The Los Angeles Zoo's Greeting Team provides guests with a friendly and informative welcome to the Zoo. The team meets and greets groups of schoolchildren, staffs the information booth, and provides direction at crowded crossroads. Greeters must be 21 years old and must commit to volunteering two mornings per month. They must be physically able to board school buses and to traverse the entrance ramp and pathways of the Zoo, perhaps repeatedly during their assigned duties. Event duties range from crafts to crowd control to face painting.
All ages welcome.
There is no animal contact involved. Volunteers must be at least 18 years old and able to commit to one morning a week. All ages welcome. The horticulture program links the animal and plant kingdoms and provides valuable information about biodiversity, conservation, and preservation. Volunteers assist with plant identification, labeling, inventory, research, data entry, articles for publication, as well as gardening in our greenhouse and special collections gardens.