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San Diego Zoo Global has received many awards for its exhibits and conservation efforts.

San Diego Zoo Global

• 1993:
  • American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) Significant Achievement Award for conservation of the San Clemente loggerhead shrike
  • AAZPA Conservation Endowment Fund Award for wild canid reproductive strategies (shared with 9 recipients)
• 1995: Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Conservation Endowment Fund Awards for Species Survival Plan for tree-kangaroo and Avian Tuberculosis Research Project (shared with Woodland Park Zoo)
• 2002:
  • AZA Top Honors in North American Conservation Award for Hawai'i Endangered Bird Conservation Program
  • AZA Top Honors in International Conservation Award for Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program (shared with Roger Williams Park Zoo, Calgary Zoological Society, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Gladys Porter Zoo, Kangaroo Conservation Center, Miami MetroZoo, Milwaukee County Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Philadelphia Zoo, Pittsburgh Zoo & PPG Aquarium, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, San Antonio Zoo and Aquarium, Santa Fe Community Teaching College, and Woodland Park Zoo)
• 2004:
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) National Award for Museum Service for educational programs
  • City of San Diego Recycler of the Year
• 2012:
  • AZA Significant Achievement in North American Conservation Award for Light-footed clapper rail recovery program (shared with SeaWorld San Diego)
  • AZA Top Honors in International Conservation Award for Scientific Approaches to Conservation of Giant Pandas and their Habitat program (shared with Smithsonian National Zoological Park, Memphis Zoo, and Zoo Atlanta)
  • AZA Significant Achievement in International Conservation Award for Grévy's Zebra Trust and AZA: A Model of Collaborative Endangered Species Collaboration (shared with Saint Louis Zoo, Brevard Zoo, Cheyenne Mountain Zoo, Chicago Zoological Society, Cleveland Zoo, Dallas Zoo, Denver Zoo, Detroit Zoo, Disney Worldwide Conservation Fund and Rapid Relief Fund, Fresno Chaffee Zoo, White Oak Conservation Center, Jackson Zoo, Jacksonville Zoo, Los Angeles Zoo, Living Desert, Oklahoma City Zoo, Oregon Zoo, Phoenix Zoo, Reid Park Zoo (Zoo Teens Program), Riverbanks Zoo, Sacramento Zoo, Safari West, SeaWorld / Busch Gardens, Sedgwick County Zoo, Toronto Zoo, and Utah's Hogle Zoo)
• 2014: AZA Top Honors in Excellence in Marketing Award for Welcome to Koalafornia: The New Australian Outback marketing campaign

Gold Conservation Medal

In 1966, during the Zoological Society of San Diego's golden jubilee, the organization created the Gold Conservation Medal as an award given to outside parties. Nine medals were awarded that year, and it has since been customary to award two each year, one to an international figure and one to a regional figure. In 1971 the Society established a set of criteria for selecting recipients, declaring that the medals should be awarded to "individuals who, through research and publication, have furthered knowledge of the habits and habitats of wildlife, [...] who have been active in the preservation of endangered and other species of animals through breeding programs, research, and the establishment of game and wildlife preserves, [... and] who have furthered the cause of conservation through continued financial support and through their influence and publicity." In 2008 the Conservation Award was expanded to include four categories: Lifetime Achievement, Conservation in Action, Conservation Advocate, and Young Conservationist. Several Conservation Medals have been awarded posthumously. Recipients include:

Year	Recipient(s)
1966	Jean Théodore Delacour – Director Emeritus of Los Angeles County Museum of Natural History, founder of Cleres Sanctuary Edward Hallstrom – Executive Director of Taronga Zoo Henry Fairfield Osborn, Jr. – President of New York Zoological Society Harold Jefferson Coolidge, Jr., Ph.D. – President of International Union for the Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) Maj. Ian B. Grimwood – Wildlife Adviser for the British Ministry of Overseas Development to the government of Peru Dr. Boonsong Lekagul – Secretary-General of Association for Conservation of Wildlife, Thailand Perez Olindo – Director of National Parks, Kenya Ian Player – Chief Conservator of Natal Parks Game and Fish Preservation Board Peter Scott – Director of Wildfowl Trust, Vice President of World Wildlife Fund (WWF), Chairman of IUCN Survival Service Commission
1967–69	no medals awarded
1970	Carl Leavitt Hubbs, Ph.D. – Professor at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, Vice President of Zoological Society of San Diego George Schaller, Ph.D. – Research Associate at Institute for Research in Animal Behavior, New York Zoological Society and Rockefeller University
1971	Carl W. Kenyon – Biologist of Wildlife Research for United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Charles Shaw – Asst. Director and Reptile Curator at San Diego Zoo (posthumously) Lewis W. Walker – Asst. Director Emeritus of Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (posthumously)
1972	Philip L. Boyd – Founder of Deep Canyon Desert Research Center in Palm Desert, California Col. Mervyn Cowie – Founder of Kenya National Parks System
1973	Gerald Durrell – Founder and Director of Jersey Wildlife Preservation Trust Margaret Owings – conservationist, Founder of Friends of the Sea Otter
1974	Jane Goodall, Ph.D. – Director of Gombe Stream Research Center, Tanzania Prof. Dr. Heini Hediger – Director Emeritus of Zürich Zoologischer Garten
1975	Prof. Dr. h.c. Bernhard Grzimek – Director Emeritus of Frankfurt Zoological Garden Roland Lindemann – Catskill Game Farm
1976	Kenton C. Lint – Curator of San Diego Zoo Charles Schroeder, D.V.M. – Director Emeritus of San Diego Zoo
1977	Prof. Dr. Ernst M. Lang – Director of Zoo Basel Maurice A. Machris – Shikar-Safari Club, Founder of World Herd of Arabian Oryx
1978	no medals awarded
1979	William G. Conway – General Director of Bronx Zoo Ray C. Erickson, Ph.D. – Asst. Director for Endangered Wildlife Research at Patuxent Wildlife Research Center Craig C. McFarland, Ph.D. – Head of Wildlands Management Unit in Turrialba, Costa Rica
1980	no medals awarded
1981	Kenhelm W. Stott, Jr. – General Curator Emeritus of San Diego Zoo, author, explorer Prof. Dr. Heinrich Dathe – Director of Tierpark Berlin
1982	no medals awarded
1983	HRH Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh – President of WWF, patron of Zoological Society of London
1984	no medals awarded
1985	Prof. Dr. Heinz-Georg Klos – General Director of Berlin Zoological Garden and Aquarium Berlin
1986	Sir David Attenborough – filmmaker, British naturalist
1987	Dr. Russell Mittermeier, Ph.D. – conservationist, primatologist, Director of WWF's Species Conservation Program
1988	no medals awarded
1989	Norman Myers, Ph.D. – conservationist; author; consultant in environment and development for Smithsonian Institution, WWF, World Bank, and IUCN
1990	Dr. Gilbert Melville Grosvenor – President and Chairman of the Board of National Geographic Society
1991	Michael Werikhe – rhinoceros conservationist known as "The Rhino Man"
1992	Noel F. R. Snyder, Ph.D. – research biologist for Endangered Wildlife Research Program (USFWS), Director of Parrot Programs for Wildlife Preservation Trust International
1993	Jared Diamond, Ph.D. – Professor of Physiology at UCLA School of Medicine, author of The Third Chimpanzee
1994	Mark Plotkin, Ph.D. – Vice President of Ethnobotany for Conservation International, author of Tales of a Shaman's Apprentice
1995	Dr. Kurt Benirschke – Founder of Center for Reproduction of Endangered Species (CRES), President of Zoological Society of San Diego, Professor Emeritus of Pathology at University of California, San Diego, author of Primates: The Road to Self-Sustaining Populations and One Medicine
1996	Prof. Pan Wenshi – Dean of Environmental Biology and Bio-Ecology Department at Peking University, conservationist, biologist, giant panda researcher Frank Sturtevant Todd – Executive Director of Eco Cepts International, ornithologist, former Curator of Birds at Los Angeles Zoo, Vice President of Aviculture and Research at SeaWorld San Diego
1997	David Western, Ph.D. – conservationist, Director of Kenya Wildlife Service
1998	E.O. Wilson, Ph.D. – Professor Emeritus of Entomology at Harvard University; naturalist; author of The Ants, Biophilia, Biodiversity, Consilience, The Diversity of Life, and other books
1999	Dr. George Rabb, Ph.D. – Director of Brookfield Zoo, former Chairman of IUCN's Species Survival Commission
2000	Dr. Marilyn Renfree, Ph.D. – Chair of Zoology Department at University of Melbourne, marsupial specialist John Aspinall – Founder and Director of Howletts Wild Animal Park and Port Lympne Wild Animal Park
2001	Dr. Peter H. Raven, Ph.D. – Director of Missouri Botanical Garden
2002	Dr. Richard H. Goodwin, Ph.D – Professor Emeritus at Connecticut College, Founder and Honorary Trustee of The Nature Conservancy Dr. Jeremy Mallinson, Ph.D – Professor Emeritus of Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust Dr. Ulysses S. Seal, Ph.D – Founder of International Species Information System, Chairman of Captive Breeding Specialist Group
2003	Dr. Arnold Orville Beckman, Ph.D. – Founder and Chairman Emeritus of Beckman Coulter, philanthropist
2004	John and Becky Moores – San Diego philanthropists
2005	Dr. George W. Archibald – co-founder of International Crane Foundation
2006	Thomas Cade – The Peregrine Fund Dr. William Burnham – The Peregrine Fund (posthumously) Paxson Offield – philanthropist
2007	Michael E. Soulé, Ph.D. – Research Professor Emeritus of Environmental Studies at University of California, Santa Cruz, co-founder of Society for Conservation Biology Rolf Benirschke – San Diego philanthropist
2008	Lifetime Achievement: Dr. Laurie Marker – Founder and Executive Director of Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) Conservation Advocate: Richard Louv – journalist, author of Last Child in the Woods Conservation in Action: Gladys Kalema-Zikusoka – veterinarian, Founder of Conservation Through Public Health
2009	Lifetime Achievement: J. Michael Fay – ecologist and conservationist Conservation in Action: Serge Dedina, Ph.D. – co-founder and Executive Director of Wildcoast Special Achievement: Ken Goddard – author Conservation Advocate: Gordon Moore, Ph.D. – co-founder and Chairman Emeritus of Intel, co-founder of Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, former Director of Conservation International
2010	Ivan Gayler – Founder and Chairman of Nature and Culture International
2011	Joan Embery – Trustee of Morris Animal Foundation, co-founder of American Association of Zoo Keepers, goodwill ambassador to Zoological Society of San Diego Duane Pillsbury – artist, husband to Embery Young Conservationists: Luca Banks, Mason McGhee, and Nathan Tallman
2012	Conservation in Action: Edgardo Griffith and Heidi Ross of El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center in Panama

San Diego Zoo

• 1958: San Diego Zoo Convention & Tourist Bureau's first tourism award
• 1961: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) Edward H. Bean Award for reproduction of koalas (first koala birth in Western Hemisphere)
• 1963: 2 AAZPA Edward H. Bean Awards, for Galápagos tortoise and Gila monster hatchings (first Gila monster conceived and hatched in captivity)
• 1964: AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for hatching and rearing of rhinoceros iguana
• 1966: 3 AAZPA Edward H. Bean Awards for Most Notable Animal Births in an American Zoo, for reproduction of proboscis monkey (first birth outside of Borneo), thick-billed parrot (first hatching recorded in captivity), and African softshell turtle (first hatching recorded in captivity)
• 1974: AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for birth of ruffed lemur
• 1987: AAZPA Exhibit Award for East African Rock Kopje
• 1988: AAZPA Education Award for East African Rock Kopje Interpretive Program
• 1989:
  • AAZPA Exhibit Award for Tiger River
  • AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for California condor breeding (shared with San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park and Los Angeles Zoo)
• 1991:
  • AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for François' langur propagation program
  • AAZPA Significant Achievement Award for long-term propagation of Fijian iguanas
• 1992: AAZPA Significant Achievement in Exhibit Award for Gorilla Tropics
• 1995: Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Significant Achievement Award for Andean condor reintroduction program
• 1996: AZA Significant Achievement in Exhibit Award for Hippo Beach
• 2000:
  • AZA Top Honors in International Conservation Award for Jamaican Iguana Conservation & Recovery Program (shared with Fort Worth Zoo, Indianapolis Zoo, Audubon Nature Institute, Sedgwick County Zoo, Tulsa Zoo, Toledo Zoo, Central Florida Zoo and Botanical Gardens, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Woodland Park Zoo, Gladys Porter Zoo, and Milwaukee County Zoo)
  • AZA Conservation Endowment Fund Award for restoration of two critically endangered West Indian rock iguana species through headstarting and release (shared with Fort Worth Zoo)
• 2002: AZA Edward H. Bean Award for Sumatran rhinoceros breeding program (shared with Los Angeles Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society, and Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden)
• 2007: Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG) Plume Award for Noteworthy Achievement in Avian Husbandry for the Light-footed Clapper Rail coalition (shared with Chula Vista Nature Center, SeaWorld San Diego, San Diego Zoo Wild Animal Park, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service Reserve)
• 2010: AZA Significant Achievement in Exhibit Award and Top Honors in Excellence in Marketing Award for Elephant Odyssey exhibit
• 2014: AZA Top Honors in International Conservation Award for Tree Kangaroo Conservation Program in Papua New Guinea (shared with Woodland Park Zoo, Brevard Zoo, Cleveland Metroparks Zoo, Columbus Zoo and Aquarium, Gladys Porter Zoo, Milwaukee County Zoological Gardens, Minnesota Zoological Garden, Oregon Zoo, Riverbanks Zoo and Garden, Roger Williams Park Zoo, Saint Louis Zoo, Santa Fe College Teaching Zoo, Sedgwick County Zoo, Smithsonian National Zoological Park, and Zoo New England)

San Diego Zoo Safari Park

• 1972: American Association of Zoological Parks and Aquariums (AAZPA) Edward H. Bean Award for hatching of Abyssinian ground hornbill
• 1974: AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for hatching of Abyssinian ground hornbill
• 1989: AAZPA Edward H. Bean Award for California condor breeding (shared with San Diego Zoo and Los Angeles Zoo)
• 1994: Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA) Significant Achievement Award for hornbill breeding program
• 2007: Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG) Plume Award for Noteworthy Achievement in Avian Husbandry for the Light-footed Clapper Rail coalition [shared with Chula Vista Nature Center, SeaWorld San Diego, San Diego Zoo, and United States Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) Reserve]
• 2011: USFWS Endangered Species Recovery Champion Award (Pacific Southwest Region) awarded to Michael Mace, Curator of Birds, for work with California condors and light-footed clapper rails

San Diego Zoo Institute for Conservation Research

Year	Awarding body	Award	Notes
1996	Association of Zoos and Aquariums (AZA)	Conservation Endowment Fund Award	For use of assisted reproductive technology to conserve the cinereous vulture (shared with three other zoos)
2004	AZA	Conservation Endowment Fund Award	For restoration of California condor to Baja California, Mexico
2007	AZA	Significant Achievement in North American Conservation	For San Clemente loggerhead shrike program
		Top Honors in International Conservation	For Strategic Partnership for Asian Turtle Conservation (shared with Fort Worth Zoo, Wildlife Conservation Society / Bronx Zoo, Zoo Atlanta, and Cleveland Metroparks Zoo)
2009	AZA	Conservation Endowment Fund Award	For daily travel of African elephants in Botswana
			For genetic analyses of amphibian Chytrid fungus
			For reintroduction of California mountain yellow-legged frog
2011	Avian Scientific Advisory Group (ASAG)	Plume Award for Long-term Avian Propagation Programs	For critically endangered Hawaiian birds