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🎉HAPPY NEW YEAR!! 🎉

We hope 2026 brings you closer to nature💕🐠 (Perhaps your resolution could be to support wildlife? 😉🐝)

We're looking forward to a jam-packed 2026 for zoos, aquariums, and all of us here at BIAZA 🙌

We might even post more on Bluesky! 🦋

Best Team Winners: Gonzalo Silva Cruz & Paul Stoker @zslofficial.bsky.social @zslscience.bsky.social

"We celebrate excellence across many categories. Sometimes a team embodies more than one. This team Brings Innovation, Goes the Extra Mile and Develops in a Role.”

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Huge congratulations to all #volunteer nominees and winners in the London Heritage Volunteer Awards 2025 #LHVA2025 which we had the pleasure of announcing earlier. Read on to find out about our award winners...

@heritagevols.bsky.social #lovols

Today I spoke at @zslofficial.bsky.social about the commercial trade of civets in Vietnam, it's One Health implications and the power of bridging Insitu and Exsitu conservation. #civets #wildlifetrade #MultiSpeciesFutures @biaza.bsky.social

New for October!🍂Download the latest issue of our e-magazine: biaza.org.uk/downloader/3078

BIAZA Browse features the latest in all things zoo and aquarium 🌍

🐿️ New blog! 🌰
With Red Squirrel Awareness Week coming up, Judi Dunn (Wildwood Trust) tells us where we are their conservation story...and how zoos can help 👇

biaza.org.uk/news/detail/blog-a-call-to-arms-or-paws-raising-the-profile-of-the-charismatic-red-squirrel

📷 Wildwood Kent

Red tape continues to stifle zoo conservation:

Alongside zoo conservationists like ZSL, EAZA and ourselves, RZSS is calling for Defra to amend legislation for zoo animal welfare 🦏

Read more:
biaza.org.uk/news/detail/zoos-urge-defra-to-tackle-red-tape-preventing-rare-animal-transfers

📷RZSS

#AlliesForWildlife 🤝

Last week, it was great to be able to work alongside fellow @biaza.bsky.social member, @edinburghzoo.bsky.social, to share knowledge and expertise on providing dedicated expert care to a colony of #GentooPenguins.

Our Crew loved meeting the Rockhoppers and King penguins too! 🐧

A must-read article from
@biaza.bsky.social's Catherine Barton.

#Zoos doing it right!

@chesterzoosci.bsky.social
@thedeephull.bsky.social

Thank you to @chesterzoosci.bsky.social and @biaza.bsky.social for the chance to present my research on visitor effects on wild dogs at today’s BIAZA Research Conference. This was my first ever conference, and my first time presenting, so I really appreciated the friendly supportive atmosphere

Are you curious about how cryopreservation and assisted reproductive technologies help conserve wildlife? We are extending an invitation for you to visit our lab on June 4th.

🎟️Tickets

www.eventbrite.com/e/natures-sa...

📅Date

Wednesday, June 4th 2025

📌 Location

Chapel Field Stud, Shropshire

Diolch yn fawr this #ThankYouThursday!

A HUGE thank you to all our guests, volunteers, and the amazing local community who make everything we do possible!

As the National Zoo of Wales, we're proud to be part of a community that champions wildlife conservation 🌍

📸: ©️Melanie Sharp and Shaun Wilson

How cute is this?! 🙈 Last year, at Manor Wildlife Park, I got a snap of this adorable little meerkat! I've seen plenty of these across the UK, but never a baby 🥰

@biaza.bsky.social

#photography #meerkat #animalphotography #wildlifephotography #portrait #fujifilm #wildlife

BIAZA - British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.

📸 Calling all wildlife photographers! 🐾

The BIAZA 2025 Photo Competition is open! Showcase your best wildlife shots and help raise awareness for conservation. 🌿

Submit your entries by 11pm, 30th March 2025!
biaza.org.uk/biaza-photog...

Chester Zoo’s milestone Welsh restoration project aiming to save one of the world’s rarest plants won against 22 other native species projects for the coveted Great British Wildlife Restoration Award from @biaza.bsky.social c-js.uk/42wfnac

BIAZA - British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.

Fancy taking pictures? You can now enter BIAZA's 2025 Photography Competition! More info 👇

biaza.org.uk/biaza-photog...

We are so proud to be featured in the shortlist for the BIAZA Great British Wildlife Restoration award!

It's just wonderful to see the projects carried out by BIAZA zoos across the country - we are doing our part protect native species by facilitating cryopreservation in the UK.

Graphic by BIAZA

BIAZA - British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums The British and Irish Association of Zoos and Aquariums (BIAZA) is the professional body representing the best zoos and aquariums in the UK and Ireland.

BIAZA AWARDS NOW OPEN FOR 2025!

The awards provide an opportunity to have your achievements recognised within the zoo and aquarium community. Categories include:

🐠 Animal Husbandry, Care and Breeding
🔍 Field Conservation
♻️ Sustainability

@biaza.bsky.social
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biaza.org.uk/biaza-awards...

The world's rarest big cat - and her two cubs! 🐆🐆

Colchester Zoo is celebrating Critically Endangered Amur Leopard cubs as part of the essential breeding programme to fight this species' extinction.

Read more: biaza.org.uk/news/detail/...

🎥Colchester Zoo

Massive leeches are being grown in the middle of London. Here's why Scientists hope to release the huge blood suckers into the UK countryside.

Lots of love for the dam removal/salmon migration story. #SciComm

How about for some big ol' leeches being bred in captivity by ZSL and Freshwater Habitats Trust? 🐙🦤 🧪
www.discoverwildlife.com/animal-facts...