Paying tribute to 200 years of wildlife, The Royal Mint’s new 2026 Annual Set features a beautifully designed £2 commemorative coin created to celebrate our landmark anniversary. Released today - just ...

We're working to bring youth voice to the heart of ZSL's work. The ZSL Youth Advisory Board was launched in summer 2023 to bring youth voices to the forefront of shaping our organisation's future.

This week we celebrated our winners at the annual ZSL Awards Celebration, hosted by ZSL President, Professor Sir Jim Smith FRS. From awarding original work submitted as a doctoral thesis with the ...

Scimitar horned oryx downlisted to endangered by IUCN – marks first species in global Extinct in the Wild initiative to be downlisted An antelope whose species was declared Extinct in the Wild has ...

Since it was declared biologically dead in 1957 in parts, the tidal stretch of the River Thames has made an astounding recovery. Results of the first complete health check of the River Thames were ...

A ground-breaking study led by ZSL has confirmed the astonishing potential for conservation zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and seedbanks across the world to bring animals and plants back from ...

Today our science-led conservation charity behind London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo – is launching History Hive: a public appeal for memories and artefacts to bring its 200-year history to life. Launching ...

Thousands of 'glow-in-the-dark' snails have been reintroduced to French Polynesia as part of global conservation programme to save the snails from the brink of extinction. The annual reintroduction of ...

Oyster "cubes" have been deployed off the North East coast of England, in a bid to restore the near-extinct native species to UK waters. In a UK-first, marine conservationists from ZSL & Groundwork ...

Backed by a study published in journal PLOS ONE, ZSL’s EDGE Reptiles List uses a complex formula to highlight species that are particularly Evolutionarily Distinct and Globally Endangered (EDGE), ...

These findings, from the latest Living Planet Index by our Institute of Zoology – the most comprehensive measure of vertebrate population trends across the globe. The Living Planet Index informs WWF’s ...

Sihek – an endangered bird recently returned to the wild – have laid eggs on their new Pacific island home for the first time, making them the first wild eggs for the species in almost 40 years. Nine ...