Field Programmes

What is Conservation Outreach?

Chester Zoo is a conservation organisation with a mission to help save wildlife from extinction. This mission is achieved at Chester through education, conservation breeding, research, and advances in animal welfare. These are all conservation activities that occur within the Zoo, this is called ex-situ conservation.


Chester Zoo’s role as a conservation organisation also increasingly involves developing and supporting conservation and research in the wild. Conservation conducted in the natural habitat of a species is called in-situ conservation or conservation outreach.

Each year the Zoo is involved in many conservation projects working directly with threatened species in the wild. Chester Zoo participates in conservation outreach through Conservation Programmes, Conservation Grants and a number of other initiatives.