Close encounters of a zoo kind are in store this summer for one Plant City youngster. At an end-of-the-year award ceremony at Burney Elementary School in Plant City, Hillsborough County Commissioner Al Higginbotham presented kindergartner Dialyan Jenkins with a scholarship from the Lowry Park Zoo School for a one-week summer camp experience. ...more

June 11, 2008

A new youth center at Lowry Park Zoo will provide space for a pilot program to educate teens about conservation and to equip them with leadership skills. ...more

May 28, 2008

A new youth center at Lowry Park Zoo will provide space for a pilot program to educate teens about conservation and to equip them with leadership skills. ...more

May 21, 2008

A new youth center at Lowry Park Zoo will provide space for a pilot program to educate teens about conservation and to equip them with leadership skills. ...more

May 21, 2008

Seventeen years ago, the Humane Society named Tampa's Lowry Park Zoo, with its caged animals and sparse grounds, one of the 10 worst zoos in the country. ...more

November 6, 2007