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Our Changing Planet returns to BBC One

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A year on from the first ambitious environmental series, Our Changing Planet returns to BBC One this Sunday, to continue to document how Earth’s most vulnerable habitats are responding, year on year, to increasing environmental threats as part of the corporation’s seven-year, natural history project. In the two hour-long episodes, six presenters – Liz Bonnin, Steve Backshall, Chris … Read more

Say hello to Sun Bear Heights and Jaguar Jungle!

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Some of the world’s most elusive animals have arrived in the county of Hertfordshire, just in time for Easter, as Paradise Wildlife Park officially opens the habitats of Sun Bear Heights and Jaguar Jungle. Coinciding with Paradise Wildlife Park’s 39th anniversary and their last year prior to rebranding to Hertfordshire Zoo in April 2024, the … Read more

Wildlife charity launch urgent appeal to save jaguar habitat

An urgent campaign has been launched by international wildlife conservation charity World Land Trust (WLT) to halt the deforestation of jaguar habitat in Belize. More than 25,000 acres of forest has now been lost in this region over the last ten years. WLT are working with the Corozal Sustainable Future Initiative (CSFI), who manage two … Read more

Big Cat Sanctuary to open its doors

The Big Cat Sanctuary will be holding its annual Open Day event in July to support their welfare, breeding, conservation and education programmes. Set in the heart if the Kent countryside, The Big Cat Sanctuary is home to many speciess of cat including lions, tigers, jaguars, cheetahs and snow leopards and is usually closed to the … Read more

Jaguar cub ventures outside for first time

Paradise Wildlife Park in Hertfordshire is home to the only jaguar cub in the U.K. and this week little Keira took her first steps outside. Born on 2nd April to parents Kedera and Kumal, the new cub quickly adapted to her surroundings, playing amongst the bamboo and climbing in her enclosure, while making sure mum … Read more

Paradise welcomes Britain’s first jaguar cub

Paradise Wildlife Park in Broxbourne had plenty to celebrate earlier this month. Not only did they launch new charity, the Zoological Society of Hertfordshire, but also announced the birth of the first Jaguar cub in Britain. The female cub, who is yet to be named, was born on the 2nd April to parents Kumal and … Read more