Zoo keepers in South Devon have created Halloween versions of the animals for which they care. Staff at Paignton Zoo Environmental Park carved pumpkins with faces inspired by some of the animals at the Zoo.
Nearby Riverford Organic Farms donated several huge pumpkins to the Zoo – a registered charity – so that the keepers could unleash their inner artists.
Paignton Zoo has teamed up with Wollen Michelmore Solicitors to hold Will Week. The event - from 6th to 11th October – is an appropriate one for the Zoo, as the charity has received many significant legacies over the years.
Paignton Zoo fundraiser Jenny Paton: “Our Ape Centre – home to gorillas and orang utans, including babies Tatau and Natalia – was built thanks to a legacy. Another...
An exhibition of art made out of marine litter has washed up at Living Coasts in Torquay. My Sea, Your Sea. Keep it Litter Free delivers a strong, simple message - we have to stop treating the sea like a rubbish dump.
Living Coasts Operations Manager Clare Rugg said: “This is a fantastic exhibition. It’s fun and intriguing and will appeal to all ages. As a charity, Living Coasts is...
Zoo keepers at Living Coasts in Torquay are teaching a tiny seal pup how to swim.
She had to be hand reared because her mother Grace was unable to produce milk. Now, keeper Libor Mach has taken to the water to give her swimming lessons.
But how do you teach a seal pup to swim? Living Coasts’ Clare Rugg explained: “In the wild the mother would simply take them into the water and...
A tiny seal pup needs a name. The South American fur seal was born at Living Coasts in Torquay in early June. When her mother was unable to produce milk, zoo keepers stepped in to feed her creamy fish milkshakes around the clock.
Now, Torquay’s coastal zoo is giving everyone who visits the chance to vote for her name.
Living Coasts’ Marketing Manager Katherine Sobey explained...
Living Coasts has sent 20 penguins to Eastern Europe as part of a major new initiative. The coastal conservation charity has donated the birds to Tblisi Zoo in the former Soviet republic of Georgia to start a brand new colony.
Living Coasts Operations Manager Clare Rugg explained: “They have built a penguin exhibit from scratch with our advice and input – we have been working with them...
A five-day old spectacled eider duckling exchanges a glance with zoo keeper Sarah Tingvoll at Living Coasts in Torquay.
Spectacled eiders are rarely seen in zoos - Torquay’s coastal zoo and aquarium is one of only five public collections in Europe to house them. Only one other zoo in Europe has bred them in the last twelve months. But clearly these ducks have taken to the English...
Paignton Zoo is looking for a new gorilla – because their old one has been worn out by too much cuddling!
The large plush toy gorilla in the charity’s entrance hall has become the Zoo’s unofficial mascot, greeting visitors with her laid back attitude and laconic smile. Over the years, thousands of children and grown-ups have had their photo taken with her and her orang utan friend....
Cornish bee experts have been awarded a Lottery grant to help save the county’s very own honey bee. And a Devon conservation charity is playing its part.
B4 - Bringing Back Black Bees - is a Cornwall-based conservation organisation working to promote the qualities of the native black honey bee Apis mellifera mellifera.
Their project, ‘Strengthening the Heritage of the Cornish...
