Zoo New England is the private, non-profit corporation that operates the Franklin Park and Stone Zoos in Boston and Stoneham, Massachusetts. Zoo New England subsists on earned revenues, state, private and corporate funding. Its mission is to be a pre-eminent conservator of endangered animal species, and to provide world-class resources for conservation education.

The Stone Zoo, formerly known as the Middlesex Fells Zoo, was founded in 1905 by Charles Price, Superintendent of the Metropolitan District Commission's Middlesex Fells Reservation. In 1969 the Zoo was renamed in honor of Walter D. Stone, the Director of the Zoo who died in an automobile accident. The Franklin Park Zoo was founded in 1911 and was managed by the City of Boston until MDC managed the Zoos until 1991, when Governor William Weld signed legislation to create the private Commonwealth Zoological Corporation (CZC). In July of 1997 the CZC changed its name to Zoo New England.