It has been almost 25 years since a large crowd of children, parents and teachers gathered in the parking lot at Essex County Turtle Back Zoo to save this treasure from being closed. Today, Turtle ...

In the mid-1990s, Turtle Back Zoo was on the brink of extinction. The animals were old and dying. The once-popular train ride had broken down. The cages and pens were outdated in an era when zoos were ...

Forget the giraffes, gibbons and leopards. About a dozen visitors at the Turtle Back Zoo in New Jersey gathered one recent morning around the most unusual sight of all. It was a small, light-brown ...