Idaho Zoological Society

The friends of zoo boise education program provides educational experiences to the zoo's 325,000 annual visitors including the 40,000 school children that visit the zoo as part of organized class field trips. The education program also manages the zoo volunteer program which provides more than 38,000 hours of volunteer hours to the zoo. All volunteers are officially city of boise zoo volunteers.

The conservation program raises awareness for conservation through events and donation boxes specifically for conservation purposes. Money collected for conservation is then granted to various other organizations for specific uses.