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This year’s 2025 BHS Annual General Meeting will be held at the prestigious Manchester Museum🦎 Join us for an afternoon of interesting talks and the opportunity to see the Vivarium! 🐸 Free for BHS members - but please let us know. £10 for non-members. 🎟️ ➡️ tinyurl.com/y222ayah

Watching this Red Admiral just reminded me that Big Butterfly Count by Butterfly Conservation 🦋 is round the corner it takes place from 18th July-10th August 2025. #BigButterflyCount 🦋

In early May, Jacqueline Morrison, our Senior Conservation Scientist, and Cat Barton, our policy lead, travelled to London to meet Farina Othman, an award-winning conservationist, to discuss sustainability work in Borneo. Learn about Farina here: youtube.com/watch?v=QOGXKJ… 🐘

When you realise it's #MothMonday and the spotlight is all yours! Look out for the marvellous Muslin moth this month 👀 These fuzzy moths can be found in many open habitats, including sand-dunes, gardens, downland and hedgerows. 📸: Rachel Scopes, Heath McDonald #MothsMatter

Members of our science team are researching zoos as green spaces. Between purpose-built habitats for endangered animals lie niches for other species. Our gardens and wild-growing areas offer chances to connect with nature. We'll post the results as they emerge...

Cultural knowledge helped people coexist with large animals for generations, but human and tiger migration has changed the balance. Mayukh Chatterjee from Chester Zoo spoke to the Times about the Terai Tiger Project, which aims to restore that balance. thetimes.com/article/d4e966…

Palm oil remains a contentious product, but cross-collaboration is paving the way toward more sustainable practices. Catherine Barton, Policy Lead Deforestation-Free Commodities, wrote about the importance of buy-in (and what you are buying) here: biaza.org.uk/news/detail/al…

Can you survive a Komodo dragon bite? Watch this TED-Ed video created by our partners at the Komodo Survival Program to find out! youtube.com/watch?v=0pF6ZL…

Transfer delays across European borders have seriously impacted conservation breeding programs and research. We're glad the EU and the UK government have now acknowledged the issue, which should be taken into account in upcoming negotiations. chesterzoo.org/news/were-welc…

"I think office-based work is sometimes overlooked as a way into conservation. My role is closely linked to field work; you get to observe projects from start to finish and you get to know different projects in great detail."

🌳 Introducing... the Celebration Tree! 🌳 Towering at 20ft tall, this stunning new sculpture by world-renowned artist Emma Rodgers is now proudly rooted in the heart of the zoo. You may have seen her work before, which includes the Cilla Black statue in Liverpool and

Chester Zoo is contributing elephant, okapi and giraffe faecal samples to an exciting new science project. Researcher Dr Rhiannon Bolton said: "If this works, it could be a total game-changer." chesterzoo.org/news/poo-zoo-c… #conservation #science

Congratulations to our partners at Katala Foundation! Their Philippine Cockatoo Conservation Program confirmed the species has returned to an area they haven't inhabited for 30 years. 🪺 They also helped release critically endangered Palawan Forest Turtles back into the wild!🐢

Chester Zoo and Missouri Botanical Garden (MBG) joined with Agnalazaha’s farmers to implement a new approach to protecting crops. By laying hedges, they've given rare littoral forest a chance to recover. Find out more here: darwininitiative.org.uk/news/2025/05/2… Dr. Claire Raisin Scott Wilson

And last but not least, our BHS President Gerardo from Chester Zoo Science who are using AI and tech to monitor animal behaviour and physiology Chester Zoo using small devices and algorithms similar to the tech used in our human smart watches! ✨ From Komodo dragons 🐉 to penguins 🐧✨

Oh look! Mandai Wildlife Group just launched the PalmOil Scan App (wazapalmoil.org/palmoil-scan) in Singapore! The app (developed and run by Chester Zoo and partners in the World Association of Zoos and Aquariums) lets people check if items contain palm oil from sustainable sources.

This is an acacia rat. We aren't sharing this in relation to any specific conservation or science story. We just though you'd like to see him.

The power of partnership: SAVE Brasil, Parque das Aves, Bronx Zoo, Toledo Zoo and many organisations, including Chester Zoo, have hatched and raised THREE blue-eyed ground dove chicks. There are only 11 adults left in the wild, so every chick counts. chesterzoo.org/news/one-of-th…