Conservation
By Conservation Correspondent The Poet Laureate has helped mark a major milestone for one of the world’s best-known conservation organisations with a brand-new poem inspired by wildlife, the night sky, and humanity’s responsibility to nature. Simon Armitage has written The Moon and the Zoo to celebrate the 200th
Animals
By Animals Correspondent A long-legged baby camel has stolen the spotlight after being born at Whipsnade Zoo — and she’s already winning hearts. The adorable calf, named Sophia, arrived on 21 March to proud parents Izzy and Oakley, boosting the herd to eight. But her name isn’t just cute
Animals
By Animals Correspondent Twelve tiny hooves met grass for the first time this week, as spring sunshine and warmer weather meant Whipsnade Zoo’s three-month-old southern white rhino calf and two four-month-old reticulated giraffe calves could explore their grassy paddocks at the UK’s largest zoo. Born on 31st December
Animals
By Animals Correspondent Humboldt penguins, Asiatic lions, corals, Seychelles millipedes and capybaras were some of the 8,000 animals being counted this week as part of London Zoo’s 2026 Annual Stocktake, kicking off ZSL’s 200-year anniversary. Zookeepers recorded 75 Humboldt penguins including the 16 chicks hatched in 2025.
News
By Conservation Correspondent A groundbreaking project has seen 20 giant “oyster reef cubes” deployed off the North East coast of England to help restore the near-extinct European native oyster to UK waters. In a UK-first, marine conservationists from ZSL and Groundwork North East and Cumbria placed the textured, concrete-like blocks
Education
By Community Correspondent Teachers are being invited to swap their projectors and paint pots for a day out at the world’s oldest scientific zoo this autumn, as London Zoo offers the nation’s educators free entry for World Teacher Day. The world-famous Zoo, run by the global conservation charity
Animals
By Conservation Correspondent Coffee farming could be a solution to decades of conflict between farmers and elephants in Thailand, as the roll-out of an innovative new project yields promising results. Global conservation charity ZSL, working with Thai NGO Eco-exist Society has been working with local communities in the Kanchanaburi province
Animals
By Animals Correspondent AN EXTINCT-IN-THE-WILD Socorro dove has hatched at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire – the first time the conservation zoo has bred this species. The precious hatchling, which emerged from its egg in late August, marks a hopeful milestone in the global mission to bring the species back from the
Animals
By Animals Correspondent A NEW ARRIVAL at Whipsnade Zoo marks a vital boost to the European breeding programme for the red panda – a globally endangered species. Born at the conservation zoo on 23rd June to mum Ruby and dad Nilo, the Zoo’s vets completed the precious cub’s first
Animals
By Jill Dando News It took eight zookeepers, six vets, five vet nurses, four farriers, and two veterinary anaesthesiologists, to perform a life-changing veterinary procedure on Bashu, a 4.8 metre (16 feet) tall, reticulated giraffe at Whipsnade Zoo in Bedfordshire. The iconic animal, patriarch of the conservation zoo’s
Animals
By Jill Dando News A rare species of Polynesian tree snail once declared Extinct in the Wild has officially been downlisted, thanks to a decades-long conservation programme led by ZSL — the charity behind London Zoo — and its global conservation partners. The Partula tohiveana snail — wiped out in the wild due