About Battle Creek's Binder Park Zoo

One of the truly wonderful features of Battle Creek, Michigan is the Binder Park Zoo.  I sometimes go there just to walk around and unwind.  Earlier this summer I went there on Memorial Day weekend, and just walked around and took photos and shot some video. 

For whatever reason, I never did anything with the video I shot and finally came across the file this Labor Day weekend and wondered where the time has gone.  So I edited some of the clips down to a couple of short videos and posted them on my YouTube Channel.

Here is one of the videos I made that I like the most.  I used the 'Audio Swap' feature available on the website to select the sound track.  This one features some of the smaller creatures found at the zoo.  I hope you like it.

The Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Michigan is a great asset to the community. The Binder park zoo consists of approximately 600 specimens of over 140 species including one of the largest giraffe herds in the United States.

The zoo also contains 32 rare and exotic animal exhibits plus 19 domestic animal exhibits. They are one of a handful of self-supporting nonprofit zoos in North America.

The Binder Park Zoo is not supported by tax subsidy, and generates its $4.2 million operating budget through operations (89%) and the remainder from gifts and grants (11%). This is quite an achievement for a zoo. Each year, hundreds of adults and youth volunteer to support the zoo and its staff in the running of events.

As a local Realtor, I have long been a supporter of the Binder Park Zoo. I have participated annually in their ‘A.D.O.P.T.' program, which stands for: ‘Animals Depend On People Too'. This program allows one to contribute on various levels, and adopt an animal for the year.

Those that participate receive an adoption certificate, an animal fact sheet about the animal they adopted, a name on the honor roll at the Miller's Children Zoo Exhibit and photograph of the adopted animal. You can adopt as many animals as you like, and once in 2007 I raised $1000 through my church for the zoo using this program. Here is a photo of me giving the zoo a check.

You can also donate a brick, which they include on their walkway between the carousel exhibit, and the train to take you to the ‘Wild Africa' portion of the zoo. For more information on this, you can check it out on the Binder Park Zoo Donations page.

So the Binder Park Zoo in Battle Creek, Michigan is a great asset to the community, and it is something that I mention to new homebuyers moving into the area. If you would like to know more about the community, or are interested in buying or selling a home in the Battle Creek area, give me a call at 269-441-8182 or contact me through my website at: www.JustCallMichael.com.