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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Confusing the well-known, domestic Bactrian camel with its wild and rare counterpart, can have a detrimental effect on the wild camel’s chances of survival, new research has shown. With less than 950 ...

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 ...

We've recorded the first sighting of a pine marten in London over the last century. A Critically Endangered pine marten was photographed in a south-west London woodland, on one of our hidden wildlife ...