This week we celebrated our winners at the annual ZSL Awards Celebration, hosted by ZSL President, Professor Sir Jim Smith FRS. From awarding original work submitted as a doctoral thesis with the ...

One of the leading news magazines in the US, an appearance on the cover of TIME magazine has long been recognised as an indicator of notoriety. To mark the announcement of TIME’s Top 100 Photographs ...

From 30 December 2026, companies trading in seven major commodities — cattle, cocoa, coffee, oil palm, rubber, soy and wood — must prove their products are deforestation-free and legally sourced to ...

Scimitar horned oryx downlisted to endangered by IUCN – marks first species in global Extinct in the Wild initiative to be downlisted An antelope whose species was declared Extinct in the Wild has ...

Since it was declared biologically dead in 1957 in parts, the tidal stretch of the River Thames has made an astounding recovery. Results of the first complete health check of the River Thames were ...

One of the world's most famous waterways is about to get a huge transformation - as part of a multi-million dollar project. Coastal habitats along the Greater Thames Estuary, the life source of ...

Our conservationists in Thailand are teaming up with lorry, bus and trailer drivers, in a first-of-its-kind collaboration to tackle the illegal trade threatening the country’s most endangered animals.

A ground-breaking study led by ZSL has confirmed the astonishing potential for conservation zoos, aquariums, botanical gardens, and seedbanks across the world to bring animals and plants back from ...

Sihek – an endangered bird recently returned to the wild – have laid eggs on their new Pacific island home for the first time, making them the first wild eggs for the species in almost 40 years. Nine ...

Today our science-led conservation charity behind London Zoo and Whipsnade Zoo – is launching History Hive: a public appeal for memories and artefacts to bring its 200-year history to life. Launching ...

These findings, from the latest Living Planet Index by our Institute of Zoology – the most comprehensive measure of vertebrate population trends across the globe. The Living Planet Index informs WWF’s ...

A global coalition of conservationists are calling for urgent action to save the Critically Endangered mountain chicken frog, after a new survey found only 21 of the giant frogs alive in the wild.