The Detroit Zoo says the birth of a gorilla at the zoo in suburban Detroit is the first in its 96-year history.

I love Detroit. As someone who no longer has the pleasure of living in the area, people are sometimes surprised to hear that -- how much I love the region, that is; but it’s one of those “IYKYK” things. Anyone who has spent substantial time in the Detroit area knows, this area is such a gem.

The Detroit Zoo says a 5-month-old wallaby baby, which the zoo formally announced just last week, has gone missing.

Environmentalists are faulting slow progress at a U.N.-backed meeting of nearly all the world’s countries toward beefing up protections for biodiversity on Earth.

The Detroit Zoo’s massive penguin center has reopened to the public more than two years after it was shuttered to repair faulty waterproofing.

Watch these videos of a baby polar bear from the Detroit Zoo experiencing snow for the very first time. This little bear, who has a twin, was born at the Detroit Zoo in January to 8-year-old Suka and 16-year-old Nuka. Suka has give birth twice in the past few years, but unfortunately, those baby bears did not survive. This is the first time a polar bear has been born and raised in the Zoo in more than 15 years. The twin polar bears don’t have names yet, but they are doing just fine and adjusting to this new life.

Polar bear cubs are being cared by zookeepers at Detroit Zoo and by Suka, the mother cub. ROYAL OAK, Mich. – A Michigan zoo is now home to two unbearably cute polar bear cubs for the first time in decades. Zoo officials said one of the cubs, a female, appeared weak and inactive while in observation and was taken to a veterinary clinic for treatment. Two polar bear cubs were born November 17, 2020, to parents Suka and Nuka at the... Posted by Detroit Zoo on Friday, January 29, 2021Suka has given birth twice in the past, but officials said none of her cubs survived. The mother polar bear is being attentive to her cub in between feeding and bathroom breaks by cuddling and caring for them.

DETROIT (CNN) - Windmills and solar panels may soon be keeping the lights on in the reptile house, and throughout the Detroit Zoo. The zoo, located in Detroit's suburb of Royal Oak, says it's shifting to being powered entirely by renewable energy. "We are announcing today that Detroit Zoo is going to be 100% fully powered by local Michigan-made energy," Scott Carter, the zoo's chief life sciences officer, said in a web video posted by DTE Energy. The zoo is joining MIGreenPower, which is DTE's program allowing its customers to receive energy from the utility company's renewable sources. The Detroit Zoo says that program is the first of its kind at a zoo.