We’re ZSL, an international conservation charity, and our vision is a world where wildlife thrives. We’re working every day to achieve this, through our science, our field conservation around 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 global coalition of conservationists are calling for urgent action to save the Critically Endangered mountain chicken frog, after a new survey found only 21 of the giant frogs alive in the wild.

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 ...

An extinct-in-the-wild sihek (also known as Guam kingfisher) has successfully hatched, marking a key milestone of an ambitious project to return the species into the wild. We are part of The Sihek ...

Dr Daniella Rabaiotti, researcher at our Institute of Zoology and lead author of the study said: “Think of animals at risk of disappearing forever due to climate change and you think of polar bears ...

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 ...

Zookeepers have returned more than 5,000 Extinct-in-the-Wild and Critically Endangered tropical snails. Thousands of Partula snails reared at London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo, the Royal Zoological Society ...

Almost 600 harbour and 3,000 grey seals now call the Thames Estuary home, reveals our latest seal survey highlighting the importance of the iconic river for these doe-eyed, native species. We have ...

Two Extinct-in-the-Wild species of tropical snail have been returned to their native homeland for the first time in French Polynesia, 25 years after they were wiped out by a human-introduced invasive ...

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 ...