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Thanks to our partnership with Mazda, we’ve hosted hundreds of students from some of the most under-served high schools for our Wildlife Science Champions Expo.

This expo provides Year 11 – 13 students with the opportunity to hear and connect with a variety of people, experts and employers working in conservation science fields and associated environmental science fields.

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From driving expert staff that work in eradicating pests in the wild and conservation fieldwork projects, Mazda vehicles play a vital role in assisting us to help so much of our local wildlife!

Mazda enables our staff to transport kiwi, whio, pateke, and wetapunga that have all been bred at the Zoo to their release sites for their new life in the wild. They also transport some of the smaller animals that arrive and depart from the Zoo along with food supplies and other fieldwork equipment. That’s a lot of mileage!

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“At Mazda we are proud to be a principal partner of Auckland Zoo, a role we have enjoyed since 2012.  We are right behind Auckland Zoo, supporting their work to foster future generation’s education and awareness of conservation, and the wider work sustainability efforts they do across the Auckland region and entire country” says David Hodge, Managing Director, Mazda NZ

Impact 2

Thanks to our partnership with Mazda, we’ve hosted hundreds of students from some of the most under-served high schools for our Wildlife Science Champions Expo.

This expo provides Year 11 – 13 students with the opportunity to hear and connect with a variety of people, experts and employers working in conservation science fields and associated environmental science fields.

Impact 2

Who doesn’t like free ice cream? Tip Top in the last two years also donated ice creams for our Wildlife Science Champions Expo attendees – bringing a lot more joy to Year 11 – 12 students not to mention staff and volunteers!

Impact 1

Thanks to Tip Top, we brought a lot of joy to tamariki and whānau for our 100th exhibition. We created bespoke monkey and tiger animal scoop ice cream! We also gave away hundreds of ice creams as prizes for activities that encouraged our visitors to explore a century of Auckland Zoo.

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"Kiwis have been enjoying Ice Creams at Auckland Zoo now for several decades and long may it continue! We are proud to be the official supplier of Ice Cream to the Zoo and hope to bring many more moments of happiness this summer and beyond" says Geoff Hunt, Channel Sales Manager - Export & Specialty, Tip Top

Impact 2

Who doesn’t like free ice cream? Tip Top in the last two years also donated ice creams for our Wildlife Science Champions Expo attendees – bringing a lot more joy to Year 11 – 12 students not to mention staff and volunteers!

Impact 2

Through the partnership, Barfoot & Thompson were able to hold three very exclusive staff and family evenings at the Zoo to celebrate their birthday. Over 5,000 people from across the motu, explored the Zoo and enjoyed a beautiful catered evening.

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Thanks to the support of Barfoot & Thompson, the Zoo was able to create a dynamic and interactive experience centenary exhibition ‘100 Years – A century of wild life’ at Auckland Zoo and provide free entry to everyone.

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"This stunning exhibition offers a really rich and fascinating journey into our Zoo’s past, present and future, and has been made possible thanks to the very generous support of our new principal partner, Barfoot & Thompson, to whom we’re extremely grateful,” says Auckland Zoo director, Kevin Buley.

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“As we look forward to marking our own 100 years of business in Auckland, it is our privilege to support Auckland Zoo in a way that not only helps celebrate their impact in the city over the past century, but also contributes to the work of the organisation and other hard-working conservationists in the years to come.” Peter Thompson, Barfoot & Thompson Managing Director

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Through the partnership, Barfoot & Thompson were able to hold three very exclusive staff and family evenings at the Zoo to celebrate their birthday. Over 5,000 people from across the motu, explored the Zoo and enjoyed a beautiful catered evening.

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As part of our centenary birthday celebrations, we launched our book ‘Auckland Zoo: 100 Years, 100 Stories’. Our friends at The Breeze joined us at the Zoo to host their iconic breakfast show ‘Robert and Jeanette’ joined by three of their biggest fans. An intimate show traversing our Africa Safari track to Australia to the South East Asia Jungle Track – a whirlwind show ending with Robert Rakete singing happy birthday to Auckland Zoo!

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The biggest bus panel ‘The ShowStopper’ to roam the streets of Tāmaki Makaurau – it has remained one of the most compelling advertising mediums. By partnering with MediaWorks, we were able to bring to life our largest brand artwork featuring the majestic lions.

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By partnering with MediaWorks Zoo were able to help launch radio station Mai FM’s first community day to celebrate Matariki 2024.  This provided another way to connect with the local community and staff helped them to ‘Plant, eat and connect!’. Mai FM, MediaWorks

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“With the massive crowd of people both planting trees, gardening and mulching, it was epic to see how our Mai listeners got behind the community day and this was highlighted through all of us planting over 400 trees! We also gave away over 250 plates of free kai to everyone who came down and got amongst this amazing community initiative.”

Impact 3

As part of our centenary birthday celebrations, we launched our book ‘Auckland Zoo: 100 Years, 100 Stories’. Our friends at The Breeze joined us at the Zoo to host their iconic breakfast show ‘Robert and Jeanette’ joined by three of their biggest fans. An intimate show traversing our Africa Safari track to Australia to the South East Asia Jungle Track – a whirlwind show ending with Robert Rakete singing happy birthday to Auckland Zoo!