The Hubei and Wuhan Zoological Society is a legally registered provincial (municipal) legal-person organization voluntarily formed by animal science workers in Hubei Province. Its predecessor was the Wuhan District Biological Society, established in July 1950 under the Wuhan Association for Science and Technology. In 1956, under the leadership of the Wuhan Association for Science and Technology, the Wuhan Branch of the China Zoological Society was established and the Wuhan District Biological Society was simultaneously dissolved. In June 1959, under the guidance of the Hubei Association for Science and Technology and the Wuhan Association for Science and Technology, the First General Assembly of Members was convened, which reorganized the Wuhan Branch of the China Zoological Society into the Hubei and Wuhan Zoological Society. Academician Wu Xianwen of the Chinese Academy of Sciences served as President.

The society is affiliated with the Institute of Hydrobiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences. It currently has six working committees: the Academic Committee, the Biodiversity Committee, the Parasitology Professional Committee, the Ornamental and Domestic Animal Professional Committee, the Education Working Committee, and the Science Popularization Committee. Each working committee has directors from various specialties serving as members.

Under the leadership of the China Zoological Society, the Hubei Association for Science and Technology, and the Wuhan Association for Science and Technology, and in accordance with the management requirements of civil affairs authorities and the society's constitution, the society has fully utilized its resource advantages and scientific and technological strength. 

It has repeatedly conducted academic exchanges and cooperation with the Zoological Society of Hunan Province, the Zoological Society of Jiangxi Province, the Zoological Society of Guangdong Province, and other universities and research institutions. It has also actively carried out science popularization activities, biology olympiad activities, and scientific and technological consulting activities on biology-related issues for multiple institutions, receiving widespread acclaim.