Honolulu Zoo

Honolulu Zoo
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21°16′15″N 157°49′09″W / 21.2709°N 157.8192°W / 21.2709; -157.8192
LocationHonolulu, Hawaiʻi, United States
Land area42 acres (17 ha)[1]
No. of animals1,230
Annual visitors750,000+[2]
MembershipsAssociation of Zoos and Aquariums
Websitewww.honoluluzoo.org

The Honolulu Zoo is a 42-acre (17 ha) zoo in Queen Kapiʻolani Park in Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. It is the only zoo in the United States to be established by grants made by a sovereign monarch and is built on part of the 300-acre (121 ha) royal Queen Kapiʻolani Park. The Honolulu Zoo features over 1,230 animals in specially designed habitats.

Over 750,000 people visit the zoo annually. The zoo is administered by the City & County of Honolulu through the Department of Enterprise Services. Its support agency, the Honolulu Zoo Society (HZS), provides program services for the zoo.[1] The zoo's accredited membership of the Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) was dropped in 2016 but reinstated in 2020.[3][4]

  1. ^ a b Cite error: The named reference enterprise was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ "Discover the Honolulu Zoo". Best of Oahu.
  3. ^ Honolulu Zoo denied re-accreditation over funding concerns Archived 2018-02-19 at the Wayback Machine. KHON2. March 22, 2016.
  4. ^ Honolulu Zoo wins back accreditation by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums staradvertiser.com, April 8, 2020, retrieved July 17, 2021