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Epulu the okapi died after colic symptoms, ending a decade of breeding work that produced calf Gates in 2023.
The Depression-era shelter, built by teens in a New Deal jobs program, is finally usable again after years of crumbling ceilings.
The new half-mile stretch links Adair Park to the area south of Sharp's Ridge, ending years as a dead end.
A motion-activated camera near the Bronx Zoo caught the sighting nine days after a beaver was spotted on the same stretch of river.
Gunn Family Coyote Dog Park reopens Friday after a July tornado, but 80 percent of its trees are gone.
Kermit Ruffins will perform as the Audubon Wonders of Nature Express rolls out Thursday, replacing a worn 2009 train now up for auction.
A vacant oceanfront Wells Fargo now houses 21 kreisel tanks and roughly 20 jellyfish species, with a $100,547 city grant behind the makeover.
Oxford Bend Park will pack rain gardens, skateable features and 30-plus new trees onto a former fast-food parking lot near Deer Creek.
Raleigh's 1984-era neighborhood pool shuts Sunday, but a private-public deal with Wolfpack Elite will make it a year-round, heated facility.
A new fire station in Ward 6 and Cleveland's animal kennel are among the sites set to gain land-bank parcels alongside dozens of parks.
A six-year legal fight ends with a Wake County judge finding the state violated citizens' constitutional fishing rights.
Asphalt lots under the Cross Bronx Expressway are becoming a skate park, courts and green space for East Tremont families.
The Bronx Zoo's winter light trails now come with after-dark access to tigers, snow leopards, and a reopened nocturnal house.
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