AI-edited view: A research vehicle on a reserve track

Conservation

Planet Zoo 2 Conservation Projects: Where to Find and Complete Them

Conservation projects are jobs from FEN that you run from the Planet Hub, not from a zoo. Each one asks for some of your cash, credits, staff or animals and pays Conservation Credits back. Here is where to find them, how to finish one and how to complete Aardvark Reintroduction.

Last updated November 5, 2026Game version: Update 1.0.9 (November 5, 2026)

Quick answer: Aardvark Reintroduction and other projects

Open the Planet Hub with the globe icon at the bottom left, then the conservation projects tab with the leaf icon.
Pick the project and read what it asks for: cash, Conservation Credits, staff, animals or a release group.
For Aardvark Reintroduction, make an Aardvark release group first: the Zoopedia lists Female Bachelor Herd and Solitary Male for the Aardvark.
Give the group to the project in the Planet Hub. Releasing aardvarks to a Wildlife Reserve does not complete it.
Claim the reward in the conservation project screen when the project is done.

How to complete a conservation project

Open the Planet Hub with the globe icon at the bottom left of the screen.
Choose the conservation projects tab, the one with the leaf icon.
Pick a project and read what it asks for: cash, Conservation Credits, staff, animals or a release group. In Franchise, some projects are only there for a limited time.
If it asks for a release group, make that group first: research the species, move the animals into Animal Storage and create the group with the type the project names.
Give the project what it asks for from the project itself. A release group for a project is sent from there, not released to a Wildlife Reserve.
When the project is done, claim the reward in the conservation project screen: Conservation Credits, and sometimes animals or a release group.

Aardvark Reintroduction

Aardvark Reintroduction is a Career task and an Animal Reintroduction project: it asks for an Aardvark release group. The common mistake is to release aardvarks to a Wildlife Reserve and wait. That fills the reserve but not the project, because a group for a project is given to it from the Planet Hub. The Zoopedia lists two group types for the Aardvark, Female Bachelor Herd and Solitary Male, and its reserves are Great Rift Valley Reserve and Tanzania Reserve.

To build the group, research the Aardvark with your vets, move the animals into Animal Storage, then open Animal Trading & Storage, Release Groups and Create Release Group, and add them with Edit Group Members. Then give the group to the project in the Planet Hub. Our Planet Zoo 2 release groups finder shows the group types of every species, so you can check any other Animal Reintroduction project the same way.

AI-edited view of a research vehicle beside elephants and a waterhole in a reserve — A research vehicle beside elephants at a waterhole: reserves are where released groups live, but a project takes its group from the Planet Hub. View full size

The six project types

Projects come in six types: Animal Reintroduction, Research, Habitat Restoration, Habitat Connectivity, Outreach and Wildlife Care. All of them take something from you for a while and pay it back in Conservation Credits, sometimes with animals or a release group on top. Staff sent to a project leave the zoo to work in the field, so check you can spare them. In Franchise, some projects are only on offer for a limited time.

Rewards and what to watch for

Claim the reward in the conservation project screen once a project is done. Frontier has named one problem there: the game sometimes locking up after you claimed a Conservation Project reward in Career mode (fixed in 1.0.10); our Planet Zoo 2 bugs and known issues page follows it. What the credits buy, and every other way to earn them, is on the Planet Zoo 2 Conservation Credits page.

Planet Zoo 2 conservation project questions

How do you complete the Aardvark Reintroduction conservation project?

Make an Aardvark release group, then send it from the project itself. Move aardvarks into Animal Storage and create the group with one of the types the Zoopedia lists for the Aardvark, Female Bachelor Herd and Solitary Male. Then open the Planet Hub, choose the conservation projects tab, select Aardvark Reintroduction and give it the group. Releasing aardvarks to a Wildlife Reserve does not complete it.

Where are conservation projects in Planet Zoo 2?

In the Planet Hub, which you open with the globe icon at the bottom left of the screen. The conservation projects tab is the one with the leaf icon, and the projects there are shared across your zoos.

Why is my conservation project not completing?

Usually because the project never got what it asks for. A release group for a project has to be sent from the project in the Planet Hub; animals released to a Wildlife Reserve do not count. Check each requirement on the project, give it the cash, credits, staff or animals it lists, and claim the reward in the conservation project screen when it is done.

What do conservation projects give you in Planet Zoo 2?

Conservation Credits, and sometimes animals or a release group. In return a project takes some of your resources for a while: cash or credits, staff who leave the zoo to work in the field, animals or a release group.

What types of conservation projects are there?

Six: Animal Reintroduction, Research, Habitat Restoration, Habitat Connectivity, Outreach and Wildlife Care. Aardvark Reintroduction, a Career task, is an Animal Reintroduction project.

Sources

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