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The Bear’s Den Café at New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo will be closing after this weekend until further notice, a month after it opened under new operators.

It has taken nearly 13 years, but there is some good news regarding New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo rides.

New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo has seen good times and bad, as well as the faces of hundreds of thousands of wide-eyed children through generations.

The person whose suggestion gets chosen will win a family pass to Buttonwood Park Zoo and $1,000 will be donated in their name to The Sloth Institute Costa Rica.

Buttonwood Park Zoo is trending on TikTok thanks to a 58-year-old elephant, a podcaster, and a drum. Watch the video for your daily dose of serotonin.

Just before Labor Day, an newborn baby sloth was welcomed at Buttonwood Park Zoo. Now you can start spotting the cutest new addition to the family in the Rainforests, Rivers & Reefs exhibit. The sight of a tiny, newborn sloth clinging to its mother is worthy of an out loud "aw" when you get the chance to see it. This fall at Buttonwoo...

Seems like the rescue of wildlife across the SouthCoast happens every day. Some local animals even need to be rescued twice! Yet, there's one creature we almost never hear about - deer. Sadly baby deer are orphaned all the time. Local hunters, busy roadways and wild predators are every day threats to the local deer population and sometimes the younger members of a herd are left without a doe to sh

With all the animals there are to see at New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo, you may simply breeze through the lobby when you enter. Now there's a colorful new reason to stop and look around for a while. Buttonwood Zoo has just welcomed five critically endangered Panamanian golden frogs to one of the terrarium habitats in the admissions lobby of the zoo. The...

New Bedford’s Buttonwood Park Zoo has lost its last black bear, as the beloved Toby passed away at the age of 23.

What prompts a young man to want to devote his life to the conservation of animals? In the case of Gary Lunsford, the new director of New Bedford's Buttonwood Park Zoo, blame wild turtles. "As a kid back in the Oklahoma City area, I was a bit of a turtle nut, and I can't even explain it," he said with a smile...