An apprenticeship with us is a fantastic way to take a first step on your career journey. Whether it's a love of wildlife that makes you tick, or a passion to work in a multi-faceted global charity, one of our apprenticeships could be just the thing to kick-start your career path.

Fill your world with wildlife. By becoming a Zoo member, you’re also helping us to protect the natural world for the generations to come by supporting our vital conservation work. Find out more about our combined Zoo memberships, including the …

We’re ZSL, a science-driven conservation charity working to restore wildlife in the UK and around the world. We work tirelessly so wildlife and people can thrive together. Led by our passion for nature and a pioneering spirit, we work from lab to field and through our zoos to …

COLONY is a Fortran program written by Jinliang Wang. It implements a maximum likelihood method to assign sibship and parentage jointly, using individual multilocus genotypes at a number of codominant or dominant marker loci.

ZSL science journal. We're advancing understanding of wildlife through publishing high quality research papers on all aspects of zoology. Our journal has been spotlighting science around the world for two hundred years, and we've been listed as one of the most influential journals in biology and medicine over the last century.

Jun 26, 2024 · Why are mangroves under threat? Direct human impacts are thought to be responsible for over 60% of mangrove losses worldwide. Threats to mangroves include coastal development, logging, clearance for agriculture and the conversion of mangrove swamp to commercial aquaculture, such as fish and shrimp farming.

May 3, 2023 · UK sturgeon action plan. An armour-plated fish once so popular that King Edward II declared it ‘royal’ is set to make a comeback thanks to an ambitious plan launched by UK conservationists to bring the ancient, Critically Endangered native sturgeon back to UK waters. To mark Saturday’s historic Coronation, a team of conservationists led by ZSL have today (3 May 2023) launched the UK ...

Apr 15, 2016 · The positive effects of zoos. Let’s also consider the many positive impacts that well-managed, scientific zoos can have. For example, there are few more effective ways to demonstrate the amazing diversity of life on Earth to those who don’t have the privilege of seeing the huge range of wild animals in their natural habitats around the world.

7. Some sharks have evolved in a way that means they have to keep swimming to breathe – the great white is one example.We don’t really understand how this impacts them sleeping, but there has been recent footage showing a female great white, where she minimises as many of her bodily functions as possible while still moving.

Asian pangolins are on the brink. Pangolin status in Asia is even more worrying. Of the four Asian species, the Indian pangolin (Manis crassicaudata) is listed as Endangered, while the Chinese pangolin (Manis pentadactyla), Philippine pangolin (Manis culionensis) and Sunda pangolin (Manis javanica) are all now Critically Endangered.