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A brand new documentary series, Planet Defenders, follows six young filmmakers as they go on a mission to discover more about the threats faced by endangered wildlife and what can be done to protect them. Made for CBBC by the BBC’s Natural History Unit, each film features a specific animal story or wildlife issue that … Read more
Twycross Zoo in Leicestershire has officially opened one of the largest gibbon facilities in Europe in its most ambitious development to date, Gibbon Forest. Covering about 4,000 square metres (nearly an acre), Gibbon Forest is ten times larger than the primates’ previous enclosure and is specially designed to replicate the natural forest environment of gibbons as … Read more
On Saturday 24 October, Twycross Zoo celebrated International Gibbon Day. 2015 was named the “Year of the Gibbon” by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) in a bid to raise awareness of the threats gibbons face, as it is feared they will be one of the next group of animals to face global … Read more
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