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Bird keepers at Edinburgh Zoo were hoping their hard work would pay off and their rare pair of Darwin’s rheas would produce a chick this year. Little did they expect or dream that they would be faced with the delightful dilemma of having NINE of the supersized and increasingly threatened South American birds! A massive … Read more

The Whitley Wildlife Conservation Trust, based at Paignton Zoo, has teamed up with the Environment Agency and Buglife to rear white-clawed crayfish, a threatened native species. The white-clawed crayfish (Austropotamobius pallipes) is one of the largest freshwater invertebrates in the UK but is under threat of extinction in the wild because of the introduced North … Read more

It’s summertime at NAUSICAA, in Boulogne-sur-Mer! And this provides the opportunity to welcome the latest residents that have joined the French National Sea Centre’s 36,000 other animals. The longsnout seahorses (Hippocampus Reidi) have just given birth to a large number of babies. Little longsnout seahorses were born a few weeks ago and after a period … Read more