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The UK airline Loganair transported a very special passenger, ‘Crush’ the loggerhead turtle, recently. As the largest regional airline in the UK, it received special dispensation to fly Crush within the passenger cabin on a scheduled service from Jersey to Southampton. With no temperature control in the cargo hold, Crush had to travel in the … Read more
In this short film, Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore visits Florida to explore Sawgrass Recreation Park and meet its rescued alligators as well as those living wild. He finds out some fascinating facts such as: alligators in the wild can have a life-span of 30-50 years they can’t survive in salt water they are the … Read more
Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore recently visited Vienna to check out Europe’s first dedicated cat cafe, which opened in 2012. Just a stone’s throw away from the city’s busy shopping area in Blumenstockgasse, Cafe Neko provides a haven for the resident cats, with customers buying food and drink from vending machines and then enjoying time … Read more
Beagle Freedom Project UK (BFP UK), a leading global organisation dedicated to rescuing and rehoming animals used in experimental research, has successfully freed seven beagles from a testing facility in Europe, marking a significant step towards their mission to end animal testing. There are seven beagles all together, named after British rock stars: Jonesy, Davey, … Read more
Nestling in 72 acres of South Somerset is the Ferne Animal Sanctuary, which only exists because of the Second World War. Watch Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore’s report here: Ferne was set up in 1939 by the late Nina, Duchess of Hamilton & Brandon (below) as she realised that with the up-coming war, there was … Read more
Discover Animals’ videographer Geoff Moore’s latest film was inspired by news from his wife Suzanne about a man known as the Cat Man of Cairo, who has been rescuing cats in the Egyptian capital. So, during a recent trip, Geoff managed to meet up with Moamen Nasr to find out about some of the work … Read more
This winter, families visiting SEA LIFE Manchester are being offered the opportunity to join the attraction’s turtle rescue team. Grab a Patrol Book when you arrive and join in the turtle rescue mission by writing down which breed of turtle you’re going to be saving, then keeping a log of your turtle’s details as you help with … Read more
On his recent visit to the Seychelles, Discover Animals’ Geoff Moore also spent time filming at the island’s fruit bat rehabilitation centre, Protect Paradise, finding out how vital the animals are to the islands’ eco-system. He talks to Tamara Dreyer, who set up Protect Paradise, about how the organisation rescues the fruit bats (also known … Read more
SEA LIFE Hunstanton has released five adorable seal pups back into the wild following a successful rehabilitation programme in the attraction’s revamped seal pup recovery pool, which opened earlier this year. SEA LIFE Hunstanton is home to a dedicated seal rescue centre and hospital, having rescued and rehabilitated over 750 seals since opening in 1989. Over … Read more
This Jubilee bank holiday, help the rescued and endangered monkeys and apes at Monkey World in Dorset by donating a bag of unopened nuts. Every child who brings an unopened bag of nuts for the primates receives a free Monkey World badge over the bank holiday weekend. The nuts can be either shelled or unshelled … Read more
The UK Wild Otter Trust has saved a tiny Eurasian otter cub who was found alone in De Lank Quarry on Bodmin Moor in Cornwall. The charity has now launched a fundraising campaign to help pay for the first few months of the cub’s rehabilitation.
Heralding the arrival of spring, the brown bears at Kent’s Wildwood Trust have emerged from 4 months of hibernation and returned back into their huge 1.5-acre woodland home. A huge occasion for the wildlife conservation charity, the release would usually be attended by hundreds of visitors who enter a raffle for the chance to feed … Read more
During a recent trip to the Isle of Wight, I visited Monkey Haven with my daughter – an award-winning animal sanctuary with charity status located a short drive from the island’s centre of Newport. On arrival, we were welcomed by friendly staff who handed us an activity booklet, packed full of fascinating facts and a … Read more
Animal Rescue Live: Supervet Special returns to Channel 4 for a second season this week, hosted by Kate Quilton, Professor Noel Fitzpatrick and Steve Jones. The five-day animal adopt-athon will broadcast at 8pm every evening live from the Raystede Centre for Animal Welfare in Lewes, East Sussex. Once again, the show will ask the nation to … Read more
GTO’s Sarah Jeffery recently visited Monkey World Ape Rescue Centre in Dorset. Open every day of the year except Christmas Day, the rescue centre has assisted governments around the world to stop the smuggling of primates from the wild since it was set up by Jim Cronin in 1987. Monkey World was originally created to … Read more
2018 has been a bumper year for Monkey World with the arrival of 12 new primates to the rescue centre in Dorset. The park celebrated the birth of two extremely rare woolly monkey babies and, most recently, a slow loris infant named Bob, who was born as part of the European Breeding Programme for this protected species. … Read more
Monkey World – Ape Rescue Centre Monkey World, the internationally-acclaimed ape rescue centre, is home to over 250 rescued and endangered monkeys and apes. Opened in 1987 to provide abused Spanish beach chimpanzees with a permanent home, 30 years on the site is now a sanctuary for primates from all over the world including the … Read more
Benny & Nia, a pair of young white-throated guenons, arrived at Monkey World in Dorset this week after being rescued from Lebanon. The incredibly rare monkeys were confiscated by Lebanese authorities at Beiruit airport after being smuggled from Accra, Ghana. White-throated guenons are a species vulnerable to extinction and native only to small regions of … Read more
Raystede is an animal charity and welfare centre based in Ringmer, East Sussex. Relying entirely on donations, the sanctuary rescue, shelter and re-home unwanted and abandoned animals. I recently visited Raystede to see how the centre operates its 43 acre site. Open to the public, the centre houses many animals, including goats, rabbits, dogs, cats … Read more
The Blue Reef Aquarium team in Newquay, Cornwall, were called out by lifeguards last weekend to come to the aid of a stranded giant sunfish, the heaviest bony fish in the world. This unusual looking oceanic fish can be as tall as it is long and adults can weigh as much as 1000kg. The Cornwall … Read more
A new home for a rescue dog is the aim of a national canine charity planning to make the most of the festive season this year by encouraging people to come forward and give a home to one of their ’12 Strays of Christmas’. Unlike the famous song that celebrates large numbers of elaborate gifts, … Read more
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