Conservation Projects

News and information about conservation projects by zoological facilities across Europe

A young white-tailed sea eagle perches on a weathered log against blurred green foliage, its plumage dark brown mottled with tan, its heavy hooked bill pale at the base, looking to the right of frame.

Fota’s First Sea Eagle Chick in a Decade Has Fledged

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An adult gorilla sits on a rock in long dry grass, cradling a newborn infant against her chest with one arm, the infant's small dark hand and face just visible against her fur.

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A Gorilla Is Born at Denmark’s Only Gorilla Zoo

September 25, 2026

A downy black-tailed godwit chick, mottled brown and cream and standing on long grey legs, beside a shallow round dish of food on a blue cloth surface scattered with crumbs.

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A Rescued Clutch of Godwits Has Bred at Slimbridge

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A Red Panda Cub Is Growing Up in Berlin

Close portrait of an Edwards's pheasant: a dark blue-black bird with a white crest and bare crimson skin around the eye, its pale grey bill catching the light against a dark background.

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Twenty of the World’s Rarest Pheasants Flew to Vietnam

Twenty Edwards’s pheasants flew from Berlin to Vietnam this summer, and for the ...

A person in a black jacket holds a grey-brown goose against their chest. The bird wears a grey GPS transmitter harness on its back and yellow and blue rings on its legs, with open moorland behind.

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Sweden Released 52 Geese, and 15 Are Carrying Trackers

Fifty-two young lesser white-fronted geese went into the Swedish mountains this summer. Fifteen ...

Men in coats gather around a large wooden crate in a dim barn. A sign on the crate reads ORYX from British Zoos to Tunisia.

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Ten Years On, the Oryx Marwell Sent Are Still in Chad

In December 2015, fourteen scimitar-horned oryx were coaxed into custom-made crates at Marwell ...

A small dark turtle with a neck as long as its shell walks across a sandy underwater surface beside a rock and green leaves.

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Eleven Turtles Hatched From an Almost Emptied Island

Eleven McCord’s snake-necked turtles have hatched at ZOOM Erlebniswelt in Gelsenkirchen, two in ...

A small brown newt speckled with gold stands in shallow water facing the camera, its large dark eyes reflected on the surface below.

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Chester Sent 32 Newts to a Stream It Will Not Name

Chester Zoo has released 32 Montseny brook newts into a mountain stream in ...

An architect's render of a long, low, sand-colored building with a wide open passage cut through its center, the word CETASEA in freestanding letters on the landscaping in front of it, palms and pine trees around it and a few small figures walking toward the entrance.

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The Marine Mammal Center Europe Does Not Have Yet

Europe has plenty of places that can take a stranded animal in for ...

Two downy ducklings with dark backs and yellow faces sit side by side on an orange textured mat beside shallow water.

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Fifteen Eggs Walked 44 Kilometers. Six Ducks Survived.

Conservationists working for the Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust collected 15 fertile eggs from ...

A young little owl perched on a wooden beam, looking toward the camera

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From Zero Pairs to Sixteen, and Four More Owls

In 2000, the northern Harz foreland had zero breeding pairs of little owls. ...

A Przewalski's horse mare and her pale foal standing together in dry steppe grass under a wide blue sky

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A Wild Horse Was Born Wild Again in Kazakhstan

On August 22, 2026, a Przewalski’s horse foal was born on the steppe ...

A large dark cinereous vulture soars against a clear blue sky with a green wing tag visible.

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Planckendael Vulture Released Into the Wild in Bulgaria

A cinereous vulture hatched at ZOO Planckendael in Belgium is now flying free ...

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