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Bristol Zoo

 

 

Bristol Zoo Gardens is more than a fun-filled and stimulating day out for all the family... it's a place to find out about animals in the wild, especially those which are endangered.

The Zoo is a registered charity and needs your support. Your visit will help us protect wild animals and their natural habitats for future generations to enjoy.

1. Conservation Breeding Programmes 
Conservation Breeding Programmes are collaborative projects that involve a number of zoos and are co-ordinated either nationally or internationally. These programmes ensure that proper standards of husbandry are upheld and that proper genetic and demographic management is maintained. This avoids the effects of inbreeding and domestication, ensuring a healthy conservation breeding population. 

Bristol Zoo Gardens participates in a total of 82 Conservation Breeding Programmes, 12 for invertebrates, 7 for fish, 10 for amphibians and reptiles, 23 for birds and 30 for mammals. 12 of these programmes are co-ordinated by staff of Bristol Zoo Gardens. 

2. Education 
An essential and vital part of the Zoo’s conservation work is to raise awareness of the variety and diversity of life on Earth, as well as encouraging our visitors to have a responsible attitude to environmental issues. Conservation education is therefore a key feature of the work undertaken by the Education Department. 

3. Supporting Conservation in the Wild 
Bristol Zoo Gardens supports a variety of projects both in Britain and overseas in partnership with governmental and non-governmental organisations.

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