Category: Zoo news
We continually evaluate our animal husbandry practices to maintain optimal standards of animal wellbeing. For our male Malayan sun bear, Toni, this includes how we provide food when encouraging natural behaviour.
Chester Zoo Education Officer, Steph Davies, visited Big Life Foundation headquarters in Mbirikani, Kenya for two weeks in September 2019. Throughout her visit, she carried out 36 evaluation trials, visited 2 schools, developed 6 lessons & attended 1 school trip to Amboseli National Park. This is her story…
Here at Chester Zoo, we are loud and proud about the amazing conservation work our teams carry out to help PREVENT EXTINCTION around the world, but we can’t achieve this on our own.
A year ago we experienced one of the most difficult days in Chester Zoo’s long history when a fire broke out in our Monsoon Forest habitat. The extraordinary efforts from the zoo team and the emergency services meant the fire was quickly extinguished and all visitors and mammal species were safely evacuated, although losing a small number of frog, fish and bird species was, of course, devastating.
We’ve been celebrating as Oxford and Newquay have committed to become Sustainable Palm Oil Cities and towns – following a model developed for the city of Chester by wildlife conservationists here at the zoo.
The new baby, a male named Arga, was safely delivered by mum Subis (32) at around 4:30pm on Thursday 14 November, following a nine month pregnancy. Our conservationists now plan to select a fitting name for the adorable, brown-eyed youngster, who has been spotted clinging tightly to mum since birth.
This Christmas, come and experience a winter wonderland as the Chester Zoo shop transforms into a festive treasure trove. Christmas at Chester Zoo goes much further than just us! Our main shop has a great selection of Christmas goodies, suitable for all ages!
Find inspirational gifts from the contemporary to the traditional with everything you need for a fun-filled Christmas…
The conservation organisations listed below are committed to driving the palm oil industry in the right direction, and support a move to sustainable palm oil and not a blanket boycott.
Find out all you need to know about how we created a habitat FIT FOR A KING (and his queens) from our Project Manager, Christine!
Watch our video to get a behind-the-scenes look into the design process of this state-of-the-art habitat, built specially to accommodate our pride of Asiatic lions…