Chester Zoo

 

Members make a big difference

Take out a membership, and you’ll be making a valuable contribution to the important work Chester Zoo does.  Its charity fund, Act for Wildlife, is a community of experts and enthusiasts, all taking action to protect the natural world. So part of your contribution as a member goes towards the zoo’s mission to prevent extinction.   The zoo is fighting to protect species both at the zoo and in the field.  Donors and members enable this to happen.  The zoo needs all our support. 

There are over 31,000 animals at Chester Zoo, and 128 acres of zoological gardens to explore.  There's a huge team of people involved - conservationists, scientists, educators, vet experts, animal behaviourists and wildlife managers and more, all fighting against wildlife extinction.   Find out how it's doing this here. 

And - there's a very special news from Chester Zoo!   They've had a really special new arrival, an onager foal, one of the rarest mammals on the planet!  Congratulations to them all! 

Find out all about this new arrival!
This is Jasper, an onager
Image copyright Chester Zoo

Chester Zoo have picked up a number of awards at the annual British and Irish Zoos and Aquariums award ceremony!  Dr Veronica Cowl, Chester's Reproductive Biology Coordinator at the zoo, received the prestigious Outstanding Achievement Award!  And Chester's Giant Pangolin Project won a Gold Medal!  

Chester's Giant Pangolin Project won Gold at the BIAZA's awards
The Giant Pangolin Project team are working to monitor remotely and in real time in the Murchison Falls National Park, Uganda. 
This both enables them to better understand pangolins (the most trafficked animal on the planet) and also to deter illegal poaching. 
There are better response times to threats, too.   
Find out what else Chester won at the awards ceremony! 
Image © Chester Zoo

Chester Zoo is bringing nature back to Cheshire with a new Networks for Nature project - you can find out about that here.  In the spring of 2024, snow leopards arrived at Chester Zoo, making a new Himalayan area at the zoo their home and enabling it to join a global conservation breeding programme for snow leopards.   Chester Zoo have a huge project to reintroduce a number of Scottish wildcats to the wild.  Find out more  And there's a nature reserve, officially established back in 2013, which is now home to UK wildlife such as  kingfishers, hedgehogs and harvest mice, and even otters!

Give a membership to Chester Zoo!

Member benefits...(and we quote)

  • UNLIMITED FREE ENTRY to Chester Zoo for a year

  • 10% OFF in our shops and cafes*

  • One FREE ENTRY to other zoos including Colchester, Edinburgh, Marwell, Newquay, Bristol Zoo Project, Paignton and Twycross

  • Our Zoo, delivering you exclusive behind the scenes content directly to your inbox!

  • Members Days! Bring friends and family to the zoo at a discounted price

    And SO much more!

    * Restrictions apply

So what's happening at Chester Zoo?

Book your tickets for Lanterns and Lights, returning on the 15th November 2024 until the 1st January 2025!  Go on an illuminated trail of spectacular scenes and breathtaking displays that will leave you full of festivity!  Book your tickets here.

Plus there's lots of exciting news of changes at the zoo, such as the opening of a new snow leopard habitat which is due to open in 2024.  Find out more here

Did you know...

That Chester Zoo now has its own stall at Chester Market!  You can visit them there to get your favourite zoo goodies, and members get 10% off, although restrictions apply.  Find out more here.

 



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