Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is located in Palm Desert, California. The 1000-acre gardens are part of the Sonoran Desert of the Coachella Valley, spread throughout the foothills of Santa Rosa Mountains. The Living Desert Zoo and Gardens is dedicated to the deserts of the world, and it provides environmental education, rehabilitation of the native wildlife, native plant propagation, habitat restoration, and captive breeding of the species native to the Sonoran Desert and African deserts.

One of the iconic species they work with is the desert bighorn sheep. Some of the animals that can be observed in the zoo are kit foxes, tortoises, lizards, giraffes, Mexican wolves, Amur leopards, African wild dogs, and many others.

Living Desert Zoo , 47900 Portola Ave, Palm Desert, CA 92260, Phone: 760-346-5694

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