Botanic Garden
Welcome to the ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden
The Botanic Garden is open.
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Explore more than 1.5 miles of paths through formal and whimsical gardens designed to delight your senses.
The Travel Channel cites ABQ BioPark Botanic Garden as one of the top 12 in the country!
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Latest BioPark News
Training Zoo Animals
ABQ BioPark zookeepers are also expert trainers who use their bonds to improve animal healthcare.
For the Love of the Bugs
New Botanic Garden BUGarium curator brings a passion for arthropods to his work.
Breaking Through
ABQ BioPark’s third trip to the Abidjan Zoo highlights advancements in the multi-national partnership.
Step into the Past
The Botanic Garden’s Heritage Farm Gives Visitors a Chance to Experience the Almost-Lost Art of Heritage Farming.
Below the Surface
ABQ BioPark water quality crew dives to keep animals—and their living environment—healthy.
Shining Stars
ABQ BioPark’s Animal Encounters Show lets animals display their natural behaviors, gives them a second chance.
A Special Gorilla
The ABQ BioPark Zoo’s “little orphan” gorilla has come full circle as she enters her senior years.
BioPark Experience: Children’s Fantasy Garden
Encounter dragons and more in this larger-than-life garden.
Happy Mother’s Day to our Zoo Moms!
The ABQ BioPark Zoo has some fantastic mothers. Check out what these Zoo mothers are doing to prepare their young ones to become adults.
Great Gorillas
BioPark’s gorillas include orphans, surrogate moms, adolescents trying to “figure it out”
Year of the Wolf
After a decade-long breeding hiatus, more Mexican wolf pups may be in the future for the ABQ BioPark.
Looking for Love
The ABQ BioPark has a number of animals that are getting cozy to help save their species.
Fowl Friends
Why is an African crane species being bred at the ABQ BioPark? And why is she such good friends with a domestic hen?
New Iguana has Visitors seeing Blue at the Zoo
ABQ BioPark one of just 15 U.S. facilities to house endangered iguana.
Success for ABQ BioPark's Silvery Minnow Program
Facility's annual minnow release increases, as do wild spawning and survival
Saving a Species
Success for zoo staff who traveled to Ivory Coast to bring critically endangered crocodile back from the brink
They've Come a Long Way, Baby
Chimp twins' first birthday a reminder of troupe's transition from laboratory life to thriving hierarchy