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Each week I dig through zoo and aquarium news from around the world each and put together the stories I think are most worth knowing about in The Zoosletter.

These are just three of the stories I cover in this week's edition, with several more in the full roundup.

Read this week's Zoosletter: https://zootrippin.substack.com/p/this-week-in-zoo-news-bergen-county

Was anyone at the AZA conference this week?

Image credits:
🦏 Bergen County Zoo master plan rendering — Mangolin Creative / Bergen County
🐐 Rocky Mountain goat at Cheyenne Mountain Zoo — © 2026 Zoo Trippin’
🐘 Elephant Trek at Cincinnati Zoo — © 2026 Zoo Trippin’

Each week, I dig through zoo and aquarium news from around the world and put together the most interesting stories I find in a weekly roundup called The Zoosletter.

A few of the stories from this week:

🦍 ZooTampa is moving forward with a $150 million master plan — Hillsborough County approved $75 million in funding that the zoo will match. Plans include a major new South America complex, expanded habitats and gorillas in Africa, and a reimagined Asia area with overhead pathways for orangutans and Malayan tigers.

🐠 Three new aquariums are in the works around the world — Bangkok is getting a 15,000-square-foot immersive aquarium, Mumbai’s Byculla Zoo is building an aquarium with two underwater tunnels, and an $85+ million aquarium and butterfly conservatory is proposed near Knott’s Berry Farm in Buena Park, California.

🐦 Northern bald ibises are following ultralight aircraft on a 1,550-mile migration — Thirty birds and their human caregivers are traveling from Central Europe to Cádiz, Spain, as part of an effort to restore the species and its historic migration routes in Europe.

🐋 Four belugas rescued from Marineland of Canada have died — The whales were among those relocated this summer after the closed marine park’s remaining animals faced the possibility of euthanasia.

🦁 There’s a renewed debate over the future of India’s historic Thiruvananthapuram Zoo — A proposal would move the 169-year-old zoo from its longtime home in the center of the city to a new facility on the outskirts.

You can read this week’s edition here:

https://zootrippin.substack.com/p/global-aquarium-boom-beluga-deaths

What stories did I miss from this week?

Image: Mochi, one of three mountain tapirs left in the United States, died this week. Photo taken at the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo in May 2025. (© Zoo Trippin')