As our regions’ leading cultural attraction, and the No. 1 year-round attraction in the Cincinnati area, the Zoo has roughly one million visitors annually, contributing $124.6 million to our local economy, an increase of 41% in economic impact from 2001.
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The Zoo generates over 1,600 jobs with $42.7 million in household earnings.
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Over half a million of the Zoo’s visitors annually are children.
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The Zoo is an irreplaceable educational asset for our community. It hosts the country’s first full-time zoological high school. Also, more than 212,000 pre-school and school-age children are delivered educational experiences yearly through 3,700 presentations of over 120 programs. Most of these programs are offered at nominal or no cost.
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Upwards of 11,000 visitors yearly spend the night at the Zoo as part of the Nocturnal Adventures Program.
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It has been through years of research that the staff at the Cincinnati Zoo’s Lindner Center for Conservation and Research of Endangered Wildlife (CREW) unraveled the mysteries of Sumatran rhino reproduction. Highlights include the birth of the Zoo’s third critically endangered Sumatran rhino calf, “Harapan” on April 29, 2007, which captured press attention around the globe. Earlier this year, Andalas, the Zoo’s first born Sumatran rhino, made a historical trek to Indonesia in an effort to reinforce the captive breeding program, and is the first ever to be translocated from the United States to Indonesia.
