Houston Zoo

Houston Zoo Reaches One Million Egg Milestone in Houston Toad Recovery Effort

This season, the Houston Zoo released more than one million Houston toad eggs into protected habitat in Bastrop County—one of the program’s most productive seasons yet. Working with Texas Parks and Wildlife Department, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS), and our colleagues at Dallas Zoo and Fort Worth Zoo, we are helping this endangered species recover in its remaining east-central Texas range. This year, we also introduced a major innovation to our Houston Toad Recovery Program: custom egg-counting software, developed in collaboration with Houston medical physicist Dr. Moiz Ahmad. By using photos to quickly and accurately count thousands of eggs, this new tool helps us scale our impact and move our mission to inspire action to save wildlife forward. Read more about our collaborative work in a recent Forbes article: bit.ly/4nPRTWr