Friends of the Zoo (FOZ) is a network of schools with a special membership based programme designed and operated by NTNC-Central Zoo. At present this network comprises of over 200 schools in and around Kathmandu Valley. Every year, FOZ members actively engage in activities such as educational tours, trainings, competitions, cleanup camps and animal feeding programs that stimulate both awareness and action for wild animals and environmental protection.
Elsewhere likewise, there are over a hundred green force clubs, eco-clubs, and teacher’s forums formed under the initiation of NTNC that lead conservation activism in their respective local communities and beyond. These clubs and teacher's forums motivate school children toward biodiversity conservation. They organize a range of conservation activities including rallies, signing and solidarity campaigns, street drama, poem competition, folk song, art competitions and wall magazine publication to disseminate conservation messages taking the collective agenda of environmental responsibility into action.