardens Myombe Reserve: The Great Ape Domain

Busch Gardens, Tampa, Florida
Busch Entertainment Corporation

Myombe Reserve envelopes visitors in the domain of Lowland Gorillas and Common Chimpanzees—a rainforest habitat five stories high and three acres in breadth rich in biodiversity. more

Disney’s Animal Kingdom

Orlando, Florida

Walt Disney Imagineering, Walt Disney World

Jones & Jones collaborated with the Disney Imagineering design team to create experiences that take wildlife education to new levels.  The Pangani Forest Exploration Trail provides a peek into a research station in the heart of the African forest.  more   Kilimanjaro Safari offers an adventure into the African bush.  more

Woodland Park Zoo Long-Range Master Plan

Seattle, Washington

City of Seattle, Department of Parks and Recreation

Our long-range master plan for reconstruction of the zoo in 1976 inaugurated the landscape immersion era in zoological design and placed Woodland Park Zoo at the forefront of zoological institutions.more

National Tropical Botanical Garden Master Plan

Kauai, Hawaii

National Tropical Botanical Garden

Established under Congressional charter, The National Tropical Botanical Garden is a privately funded institution that administers gardens of extraordinary beauty and historical significance, and advances scientific research, public education, and plant conservation.more

Singapore Botanic Gardens

Singapore

National Parks Board, Singapore Botanical Garden

The 130th anniversary of the Singapore Botanic Gardens has served as an occasion to review and preview the significance of this renowned equatorial botanic resource.more

San Diego Wild Animal Park Condor Ridge

Escondito, California

San Diego Wild Animal Park, Zoological Society of California

Condor Ridge celebrates the efforts of the San Diego Zoo in breeding and release programs which have saved the California Condor from extinction. more