Volunteer Opporunities

At Lynnwood Park Zoo, animal care is of the highest priority. Therefore, volunteers are afforded the opportunity to learn what it means to be a zookeeper.  This is one of the most rewarding parts of joining our team, as you are responsible for the health and wellbeing of the animals.  Assignments provided will begin at the most basic level to ensure that volunteers can complete rudimentary husbandry tasks. These tasks may include cleaning bird habitats,  cleaning hoofstock habitats, scrubbing and refilling waters, raking around and inside habitats, offloading hay, refilling feed bins, and creating enrichment items.  While there is no pre-determined number of hours a volunteer may be at the beginner level, the staff may at some point determine that basic tasks can be completed by the volunteer and add on additional assignments. This will be at the discretion of the Director and Deputy Director. These additional assignments may include cleaning capybara, prairie dog, wallaby, cavy, etc. Other tasks may be assigned as well dependent upon the availability of staff to accompany the volunteer in doing so. Animal habitats considered dangerous will never be assigned to volunteers as part of their daily tasks, although a staff member may allow volunteers that have demonstrated excellent skills and abilities to accompany them in completing tasks working with those animals.  

Keeping the park in pristine order allows for guests to have a safe and enjoyable experience. Volunteers will complete a variety of tasks to include raking, path resurfacing, weed-eating, mowing, building, repairing, planting, mulching, ditching, etc.