You can help conserve polar bears
Polar bears face many threats in the wild due to habitat loss and climate change, but you can help make a difference in polar bear conservation when you adopt through our Animal Adoption Program!
Status in the wild:
Vulnerable
Adopt your Polar Bear

Hope
Hope arrived at the Zoo in 2021, and is known for her very playful and creative behaviors. She can often be found exploring her enrichment items, especially balls and barrels.
Interested in adopting Hope? Online purchasing for adopts will be rolled out soon!
In the meantime, please call 708-688-8341 from 9 a.m. - 3 p.m. to symbolically adopt.
Adoption Levels
Friend
$35
- Personalized Certificate of Adoption
- 5” x 7” color photograph
- Animal species fact sheet
- Animal Adoption program window decal
Caregiver
$60
- Personalized Certificate of Adoption
- 5” x 7” color photograph
- Animal species fact sheet
- Animal Adoption program magnet
- Animal Adoption program window decal
Plush Package
$65
- Personalized Certificate of Adoption
- 5” x 7” color photograph
- Plush Animal
- Animal species fact sheet
- Animal Adoption program window decal
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